Green Tea Chinese Restaurant

Boooo! They are currently closed till 2016. Moving to a new location at Napoleon and S. Claiborne. A CVS is going in at the old location on Magazine and Louisiana. I’ve been craving their food and wondering why the online ordering was down and no one answered the phone. Got a answering machine today with the news. bummed.

Probably the one chinese restaurant I co-​sign on. Perfect spot for the frugal budget (i.e. College Student, Paycheck to Paycheck employee, you get my point).
The fortune cookies are really good too.

I was a bit wary of this place due to some reviews, but decided to give it a try based on price and availability of delivery. I ordered around 1:30 pm on a monday. The online ordering process was super easy and I was able to make substitutions & add extra sauce without trouble. I ordered the Gen. Tso’s Tofu with combination lo mein & crab rangoon. It arrived quickly and was piping hot. The portion was generous for the main dish and it came with a just right serving of 2 crab rangoon. The tofu was tasty, though fairly basic fast food level Chinese. The crab rangoon was really good too. This isn’t fine dining, but if you’re craving some tasty, fast, and inexpensive delivery this fits the bill.

Green Tea has really improved over the last couple of years. I ordered from them once in 2012 and wasn’t impressed, but then the first recent order I placed was surprisingly excellent, so I have ordered delivery from there several times in the last two months, with consistent results.
I have had the steamed dumplings, which appear to be made in-​house, with a delicate, fresh-​tasting shell. I have also had the Mongolian Chicken and General Tso’s, which were both very, very good.
Just as Jung’s Golden Dragon seems to be slipping lately, Green Tea has really stepped up to the plate, and is much, much more affordable. Also Green Tea has online ordering, which is very convenient.

We got a huge amount of food for $ 16. The“dinner for two «menu item — 2 wonton soups, 2 egg rolls, chix with broccoli, sweet and sour chix, white rice, pork fried rice, and obviously some fortune cookies. That’s pretty amazing!
Chinese food is not my favorite Asian cuisine but I thought it was pretty good and not overly salty!
The delivery was very fast.
We will order again of we get the itch for Chinese food.

Love that I can order delivery and the hot and sour soup is the best! Pretty good chinese delivery overall.

I don’t get the hate for this place — they’re just as good as any other Chinese place in this city. We ordered delivery from here last night — sesame chicken w/​white rice, broccoli w/​roast pork and brown rice, egg roll and crab rangoons. Rangoons were tasty, though a little under filled, the egg roll was fried well, the main dishes were good, and we didn’t have to put up with a pound of rice that we’ll never eat — we were given the perfect amount to complement the dish. For $ 25 (with delivery and tip) we couldn’t have asked for much more. I also liked the online ordering option — it just cuts out so many issues the phone can create. We’ll order from here again.

this is one of the few places that delivers to us, and my husband likes whatever it is that he gets, so i’m sure i’ll still get stuck ordering from here forever.
maybe living in manhattan spoiled me. even the worst, filthiest, ghettoest chinese place there where you have to order through a pane of bullet proof glass, is better than green tea. (or really ANY chinese place i’ve tried in new orleans so far)
but green tea is among the worst.
the mu shu vegetable was only comprised of a big container of mushy overcooked beige cabbage. JUST CABBAGE. nothing else. not even any flavor to the cabbage. just soggy cabbage. it was truly disgusting. looked like the pig slop we used to feed animals at summer camp. every other place i have ordered it from filled theirs with mushrooms, baby corn, carrots, water chestnuts, and other assorted, you know, vegetables, as well as scrambled egg. we called to see if they made a mistake. nope, that is how they make it. WTF?
the general tso’s tofu is pretty awful. the tofu is a really weird, hard, mealy texture that i’ve never experienced from chinese food before (tastes more like the gross grocery store kind of tofu, not the good, soft kind usually used in chinese food) and the sauce is not very general tso’s-y, more sticky sweet bbq, not spicy at all.
i doubt i’ll ever find the chinese place of my dreams (one with a damn vegetarian hot and sour soup) but there HAS to be something better than this!

So-​so Chinese food at best

Green Tea accomplishes two things extremely well. Those are: 1) being cheap; and, 2) being fast. Their take out and delivery is very rapid and it’s very difficult to beat them on price. The food, as you might expect, is average. It’s nothing to write home about, but you’ll likely find a number of dishes that you really enjoy. This is not high-​end dining, but that’s not what you’re paying for at Green Tea. This is the «fast food» of Chinese.
What Green Tea offers is speed and great value for money, which is something that has kept me coming back to them for years. If your delicate palate is offended by cheap eats, by all means, keep your nose upturned and stay away. As for me, I like having some cheap Chinese now and again.

I always get delivery from Green Tea because it is fast. I don’t understand why people say it’s expensive — it’s actually cheap and they have small and large portions. The dishes are VERY saucy, but my veggies have never been gross (I’ve never had nasty limp broccoli) and the shrimp is usually tasty. They also have brown rice.
I will say as one reviewer pointed out, the wonton soup is gross and looks like nuclear waste it’s so bright yellow orange.

Green Tea offers greasy Chinese food delivered at lightening speed.
Entrees are very skimp on the meat. So, if you order, say, Chicken and Broccoli, it’s going to be container full of broccoli with a few little pieces of chicken thrown in. If you order General Tso’s, you may get a little more chicken but it’s going to be completely drenched in an overly sticky, overly sweet sauce with very little spice at all. The egg rolls can range from manna from heaven bits of happiness to grease-​soaked logs of disgust. The same level of inconsistency can apply to everything I’ve ever had from Green Tea.
So, yeah, get you some if you’re trying to stave off a possible hangover. But, you’re probably still going to have that hangover because MSG isn’t good for anything but making you feel even worse. Do pat yourself on the back, though, because you didn’t get in your car and drive somewhere for fast food. But don’t fool yourself, those little nuggets they call sweet and sour chicken are no better for you than a nugget of the Mc variety.
And, what’s up with Chinese restaurants being so stingy with the soy sauce packets? Or, am I just guilty of wanting to use more than my share? Either way, quit hoarding the damn soy sauce packets already.

While I will admit that this is not the best chinese food around, they are not the worst.
They certainly have a lot of options on their menu though. Also their delivery was speedy .
The food is pretty cheap. This place is pretty good if you have the munchies but not much cash.

Lets put it this way:
1 star for food:
Rice is nothing special. More vegetables than actual meat. Feels Greasy. Not that cheap.
1 star for delivering.
Great for lazy days but better deliveries available.
In all, use only in cases of extreme laziness and culinary emergencies.

I was desperate for wonton soup once. So desperate that I ordered from this hole in a mini-​strip mall next to a Subway. The staff was unorganized, and couldn’t figure out where my to-​go order was 20 minutes after I placed it.
The soup? Well, it was hot temperature-​wise.
Kids — don’t ever be so desperate for soup that you order from this place.

I’ll give it two stars instead of one because I’d probably order take out again if I absolutely HAVE TO. I always order the same thing at every Chinese resaurant — the Moo Goo Gai pan. This is probably the worse Moo Goo Gai pan I’ve ever had. It lacks taste so much. I ordered the lunch special, which isn’t very large and I usually eat a lot. I didn’t even finish half of it. I ordered from here thinking I was going to save money, but I think I wasted my money since it was so bad I couldn’t finish it. And that’s saying something. I eat EVERYTHING. I am barely picky about the way things taste, but this was just not edible. The Wonton soup was good though. I should’ve just ordered a very LARGE soup to make up for my entrée.
And just a side note, I’m not sure if this is always the case, but I did order take out and when I got back to work I had NO utensils to eat my meal and NO soy sauce. Everything lackedd flavor which is the only reason I’m complaining that they didn’t add the soysauce to my bag. Luckily, I save plastic utensils and any left over condiments at my work. (But I love soysauce so much, I still didn’t have any).
Ohh wellll…

This place is middle of the road. Not so good that I’d ever crave it. Not so bad that I’d care enough to say something bad. The crab rangoons were tasty. And the shrimp with snow peas were good as well. The eggrolls were a miss though. And the portion of rice they give you is an insult. If you ever order here, be sure to buy extra or better yet, make your own rice at home. The portions of food are generous, but they are stingy with the rice.

Chinese take out. Plenty of veggie options and they offer brown rice. It was good, but it wasnt that good.
I will say it was clean, inexpensive, quick, and had plenty of options on their menu!

This is very basic and very likely pre-​packaged Chinese food that gets a good reheating in the wok. It is probably a bit less quality than your usual Chinese buffet but they do give you large portions and they are usually very quick. Depending on the dish you order you might get more or less of the highly probable frozen pre-​packaged ingredients in your food. I have gotten food here a handful of times and while not bad it certainly didn’t have the zing of fresh veggies and the sauces were just ehhhh not so flavorful and it probably rates among the most bland Chinese I’ve ever had. Depending on the rotation of who is working the front they may or may not speak English so you might have to point at what you want on the menu. You can dine in, get delivery, or take out but the vast majority seem to get take out or delivery.

I’d like to give this place a two and four stars. Can anyone understand that? I’m gonna go with three and hope you can see what I’m getting at.
Two stars: it’s lousy «Chinese» food. It’s fried chicken covered in sticky, spicy sauce, served with fried rice and if I eat it with chopsticks I’m getting the full «experience» right? Psh. — But really, isn’t that what ALL take-​out Chinese places are like?!
Four stars: I love that it’s lousy Chinese food. That’s half the reason I get it. It’s quick, close to home and they never disappoint (read: I know exactly what I’m getting ever.single.time). It’s sorta just a fast food substitution and I feel better about myself later because I didn’t get the Chicken McNuggets and Shamrock Shake that I REALLY wanted.
Okay. That’s my story. It’s yummy. It’s typical. I’ve never been let down.