Reviews for Chen's Garden in West Plains, MO
The dumpling soup was nasty.The dumpling taste nasty as in spoiled food taste and had big one chunk of meat.Dumplings used... minced/ground meat,not chunks. Read more
Firstly, *Do Not* trust the menu on Google. That is an old menu and the process and offerings may be inaccurate. I have uploaded... pictures of their menu both to Google and to this review. I am staying in the Baymont nearby for the night, and I called fortakeout (after clearing up the menu misunderstanding). I got Szechuan Beef with two (artificial) crab Rangoons (the artificialis important because regular crab isn't kosher), and plain fried rice. The fried rice was pretty bland but other than that therest of the meal was lovely, and the food was ready within minutes of me walking through the door. As it is a 4 minute walk fromthe hotel and the food is high quality I strongly recommend. 8.5/10 Read more
They only put one slice of lemon when you ask for lemons. More then one, they don't bring you enough napkins after asking for... lots of napkins, they don't bring you chop sticks after asking for chop sticks. Every time I go there, I always have to ask twoor three times. Read more
Food was not old, at least. Very high level of sweetness to all sauces, some intolerably so. Breaded meats were soggy, but... non-breaded beef dishes were delicious. Fried sides (egg rolls, dumplings) were overly greasy, but at least not soggy. Soupgood, did not sample rices. The other person with me did not want buffet, and this caused a problem. Hostess assumed anddidn't ask. Server was halfway across the floor after dropping off beverages (sweet tea was given to diabetic who orderedunsweet and vice versa) before he was able to get through to her that he would like a menu, at which point she scowled androlled her eyes and generally was grouchy the rest of the time. We were offered refills of our "sodas" so at that point wesimply said no thank you rather than risk being charged for more drinks when she realized SHE had gotten them wrong. Ournon-buffet order was ordered "to go" and we were watched like hawks to make sure we didn't slip any buffet food into the to-gocontainer - and note that no return trip to the buffet was made, inly the initial one with one plate of food and a soup bowl, sono excessive food was taken let alone eaten. When he got the food home and ate it once it was cold enough (he cannot eat warmfood) he ended up having to put everything into a pan, cook the vegetables since they were almost raw, and having to add prettymuch every Asian sauce we had in our pantry to make enough sauce to cover the noodles and to have any sort of flavor other thanoil. Had we wanted to cook stir fry noodles ourselves, we wouldn't have ordered from a restaurant. But he ended up having towait for it to cool down again once he finished cooking the veggies, so our late lunch turned into a late dinner for himinstead, and an unsatisfying one not worth the price at that. Will not return. Do not recommend due to few tasty items andvery unkind treatment. Read more
The service was great. But the food was lacking the chicken was hard the egg rolls were too they appeared to be burnt, the sauce... were watered down not a lot of flavor. The mushrooms were perfect but that seems like the only thing. Sorry not going come backfor a while. Also the coupon is only good for one person which is doesn't say on it at all that is not a good deal especially ifyou dine in only if you do carry out to. Read more
Food is average. Service is ok. Biggest reason I am rating 1 star is due to their abuse of fish. Both tanks they have are way... over stocked. ONE arowana needs a minimum of 250 gallons, they have 3 of them in what appears to be a 55 gallon tank. The othertank had fish that need to be in groups of 6 or more of their own species, a common pleco that needs a minimum of 250 gallontank. There are fish that are either injured or diseased. They need to research proper fish keeping or hire someone who alreadyhas knowledge of aquariums to handle them. The only positive thing on the tanks is that they are clean. Read more
This place has gone down hill. I got Mongolian beef tonight to take home. It should have been Mongolian onions. It was at least... 90% onions. I picked the beef out and it was also so salty I couldnt eat it. We wont be back. Read more
This was one of my favorite places to eat till I realized there is never any soap in the bathroom. Makes me think the employees... must not wash there hands after using the bathroom. Food tasted really off yesterday. Read more