Sunny Garden Restaurant — Restaurant in Folsom

Service was spot on. The food, however, was more hit or miss. The expansive menu offers a lot of common dishes found in other Chinese food restaurants, but not all of them are made well.

I've rated each dish at the bottom if you're looking for the simple review. I'll go into detail below.

Starting from best to worst, we all enjoyed the fried meat potstickers we ordered. We also enjoyed the Dim Sum (ha gao). 2/2 of the appetizers we ordered were good enough that I do consider going back for just those.

We also ordered two soups to share around the table. They give you a large quantity and the waitress even went back to the kitchen to get more broth without being asked! We ordered the Hot and Sour soup and the Chicken Noodle soup. The Hot and Sour was on the salty side, so we all could only stomach one small bowl of it. It wasn't terrible, the flavors are there for what a hot and sour should be. The Chicken Noodle, however... The broth wass watery, the chicken was bland, and the noodles were undercooked, giving it a unforgiving texture in your mouth. I don't recommend having this. I took home the large leftovers from this dish and put in some bullion and sriracha to fix that problem. HOWEVER: I really recommend against this and, honestly, wish they'd just cut it off the menu along with at least 50 other things that are just clogging it up.

Onto the main courses, we ordered the House Fried Rice, the Kung Pao Chicken, and Oyster Chicken. The fried rice was not bad, but not great. The steak in the dish was a bit tough and unseasoned and I wish there was a tiny bit more flavor in it because me and everyone else had ended up pouring soy sauce over it. The Kung Pao Chicken was a mess. Everything was cut into cubes, which is fine until you look at all of it put together. They put whole, raw peanuts all over the top. It wasn't very spicy for our taste. All the veggies in the dish took on the same color as one another and it just looked very unappetising. It's edible, but I wouldn't eat it if I had the choice to. Oyster Chicken sounded like a fine alternative to the usual option of Broccoli Beef. The menu boasted that it was vegetable filled and covered in that amazing oyster sauce that the broccoli beef dish has. Well, the sauce was watery and lacked that oyster sauce flavor. Every component in the dish was not seasoned. Bland on bland, just like the Chicken Soup.

Potstickers 7/10 Ha Gao 7/10 Hot and Sour 4.5/10 Chicken Noodle 1/10 House Fried Rice 5/10 Kung Pao Chicken 2/10 Oyster Chicken 1/10

For its price, I'd say only come here for the appetizers.

If the restaurant reads this, please listen when I say to cut the menu down. Having a few successful dishes will likely bring back more customers than having a million mediocre to...

We made an impromptu stop here at noon on a Sunday. We had egg rolls, vegetable chow mien ,Almond chicken ,Lemon Chicken & egg drop soup. The egg rolls were yummy & on the petite side, which was perfect for an appetizer. The portions of the other items were very generous. The (almond) chicken was tender. The lemon chicken was not soggy. The broccoli & the zucchini & other vegetables were perfectly cooked ! The egg drop soup was very tasty, with small bits of corn which gave it a nice flavor. We were Very pleased with the food & will likely return. Our server was very nice. We don't go out for meals very often. The menu was a bit overwhelming so we just ordered things individually. We didn't really have an idea of just how much food we were ordering, (portion size clueless!) ,we just figured what we didn't eat then we would take home! English is our only language & my husband & I were trading rapid banter as we decided as went with the order , so my sympathies are with our server as we did not understand each other well, which resulted in a bit of a glitch in our ordering. We wanted a side of rice, but when it did not appear we knew we had communicated badly & decided to leave well enough alone. We did Not order the egg drop soup but did REALLY enjoy it. The food was great so next time we'll probably just order online to avoid any misunderstanding. {Side note: EVERY single time we have been to Habit, the completely English speaking staff, has gotten our orders wrong. Communication goes both ways & I have great respect for someone whose first language is not English-being bilingual is a huge...

My wife and I have chosen Sunny Garden several times before and found the food and atmosphere good. There have been two servers each time. The one we’ve always had is pleasant, friendly and seems happy to be there. The other one always seems just the opposite as we’ve seen her serve others.

I just went in for lunch just now and was served by the second woman. When I placed my order, I used the number from the menu. I shouldn’t have.

She said, “Don’t use the number.” Her tone was sharp. I asked why and she told me again to read it. So I did and she walked away.

I realized I was technically wrong. Instead of having one item for Kung Pao Chicken and another for beef, the menu lumped them together as one. I had missed that and made her day harder.

But, I thought for a second and realized she could have simply said “Chicken or Beef.”

She brought the tea and I told her I was leaving and to cancel the order. She asked why. I said she hadn’t needed to be rude.

The Folsom area has lots of places with Chinese food this good. None can afford to send us elsewhere with a...