I visited the CHINA GARDEN on 3/28/2026. To say I was disappointed would be an understatement. To begin with, the vegetable egg rolls only contained CABBAGE! The beef lo Mein was almost inedible, with the beef so stringy I had to spit it out. $14 cash in the trash! Save your money, even Panda Express tastes better than this flavorless mess. The girl behind the counter bordered on rude. read more

Absolutely the worst food I've had, and I was once served pork ribs that were raw at the bone. The shrimp toast was horrible and burnt. One bite and I spit it out because the taste of rancid oil was overwhelming. The scallop dish I ordered tasted like bait left out in the sun. The yellow fried rice had an off taste. NEVER AGAIN! read more

Consistently good Chinese food in a convenient location in Urbana. I am a repeat customer, never disappointed.

This place is down right disgusting. The rice is the worst rice I've ever had it was literally yellow and wasn't even fried. It tasted stale and the chicken was unidentifiable. The service was okay. She had my food ready fast but upon walking in she was on her phone and eating. Overall the whole ambiance of the place is so extremely dirty and I hope no one else eats here. Absolutely disgusting. read more

The fried rice is not that great--the chicken in it is quite dry. However, their king pao chicken dish is to DIE for! Superb dish.

Ordered a combination plate because it comes with egg roll, fried rice and a main dish. I had the chicken with mixed vegetables and it's like $8 with tax included. The food was really good and I would come back since I live in close proximity to this place. read more

China Garden - Combination plate - Chinese Near Me - Urbana, Illinois

Do not get the fried rice! it was hands down the worst fried rice I have ever had! it's like they used a frozen fried rice to make it. Had to throw it out it was so bad read more

Online ordering is fantastic! Food is incredible. Very family owned, focused. Feels good supporting them.

Pretty good for the price. Lunch menu is around 4 to 5 bucks. I feel like you get more of the bargain than you pay for. The food were cooked to order and a decent portion. This is a step up from fast food. Its healthy, fresh and delicious. Cant go wrong read more

Service: 63% D Everyone seems grumpy. Cleanliness: 48% F The cook didnt where gloves, and handled my food with his hands, and I did not see him wash his hands. Food: 72% C The food is okay. Its pretty cheaply priced, so not bad if you want cheap chinese food. read more

This was my second time eating here. I liked it well enough the first time, but after picking up take out and eating at home, I won't be going back. I ordered crab rangoon, fried dumplings, and Mongolian beef with lo mein instead of rice. The crab rangoon looks huge, but in every single piece, there wasn't even a teaspoon full of filling. The beef in the mongolian beef tastes off and it doesn't taste like any mongolian beef I've ever had...just...not good. The only reason I'm giving 2 stars is because the dumplings were decent. I wish I could post the picture I took of the rangoon so you could see I wasn't exaggerating just how empty they are. Very disappointed since I rarely eat out due to budget constraints. This was supposed to be a treat. If I wasn't so tired, I'd pack it up and take it back, but honestly, I never trust asking for food replacements because of the horror stories I've heard from food service people about what sometimes happens to your replacement food. Edit: I figured out how to add a photo, so added it above... read more

China Garden - Crab Rangoon picked up for takeout. Every single piece in the order had not even a teaspoon of filling, and some had less than this one. - Chinese Near Me - Urbana, Illinois

I tried this place out rather randomly after noticing its existence near Schnucks. The restaurant is a very typical eat-in/take-out joint, with a nice lady coordinating the kitchen and taking the orders. As always, my order was the classic American-Chinese takeout standby of General Tso's Chicken. The food was ready in the promised 10 minutes, and I was happy to see that its container was practically bursting with chicken, broccoli, and fried rice. A good start! Once home, I eagerly unloaded a mix of victuals onto a plate and began to chow down. Unfortunately, the experience from here on was a bit of a disappointment. The meat was not at all spicy (despite the cute little chili pepper next to its name on the menu), and the flavor was more bitter than I'm used to. Maybe that's what they're shooting for, but the peculiar bitter/salty aftertaste didn't jibe too well with my taste buds. Granted, my opinion here is based entirely on one experience with one style of food. That being said, I've definitely had better. I'll see how the leftovers are after a night of sitting in the fridge, but the next time I have a craving for the good general's fried nuggets of fowl, I'll probably be looking elsewhere. read more

They always have fresh food and their food when I have ate their they always nice and prompt and my boyfriend useually gets chicken wings and instead of rice lo mein. They always hook him up and they also let us get half order of. crabragoons instead buying eight . They have great customer service read more

Why do all fast Chinese joints have the same exact menu? Seriously. It's the placemat sized paper one. Red and black, meal specials and the same food. You know what I'm talkin' bout, right? Everywhere across the nation! My Tso's Chicken here was sub-par. Especially biting the nugget in half, and realizing there was a microscopic shred, literally a shred, of actual chicken surrounded by two inches of chicken flavored dough. Yikes. That being said, all the vegetarian meals ordered were pretty tasty. Special request Tso's Tofu looked rockin' and tasted better. The Ma Po Tofu was a bit on the slimy side, and our party noticed some flavor balance issues in certain dishes. It's very basic american-ized Chinese food, fairly cheap and large portions, hella quick. read more

I can't say anything about their General Tso's chicken or whatever, but i will say that the cook here really knows how to cook noodles. Definitely try what they call "angel hair" (or mi-fun in Chinese). They cook it very well. You may need to add some salt or hot sauce to adjust the taste to your liking, but the texture of the noodles is always done just right. Many other chinese takeout places (and restaurants) that make mi-fun have it come out soggy and oily, or very dry and sticky. Not here ... the noodles are typically nicely separated and have a bite to them. So, if you aren't sure what to order here or want to try something other than "typical" chinese take out, i would recommend you go for their "angel hair" items! read more

This place has everything you could want from a Chinese take-out. Cheap, delicious, and fast. The combination plates are excellent for the price, getting you a choice from a dozen or so entrees, fried rice, and an egg roll for about $8. It's so much food that I normally get two meals out of it, which is a hell of a deal. Try it! read more

Similar to other reviews, I came for cheap and fast Chinese. Be careful - when they say "steamed" they mean "not seasoned". Unfortunately the food is flat and rather boring. There is an insane amount of variety on the menu to be overwhelming - this is typical of smaller Chinese places in my experience, but still disappointing. Why not feature several things you do well, instead of an innumerable amount of things you do dreadfully? Had mixed steamed vegetables with a brown sauce over white rice. Everything was absolutely scary - I had chicken, but it was absolutely unidentifiable as chicken. Scary. read more

This place has reasonable prices, generous portions, fast service, and is very conveniently located (for me!). That said, convenience isn't quite enough to make me want to come back here. I ordered the Ma Po Tofu and some vegetable lo mein. Granted, I have never had Ma Po Tofu. I'm not really sure what it's "supposed" to taste like. But what I got from China Garden was SALTY. So very salty, to the point where I could barely taste any other flavor. BLEH. Also, there was a piece of shrimp shell in my Ma Po Tofu....weird. The vegetable lo mein was pretty good, but honestly that's kind of hard to completely mess up. My boyfriend had the boneless spare ribs combo. His eggroll was downright gross. The insides were a uniform gray. He asked me to take a bite of it to confirm how weird it was. I sunk my teeth in and didn't even go any further...the texture and flavor was so disgusting. I'm disappointed by this place, especially since our food SMELLED so good (well, except for that eggroll...) read more

After trying their pork egg roll from a friend, I thought their food was quite good so I decided to go for lunch. First the place is definitely a great value and rather fast. I ordered the Hot & Sour soup and Chicken fried rice. Both dishes had decent seasoning and tasted good except for the chicken. There was a couple pieces of chicken in the Hot & Sour soup which had no flavor as if added as an afterthought or fell in. The chicken in the fried rice did not retain any flavor either and was actually kind of wet/slimy. At first I thought maybe it wasn't fully cooked but rather I think it is the chicken piece used. I got a bit of fat and almost skin-ish instead of just the standard chicken breast. So I just ate around it. I'd recommend staying away from the chicken but the dishes were not bad and as previously stated the pork egg roll was good. read more

Affordable, above average Chinese takeout fair can be found here. There isn't anything really unique on the menu, but they do have really good Angel Hair and Lo Mein dishes. I've never been disappointed with their food, and the prices are right on par if not slightly better than some of the other Chinese places in town. read more

Ordered General Sous chicken & 4 egg rolls for Cary out , the egg rolls were great the General's chicken was split , some was great and some was hard and chewy it all had good flavor but I couldn't chew most of the chicken. The rice was horrible it tasted like it was a week old. I would not recommend this place to anyone!!!! read more

This place is great. Great service and food is made fresh. Other places have food sitting in warming pots for hours. This place is so fun and super cute! read more

China Garden is everything that every Chinese place wants to be. It has excellent food. The spare ribs were cooked to perfection with a little char on them. And they were actually spare ribs! Super tender meat and the service was quality. Only problem was I ordered based on the online menu price. When I got there to pay for the take out, it was more expensive than what they advertise on their website. Only by a dollar or two more, but it's still very good food and service. I highly recommend this place to people with a Chinese food craving. read more

Only purchased a lg. House Fried Rice. It was so bland and absolutely no flavor. Its nearly $10 for the order, so I'm not going to eat there again if they can't even have good rice. Sorry, but I've never been to a Chinese place that didn't have that delicious, greasy, salty rice. read more

It took a few orders but the Kung Pao is spicy and if you bother to tell them what you want they do a good job. All I ever ate here was Kung Bao Pao Chicken. After the third time I said make me sweat I won't complain they did a good job. read more

China Garden does simple standards well and for a great price...my favorites are Hunan chicken and anything from "special diet menu"

Fine dining? No. Good, hearty Americanized Chinese food? Yes! I've always had excellent food and service at China Garden. The location next to Schnuck's is super convenient, easy to stop by on the way home or for a quick run on weekends. I almost always get mine to go, which must be the case for most of their business. Food is cooked to order and is super fast (about 10 min). Portions are large; I get two meals from a single order. Unlike many Chinese restaurants, the flavor of the food isn't overwhelmed by generic seasoning or MSG. The egg drop soup (the large is a quart!!) has nursed me through many colds and it's ridiculously cheap. I appreciate their vegetarian options and they've always accommodated special requests. Their vegetarian spring rolls are gigantic. It's Chinese fast food, but it's fresh, tasty, and a bargain. read more

A decent storefront Chinese place. Portion sizes can be large, so we almost always end up with too much food!

I'm not a big fan of Chinese food but my vote was unheard among the family. The food over all was very unflavorful. The egg drop soup had near zero taste, the egg foo young was oily and the sweet and sour pork was plain (no veggies, fruit, etc). I did like the BBQ pork was good. My fam thought it was too chewy but I liked it the best. read more

This is my favorite Chinese place. Generous portions, cheap, and quick service. Their BBQ pork spare ribs are amazing.

Very friendly, fresh food. Reasonable prices also!! Would recommend this place over any other in Champaign-Urbana.

I love this place! I love the people who run it, the people who work there and the food they serve. It's much less greasy than any other chinese I've had in CU and the only time they messed up my order, they took care of it. They've always seemed happy to see me when I come in and I've never seen a steamed dish menu like theirs. If they used brown rice, they'd be a five star Chinese for me! read more

Seems like they have all the food that every other Chinese restaurants has. But this place must really care more. I have ate at others and so far none have been able to match the quality of the food. Be ready for a HOT meal. I have never had a cold one at this restaurant. It must be family owned as I always see the husband, wife, two daughters and the same cook in there.. read more

I didnt like the szechuan beef it had baby corn in it which is nasty also had a lot of veggies which i didnt like mushroom and cucumber. The sauce tasted too watery and i felt the beef was cheaper than panda and much more pricey it was 4.80 for a small lunch special which is basically just a small entree and rice. read more

Standard Chinese restaurant food, slightly Americanized for white people. Price is about average for average Chinese food. A good place for when you don't really feel like cooking and just want something quick and easy. read more

Good place to go. Convenient, large serving size, with delicious food. The taste is kinda between authentic and Americanized Chinese food. I like the cashew shrimp and various rice noodles best. read more

I don't eat meat so I can't comment on many items on the menu. But their veggie Lomein has an almost smoky flavor to it, and the chow mein was loaded with vegetables. Usually it is quick, though on weekends there can be a bit of a wait. I like the people who run it. You can see back into the kitchen and it looks clean and it is very reasonably priced. I have to spice it up a bit, but that's OK with me. read more

Wow. I don't even know where to start with this one. Probably the worst Chinese food I've ever had. I feel bad because everyone there was so friendly but the food was horrendous. The Mongolian beef was rubbery and overcooked. The sweet and sour chicken was some of the driest chicken I've ever had. The shrimp in the fried rice was not too fresh but probably the best part of this meal. The rice itself, however, was bland and unseasoned. Would not recommend this. read more

One of the better Chinese places in C-U, they has become one of my go to places when looking for good Chinese food for a good price.

Horrible Service. When I say horrible service....I mean nothing short of it! I went there earlier today and to begin, the cashier put the wrong amount of cash in and could not figure out my change. I had to do this for her. After 17 minutes of waiting for a lunch special and driving home, I open the food and it looks and tastes horrible. I call back and ask them to fix the food. I take it there and order something different since they refuse to give my money back. There is a noticeable price difference so I ask her for either the change or 2 egg rolls to make the price gap less. They began cursing in their native tongue and refuse to refund the difference because I've already tasted the food. As If I haven't wasted gas to drive back there. Long story short, the 2nd dish sucked as bad as the first dish. Rudest customer service in Urbana in all my years of being here. They don't deserve the one star given. Save yourself and go elsewhere! read more