Green Jade Restaurant - Hobart

Great restaurant to go to if you are wanting an authentic Chinese food and experience.Family owned business for many decades. Lovely, helpful and friendly staff, beautiful food with a quiet, leisurely atmosphere and traditional decore. Never felt rushed for service or needing to eat my food fast to get out ontime before the next sitting, which is wonderful. Love this place.

This restaurant is cosy and friendly, cuisine is excellent but be aware they do not have eftpos cash only.

So we walked into an empty restaurant at 8pm on a Saturday. The lady who welcomed us was nice. The restaurant was very cramped and dead silent. No music playing or anything. There was no drink menu and no Eftpos facilities. Some strange things to overlook when running a licensed restaurant. The food was okay, just okay. There's better Chinese places around

If you want traditional Chinese, then this is the place for you! Lovely food, great local wine, fabulous ambience! Love the curtains and love the flounder!

I only wanted to go here for the kitsch and novelty value. I think they mainly operate as a take away, I'm not sure if people eat there much but it was empty at 6pm on a Saturday night when I went there. I wanted to leave when I got there and I didn't think to ask to see a menu and then excuse myself. The lovely lady who came out to greet me was very friendly, so I felt embarrassed to leave and stayed there reluctantly, thinking it'd be pretty dodgy, and it was. The decor was really cool though, straight out of 1976-1985 and well-preserved. I kind of romanticise those innocent days of restaurant dining, to which there was a sort of conviviality, I feel the love in it and as such it was very sad and melancholy as I observed the deserted, abandoned love of a long-forgotten, bygone era. The food however, gave no room for such nostalgia and was a bit of a shambolic mess of inadequate care. I was actually looking forward to a simple and tasty dish, maybe unremarkable but pleasant, but saddened to say it had some hideous elements. Um, half-cooked packet beans past their use-by date and borderline off meat. I didn't get sick but my stomach felt uneasy afterwards. I had the ginger beef which I thought'd be interesting and when you could actually taste the ginger sauce, it was delicious, but there needed to be a little more of it. These are Chinese people cooking their own food in 2013, it shouldn't be this sub-par, and it'd be easy to do a lot better and make some use of the fun, campy decor. As there are plenty of good Asian places dotted along Elizabeth St., well, I don't know how they stay in business. Shame because if the host/owner was anything to go by, they're really lovely people. Surreal.