Cheng’s Garden

Had lunch there today the food was very good. I have been go there for years. The best place for Chinese food.

Decent Chinese food… Considering the lunch special was 5.95, I wasn’t disappointed. It’s not the best I’ve ever had, but it wasn’t bad either… Definitely meet my expectations for something quick and cheap. I had the Moo Goo Gai Pan. I’m used to it normally having a mix of vegetables — it was mostly mushrooms, but since I like mushrooms, that was ok. My daughter had chicken Lo Mein. again, not horrible and not out of this world… but decent.

I’ve been here about six or seven times, mostly dine-​in. The food’s very good and the service is excellent. Today I ordered take-​out. I ordered from their take-​out menu, Lunch Specials. I even said the # and then the name. I ordered Moo Goo Gai Pan, and because it says it comes with egg roll, rice and soup, I specified which soup I wanted. I ended up paying extra $ 1.95 for the soup although it’s supposed to be included! I also ended up with Chicken with Assorted Veggies as the meal. It was the only take-​out bag sitting there and the receipt stapled to it was correct for what I ordered, although it does show the soup costing $ 1.95. So, I’m not clear if at some point they changed to a new takeout menu which doesn’t include soup in the Lunch Specials? I dined in just last week and it WAS included. In addition to being the wrong dish, it also seemed to be a small portion; it didn’t fill it’s side of the container. It was plenty enough anyway, and I had leftovers but it looked a little odd only being about ½ way up the container.

In town for business and a coworker said this place isn’t bad. The General’s chicken is not typical, it’s more like a sweet and sour chicken. It was OK. Also got the singapore chow mei fun and that was pretty good. I would probably try this place again.

Been going since I was a kid with my parents so my view is biased, but they’re the only place I go for Chinese fod in the area!

Most Authentic Chinese Restaurant in Enfield, CT. I had a great experience dining here. Quiet and Warm atmoshpere, the waitress provided me the Fried Noodle with Duck Sauce the mintues I sat down. Great service. I ordered the Appetizer Chicken Finger and Combo Boneless Spare Ribs with Fried Rice, it was delicious. Unlike other Chinese Restaurants I been to, where they put the sauce on top of the rib to make it sweet, Cheng’s Garden put no sauce on the Ribs, instead, the sauce was inside the ribs, so tasty. very well Done. The Chicken Finger was fried to almost perfection. Definity will go back to try other foods, great experience. 100% recommended for anyone enjoy Chinese Food.

What happened to this place???
The owner is gone and relatives have taken over.
The quality of the food went downhill.
We are so disappointed.

I wasn’t impressed not sure if I will give them another chance if I do I will never order anything with chicken breast as the quality is very poor. Fried rice had good flavor but waaaaaay too many big pieces of onion.

Salty food, takeout on 8÷12÷2012. Use to be good ease up on salt and oil.

I have called this restaurant to put an order and the person that answered the phone was not friendly at all. Their website specifies that (which is where I got their phone number from) any order over $ 30 would have a free order of chicken fingers or roast pork fries rice. After I have placed my order of $ 35 I have asked for the free rice, I was told that it was an old coupon. I told the lady on the phone that it was not a coupon but their website that has specified it, I was put on hold and handed over to another person and then they said they had to call their manager which was off today. Spending about 15 worthless minutes on the phone (by now it was just for us to see what they were going to come up with) I was told that it was done by the old owner and they do not accept that offer. Mind you that $ 3.00 worth of food is not something I was going for at this moment. I have kindly told them that they have lost a customer that could have ordered once a week. Such a shame. Their service at the restaurant was awful and I just found out the take out service is not any better.

Had lunch at Chengs today and as always was quite satisfied. the roast pork egg foo yung was very good… my friend had the boneless spare ribs and he gave them a «thumbs up». their egg drop soup always comes out a little too hot but is extremely delicious. the prices at lunch especially are downright cheap. pleasant place inside… delicious food… friendly prompt service. perfect Chinese restaurant.

Literally and figuratively, this place left a very very bad taste in my mouth, and I’m not that picky about restaurants or customer service.
I will say this — the pan-​fried dumplings were fine. But all of the food took forever to come out even though the restaurant was half-​empty, and our tofu entrée came out with this awful sticky red sauce all over it. I had clearly asked for «Family-​Style Bean Curd» and even pointed it out on the menu, and I had never gotten anything like the dish we were served. But my daughter and I ate about half of it anyway because by then we were starving … When the bill came, the dish was listed as «General Gau’s chicken» with tofu substituted for the meat. I have no idea how the waitress interpreted what I asked for as that.
When I pointed out the error, both the waitresses and the owner blamed me for the mistake, and then they just did their best to ignore me. Maybe they were paranoid that I wasn’t going to pay the bill (which was unfounded) but I just wanted to bring the mistake to their attention and nobody even bothered to offer an apology — they were just completely defensive and borderline obnoxious! To be fair to the server, it seemed like her English was way subpar, but then why was she taking orders???
They were just extremely rude, and even if the food was exceptional (which it most certainly was not!!) I would never ever go back to this place. If I could, I would give it negative stars for such a lousy attitude towards its customers.

There is just a dirth of Asian cuisine in this area, so I was skeptical about the restaurant’s authenticity. To my surprise, the food was pretty good and the interior of the restaurant is elegant and presentable. I believe my husband and I ordered the «Happy Family» to go with two orders of rice. The entrée is a hodge-​podge of seafood and protein mixed in brown sauce so it was tasty but unfortunately, I was not sold on the prices as I am accustomed to a lower price-​range for Chinese cuisine.

Pretty typical Chinese food… got shrimp lo mein, not too greasy, egg rolls and rice not bad either. Although my daughter got sweet and sour Chicken, it was awful. inedible, for both of us. The problem was in the deep frying. The oil was obviously not even close to hot enuff, so it made the chicken into little oily sponges that filled your mouth with greasy nastiness when chewed upon. Yuck! We also got crab Rangoon and steamed dumplings. the crab Rangoon were actually really good! They tasted like… crab! Imagine that… not overly sweet like crab Rangoon usually is. Very pleasant taste. Also the dumplings were good as well… lots of flavor. Though I was hoping for some spring onion in the dipping sauce.

This is one of my favorite places. I think its the five flavor crispy shrimp that is a-​mazing.

The food was just bad. This place came highly recommended from our housemates, and now I don’t feel like I can trust any of them ever again.
It might have been a bad night for the Garden, but I will not be coming back here.
This place seems to get packed quick

I want to review Cheng’s higher, because I personally think they have the best Chinese food in Enfield, but I’ve been severely disappointed by their service, time and time again.
One example would be ordering an appetizer for take-​out (golden fingers) over the phone, being told ten minutes, and waiting in the restaurant for an additional 45. That’s not a typo — almost an hour for some fried chicken.

Delivery is always slow and you can count on something in your order being forgotten. That said I can’t get enough of their beef teriyaki.

One star for you Mr Cheng. Your food is average at best and you kicked me and my friends out because we wanted drinks and no food back in 1998.
Oh, and your fortune cookies are always stale.

Known for it’s oddly named entrée «Strange Flavour Chicken» (which, incidentally, I have not been brave enough to try — how strange is it really???), Cheng’s is located in an unassuming strip mall in Enfield. Walking in you have a very ornate front of the restaurant, complete with a massive carved archway. It is very cool. But for some reason, the dining area is awful and sterile, with white walls, booths, and terrible lighting. It is not clear why the two areas are so vastly different.
Service is spotty when dining in, it is really hit and miss as to whether you will get paid attention to or not. So get take out, they are pretty prompt and on the ball in that department.
As for the food, it is probably as good as you are going to get in this area of Connecticut, but not terribly authentic. My favourite are the egg rolls, which come two to an order and are huge. Everything else is pretty typical.