China Garden - Portsmouth

When the takeaway first opened, the food was excellent. However, now the quality has declined and the food is unpleasant. The service is still good and the staff are polite. If you are willing to risk wasting your money, you can try this place. Just be warned that the food is of very low quality, like cheap fast food, and it seems like the chef is not very skilled. The dishes have lost their flavor and appeal.

I took away food on New Year's Eve, which can be risky. However, the delivery girl arrived promptly with hot food. The hot and sour soup was fabulous, the ribs were great, and the stir-fried vegetables were generous. Unfortunately, the crispy fried beef in sweet and sour sauce was extremely vinegary, which left a bad taste in my mouth. In my opinion, crispy fried beef should be flavorful shredded beef fried until crisp, not meat coated in thick batter. The same goes for the fried shrimp, which had too much batter that turned soggy in the sauce. However, the ribs were amazing. In France, where spices are not commonly used, these succulent ribs with a spicy sauce will be a memorable experience for a long time. Yum!

The takeout service at this restaurant has significantly declined in quality. Recently, they have been using low-quality ingredients and inexperienced chefs. Despite giving them multiple chances, the food has consistently been awful and inedible. We initially hoped that the weekend menu would be better, but unfortunately, the quality has not improved. Even our dog eats better than the food from this place now. It is disappointing to see the standards drop so drastically, as we used to order from here regularly when the food was good. We advise others to save their money and look for alternative dining options. Ordering from here is a risk that will likely result in wasting your money. We will not be returning to this restaurant, as both the food and service have deteriorated.

So I ordered 2 servings of chow mein and stir fried vegetables. Now when it arrived we were hungry, I think we all agree that when you're hungry and the Chinese arrives you're going to be ready to go and I'd be lying if I said we weren't all over that delivery like..well I would say smiles on the delivery guy but he was a bit miserable. At some point while grinding through the pale noodles and anemic chicken I kind of gave up on the stir fried vegetables as I'm not sure how many times they'd been fried before they reached me but this didn't look like the first. Now we took this in stride in the evening but in the morning when we woke and had that moment of peacefully becoming aware of each other, that moment usually reserved for a soft, welcoming smile to the day was put aside for the mutual agreement that last night we ate some god awful chow mein. On the upside I know not to waste my money ordering from here again so you know...win in the long run.

First time we have ordered from here but we were really impressed with delicious food better than our usual. Fresh and tasty will definitely order from here in future