China Garden — Restaurant in Grand Forks

Called and ordered dinner for pick up from China Garden last night. Not only was the person taking my order incredibly rude but he was also incapable of understanding the menu even after reading the exact item and description off of the menu verbatim. Finally after 7 minutes to order beef and vegetables, combination a(lo mein & sweet and sour pork), and a failed attempt to order pot stickers because although I just ordered them there, they 'have never had them', 🙄 okay. He said it would be ready in about 20 minutes, sent friend in to pick it up after about 30 minutes just to find that he entered my phone number wrong, didn't submit my order(even though they charged my card twice), and made her wait an additional 45 minutes after arriving to pick it up all the while treating her poorly over his mistakes. The manager was yelling at him and pointing at my friend making her uncomfortable while waiting. He did not apologize nor communicate what was happening to her, had I not already paid twice, I would have just told her to leave. She got to my house just to find that they did not get anything in the order correct. They gave us burnt rice, sauteed vegetables with no flavor or meat, and sweet and sour chicken with gravy? Called them to ask if it could be fixed and the manager told me that I should have picked it up myself and checked it before I left and that she would not fix the order or let me bring the incorrect items back to get what I actually ordered(even if I did so myself with the receipt, that showed they got the order COMPLETELY wrong). To top it off when I asked about my card getting charged twice she said 'sorry about that' and hung up. Will NOT be ordering from them again, NOR going to there again. PSA: Panda Buffet had perfect service, food, and delivery that was faster than ordering an hour ahead of time at...

Ordered the BBQ Pork, cream cheese wontons, pork fried rice, sweet n sour chicken, and beef and chicken in birds nest for take out.

Bbq pork was dry and the sauce was a total miss for me, although my husband did enjoy.

The beef and chicken in birds nest is listed on the menu as “sliced beef, chicken, fresh broccoli, mushrooms, snow peas, and carrots cooked with chefs special sauce in crispy basket”. I don’t know what the crispy basket is meant to be as it was nowhere to be found in our take out, and the meal I received also had huge slices of celery stalk and green pepper in it, which unfortunately, I strongly dislike. I had chosen this dish based off the menu description because it had listed all vegetables I was a big fan of, and this kind of ruined it for me. Cream cheese wantons are not sweet (if you are used to a sweeter Rangoon), and the way their were folded and fried made them extra crunchy to the point I could not enjoy them and had to throw everything but the softer filled outside ring away. The chicken in sweet and sour chicken was inconsistent in texture but over all tasted good according to my husband. Fried rice was really dry, but the white rice was pleasant.

Overall, not the worst, I think maybe I just made a bad choice, but ultimately straying from the menu description was really...

I came in to sit down for lunch at 1:20 PM. I notice it was a sign that said wait to be seated here so I waited 5 minutes to be seated while I was just standing there watching them look at a screen behind the front desk and not even acknowledging me. The 2nd lady that came out and finally addressed me by do you know what you want and I said yes I would like to be seated. While I was picking up a Togo menu after seating me then she yelled (58) and walked away from me then brought me a glass of water. And walked away again. I waited so either her or the 1st older lady at the front to come back because I noticed on the menu it said Ask your server for today lunch special while looking through the menu, I noticed everything basically came with pork or pork fried rice. I don’t eat pork at all, so I had other questions in my mind like do they cook everything in the same pots and pans at this point I noticed that they had a side salad for around five dollars and their vegetable fried rice was around $10, same as their chicken fried rice. So long story short I was waiting until 5 mins. Ago before I just stood up and walked out I never ever touched the water and I never seen the cost for a pot of tea on the menu. I have not been here in many years and now I guess I remember why. EVERYBODY DONT EAT PORK....