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    China Garden

    3.0 (21 reviews)
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    Closed 11:00 am - 9:30 pm

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    Caity P.

    Everything we try is good. It's usually 20 min pick up and service is good. The only thing is the Ambiance, the covid counter and passing food through special door is kind of different. Would be nice to have option to eat in, but the closed off dining area is not very welcoming.

    Hot tea
    Bill W.

    Hidden Gem A little hard to find but trust the yelp map. It's behind and actually underneath Randy's BBQ. I've know about this place for some time how but keep forgetting to stop in. Today was the day and it was great. It's small but clean and efficient. I walked in and a Chinese lady greeted me and indicated that I should seat myself. Found a table a few feet away and as she came over a minute later. Started out with Hot Tea and for a change, it was nice and dark with a strong robust flavor. Had a bit of a problem with the menu because so many items looked good. One of my favorites was on the Lunch Menu and that was Mongolian Beef but ever Mongolian Beef I have had lately, even the little chili pepper next to it on he menu, has been a disappointment. Went ahead and ordered it anyway. It comes with choice of white or pork fried rice so needless to say, it was pork fried and for a soup, choice of won ton or egg drop so egg drop it was. Took about 10 minutes but lunch came right out. My trepidation on the Mongolian Beef proved to be false. It was great with plenty of heat and spice, the hot and spicy it should be. Rice was good as was the won ton soup. All this and at a great price. About the other items on the menu, I'll be back and start working my way through them. You'll have to hunt to find the place but well worth it.

    Sesame Chicken
    Jonathan B.

    I think China Garden is just standard Chinese food. Lots of rice or noodles, some kind of meat and an egg roll. Since work isn't too far away and Troutman doesn't offer up many choices this place is alright for the price if you want to get some take out. The restaurant itself is in an okay condition. On the rough side though. But this place has what I'd say is the most unique thing for any Chinese restaurant I've ever been to - you can't possibly miss all the pictures they've put up of their wedding all over the place. Not saying it has anything to with the food but it's an interesting little characteristic that you won't find too many other places. It's like this southern Christian idea of family mash-up with the Chinese restaurant business plan.

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    5 months ago

    This the little place is family owned and their food is absolutely always hot fresh and delicious. This is our go to spot!

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    ordered chicken with cashews and crab Rangoon , the chicken tasted old and the food very salty. Very dissatisfied.

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    Order food for pickup today and there was hair in the food yuck

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    Very good. Have ordered different times with different items and have been pleased every time. Love their steamed dumplings.

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    Wild Wok - Chicken Lo Mein

    Wild Wok

    4.5(30 reviews)
    7.6 mi

    We came in a weird time on a Sunday afternoon driving back from Asheville and needing to use the…read moreEVSE station in the parking lot right in front of this place. It was off hours, like 4pm, so we got the dinner portions. I must say, the portions are remarkably large and quite a value. I was able to eat a full meal, save the rest, and eat another full meal the next day. Same for each of the other dishes ordered. The egg drop soup was of the style i appreciate, I got the chicken chow mein, it was great. Good ratios of meat and noodles and veggies, cooked perfect and full of good flavor. My wife got the General Tso's, it was above average for that dish. I had some on the third leftovers. My oldest got a bento box, and it was larger than they expected as well. My youngest i forget her dish, but she enjoyed it. For a weird time the staff was great, very attentive either out of boredom or just that's how they do things there. Seating area was comfortable and clean. Very happy we decided to check it out.

    Asian fusion for the whole family. Stopped in while en route to Florida. Everything we had was…read moregreat: Chinese favorites as well as edamame and sushi were very good. Service was quite friendly as well. Definitely recommend.

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    Wild Wok - Wild Wok Bento Box: (clockwise) fried rice, scallion chicken, Fantasy Roll sushi (fabulous!), spring roll, shrimp sauce, wasabi & ginger

    Wild Wok Bento Box: (clockwise) fried rice, scallion chicken, Fantasy Roll sushi (fabulous!), spring roll, shrimp sauce, wasabi & ginger

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    Wild Wok - Teriyaki chicken bento box & hibachi chicken bento box. The sushi roll was a 10/10!

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    Teriyaki chicken bento box & hibachi chicken bento box. The sushi roll was a 10/10!

    Huang's Chef - Pork fried rice- so good!

    Huang's Chef

    4.2(238 reviews)
    8.8 mi
    $

    It all started with missing white rice…read more I had been working all day and hadn't consumed Chinese food in about a year. I love Chinese food but I have been paying off debt like Al Capone wanted his loan-shark money back, which led to me going from 27.3k to currently 1.8k on my Discover within a year. This background is to let you know why I haven't been eating a lot of Chinese food. It has nothing to do with sodium. But this is about wonton soup, sesame chicken, lo mein, white rice, and a drunk guy (not me). All of the food items listed above were solid. And they are always solid across the board. I wouldn't put this restaurant as #1 for any of those individual items in Lake Norman but I do put them #1 for all food as a whole. In other words, Jin Jin has the best wonton soup but you only get four wontons and they aren't as good at other stuff, and it just doesn't seem as clean--Huang's Chef is impeccably clean. Huang's China Bistro in Cornelius has the best sesame chicken but their lo mein and wonton soup aren't quite as good (still very good though). Lotus on River Hwy (Rt 150) has the best lo mein but not quite as good on the other stuff (but still very good). Huang's Chef (Mooresville) is a solid 9.0 across the board so it's where I order most. But the time prior to this one, I drove all the way to Huntersville and they forgot my white rice. This isn't a major issue but it kind of does ruin the experience after spending $30 for one person on dinner. Fortunately, they gave me a free pint of wonton soup the next time I went in. I was so excited to eat their food again that I ordered when driving by and had to wait. While outside and thinking I was alone on the strip-mall sidewalk, I practiced pronouncing "Huang's Chef." In order to do it, you need to inhale 5% on the "Huah" sound and exhale 95% on the "Wang" sound. I was getting good at it and repeating, "Huah-Wang's Chef ... Huah-Wang's Chef" while pacing, but a dude from from Marty's Bar popped out to smoke a cigarette and looked at me funny. "Just practicing," I said while nodding to indicate all was normal. "For what?" he laughed. I could tell he was one of those friendly drunk guys. "Huah-Wang's Chef." He walked over to cut the distance between us in half and laughed while taking a drag of his cigarette. Tall and skinny guy mid-60s with scruff and loose clothes that fit his personality. "Huah-Wong's Chef," he said. "No," I corrected. "It's Wang." "No it ain't," he cackled. "It's Wong." "That would be the Cantonese version. That's not correct." "I don't eat cantaloupes." He just started cracked up at his own joke, which wasn't funny, but then funny because of how much he enjoyed it. Then he continued, "What if we just put it together and start our own Chinese restaurant called Wang-Wong!" Bar guys always talk about things like this but know they will never follow through, and I didn't want to start a Wang-Wong Chinese restaurant with a scruffy-looking drunk guy. I had the perfect out anyway because Huang's Chef told me 15 minutes and it was about that time. "Good to meet you, but I have to go get my food now at Huah-WANG'S Chef." "Wong!" he cackled again as I walked away. Anyway, I definitely recommend Huang's Chef. It's a good price with solid portions and quality taste across the board. The restaurant itself is one of the cleanest Chinese restaurants I have ever seen, which is always a good sign. Definitely recommended.

    I requested an upgrade in my order and they were not willing to do it, 1/10. Food is average, 5/10…read more The ambiance shows they lost the quality they had on the past, 5/10. Total score: 3/10. Now, my go-to Chinese food is a different one.

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    Huang's Chef - Inside

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    Huang's Chef - Vegetable lo mein sub skinny noodles. There wasn't any vegetables.

    Vegetable lo mein sub skinny noodles. There wasn't any vegetables.

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    Lotus - L21. Scallion Chicken

    Lotus

    3.9(106 reviews)
    8.4 mi
    $$

    You know, I'm sitting here at midnight after watching The Crooked Man from the SyFy network…read more(enjoying these low-budget movies because actors put heart and soul into it whether good movie or not and because concepts are sometimes cool) and was thinking about Lotus. To Clarify, Lotus wasn't a character in the movie and was actually the name of the Chinese restaurant. And if there was a Lotus in the movie, I wouldn't be thinking about Lotus--unless he/she was unique and had an interesting viewpoint on life with good intentions but also loved to be bad and was sometimes misunderstood. For The Crooked Man, I gave it a 7.2 but that's on a scale for the SyFy channel--and I gave Lotus a 4.0--which would make it an eight on a 10-point scale. Therefore, the Chinese food was slightly better than the movie. 8.0 is greater than 7.2. For the Chinese food, I liked my son's meal better than my own, but both were good. I got the Scallion Chicken, which I have never had anywhere. The waiter was kind and attentive but he really wanted me to have the Scallion Chicken. I tried to move to General Tso's and explained it was my first time there and should probably go with something I know. He said, "Yes! Most people order Scallion Chicken." Alrighty then. Scallion Chicken it is! What I should have ordered was the Roast Pork Lo Mein, which was very good. But if I did that and we both had Roast Pork Lo Mein, we would only know about the Roast Pork Lo Mein and not about the Scallion Chicken, which could have been General Tso's. We both asked for no vegetables in the Fried Rice but he said it would cost extra because it was already made. So, we just stuck with whatever was in there--eggs and ... scallions. I also ordered Wonton Soup but I just realized that it never arrived, which is the biggest negative because I love Wonton Soup. If someone called me tomorrow and offered me a job to travel across the country rating Wonton Soup, I would take it. It would be a Vlog titled: Man With Spoon. Another odd thing was when they refill your water, they take your glass and come back with it. Scallion Chicken isn't too spicy but it's nice to have water. It's weird when they take it away. You're probably wondering how this was a 4. Good question. But the food was good, the service was friendly (counts the most for me), and the prices were fair. And it was a comfortable dining area. But most importantly, it was fun to have lunch with my son, and the miscommunications and interesting approaches to service felt adventurous to me. If someone were rude, that's a whole different thing, but everyone was friendly, so I'm good with it. I will also stop in one day for a Wonton Soup.

    Came here with 4 other people on a Sunday evening. We were greeted warmly and seated quickly. Nice…read moreand quiet little place that wasn't busy at all. We ordered krab rangoon and chicken teriyaki sticks for appetizers which were both fantastic. Their krab rangoon had a LOT of cream cheese. Most places skimp out and you get mostly just fried wonton with no filling. The teriyaki chicken was crispy and juicy. For entrees we got shrimp mei fun which was good, but a bit salty. We got the crispy scallion chicken which was flavorful, crispy and saucy. We also had the crispy orange beef which I wish was a bit crispier and less saucy, I think too much sauce made it soggy, but had a nice orange flavor and wasn't super spicy. We also had the beef with ginger and oyster sauce which was also salty, but the beef was tender. Last but not least we had shrimp lo mein, which tasted like your standard lo mein. Nice amount of shrimp and even took home leftovers as it was a large portion. A few of us would've loved to upgrade to pork fried rice with our meals instead of the standard white rice, but a $3 upcharge seemed a bit steep. 3 dishes came with soup, and they also give you duck sauce and crispy wontons for the table when first seated. The wontons were oily and tasted a bit stale. With 2 appetizers, 4 entrees and 2 soft drinks our total came to around $110 which isn't too bad. Around $20 a person. I wouldn't say I'm dying to come back to this restaurant, but if you need a Chinese food fix, this is a good place to go.

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    Lotus - Side Dining Room

    Side Dining Room

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    Crispy orange beef

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    Chicken teriyaki skewers

    China Garden - chinese - Updated September 2026

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