Happy Garden Restaurant — Restaurant in Oxford

Sayonara Happy Garden !

Being a former resident of this town, we often ordered take out from here. The food was tasty, the portions were good. Food quality and prices were also very good. However, our visit on 1/8/25 was a visit of moderate disappointment! Having stopped here for a dinner on our way home, my wife and I were looking forward to having the great meals we previously ordered, as take out, here many times before. Sad to say, but this turned out to be our last visit to Happy Gardens. I should have picked up on the lack of customer vehicles as we entered the parking lot. But it was of no real concern at that time. Then, the fact that bar seats were all occupied. And that no customers at the available dining tables. Also, no customer(s) waiting to pick up their takeout orders as in my past visits there. My dinner of Chicken/Broccoli and Fried Rice was lukewarm when delivered to our table. I had to personally return my plate to the staff at the cash register to have it reheated to the proper temperature. I also informed this person of my displeasure of how this meal was given to me. at such a low temperature. I also had to ask for salt/pepper/soy sauce as there were none on any of the tables surrounding us. Several minutes later. My meal was delivered hot as it should have been the first time. All seemed to be going well until I began getting to the bottom serving of food on my plate. I excused a couple of the pieces of chicken that had some fat on them, but as I ate more, I came across more fat on the remaining chicken. The broccoli floret tips were cooked and tasty. The stalks needed to be...

Ordered take out and was told it would be about 30-45 minutes. Perfect amount of time. Got an update on my phone, order was ready in less than 15 minutes. Environment was a little weird. 80s dive bar-esq, noone seemed happy. The gentleman who handed me the take out was polite. Our first time trying their food and let me tell you, it's the last.

Shrimp friend rice- was actually disgusting and tasted like spoiled rice mixed with shrimp. Orange chicken- over cooked and some pieces were...hard Dumlings and eggs rolls- over cooked and tasted stale Crabrangoons- the only reason I'm okay with the one star. While not great, they tasted like a crabrangoon.

$50 worth of Chinese went in the trash last night, don't...

I got mixed feelings about this place.

Their food is good but doesn't stand out from other Chinese takeout style places.

The inside of the building is not super inviting, the tables, lighting, arrangement of tables it's just not good.

They seem like they care more about bar and what's going on with their bar patrons Then the food or the tables with the customers.

People who like this place the most of the ones who drink here.

The staff are not great some of the staff I encountered are either incompetent or rude, just don't care,

I've seen one of their employees asleep in the chair in the back on the job. I have a picture of that one sleeping beauty I keep...