Spring Garden — Restaurant in Town of Hempstead

SUMMARY: This has become my go- to Chinese food spot. Great flavor, well sauced, generous portions, great rice ratio, and consistent food. FOOD: The food always tastes fresh, I never feel like it's stale or reheated. The flavors are strong, you definitely taste a difference from dish to dish. Nothing is bland. The rice is well fluffed and perfectly cooked. Not mushy and not hard. Their wonton soup specifically is awesome. The wonton are thin, not dense or doughy, and the filling is always juicy. At other spots, I usually don't drink the broth because it feels heavy, but this one is clear and flavorful. My only criticism would be sometimes there's a sloppy dice on the veggies and you'll get a gigantic piece of a bell pepper or onion, but I promise you won't care because it's delicious anyway. PRICE: Right in line with everything else in the area. Portions are great size. SERVICE: Disclaimer, I did not base my review on friendliness as some people do. Luckily however, the staff is as great as the food. Genuinely great service. I've been ordering from here and other places for about 5 years before writing this review and I can honestly only recommend this spot and one other in my area. There's never an attitude on the phone. They've never messed up an order. The delivery time has always been acceptable. I've called and made changes after ordering and they've always...

Ordered one shrimp egg roll, went to purchase and the lady stated no Apple Pay. I said no problem because I had my physical card. She then said the price which was $2, I pulled out my card and she looked like she had a problem. I said I don’t have cash. She then stated I don’t have a choice. To I replied I don’t have a choice either because I only have my card. She said they have a 10$ minimum but still took my card. Which I’m pretty sure that’s illegal. She then proceeded to take about 2 minutes looking at the card and putting it through a machine. I asked if her machine worked to which she replied I don’t know I’m waiting for it to process. I could have just left the egg roll there and ran to my car to get change but for a couple reasons I didn’t. I live very close so I walked.2 she was rude. 3 I did not see a sign that said cash only. Anyways her attitude was pretty bad and for no reason. Money is money. - if you want people to only use cash in your establishment put up a sign!

one a more positive note the egg roll was...

I had been getting Spring Gardens menu in the mail but just ordered here last Friday and IT WAS THE BEST CHINESE FOOD we've eaten in a long time.

Spring Gardens brings to their dishes full authentic flavors in their food that other Chinese take outs by me lack (the other takeout places seem their different dishes taste the same) for example hot and sour soup in other take out establishments have omitted ingredients and is just broth here it's chocked full of flavor and texture

Their MISO Soup has tremendous amount of tofu and seaweed and MISO has a velfty silky texture

General Taso chicken has a great amount of sauce Unfortunately IT WAS A BIG DISAPPOINTMENT at spring gardens as with every other takeout Chinese establishment IT'S SUPPOSE TO BE DEEP FRIED WITH A CRISPY BITE TOSSED IN THE SAUCE but WHEN IT'S PLACED IN THE PLASTIC CONTAINER IT STEAMS IT AND LOSSES THAT CRISPY TEXTURE AND THERE'S NO RED PEPPER PODS 🌶 COULD IT BE CHEAPER TO OMIT IT?

BUT AGAIN THIS PLACE IS SO AWESOME I AM ORDERING...