Ding's Garden — Restaurant in Irvine

Food was unbelievably distasteful: ordered wonton and it did not come with noodles and needed to be ordered as an add on; the noodles came separately from the soup wonton in a bowl. It was plain flour pasta and not egg noodles. The soup was water and they put spinach leaves as the greens in the soup when usually it would be bok choi or chinese broccoli. Wontons were frozen and unauthentic chinese food. Pan fried dumplings were burnt and were not authentic, tasted frozen. Extremely unprofessional service shown when they started closing and flipping chairs and turning off the music and dimming lights at 8:30 when their close time is 9:00pm (which I thought was it 10:00 because their google and yelp hours are not updates). I had an uncomfortable and disgusted experience because it seemed that the staff were rushing us out while also serving the worst food I have had in...

I got takeout the other day. It was a busy Friday lunch rush. They had a mild wait for tables. A greeter brought me right up to the register located in the rear to take my order. I went with the curry chicken fried rice. After I paid they gave me a number. I waited on a bench near the entrance. I dont think it was even 10 minutes before they called me.

The rice was good - flavorful and just spicy enough. I'll ask them to make it hotter next time. It was a good portion - a good value for the price. I was...

Had to stop eating the braised beef halfway through the meal due to not knowing what kind of meat it was...tasted almost like liver fir some reason. The beef was not falling apart, it was mostly hard fatty pieces that felt a bit off to me. Didn't want to get sick so stopped halfway through the bowl. The place smells like a bathroom now. Pre covid it was always a good spot to get a quick meal at...now I'm not so sure. Maybe they are going through a...