KAsian Garden — Restaurant in San Marcos

Had eaten at this place for years. Used to love it. Good, fast, and cheap. My husband and I were regulars weekly. Not anymore. The last few times we have had the food, the quality has significantly decreased, rice is terrible in all forms, soups are flavored water, sauces are tasteless and oily, and the service from owner and staff has become horrific. Ordered the sweet and sour chicken for dinner on a slow night. Took 45 minutes. They delivered just the chicken, no sweet and sour sauce. The rice was thick and stuck together in a soggy lump. Ok, no big deal, everyone has an off day. Ill just call and ask for them to bring the sauce to me. Instead I get hounded and accused of not having ordered there in the first place and trying to get them to give me free sauce? WTF? when i finally got them to acknowledge my order(since i paid with a CC, and that cant really be disputed once you run the card), the person on the phone rudely told me Id get my sauce whenever they got to me, it would be treated as a new togo order, and I would have to wait AT LEAST 30 more minutes. My husband decided to go in and pick up the sauce for me so the food wouldnt get cold, asked for refund of the delivery fee, for obvious reasons, and they rudely told him NO, it wasnt their fault he had to come in, they had partially delivered. SRSLY?! This place lost our business that night, and we will not return. I now make it a point to tell everyone and anyone in SM. If you treat your regulars like this, cant imagine how everyone else gets treated. Save yourself the money and aggravation and just eat somewhere else, plenty of places these days. Some ppl may call it 'picky' but I say I actually care about quality. try Thai Thai. its...

The Asian Garden Chinese Restaurant is a small take-out restaurant that delivers chow mein and fried rice to hungry college students at midnight, but underneath its strip-mall facade, federal authorities say the owners were a part of a massive ring that exploited undocumented workers, forcing them to work long hours for less than minimum wage.

Wei Ji Zheng, 38, and Wen Juan Zhang, 34, both of San Marcos, were among the 32 people arrested Thursday in Texas and Louisiana on federal conspiracy charges under the RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations) Act, as well as charges of conspiring to transport, harbor, encourage and induce undocumented workers to live in the United States.

Zheng and Zhang were part of a ring that recruited and placed undocumented workers, mostly from Mexico and Central America, in Chinese restaurants from Texas to Maine for a fee, according to a federal indictment filed Nov. 7. Workers were charged $300-$630 a person for transportation, job placement and housing fees by Hong Li Enterprise and Texas Job Agency out of Houston. Authorities believe the ring was operating as far back as 2004.

Those job agencies "operated a 'take-out and delivery service' for restaurants across the region — but they didn't deliver food. Instead, they delivered people illegally present in the United States to greedy restaurant owners and managers looking for cheap labor," said Brian M. Moskowitz, special agent in charge of Homeland Security Investigations in Houston, in...

My husband and I drove in from out of town after seeing the restaurant advertised on Google. I was under the impression that the food was made to order and was authentic not something you get at an average buffet. It was not even buffet quality, it was more like premade fast food. We wanted to try one of their seafood boils and they had a nightly special. It was extremely overpriced so we stuck to the Asian menu. They charged extra for fried rice which is unusual for an Asian restaurant, the egg rolls we ordered tasted freezer burned, and my chef special of Beijing beef was fried beef onions and green peppers in what tasted like sweet and sour sauce you get from a bottle at the grocery store with some hot sauce added to it. I only had two bites. The egg drop soup was bland as well. Maybe the restaurant business isn’t what it used to be, but I make better Chinese food at home. The total for the meal was $36.09, and while they gave a large amount portion wise the food was poorly made. It only took them five minutes to bring everything out to our table including the main course. If your looking for quality made Chinese food done made to order I don’t recommend this place. Note to reader this is NOT a buffet. Didn’t want a...