Green Garden Chinese Cuisine

Best Chinese ever. The Mongolian combo is exceptionally good, as is the ginger chicken. The meats are clean cuts, high quality, and not fatty. Shrimp are large and tasty. Everything is always fresh. Fast service. Highly recommend.

Want good chinese take out… one of the best in town,
Looking for lots of flavor and as much spice as you like, then this is the place to go.
This is of our favorite Chinese take out. Have ordered more than a dozen times and never disappointed. They do have a couple of tables, but really not a place to dine in.
The hot & sour soup is excellent. The chow mein with egg noodle is fantastic. The fried Calamari is the absolute best. Kung Pao dishes are a ten star. We have tried probably 75% of all dishes on menu and have never been disappointed. The veggies are crisp and tender.
It is an overall must try.

I love their salt and pepper fish and their hot and sour soup!

More of a take out place but there are a few table where you can dine in.
The mushu dish is good. Kung pao squid is ok. Prices of each dish are mostly less than 10 dollars.

I used to love this place but they have a new guy taking orders that refuses to make special orders and yells at everyone. Not speaking English is not a huge deal but he is so rude you can’t understand him through the yelling.

Every time I go in, the lady at the front is so mean and indifferent I had to stop going. Food is OK if your in a hurry but too many other really good Chinese restaurants are way too close to put up with negative service. Yans, Mings and my favorite Zen Garden (though service can be spotty trees as well) are within five minutes.

Tonight I got orange chicken, vegetable chow mein, and potstickers. Everything except the chicken was pretty good but the chicken brought the overall experience way down. I ordered Togo, so the sauce was on the side. Thank god it was on the side because the sauce was so burnt that the dish would have been inedible if it was tossed with the chicken. The sauce was literally black and was disgusting. Normally this place is decent but I would say avoid the orange chicken at all costs.

You know, this place is not fancy. It’s more of a take out place. They a few tables which works when I want a quick lunch out of the house.
The prices are good. The food is too.
I get chicken fried rice and the triple Mongolian combo pretty much every time. At lunch that is 8 bucks. Dinner double that but that will last a couple days.
Tasty, I like it.

Green Garden is one of the best around the area. Not the greatest but also very consistently good. Staff are not the friendliest though.

More like 3.5 stars, but I am rounding up for value and convenience.
I have been going here for years (always for take-​out; as others have pointed out, the place is tiny and has zero ambience). It is nearby, parking is very easy, they have a large, varied menu, the food is good and fills me up, and the prices are good.
Some have mentioned the service. It is always the same Chinese lady at the register and answering the phone. She is very brief and gruff; no «Hi, how are you?», and don’t expect a «thank you» or even a friendly «goodbye.» In fact almost everything you say will be met with a «harrumph» or some such variation. Initially I thought she was just very grumpy, but now I think that’s just the way she is, and I don’t really mind.
My favorite dish is the prawns with vegetables. The dinner portion is 11 – 13 good-​sized shrimp, always tasty and well-​cooked, with a tasty white sauce and a hefty serving of broccoli, bok choy, carrots, zucchini, water chestnuts, snow peas, and the like. It seems relatively healthy and not bathed in oil.
I tried the spicy eggplant dish once, but did not care for the heavy brown sauce.
Lunch specials come with a large serving of rice, but I prefer to order dinner portion with no rice. It would be nice if they included a salad or soup, but that’s okay. Overall the food is a good value.

This is a good TAKE-​OUT place, not for eat-​in. In the Palos Verde shopping center that’s anchored by Lunardi’s.
OK, it’s a teeny hole-​in-​the-​wall place with a miniscule kitchen and 4 or 5 tables you can sit at to eat but if they have 6 or 8 people there it would feel over-​crowded. In fact, I can’t figure out how the 3 or 4 guys in the kitchen manage to dance around each other the way they do, but it works for them (and us).
I can’t speak to the cleanliness of tables but there was one person sitting at each of 3 tables when I was there most recently and, aside from a place setting that hadn’t been cleared from an unoccupied one, they looked clean (the tables, not the people).
CAVEAT — if you’re ordering from the lunch specials menu, specify that to the lady taking the order, otherwise you’ll end up with a dinner-​sized portion (and bill). Managed to catch that mistake right away since I ordered at the counter, but it’s essential to know if you’re ordering on the phone. Even if it’s lunch time, she’ll assume a dinner portion.
PROs
— Fast
— Healthy-​size portions
— Tasty food — no bummers yet in my 8 – 10 visits over the
years (Chinese is more of a mood thing than a
go-​to cuisine)
— They do enough business to keep ingredients fresh
— I asked for «not too spicy» and got exactly the right
amount — mouth-​warming, not –burning.
— Last time I got walnut prawns — 8 plump, good size
critters about the length of my (admittedly not all
that long) index finger.
— Decent amount of sauce (nothing drowning in it)
— While waiting, I saw one patron get a huge bowl of
soup with tons of veggies and other goodies
floating in it. I asked but didn’t quite understand the
answer. One of the wonton soups with noodles.
Looked delicious. Too bad it has chicken stock,
which I avoid because almost all of them are made
with MSG.
— Lunch specials range from $ 5.50 to $ 6.75 or so
CONs
— Service is brusque. Not a «con» to me — I’m there for the food — but you’re not being served by folks who went to the «Congeniality School of Restaurant Management.» Some are more amicable than others but if you want a doting waiter, go elsewhere. And if you want to know what *real* rudeness in a waiter is, go to a Jewish deli in NYC.
— Skip the vegetarian spring rolls. No flavor.
— If you (like me) hate the sweet, gloppy, violently pink
sauce they give to accompany spring rolls, maybe ask for
mustard if you must have a roll. They don’t automatically
add that to the take-​out bag.
So, 2 cons, 8 pros — I’ll be back.

Have been going here for over 10 years. Simple, delicious, straightforward Chinese takeout place (does have some tables for sit down service too!).
My family and I personally like the sweet and sour pork, broccoli beef, fried rice, chow mein (veggie, chicken, etc.), egg rolls and pot stickers. Also we have tried and enjoyed some of their more interesting dishes.
There is another «Green Garden» on Contra Costa that I have not tried but have accidentally called once when ordering. So pay attention!

Located in B.F. Walnut Creek (literally in the northwest corner of town, up a hill and way off the main drag), Green Garden is one of those restaurants that’s easily overlooked by people. The fact that there are only 54 reviews for a restaurant that’s been around for more than a decade more than proves my point. This place is your quintessential average Chinese restaurant. It is non-​pretentious and their existence serves a community need. My hope is that with this review, at least one or two of you will give them a try.
My friends and I got there a little after 8:00pm tonight and found the place completely empty. Usually that’s a bad sign, but we didn’t let that bother us since we were cold, wet, hungry, and tired. After a few minutes of contemplation, each of us picked a dish and got the following:
Seafood chao ma mien ($ 7.95)
* Sweet and sour pork (~ $ 8)
* Orange chicken (~ $ 8)
(* Note: I did not order those. Me = Chinese)
Since we were the only customers, food came quickly. To my surprise, my seafood chao ma mien was pretty good. The soup had the right spice level. The quality of the seafood (squid, shrimp, and scallop) was decent and there was plenty of it. It was perfect for a cold, rainy night. The S&S pork and orange chicken were pedestrian, but none of us minded since they were hot off the wok and the portions were huge.
Service was pretty good, probably because I communicated with the server in Mandarin. Near the end of our meal, the kitchen staff were eating their dinner at the next table and they offered us some off-​menu items they made for themselves. I thought that was pretty cool! I tried their green onion pancake and it was pretty good! They need to put that on their menu.
This place only has five tables, so I’d suggest you go either a little bit before or after normal dinner time. Normally, I’d give 3 stars for our dinner, but I am going to bump it up to 4 stars because of their generosity. I will go back there again for sure.

Solid take out place. We usually get honey walnut prawns (plump and delicious), cashew chix for kids (white meat requested), veg pan fried noodles, black mushrooms with bok choy. We’ve ordered here the last 4−5x including Xmas Eve and we were all satisfied. Price is just right, generous servings.

Possibly the worst restaurant I’ve ever been to. Not the worst Chinese restaurant, I mean the worst restaurant period! If this really is the sister restaurant of the Green Garden on Contra Costa Blvd, then they are polar opposites and this one gives the CC Blvd one a bad name. Please don’t confuse the two, the one on CC Blvd is great. With that being said, back to the Palos Verdes location.
It starts when you walk in. Usually when a place looks this bad, you think they’re going to make up for it with great service and great food, which is why I don’t usually care about the décor. Don’t be fooled, this is your chance to turn and walk out, which I didn’t. Hindsight is always ²⁰⁄₂₀ right? It’s just going to get worse from here.
As I walk in there is nobody there, just one lonely diner. At first I thought it was two but after a minute of standing there, one of them got up and approached me. I would say greeted but no, I was approached. The angry looking lady doesn’t even say hi, simply «here or pickup?» To which I replied «here please.» She pointed at the table she had just gotten up from. I sat down. I noticed there was some kind of sauce on the table. She didn’t wipe it up, just put a paper place mat over it and threw the knife, fork and napkin in front of me. Then she went to the kitchen sink and filled up a plastic cup of water and placed it on the table next to me and threw down a menu. I looked at the menu briefly and they had all the usual’s on there. At this point I decided I just wanted something small so I ordered Garlic wings and pot stickers. By now, I had absolutely no expectations and thought to myself, even if the food is bad, it can’t be worse than the service. Well, if the service wasn’t as bad as it was, I would have proved myself wrong. The food sucked!!! The «Garlic» Chicken wings had no flavor whatsoever. Instead they were just heavily battered, deep fried junk and the pot stickers were just wet, pre-​frozen lumps of goo. While I sat there ingesting this so called food, the server was continually arguing with kitchen staff. The only time she was quiet was when she sat down to eat herself. After eating a pot sticker and a wing I sat there waiting for the bill. I sat there staring at her hoping she would notice but instead she had to be directed by a co-​worker. As she approached me, still chewing a mouthful of food she said «box?» I said «yes please,» the dog likes pot stickers and wings. I dropped the cash on the table, no tip, and walked out. It was the first and last time I will ever set foot in that place again. Absolutely atrocious!!! After reading some of the other reviews though, maybe they were just having a really, really, really, really, really, bad day. Either way, I definitely won’t be back to find out.

Me and a friend went here for some lunch and it was a nice small place. I ordered some sweet sour chicken and it was absolutely delicious! Crispy and tangy and had the right amount of sauce. The only problem I have is that day their restaurant was really cold. I don’t know if they were having problems with their heater or were getting work done or what. Definitely want to go there again and get their sweet&sour chicken.

Overall a pretty solid Chinese restaurant. Foods is hot and tastes good. Only drawback is limited seating.
I really enjoy the salt and pepper pork chops and the tomato beef chow mien.

Green garden has only 5 tables for sitdown. no ambience/​décor to boost the dining experience. green garden more suited for take out
eats: kung pao chicken w/​fried rice (5.95)
–fried rice was fresh
–kung pao chicken had lots of onions, lettuce, peppers, and some pieces of chicken
–sauce definitely had msg, taste on the edge of nasty hot.
hot sauce tasted as if it was just scooped from a jar. cook just added msg, sugar, salt, and corn starch.
–kao pao chicken tasted weird
–cheap grade of rice used, lots of broken grains, not whole grains rice.
take outs:
–service good.
–décor is smiliar to chinatown standards. (cleaner though)

Never knew this place existed.
After attending church and being quite hungry, my friend suggested he treat us all to lunch at this place.
I have been to this shopping center over a dozen times over the last 10 years and never even noticed this place existed until now. It is relatively small, so I can see why myself, or anyone could have missed it.
Matter of fact, it’s so small, that there are only about 4 tiny tables provided within a tiny space, leaving most people probably preferring to order take out, especially if the tables are preoccupied. We, however, were able to get a comfortable table for 4, being there was only one other couple there.
The lady/​owner seated us and took our order. We decided to share the Mu Shu Shrimp, Galic Chicken and potstickers.
Pot sticker’s arrived quickly looking good, which they certainly turned out to be. Then the Mu Shu Shrimp arrived which also looked appealing and which also turned out to be very good. We then noticed that the cooks/​owner all took a seat behind us and started eating…” Where’s are Garlic Chicken” we asked ourselves… We then asked the family «excuse me? We ordered the Galic Chicken» «Oh» The owner said…”.You guys wanted that now… UM… no we were wanting it tomorrow… REALLY??? Yeah, we would like to eat all our food at the same time!!! We all were a little shocked and laughing at the whole incident. The owner then motioned to her husband/​cook, to go cook it… geez.
Anyhow, within a few minutes they brought it to us. It looked better than it tasted.
Overall, besides the settle lack of service and small cramped atmosphere, the food was actually decent for the most, and the prices were also quite reasonable. I would definitely give it another shot, however, I would certainly just do take out.

This tucked away place is great when you crave Chinese food. My wife just had the sweet and sour prawns last night, and we often have the hot and sour soup which I recommend highly. There is a lot of variety, and while not everything is absolutely delicious, enough of the food is yummy and tasty to keep me coming back for more. The people who run the restaurant are friendly too.