Formosa Garden Restaurant

I picked up my order yesterday, at around 1:30. The sweet and sour chicken was so overdone that it was hard. The combination lo mein was gooey, dry, and tasteless. The fried rice was stale, hard, and seemed left over from the lunch rush. This was my first time ordering here. I felt that we were served what was sitting around for a while. This is why we have Google reviews.

The wife and I went here for dinner trying a new place and here is a 100% unbiased review. We like to find hole in the wall places like this and we love to support small businesses. The vegetable egg rolls and the egg drop soup were bland with very little flavor. We ordered the chicken Gyoza and the Chicken skewers and both were great so we highly recommend. I ordered the combo fried rice with chicken,shrimp and beef and it was also really great. My wife ordered the BBQ Pork with vegetables which she found to be overly drenched in BBQ sauce. Our waitress was ok and she met our needs but seemed to not like interacting with customers. The entire restaurant is out of date and makes you feel like your visiting your grandmother's house with flower pattern all over it. It wasn't horrible but was a little weird. The bathrooms on the other hand are gross and need a massive cleaning and update. Not trying to be rude but it would definitely help in the customer recommendation to other people. Overall it was a good place to eat and a definite diamond in the rough.

Just had a very good experience with this place. The food was awesome, the service staff was friendly with smiles, I got everything I ordered. This is my 3rd time here, and it's always been flawless. I will be back for sure. =)

Came in today at lunch as a direct result of the great reviews. The staff were extremely friendly and I was sat quickly to wait for my friend. I loved the complimentary hot tea and the water with a slice of lemon. These were great touches that separate Formosa Garden from other "Chinese" or east Asian restaurants. The atmosphere seemed like a relic of the 80s or, at the very least, the early 90s. I understand that small restaurants can't always keep up with the times, but updating to a modern look would change the ambience significantly. Unless you like that dated look, then: great! I ordered the Orange Chicken and was thrilled that the spicy dish was actually spicy. Most places will tell you their orange chicken is spicy, but in reality, it never is. Formosa kept that promise, to which I'm grateful. My friend ordered the Cashew Chicken and had two complaints: [1] There weren't enough cashews, and [2] The meat was a tad rubbery. As we discussed this, I realized my orange chicken was also more 'chewy' than chicken should be. Almost as if the chicken was thawed in the microwave, then cooked. All-in-all, the experience is one I'd try again to see if these issues were outliers or the norm. The lunch price was great and very competitive with Panda Express.

Eat somewhere else they suck lo mein was squishy n over cooked sticking together none of the food looks like the pictures they have on website sesame chicken trash... Ugh the worst taste sweet n sour sauce watery and flavorless, the fried rice the worst and no eggs or veggies in fried rice Don't eat here !! Eat at 6 th n Peoria china chef it's delicious and clean.