Imperial Garden — Restaurant in Farmington

I have been going here for years and it used to be good I think it used to be under different owners since whatever changed happened its been terrible. If you want fried rice that has a lingering flavor of hand cleaner and general tso chicken that's rock hard breading with almost no chicken or very small hard to chew pieces or dry chicken this is the place to go. Less then 1% of your pork fried rice is pork. Carbragoons are okay nothing bad to say about them but absolutely nothing good to say either. The general tso chicken will also have no spice to it just rocks with cornstarch. The lo mein is better then the pork fried rice when it comes to having more then just the rice to it so you won't just get noodles. The chicken fingers are just very dry pieces of chicken probably best used in a sock to defend your family from an intruder. The beef teriyaki sticks have become about half the original served size and are very inconsistent it's either cooked right or very dry. The chicken teriyaki sticks are the same but haven't gotten smaller in size. The egg rolls have the same hand cleaner smell to them as the rice does. Imperial garden has before hands down the worst Chinese food in the state and worst I've ever had in my life. You would generally have to try to get any worse then here. Also the takeout only policy they have put in place is a bit annoying but no longer have to listen to drunk locals at the bar inside so not to...

I purposely went out of my way to try this restaurant. I phoned in an order tonight, got there earlier than expected. I was greeted by a nice, polite young woman that said it wasn't quite ready. So, I went to the bar and a woman at the end with her hand holding up her head and sipping on a drink said, "do you want a drink"? I said yes, I would like a Mai Tai. She had absolutely NO personality, went about making the drink ( that was terrible), without out any verbal or eye contact . I can't fathom a bartender who depends on tips be so rude. That being said, my food was ready, I left got home and the food wasn't any better. Egg Foo Yung was burnt and the rice over cooked. I'll never go...

This place is now, unfortunately, a glorified takeout restaurant only. Years ago, when Chet was here, he and his wife put out a consistently good product that you could enjoy dining in or as take out. Now the food can be hit or miss and we just tried the dining service and it was a joke. The "waitress" / counter person showed little to zero interest in her job, and to serving her customers. We were the only table in house and we had to fight to get anything we needed. A point came where I grabbed some plates myself from the waitress station. It's the only game in town so if you want the cuisine, you've got 1 choice. Just get it to go....