Jade Garden

Jade Garden is a long standing Chinese restaurant specializing in Southern Chinese cuisine. It is open late, making it a perfect space for late night eats or larger celebrations. Staff are friendly and accommodating, does help if you speak Cantonese but many staff speak in English as well. The food is pretty good for Chinese American dishes. The salt & pepper squid is pretty good at this establishment, lightly fried but has good flavor with the pepper. The soups are also pretty good and has many other dishes that are staples for Chinese cuisine. The dishes are served family style like many other establishments, making it very worth if coming with a large party.

Twin lobster for $52.95. The stir-fried lobster with garlic and scallions is a masterpiece, featuring juicy, fresh lobster chunks that are perfectly bouncy and tender. Free red bean soup is good too!

Good food, the lobsters dish was delicious, the noodles were yummy. The fried rice was ok. I rather ordered another type of fried rice instead of this one( see pic). Overall, it was a very reasonable price, food was very taste. Food in Boston was cheaper than California.

Our favorite place in Boston’s Chinatown. We arrived around midnight and stayed until almost 2am. The place was more than half full when we got there and it was a weekday. The waiters were really nice and made small talk/joked with us which is pretty rare for a canto restaurant 😂 Food was great and tasted authentic

I arrived at Jade Garden at around 10:30pm, after watching an ice hockey game, not having had dinner. Chinatown was really the only choice, as most other restaurants in Boston close at latest 10pm. I did my research too before going, as it had 3.9 stars on Google - that seemed the going rate in Chinatown, it was getting late, and I was hungry. It is not unknown for Chinese waiters to have 'Thank you', 'Sorry', 'Please', to be missing from their vocabulary, with the common excuse that their English is not that good. When you converse with them in Cantonese, however, and you still don't feel like a valued customer, then something is seriously amiss. I tried to strike up a conversation with one of the waiters (before the disastrous food arrived) and asked him where in Chinatown was good for dim sum. I didn't get a recommendation. He just fobbed me off. You can get dim sum from those restaurants that open at 9am, was all he said. I ordered 2 dishes, beef ho fun and clams with bitter melon. They came back to say they were out of ho fun, and suggest stir fried vermicelli (乾炒米粉), - not singapore fried noodles - but literally 'dried stir fried rice vermicelli'. I didn't fancy the sound of that. I wasn't presented with the menu again, so I just ordered some fairly standard fare - seafood noodles (三鮮). When it arrived, it turned into three shredded meats noodles (三絲). The 'chef' couldn't even get something as basic as thickening the sauce correctly for the noodles. It was so thin, like water. I had to also spit out some of the meat, as it tasted off. I think it was the char siu. The clams and bitter melon pot was just boiled. Not even seasoned. The photos you see, are what I left behind, and I was still quite hungry. I just wanted to leave ASAP and get back to my hotel for some rest. In settling up, the bill was just handed over - no plate, or padded folder that restaurants usually present a bill in. I had cash on the table almost immediately after that, but they made me wait for almost half an hour to take it and give me change. They were not busy, and granted the staff were have a meal, but they still had one waiter not eating to attend to customers. It irritates me having to pay the 15% min 'tip' that is customary for USA for this disasterous meal (This mandatory tipping practice is not a custom in my home country, as the staff are paid a proper salary, and tips actually are tips.).