Beijing Garden — Restaurant in Victoria

I ordered carry out and had great hopes. It's difficult to find good Chinese food in Victoria. Bejing Garden is on Main Street surrounded by lovely restaurants, shops, and bars. I hoped it was another jewel of the revitalized downtown. I was so disappointed. I ordered staples of Americanized Chinese food, sweet and sour chicken, pot stickers and hot an sour soup. The sweet and sour looks like chic-fil-a nugget: no veggies or pineapple which seems to be a staple normally-, the rice is cold and gloopy, the sweet and sout sauce had a old oil flavor. Like it was stale? It was fluorescent orange and just sweet- no other real flavors. The hot and sour soup was just strange. Again the stale oil back note and just off. The pot stickers were edible. This wonderful meal was $30. Actually it was $28.50 but the tacked on a fee for paying with my debit card though there was no notice of this anywhere, just a note that said I could only use a credit/debit card for orders over $10. Guys, this was just aweful. If a restaurant can't make the most commonly ordered menu items then I hate to think what had happened of I had ordered something that required a bit of finesse. If I could give zero stats I would have. I will not be returning and hope you...

So let me first start by saying I’m disappointed it’s takeout only now!!!! You can’t dine in at the restaurant. I’ve eaten here years back and I always liked it and wanted to dine in again but couldn’t. I forgot my COVID mask but they still served me. Took my order and I waited maybe 10 minutes or so for my takeout food.

I ordered the Lemon chicken combo with fried rice and egg roll. It’s affordable I think it was $14 plus tip.

It tastes so good and homey! Brings back memories of when I used to eat here. Their rice has a unique taste to it it almost reminds me of the Chinese restaurant the old HEB used to have. Lemon chicken is delicious though the sauce could be sweeter but it’s still good. Egg roll was very good and the gave me sweet and sour sauce!

So I’m giving a good rating simply for memories and the good taste, but I wish they’d...

Purchased 2 items. $23.25. No appetizer or drink. I should have picked a buffet. General Tao’s Chicken........It was very dry overcooked, dark meat chicken, weird sauce, did I say dry? Combination Lo Mein. Noodles were so overcooked they were almost paste. I ate it. I am from Houston and thought I would give it a try. Too bad the Panda Express is not built yet. No guessing on the quality. The fine folks of Victoria will be able to get a quality dish as soon as it opens. It is by far not my favorite, but I played Russian roulette tonight picking this place and my brains are splattered on...