Joy Garden

Not sure why it’s so hard to find great Chinese food like in New York or south Florida. This is supposed to be Mongolian beef, fried rice and egg rolls not sure why they are so big. Really not pleased with the food!! The beef is spongy weird tasting and there’s very little of it with a bunch of vegetables fried rice was plain and those gigantic egg rolls were not very good. Waste of money!!

Food: Low quality meat and ingredients. Portion sizes are large, but the quality of ingredients is very poor. I wouldn’t return to this restaurant. Here is what we tried: Broccoli Beef: VERY rubbery meat, sauce was okay (lacking in flavor), veggies cooked well. I don’t know what they used as a tenderizer but it’s super gross. We ate the broccoli from this and left the rest. Mandarin and Orange Chicken: placed together on a plate so unsure which was which. It’s chicken thigh and pretty fatty. How they bread huge chunks of thigh together so lots of it is over cooked. It’s kinda chopped up in massive chunks which makes it rubbery as well. One of the sauces was okay flavor wise, but not which one. Again, large portion but horrible quality of meat. I’d be okay with half the meat portion if they used chicken breast and did small bite size pieces. The breading itself was tempera style and not bad, but the execution just killed it. Majority of this left on the plate untouched. Fried rice: okay flavor, but extra oil added (greasy). We ate this because we had to eat something. BBQ pork and seed: What a joke! They put 4 teeny pieces of dried pork on the plate. No sauces or anything making it pork and seed. Just the dry pork. Hard pass on this one. Crab Rangoon: The only decent item we had. As you can tell food was an utter disappointment. Service: It was okay. About what you expect, but expecting $5+ to just drop off food and not check in with guests is outrageous. Price: Overall prices are decent but poor quality and NOT worth perceived “savings”. As for our check the price seemed high when we were checking out, but so didn’t have the menu to reference. We just paid for a shitty meal and left. Over half the food was not eaten (2 people) and they didn’t bother to ask how the meal was. Note to Joy Garden. It was nasty and we won’t return. Anyways … on the drive home I pulled up the menu online and they overcharged us $5 which just pisses me off further. Spending $30 for us to leave home still hungry as your gross Chinese food still sits on the plate means loss of business. We LOVE supporting local, but not this restaurant

A hole in the wall kind of place. When I choose foreign eatery, I like to be transported to their world. Walking in, you get blasted by their door ringer which is on the door and not in the depths of the kitchen, assaulting customers as they come in. The fish tank, had but one lonely fish and while decorative, their counter could use a tapestry to hide their storage area behind it. . There was no cultural transportation, just a menu with no mentioned tofu options, and American pop radio in the background. I asked for a tofu dish and the smiling waitress was happy to accommodate, but when it came, there was nothing special about it. I had to ask for chilli sauce for something to interest me in the food. I had to go to the counter to pay, and a vegetable tofu lunch was $16! Way too much for the offering. I'd skip, and try somewhere else.

Really good food and big portions for a great price. We had General Tsos chicken, Mongolian beef, egg rolls, and pork noodles. The egg rolls especially were so good. We got take out on Christmas and the wait was a while but they told us that upfront so no complaints. The staff were very nice even though it was so busy when I went to pick it up. Will definitely get again!

Joy garden is a blessing on jah. On my life. On my mama. If I could have one meal for the rest of my life is the SPECIAL CHOW MEIN, special chow mein has changed the trajectory of my life, props to the chef.