Chinese Gardens

First time trying Chinese gardens, my kids are very drawn to the architecture on the outside. So they wanted to try their food. It was okay a little bland, nothing some salt and pepper won't fix. I did not like the egg flower soup per say but my kiddos enjoyed very much.

The food was typical fried Chinese food. My husband seemed to enjoy it quite a bit, however, I didn’t get many vegetables. I think I got one kernel of corn and a broccoli 🥦 flowerette. I did get a few celery, slivers, and a piece of pork on top of my fried rice and I do not eat pork at all never have never will. I gave the piece of pork to my husband and then I was able to eat the noodles. The best part of the meal was the noodles for me and the rice said it was fried rice, but they said they had eggs in it but I could hardly see them, and it just wasn’t up to my standards. I think my husband was just very hungry at the time all the food was fried. The best part of this meal was the egg drop soup.

Best Almond Chicken in the USA! I have asked for this dish everywhere I have traveled and No One makes it like this! So glad I made reservations before I flew back home for a visit!! Tried the Crispy Teriyaki Chicken .. also very good, and don’t miss the prawns! You won’t be disappointed with the family dinner specials or combo plates! They still won’t deliver to Colorado though so next time I come to town I am going to fill my “carry on” for a two hour flight back with Chinese Gardens family combo B for 4! #FrontierEats lol

Egg foo young was vile - pre-formed, dried out patty of a texture that looked like sawdust and didn't taste much better. The special chow mein was dry but did have a nice amount of chicken in it. The almond chicken was Spokane's standard almond chicken; greasy fried chicken pieces with a gravy on it - that's what I was hoping for. All in all, will never go back. Ugh, that egg foo young - what was that stuff?!?

This is a place that's been in business for almost 60 years, they've perfected the whole experience. Staff is very friendly, comfortable booths, great variety of menu options and the food was hot, fresh and delicious. Nice and quiet and lighting is warm.

I ordered on door dash for this meal. With a $5 tip cost me $33. This amount of food is astonishingly small for that price. The BBQ pork you see is one of the three foods I selected for this Pick Three Combo Dinner. I at least expected them to put more in the container. Multiple other places for that price will give much more food. It is tasty yes I will give them that. But honestly a waste of money. unless you want to buy over priced food, I'd recommend going somewhere else. Never have I been this disappointed by an Asian cuisine restaurant before.

I took my beautiful Mother in to have a nice lunch. The food was very very good, but the poor waitress was literally all alone up in the (WHOLE) dinning room!! She was acting as (the hostess, the waitress, the bussboy, & the manager!!! The only other employees where the chefs???? Other than that mixup, everything was great, (I would highly recommend the veggie fried rice, & we had there (egg fu young) 😋😋😋😲😲😲 it was SOOOOOO good 👍😊!! I would tell my worst enemy to go eat here, thats how amazing it is!! Thank you CHINESE GARDENS, I will be sharing this experience with all my friends & family, & encouraging them all to go try it out!! (Oh I forgot, the food comes out (SUPER FAST!!) which I love, I don't like sitting with my people & waiting for 45mins for our food. I understand that there are places that have a whole thing, where they literally want to make you wait, then they put on "like me a mini show of sorts" just to give you (1appatiser) then they bring about 4/8 dishes all at different times, & that's all to d n fun, but for a different time n place!! Go check out the CHINESE GARDENS, (GREAT FOOD, SUPER FAST SERVICE!! WIN 👍 WIN!!!)

I went to Chinese Gardens and had a nice lunch. Very clean and my waitress gets 5⭐️ My egg flower soup was just like warm and there was too much gravy on my almond chicken and egg foo young. I will ask for less next time.

I didn't want to go out so opted for Uber eats delivery. The restaurant had a coupon so I said why not. Of course I ordered extra to last me a few days. I had a pick three combo with sweet and sour chicken, celery pork chow mein with crunchy noodles, and egg foo young. I added crab wontons, fried shrimp and egg flower soup. So, when they say celery chow mein believe it! There was so much celery and hardly anything else. I don't like celery so I was disappointed. I didn't eat some but it was too much celery. The other items were okay. I think I ate the shrimp, Rangoons, and the egg foo young and threw away the rest. The portions were kinda small cause this only lasted me 2 days. (Sorry I forgot pics)

The restaurant is easy to find and has plenty of parking spaces. Service was amazing. Hostess/server greeted us right away and really attended to us throughout our whole meal. However, food was lackluster. I ordered the Pick 3 Combination and the only thing I truly enjoyed and thought was good was the chow mein. The crispy teriyaki chicken was mostly the crunchy coating with barely any chicken in it. The fried rice that accompanied the meal did not have that much flavor to it.

Food overpriced. Bbq pork $14.51 for small container and so disappointed in Wonton soup. Ordered medium bowl and half was spaghetti noodles. The wontons did taste good but were fewer than menu said and mostly noodles. $12.48 for medium bowl.

I ordered the pick 3 for dinner. It was great. All the employees were very kind. P lety of food and I will definitely go back!

Great food at a good price. Service was great too! Very good lemon chicken and almond chicken

Moo Goo Gai Pan is excellent, full of fresh tender crisp veggies. Very flavorful sauce. Egg Foo Yong is your standard square fried patty with lots of filler to hold it together. Flavor & gravy was good though. Also, standard Almond Chicken was crispy with same gravy as Egg Foo Yong. Fried rice on meal was plain but moist. Overall, decent standard Americanized Chinese Food. I'm definitely going back for the Moo Goo Gai Pan. My friend really likes the Curry Chicken too.

While visiting my son's family in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho I longed for some good Chinese food. Hard to find since there aren't too many Chinese restaurants in the area. We've been to a couple suggested places but we never quite liked it. So I asked for a suggestion from my private Facebook group. So glad I did because someone suggested this place. I realize it's catered to non-Asians and is basically the typical Chinese-American restaurant with the usual items such as fried rice, egg rolls, and chow mein. That's okay with me. Better than nothing! This one is as good as it gets for this area! Besides, my late father owned 2 Chinese-American restaurants in NY so I know what to expect. My husband & I were quite pleased with the server, Liz, who was very accommodating. She was the only waitress there that particular day so she worked very hard! The décor, ambiance, and booths reminded me of my father's restaurants in the 60's and 70's. Brought back fond memories. I liked my first appetizer dish which were the fried dumplings and my husband liked his wonton soup. Heard about the chef who was a good cook but he wasn't around as he only worked weekends and we were there on a weeknight. All in all, I was quite satisfied with the meal and we ordered a lot since we wanted to sample a variety of dishes. Except for the Egg Foo Young (one patty), the food plates were pretty big! Needless to say, the two of us couldn't finish all the food we ordered so we took home "doggie bags" for my son's family. Even my daughter-in-law's sister said the takeout food had "more flavor" than the one we usually go to in Coeur d'Alene! This Chinese restaurant in Spokane will be the one we intend to go to for Chinese food the next time we are in town which will probably be in December. Our son and his family live in Idaho now so we will be back to Chinese Gardens for sure (even though it's a half/hour away)

LOVE the baby egg rolls so much!!! Food and service are great. Very fun atmosphere in the lounge and pull tabs to boot. All around awesone place

Ordered dinner from here using Uber Eats. Food was pretty bad-especially the egg roll that was so soaked in oil that it was soggy. Worse than the food was the fact that our food was delivered in a plastic take out bag that had a cigarette butt stuck to the bottom of it...just gross. We won't be repeat customers!

Food is only worth 1 star and one more star for their fast service. Friend ordered it via an App. I knew what to expect because the menu is just a standard American-style Chinese food menu but I did notice the price was very high. The delivery person left the food at the wrong unit and they took it in so we had to re-order it again (good luck to the stomaches of those people who stole the food). When our order arrived again, I opened the box and knew this was going to be bad. The whole thing just looked like a total disaster for the price. They looked super plain and simple, and they tasted even worse. Definitely the worst American-style Chinese food I've ever had so far. We both didn't enjoy the food and threw it away. $40+ for 2 simple meals and they couldn't get them right. The fortune cookies that came with the food tasted better than anything else in the bag.

Went here a few weeks back with my dad for dinner because there is no decent Chinese food in Spokane anymore. When we sat down, decent ambience, the place wasn't overly crowded, and nice friendly service. The problem arose after we ordered. We ordered the family dinner A which was about 22 bucks per person and looked like alot of food in the menu. We both left the restaurant hungry. The food was decent, just hardly anything to it. The beef and vegetables dish was about 95% vegetables. To be honest the wonton soup was the best part of the meal.

As a local long time foodie I have to say DISAPPOINTING I am not sure what to expect anymore but this was smaller than normal and not good quality food. 2 meals a appetizer and one upgraded soup..... Too much $$$ no pics and WTF Where's the

We were not impressed. May have been because we ordered off of Door Dash - items were missing and it was not good. Will not order here again

Delicious Two of us went for lunch. The waitress was not wearing a mask. We ordered letter I off the lunch menu and were able to substitute lemon chicken for the egg foo young for only $1, and we also ordered the special Chowmein. The restaurant was pretty empty, but we were there at 11:30. We both felt the soup lacked flavor. That said, the meal was DELICIOUS! The special Chowmein was very well seasoned, the sauce on the lemon chicken was incredible, and the gravy on the almond chicken was nice and light. Even the sweet and sour sauce was good. Will definitely be back Had the waitress worn a mask I would have given 5 stars

Ok I'm not gonna lie when I first went here I was a little nervous. But I just wanted some American style Chinese food. It was one of those nights lol. Super. Nice staff. Had to use hand sanitizer before anything. (Loved that). I got it to go but we had the celery chow main, general tsoas chicken, sweet and sour slate ribs, house chow mein, and fried prawns. I was very happy it actually tasted great. I didn't wake up the next day swollen either! I really liked the food. It was quick. It's American Chinese. This isn't a fushion place or anything. You won't be disappointed if you know that this isn't P.F. Chang's or something!!!

The food isn't that bad, it's just not that great. not really worth $22. fried rice had very little taste. crispy teriyaki chicken was decent. prob go somewhere in the future

I'm sorry... I'm kinda laughing, and shaking my head, as I write this. I played gigs at this place in the early 90's, and it darned well hasn't changed a bit in all that time. Veteran's Day had the kids off today, and that always translates to possible lunch action. Begging, trying to dissuade them, I had to relent to them all demanding horrifically bad Chinese diner food. So I chose this old place for the heck of it, and nostalgia. Seriously, it would be so easy to give them 2 stars, and there's no way I could ever give them four, but the aborigines all loved their trough food, and a Daaaaddy's duty is ever omnipresent. Talk about taking one for team, huh? But....at least I knocked back the usual libations to cushion my displeasure. It was horrible, and I love my kiddos. Endeavor to persevere...

My girlfriend and I loved this place! Key word loved. Last time we came here, about 2 months ago, we had a great time the food was not that expensive. They had a great menu and the food was definitely worth the price. When we came back today, however, we were very disappointed. They changed the menu; got rid of most of the items and made everything more expensive. More than half the menu disappeared and they raised the prices like we've never seen. The egg flower soup, for example, used to be less than $5, but was raised to 11.99. Add ins and substitutions became 3x more expensive, and the portions shrunk about 50%. Not only were the prices and portion sizes ridiculous, but the food was extremely disappointing. Nothing about this restaurant is redeeming, which is quite the shame. Possible new management or ownership is to blame, I'm not sure. The only good thing about this place is the waitresses. Shout out to them. Don't waste your time or money on this dump.

The staff where great. The service was great . We liked that it was quite and the Chinese food was good but my wife said the cheeseburger wasn't that good. I would recommend this place. I will go back and the price was good for what we got.

Walked in everyone was in the bar messing around Food was cold when we got there also missed a bunch of items seems only a few were working definitely did not tip

Worst Chinese food I've had in my life! Prices are outrageous! The egg foo young was a hockey puck. The almond chicken and sweet n sour pork tasted like it was a week old. The egg roll was practically hollow inside. The special garden chow mein was laughable! The wonton soup was nasty broth, one piece of cabbage and what looked like a half of a wonton. The fried rice is a joke. It is rice fried in oil. That's it. No vegetables , no soy sauce. Never again! I will stick with Panda Express over this place any day of the week!

the food was absolutely disgusting!! the chow mien was literally spaghetti noodles. The beef was like eating gelatinized meat paste, the vegetables were under cooked, hair on the plate, and holes in the seats. This place is a complete shit hole!! Ill be surprised if i dont get sick after eating here. Never ever going back to this place

This place has the best Chinese food in the entire state I can't find a better place with generals chicken

This was the worst Chinese food I have ever eaten in my 48 yrs of life! We ordered delivery and the food arrived cold, not even luke warm but cold. My daughter's 3 entree plate was missing 1 of the entrees and my better halves 3 entree plate was missing the rice (that automatically is supposed to come with it and came with my daughter's) and to top off the experience my daughter's crunchy noodle celery chow mein HAD A HAIR IN IT!!!!! Both my daughter's and my better halves the crunchy noodle celery chow mein the celery was barely cooked it was surely "crunchy" AND inedible! And my combo meal had 5 pieces of pork as the "sweet and sour pork entree" And we paid over 100.00 for this experience.. NEVER AGAIN, ID WARN ANYONE BEFORE GOING THERE ** DON'T DO IT!!!! **

The food was pretty good, but I ordered it to my hotel and it came without a fork or napkins. I even asked the delivery person, who assured me both were in the bag. I had to make do using the soy sauce packet as a spoon. You'd think when it is clearly being delivered to a hotel room, the restaurant would make sure to include these items.

Ordered today on uber. Portion size was very small and everything was super dry. I ordered sweet and sour chicken, and they gave me pork with almost no sauce on it. Fried rice was bland and had no flavor. The bbq pork in the chow mein was so dry I couldn't even eat it. Extremely disappointed!!!

Everything seemed bland or to salty. Mongolian beef was sweet not spicy. Can say we tried to spend for what you get.

We've order from her before and dined in.. with only being smite to order take out rn we weren't able to see our food before Uber eats delivered our food. Taste was ok but the portion size compared to what it typically is was half the size and the price was still the same. More than half the menu was sold out so I'm wondering if they were just skimping on portion of food

Order via Uber eats. Wished I had look at Yelp before ordering. Small portions and overpriced for mediocre food

Here we are AGAIN!!!! I like to give any business a SECOND opportunity to redeem themselves from a bad review. This place now has established itself as a NEVER, NEVER, EVER AGAIN RESTAURANT!!! I can almost understand the price increase from last year due to Pandemic, though raises were above usual ($5.00 to $6.00) per setting. Historically this place has been around since the early 1940's and consistently good, never great but always fairly good. That situation has dramatically changed, we went the other day to check to see if I had been wrong in my review last year. This place failed miserably, AGAIN, the food was way too salty, the won ton soup now is no longer good, very watery and beef based not chicken. They use day old vegetables, small portions and we had to ask for some items included on menu. Service was very slow, even though we were literally the only customers in the place. All this said and done we asked for bill to exit, despite the BAD EXPERIENCE, but NO we were also given another slap in the face.....the bill came and prices on EVERYTHING was inflated by $.50 TO $.75 for each item on bill???? I asked the reason, they said the difference was a processing charge!!! This is an illegal billing and unfortunately it was a killer pill for this place. You want bad food, bad service and to be scammed with over charges on your bill, this place is a good bet, go have a drink there, but Never trust this place for anything else. I can almost guarantee a bad experience every time.

Pretty standard chinese America Restaurant. Good for those who would like to experience that but personally will not be going back any time soon as food was mediocre at best.

I hate giving 2 star reviews but I was just so disappointed with all of the food we ordered :( I'm sorry, mediocre at best. Nothing against the people or place just not very good food; it should be cheaper for the quality.

Don't waste your time or money lower fair to middling american Chinese. They don't care at all about customers and their waitress, at least the one I dealt with tonight, seems emotionally unstable. I say this as a waitress who got out during covid. I was dealt with so horrendously I would have been fired for pulling the same shit.

Food was horrible my fiancé and I took Maybe 3 bites of our food and already felt sick. And spent 80 dollars and shitty quality food.

I have no idea what draws people to this restaurant. Fried entres are excessively battered with tiny bits of meat. The Chow Mein is just large chunks of celery, some bean sprouts, and tasteless corn starch sauce. The other veggie dishes are mostly covered with the same sauce. PLEASE folks, hire a chef who knows this cuisine!

First please understand that I am extreamly thankful that they are open for take out during this Cv-19 crisis. My partner and I ordered dinner for take out. Broccoli beef, beef fried rice, sweet sour chicken white rice and their appetizer platter. We asked them from the start to make sure no mushrooms due to allergen issues. we were told that nothing we ordered had mushrooms. The woman told us we had to be there to pick up the order at 1730. no it will be ready by. but you had to puck up then. She was rather curt about it. We get the food get back to the hotel. Beef rice was hardly warm. Open the beef broccoli and oh look full of mushrooms. Call to replace it and we were charged full price for a replacement. I'm okay paying for it but half price would have been fair seeing we cannot return the screwups due to the epidemic. Finally sit down to eat my partner goes to eat the beef broccoli that I cannot eat and its like soup almost as though it was a premade dish heated up with water added to facilitate defrosting. The new beef and broccoli I found to be decent but l feel sadly that Panda Express or any buffet has more flavor. the sweet and sour chicken looks as though they fried the chicken threw it in the togo container and poured the sauce over it. bearly coating it. the sauce was more vinegary than anything. For over $50 in food I'm saddened that they have gone so down hill. since I had them last. When this epidemic is over I'm definitely going somewhere else.

Our favorite Chinese restaurant. Never disappointed in the food or the service. Craving their food so much during covid, we've actually ordered pick up meals a few times, which is something we never do. We live out of town and can't get delivery which means we have to drive in ourselves and get it. It's worth it!!

II have nobody to blame but myself, I admit that. But about every month I get a hankering for Chinese food at a restaurant. My wife and my children refuse to eat at any Chinese (except Gody's) in Spokane, because of the frightful and nauseating (literally) experiences that we have had here. So here I was out with a friend and we were both hungry and decided to get some lunch, we agreed to stop of the first restaurant we saw on the right side of the road. (Don't ask why, it just seem liked a good idea at the time.) Low and behold Chinese Gardens appeared after we said that and I got a small pit in my stomach, but I put on a good demeanor and though, wow maybe this is karma and this will be the most awesome place. (Okay I didn't really think that, I was just hoping I could stomach the food delivered too me.) The outside of the restaurant was rather run-down looking, in need of some paint and landscaping, but it matched the part of town we were in. The #10 can of bamboo shoots by the door filled with cigarette butts was a classic. But once inside (after the door ominously BANGED shut) the interior was more palatable. We were greeted promptly and taken to a booth and then the next thing we got glasses of water? Hmmm, this is a Chinese restaurant right and there are teacups on the table, where is the tea. The next thing we notice is that along with a sparse selection of Chinese lunch items we could get the ever popular hamburger or chicken finger plate - oh dear! We both decide different lunch specials and when it came time to order I ordered by the items on the special, the waitress looked at me and said "What number is that" - Oh dear! She then asked us if we wanted something else to drink other then water, and we both replied tea. Now if a Chinese restaurant can't serve good tea then you know you have some major problems; and we had major problems. The tea appears to be brewed (or more likely boiled) in large batches in the back. We had no leaves in our and the tea was overly tannic and tasted slightly like coffee, a sure sign that the leaves were boiled rather then steeped. The terms nasty, tannic and unpalatable all come to mind - OH dear! The lunch started off with egg drop soup, pretty plain tasting, with lots of food color, but overall it was edible, but nothing to write home about. When the entrees arrived is when the fun began. My friend had special garden chicken, egg roll and fried rice. I had Chicken chow mein (you can't screw that up right), Almond Chicken and fried rice. The egg roll was very greasy because the oil used to fry it in was way past its prime, plus just having a bunch of cabbage, 1 or 2 bean sprouts and a sprinkling of mystery meat does not make a good egg roll. How about some seasoning please. Also get this; it was served with, are you ready for it, ketchup - OH Dear! The special garden chicken was fresh vegetables with about 4 ounces of chicken in a clear-gel thickened sauce that had no flavor. I don't mind plain veges and I don't mind a nice sauce but to thicken water and put it over the dish was wrong - OH DEar! The fried rice appeared to be overcooked steam rice with about 1/12 of a scrambled egg added to it on a griddle. No flavor, no seasoning. My chow mein was insipid, I am not a fan of dumping soy sauce on items, but I ended up putting some on it to give it some sort of flavor. Where was the ginger, garlic, scallion nuances - OH DEAr! But the winner of the scariest dish award goes to the Almond Chicken. Okay form in your mind what you would expect to get served to you if you ordered almond chicken. Got it, good. Don't read on until you can visualize some sort Almond chicken dish. What I got appeared to be a boneless chicken thigh that was smashed down to make a cutlet, then breaded and deep-fried. Think Chicken fried steak made with a chicken thigh. It was then diced and covered with either a turkey or pork gravy (this had to be out of a powdered mix or a can) and then on top of it was sprinkled very finely ground almonds (I think). OH DEAR!!!!! What were the pros of this place - the water was good and they were better then the Cathay Inn and King Yen.

WOW! Really bad... Tiny portions and flavorless. Both of which I could have lived with but... it was also about twice the price of mediocre chinese food. Teach me to eat chinese in Spokane. Latest quote from my girlfriend "Will dowsing my egg roll in soy sauce make it better ummmm...NO!" I couldn't even identify the my meal as what I ordered. Fortunately back to smores tomorrow night.

Absolutely the best Chinese in Spokane. From the same family that owns Red dragon downtown. They have an awesome menu here at Chinese Gardens great food. Great Karaoke Fridays and Saturdays. I love the freshness of the food and vegetables are cooked really well. We just love this place and the food and the great service.

My wife and I ordered about $50 worth of food tonight including the wontons. Everything but the wontons were satisfactory. They cost about $10 and they literally had 1 little piece of ground pork. I called because the menu says they are "filled" with pork and the employee who picked up the phone just said that's how they make them and I am wrong/don't know what a wonton is. We are very frustrated with tonight's experience and how much money we spent on nothing.

Not a fave. Went there for lunch yesterday and the service was super slow, despite hardly anyone there. Server was nice enough though. The low score was for the food quality and price. Ten dollars got me a lunch platter with three things: sweet and sour pork, chicken chow mein, and an egg roll. The egg roll and sweet and sour pork were fine (not great, but adequate) but the chow mein was crazy. It is covered in some sort of clear gravy. It looked like slime from a snail, very unappetizing. Pretty disappointing for ten bucks.

Not very good. Their BBQ pork was hard, sweet and sour sauce not good at all. I was not happy with my food at all. This is the worst Chinese food that I have ever eaten and it is over priced for the quality. I will not return.

This place is my new favorite Chinese restaurant. Their egg foo young was light, flavorful and very well cooked. My wife and I were very impressed at the quality of food that was served to us. We would come here again if Chinese food is desired. I did see that they have a takeout delivery service as well as Uber eats availability. I might try one of these in the future.

Ordered from this place through Uber Eats . Uber Eats was great , quick and prompt. Sadly we were disappointed with most of the food. Short ribs were all sauce and absolutely no meat. Bones and sauce. Crispy teriyaki chicken was just the same breaded chicken as orange ect with a slightly different sauce. Sadly most of what was in my combo dinner was dry fried rice , sauce and bones . Won't order again from here.

I used to love this place but the food has really really turned to crap. I usually get the almond chicken and the quality has just declined so much that the last time I paid for my $12 meal, it was cold and the chicken was stringy and rough and just low quality. Also, never get delivery. Ever.

My fiance and I wanted to try something other than our typical after church America meal on Sunday. So we looked at Yelp and found this place. Only one other couple was inside this large seating restaurant at the peek lunch hour. Not surprised. I'm not sure what you call this type of food. But it is NOT Chinese. It was terrible. Just a forewarning to all.

My family and I love this place. We get take out almost every weekend. The food is consistently great. Just the way we like it. The staff is always friendly and helpful. We order from here enough that they know our order by heart. When I walk in they say hello to me by name. I have several friends who also think highly of this restaurant and come here on regular basis as well. On several occasions I have had additional friends that have never eaten here before complement the quality of the food saying it is great tasting food with huge portions. Everyone usually has left over for the next day.

The last 2 times we were there the food was horrible! Entree meats were barely warm but chow mien was scorching hot. Health Department should be checking this place out... or maybe they already have. Looked deserted when we drove by a week ago.