China Garden Restaurant

I travel often throughout the US and have not yet found Chinese food as good. I keep searching for one that can compare but to no avail. Even though I am lucky enough to live in Houston and can eat good Chinese anytime, I still look forward to traveling downtown to eat at China Garden whenever the family comes to town. It is one of the highlights of their trip. Great family people own this place and are always ready to greet you with a big hug and a smile. The food is consistently of good fresh quality. The Sizzling Rice soup is the best!

A Chinaken Place: The service here is very good, the people nice and attentive and there are table cloths. The food, however, is the typical compromise found in most Chinese restaurants in America. Heavy on the meat, rice and sauces. I was hoping to have Chinese food here but it was just like any ordinary take-out place if that good. So, Chinese + Texan = Chinaken....not a compliment in my book. Sorry.

Good Food, service, ok ambiance: As other reviews say, the egg rolls are very good (of course almost anything deep-fried is good in my book ;-). The entree I had (Mongolian beef) was good, and the portion size reasonable. Maybe a little spendy, but not for downtown, I think. I came on a quiet Sunday, and service was fine and fast. I can imagine on nights where there's some event at the Toyota Center that it would be very different...