Lin's Garden Chinese Restaurant — Restaurant in Edgerton

Basic Amerincanized Chinese food. After being closed for over a year I kinda assumed it would be under new ownership, cleaned up and a fresh coat of paint would have been slapped on the walls. Nope. Same tired dirty walls worse yet was the same smell in the former dinning area. (Dirty fish tank) God I hope they at least cleaned the kitchen. Pork fried rice, bland with bits of crunchy under cooked rice. Hot and sour soup, run of the mill. Neither hot (spicy) nor particularly sour. Spring rolls, doughy. General Tso chicken was passable, not spicy just lots of sweet sauce over fried chicken. Again this is Amerincanized Chinese food, to many of you find this acceptable. You are getting what...

Lins does a decent job small town Chinese foods. However, the takeout process is flawed. I called in a takeout order. The time to come in was given as 45 minutes. Uncharacteristically long, but ok, busy or whatever. I arrive at the appointed time and waited there for another 35 minutes. I could have driven to Madison to get takeout in those 70 minutes. Yeah, I'm sort of whining about this absurdly first world "issue", but you...

I ordered carry out a few days after they opened and it did not disappoint at all! Hot and Sour soup was rich, flavorful, and full of delicious ingredients. Our three entrees all had great flavor and fresh vegetables cooked to tender-crisp perfection. The Szechuan beef I ordered extra spicy was not as hot as I prefer, but with plenty of kick for the average midwestern palate. I look forward to sampling more of their...