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I've been here quite a few times, and quality has always been decent (average or above) but 4 stars for not incredibly consistent. It's still my go-to Cantonese restaurant in Chinatown though! On this most recent visit, we ordered egg drop soup, yu xiang eggplant, and ma po tofu. All the dishes were pretty good, and it was my first time ordering soup here and it was perfect for a cool night! It was pretty quiet on a weeknight, and the servers were especially attentive, friendly, and even cracking jokes with customers. It felt like the fun, late-night shift where you get to let down your hair a bit to chat with regulars. It was a fun evening, and I walked out happily stuffed!
Love the tender pork chop with Hong Kong sauce. Can't beat the $7.95 lunch price. Service was efficient. You know it's authentic Chinese when most diners are Chinese. Love the price, the food and cozy atmosphere. Must go esp for weekday lunch.
The food here was amazing wow very fresh very tasty, I had the dugenes crab, shrimp fried rice and shrimp with broccoli. The rice was addicting sooo delicious scrumptious. The Dungeness crab was amazing so good. I got a deep fried. It taste really good so fresh it was over 2 pounds and they get it from the fish tank. Amazing. Fabulous the shrimp broccoli the shrimps were jumbo shrimp and it was so fresh as well highly recommend this spot amazing. The portions are large two people can eat out of one order of the fried rice, the service was great very friendly, the ambiance is a pretty good, layback lol everyone is focused on eating lol highly recommend this place :)
I've been coming here for years and even before when the location was originally Big Fish. It was a reliable spot that you could get good food at a fair price even in to the later hours. It was not too busy on a Friday night with about 6 other groups dining. The restaurant is well lit with comfortably spaced out tables and very nice staff. We ordered satay beef, peking ribs, stir fried pea shoots with garlic, and surf clams. We were so shocked at how small the portions were for dinner compared to just about any other Chinese restaurant we've ever been to. Between my parents and I, we were easily able to finish these dishes. I've never in my life left a Chinese restaurant without feeling full and having leftovers for taking home especially when you order one or more full entrées (not rice plates) per person. We used to have family dinners here and were always content with the food quality/quantity and the service. Don't get me wrong, the flavors were still good, but my parents don't even eat a lot and we were all still hungry afterwards. We have not been here for a while and we've never had this experience in the past so we were very surprised. This is also factoring in the fact that you are paying very similar prices for half the portion as compared to other restaurants in the area like Jumbo, Dynasty, or Peach Farm. Come for their lunch specials or late night cravings when nothing else is open, but if they keep up with the portions like this for dinner then I can't recommend when there are other great options in the area for family dinners.
My go to spot traditional Chinese food spot in Chinatown. Their seafood is very fresh directly from their fish tanks. They serve the absolute largest oysters I've seen. I always get their beef chow fun and fried pork intestines. The service is always great and they're open til 3am making it a great late night option. Their sago and red bean soup is a great dessert.
When landing in Boston we had some real craving for Chinese seafood and went to Jade garden in China town. The service was super fast and efficient. We ordered two lobsters with ginger & scallions and heavy Cantonese style sauce. This is a wok recipe that cooks under heavy flames so difficult to replicate at home. But one of the finest way to eat lobsters. We selected a fresh fish directly from the tank. It was cooked Cantonese-style steamed with fresh ginger, green onions, and a delicious soy sauce. I have to say the food was amazingly good!
Stop by here for dinner with friends after work. Got here around 6:30pm and was promptly seated. It did get busy closer to 7:30pm so good idea to arrive before then. Restaurant is pretty spacious and brightly lit. The server was very friendly and very informative on the menu. We ordered a rice plate, a noodle plate, chicken soup and various entries. Everything was so delicious, especially the sticky rice with lobster. It was so flavorful and the lobster was fresh and sweet. Definitely drop by Jade Garden if you are craving delicious cantonese food.
KUDOS to the staff for providing supreme quality customer service! We ordered the lobster, shrimp, noodles , and dessert fried milk. The ambiance was quiet.
Quick cheap lunch to go in Chinatown. They have two pages of options for $7.95 lunch specials on weekdays. I got the beef chow fun to go and it was a nice portion. Taste best fresh. Service is fairly quick.
The place was busy but the food came out quick! Kung pao chicken was the perfect amount of spicy, house fried rice was seasoned well and a good amount of vegetables and meat, sweet and sour pork was cooked crispy and the sauce was good, the beef noodle dish we had could have used more beef but it was cooked well. The service was friendly. Only beer, Sake and wine.
The fried noodles options on the lunch menu ($7.95) is worth getting. Perfect amount of fried noodles and plenty of protein of your choice. I tried the seafood with vegetables. Mixed seafood with Chinese broccoli. 9/10! TIP- ask for hot chili oil. It pairs so well with the fried noodles.
With Chinatown becoming more modernized and new fusion restaurants opening up, it's always nice to have a reliable old-school Chinatown place in your back pocket, and Jade Garden is it for my family. We've been coming here for over a decade, and there's a reason why we keep on coming back. While the prices have increased with the rest of Chinatown, the quality is still great and the portion sizes don't seem to have suffered based on our most recent outing. We ordered the salt and pepper pork, seafood hotpot, beef chow mein, king do spare rib, and beef and broccoli. Salt and pepper pork - crispy, salty, and juicy. Some places make this dish with really fatty or boney pieces of pork, but this latest order had the perfect meat to fat ratio and I really didn't find all that many bones in it. I love the jalapenos mixed in with the fried garlic, and this makes a perfect accompaniment to a bowl of white rice. Seafood hotpot - check out the photo here - this tupperware was packed full of goodies. This dish comes with tofu, squid, shrimp, and fishcakes, and there was no shortage of food here. The tofu beautifully soaks up the delicate white sauce and acts as a flavor bomb - when you bite into it, the tofu explodes with juice. Love this dish! Beef chow mein - growing up, this was my favorite Chinese dish and this version definitely met expectations. It was a bit strange for the takeout order to have the sauce already on the noodles as some places put them in separate containers, but the noodles were still nice and crispy when we got home, so there was no issue there. I love the mixture of crunchy fried noodles with slightly soggy ones that have soaked up the beef sauce, and the meat as usual was really nice and tender. King do spare rib - this is the counterpart to the salt and pepper pork, with a nice sweet and savory sauce over the same type of meat. Like the salt and pepper version, the meat to fat ratio was great and there were very little bones. Another great dish to have with rice! Beef and broccoli - we ordered this to have some extra topping with our fried noodles, and the container came packed full of food. There was a LOT of meat in this dish, which is just what we wanted. Like the chow mein topping, the beef was soft and tender, and the veggies were nice and crisp. All in all, the quality you get at Jade Garden is very high, and the amount of food is surprising. With a lot of restaurants cutting back on volume and hiking up prices, Jade Garden still gives you a good amount of food for the price. 4/5 - we've been coming here for ages and will continue to come back!
2 months ago
Nice Cantonese food and authentic tastes. Service typical of a Chinese restaurant We had crispy chow mein noodles, wonton soup and a stir fried fish dish - all very good. The dining room is large and filled up for lunch time. read more
Visiting Boston from L.A. for first time, was craving Cantonese comfort food after too many lobsters in Boston and Maine (Maine lobsters are better.) It was 10:30pm so my options were limited, decided to give Jade Garden a try. Ordered a wonton noodle soup. Now, I did not expect it to be as good or authentic as Sam Woo in Alhambra CA or Mike's in Seattle Chinatown. But what was served was a complete travesty of this classic HK staple. The broth had no flavor (adding white pepper didn't help much); the wontons were sad-looking, had no shrimp inside and the 'mystery meat' tasted mushy like it was about to give me food poisoning so I spit it out. The manager insisted the wontons were "freshly made" and walked away but I knew better, so I asked another waiter to sent it back. New dish = Fish fillet with vegs rice plate. The fish was fine, but the vegs were undercooked (onion almost completely raw) and there was very little sauce on the rice. Another fail. Maybe it's not their regular chef for the late night shift, but I probably won't be back. As with most U.S. Chinatowns, the best Chinese food is found in nearby suburbs and neighborhoods (such as the fine Shanghainese restaurant JiangNan by the Boston Common.) read more
I wasn't feeling homesick during the Chinese New Year, but eating such authentic Cantonese cuisine almost made me cry... Flavored Chicken雲香雞: Originating from the "Yunxiang Lou雲香樓" restaurant in Guangzhou, this is an old-style Cantonese dish. I haven't tried the original one myself, so I can't comment on whether it's authentic, but it tasted similar to what's known as "salted chicken鹹雞" in Guangdong. The chicken itself was already salty enough, so the ginger and scallion sauce was a delightful addition to the rice - as all Cantonese know. It seems to be made with young hens; the skin was fragrant, moist but not oily, and the meat was tender and smooth, with a strong original aroma of chicken雞味. Even the chicken breast wasn't dry at all. The simple salt-baking鹽焗 style and peanut oil seasoning perfectly brought out the chicken's freshness and aroma. It was even delicious after being reheated the next day. It would have been even better if the chicken skin was crispy, but it's hard to ask for more in the US. Vegetables with Garlic蒜蓉菜遠: I haven't had such flavorful stir-fried Choy Sum菜心 (Chinese Flowering Cabbage) in a long time. I even missed the Cantonese greens more than the chicken, so I ate the whole plate by myself. Stir-fried greens need a generous amount of oil to be truly fragrant. This restaurant was packed on the first day of the Chinese New Year; being surrounded by Cantonese speakers felt so welcoming. read more
I've been here quite a few times, and quality has always been decent (average or above) but 4 stars for not incredibly consistent. It's still my go-to Cantonese restaurant in Chinatown though! On this most recent visit, we ordered egg drop soup, yu xiang eggplant, and ma po tofu. All the dishes were pretty good, and it was my first time ordering soup here and it was perfect for a cool night! It was pretty quiet on a weeknight, and the servers were especially attentive, friendly, and even cracking jokes with customers. It felt like the fun, late-night shift where you get to let down your hair a bit to chat with regulars. It was a fun evening, and I walked out happily stuffed! read more
9 months ago
Love the tender pork chop with Hong Kong sauce. Can't beat the $7.95 lunch price. Service was efficient. You know it's authentic Chinese when most diners are Chinese. Love the price, the food and cozy atmosphere. Must go esp for weekday lunch. read more
The food here was amazing wow very fresh very tasty, I had the dugenes crab, shrimp fried rice and shrimp with broccoli. The rice was addicting sooo delicious scrumptious. The Dungeness crab was amazing so good. I got a deep fried. It taste really good so fresh it was over 2 pounds and they get it from the fish tank. Amazing. Fabulous the shrimp broccoli the shrimps were jumbo shrimp and it was so fresh as well highly recommend this spot amazing. The portions are large two people can eat out of one order of the fried rice, the service was great very friendly, the ambiance is a pretty good, layback lol everyone is focused on eating lol highly recommend this place :) read more
11 months ago
I've been coming here for years and even before when the location was originally Big Fish. It was a reliable spot that you could get good food at a fair price even in to the later hours. It was not too busy on a Friday night with about 6 other groups dining. The restaurant is well lit with comfortably spaced out tables and very nice staff. We ordered satay beef, peking ribs, stir fried pea shoots with garlic, and surf clams. We were so shocked at how small the portions were for dinner compared to just about any other Chinese restaurant we've ever been to. Between my parents and I, we were easily able to finish these dishes. I've never in my life left a Chinese restaurant without feeling full and having leftovers for taking home especially when you order one or more full entrées (not rice plates) per person. We used to have family dinners here and were always content with the food quality/quantity and the service. Don't get me wrong, the flavors were still good, but my parents don't even eat a lot and we were all still hungry afterwards. We have not been here for a while and we've never had this experience in the past so we were very surprised. This is also factoring in the fact that you are paying very similar prices for half the portion as compared to other restaurants in the area like Jumbo, Dynasty, or Peach Farm. Come for their lunch specials or late night cravings when nothing else is open, but if they keep up with the portions like this for dinner then I can't recommend when there are other great options in the area for family dinners. read more
My go to spot traditional Chinese food spot in Chinatown. Their seafood is very fresh directly from their fish tanks. They serve the absolute largest oysters I've seen. I always get their beef chow fun and fried pork intestines. The service is always great and they're open til 3am making it a great late night option. Their sago and red bean soup is a great dessert. read more
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When landing in Boston we had some real craving for Chinese seafood and went to Jade garden in China town. The service was super fast and efficient. We ordered two lobsters with ginger & scallions and heavy Cantonese style sauce. This is a wok recipe that cooks under heavy flames so difficult to replicate at home. But one of the finest way to eat lobsters. We selected a fresh fish directly from the tank. It was cooked Cantonese-style steamed with fresh ginger, green onions, and a delicious soy sauce. I have to say the food was amazingly good! read more
Stop by here for dinner with friends after work. Got here around 6:30pm and was promptly seated. It did get busy closer to 7:30pm so good idea to arrive before then. Restaurant is pretty spacious and brightly lit. The server was very friendly and very informative on the menu. We ordered a rice plate, a noodle plate, chicken soup and various entries. Everything was so delicious, especially the sticky rice with lobster. It was so flavorful and the lobster was fresh and sweet. Definitely drop by Jade Garden if you are craving delicious cantonese food. read more
1 year ago
Quick cheap lunch to go in Chinatown. They have two pages of options for $7.95 lunch specials on weekdays. I got the beef chow fun to go and it was a nice portion. Taste best fresh. Service is fairly quick. read more
1 year ago
The place was busy but the food came out quick! Kung pao chicken was the perfect amount of spicy, house fried rice was seasoned well and a good amount of vegetables and meat, sweet and sour pork was cooked crispy and the sauce was good, the beef noodle dish we had could have used more beef but it was cooked well. The service was friendly. Only beer, Sake and wine. read more
5 months ago
The food we ordered was great. Staying in the area for the first time we were lucky to find a menu we could enjoy similar to the classic cuisine we were familiar with. read more
The fried noodles options on the lunch menu ($7.95) is worth getting. Perfect amount of fried noodles and plenty of protein of your choice. I tried the seafood with vegetables. Mixed seafood with Chinese broccoli. 9/10! TIP- ask for hot chili oil. It pairs so well with the fried noodles. read more
With Chinatown becoming more modernized and new fusion restaurants opening up, it's always nice to have a reliable old-school Chinatown place in your back pocket, and Jade Garden is it for my family. We've been coming here for over a decade, and there's a reason why we keep on coming back. While the prices have increased with the rest of Chinatown, the quality is still great and the portion sizes don't seem to have suffered based on our most recent outing. We ordered the salt and pepper pork, seafood hotpot, beef chow mein, king do spare rib, and beef and broccoli. Salt and pepper pork - crispy, salty, and juicy. Some places make this dish with really fatty or boney pieces of pork, but this latest order had the perfect meat to fat ratio and I really didn't find all that many bones in it. I love the jalapenos mixed in with the fried garlic, and this makes a perfect accompaniment to a bowl of white rice. Seafood hotpot - check out the photo here - this tupperware was packed full of goodies. This dish comes with tofu, squid, shrimp, and fishcakes, and there was no shortage of food here. The tofu beautifully soaks up the delicate white sauce and acts as a flavor bomb - when you bite into it, the tofu explodes with juice. Love this dish! Beef chow mein - growing up, this was my favorite Chinese dish and this version definitely met expectations. It was a bit strange for the takeout order to have the sauce already on the noodles as some places put them in separate containers, but the noodles were still nice and crispy when we got home, so there was no issue there. I love the mixture of crunchy fried noodles with slightly soggy ones that have soaked up the beef sauce, and the meat as usual was really nice and tender. King do spare rib - this is the counterpart to the salt and pepper pork, with a nice sweet and savory sauce over the same type of meat. Like the salt and pepper version, the meat to fat ratio was great and there were very little bones. Another great dish to have with rice! Beef and broccoli - we ordered this to have some extra topping with our fried noodles, and the container came packed full of food. There was a LOT of meat in this dish, which is just what we wanted. Like the chow mein topping, the beef was soft and tender, and the veggies were nice and crisp. All in all, the quality you get at Jade Garden is very high, and the amount of food is surprising. With a lot of restaurants cutting back on volume and hiking up prices, Jade Garden still gives you a good amount of food for the price. 4/5 - we've been coming here for ages and will continue to come back! read more
1 year ago
For $7.95 lunch specials that provide a hearty portion of rice and chicken is pretty damn good. The place has been a staple for many affordable lunches for years now and will continue to be one of my go tos for cheap lunches. Service is quick, no chit chat waiter gives you two side lunch menu by default (ask for full menu if you're looking for entrees) day pot of tea, takes your order. Food. The sesame chicken was covered is sweet and slightly sour sauce. Came fresh fried but the chicken was dry so had to chew it for a bit. Few broccoli's that soaked the sauce in pretty well. Rice was cooked just right and had the mixed jasmine and regular long grain feel. Ambiance is typical of the ctown restaurants with well lighting, table cloth and workers using one table to prep veggies. Overall excellent affordable lunch place for $7.95. I suggest paying in cash as for such low price and it is ctown so owners generally appreciate not having card trx fees on top. read more
9 months ago
Very rude server! Our server was a little older then the others but not too old. When I said that we're first time here and the server didn't mind to give us food options. We did not plan to go eat but we got hungry so we decided to have light dinner in this restaurant. My outfit was a winter pajama. The serve was rude wih us and I believed because we didn't dress nice. We were unhappy and only ordered a few things. The one I got disappointed is the stuf clams with vermicelli. It's not like the picture that people reviewed on Yelp (you can scroll down and compare with my picture here). When I asked them for napkin and the other server was busy to play phone and didn't pay attention to us. I don't think they appreciate our tips!!! read more
1 year ago
My visit to JG was good. The dishes was a little salty. Overall, it was okay. Staff are very friendly. read more
10 months ago
Amazing amazing authentic Chinese food. Please see uncle Kevin for the best service with a laugh! If your a late night diner this is absolutely the place to be. I can't imagine how much takeout they do on a Friday and Saturday night read more
5 months ago
5 months ago
Good place to goto with a group so you can eat family style and get a variety of food. All of the food comes out quick & piping hot. Great option for late night dining. Servers mostly speak Cantonese. Always ask what are the fresh/seasonal vegetables of the day. read more
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This is a classic Cantonese Chinese restaurant experience which means you need to go in with the right expectations. - Dishes are meant to be shared and eaten family style - Fresh fish in the fish tanks mean the seafood is going to be good - Don't expect great service. If you are ready to order or need something, you have to flag down a server. They won't come check on you - "American" Chinese dishes aren't going to be the same as what you get from a takeout place. Usually not the best dishes at the restaurant Okay now that you know what to expect, let's talk food. The dishes and quality of food are what I get in New York Chinatown and China. Everything is delicious so don't let the giant menu intimidate you. These are some of their best dishes: - Sweet and sour fried pork chop - Beef chow food (wet with sauce) - Fried salt and pepper soft shell crab - Sautéed pea shoots - Lobster with ginger and scallion Even if you are new to this style of Chinese food and aren't very adventurous, you'll enjoy these dishes. Plenty of big tables to handle large groups. Worth a visit next time you are in Chinatown! read more
7 months ago
I thought this was a great option for Cantonese dining in Chinatown. I like the layout of the restaurant. It is spacious compared to many Chinatown stores. The restaurant is brightly lit and tables were spaced well. Service was very good. None of us speak Cantonese, but we were comfortable communicating with the staff. Spicy Salt & Pepper Soft Shell Crab - 5 stars. This dish is mentioned in a lot of Yelp reviews for a reason. Flavorful and crispy, you can't go wrong with this. Stir Fried Pea Pod Stems - 5 stars. These fresh vegetables are stir fried with garlic. This dish can be easy to overcook, but these were cooked just right and they were delicious . Pepper Fried Pork Chops - 3 stars. This traditional dish is one of my favorite. It had wonderful flavor, but on this visit it was a bit too greasy. I enjoyed it, but probably ate too many because the grease hurt my tummy afterwards. Sizzling Beef with Ginger and Scallions - 4 stars. I liked this combination because it it a little different from typical beef stir fry combination. And I like ginger. The ginger and scallion add fragrance and flavor to the beef. Some of the beef was tough though. Bookmark this place, I definitely recommend it. read more
2 years ago
Dim sum place - it was alright, If you grew up eating this, I'm sure it's quite fine but a lot of it is too strongly Chinese flavored for me. The congee and chicken feet sounded quite interesting but let's just say it wasn't for me And I'm Taiwanese Crispy tofu squares was good, I do recommend that one at least read more
1 year ago
Decent food and great portions. The hit of the night for us was the crab Rangoon....comes with a sweeter sauce and make sure you don't forget the hot mustard. The Kung pow chicken was good. It just wasn't that spicy. It had a lot of different vegetables with a pretty saucey. The general Tso chicken was OK. The meat was kind of chewy and dry. The sauce was kind of clumpy but overall OK. Now the must have is the hot and sour soup. This stuff was the bomb! Nice flavor great heat and not sour! read more
We flew into Boston late and didn't get to our hotel until midnight. Hungry, we had few options but Jade Garden came to the rescue!! Surprisingly, even on a Wednesday night this place was busy until they closed at 130am ---salted chicken & fish fried rice: went well with their chili oil ---salt and pepper chicken wings: crispy skin, juicy meat and freshly deep fried, this hit the spot ---beef and Chinese broccoli: wasn't a huge fan of the beef flavoring but the hubby liked it It's located in the Chinatown area and luckily was walking distance from our hotel, The Moxy read more
4 years ago
Okay, I was in Boston for work and I stayed in Chinatown. I was in heaven! After a late night of drinking. I prayed something was open. I cannot remember what time it was but it had to be at least 2AM. I did a quick yelp and found the Jade Garden a few blocks from my hotel. When the door opened and I smelled the food my I knew this was going to be delicious. There were a few people eating inside. I quickly made friends with the person next to me. We ended up joining tables. The menu was in English and Chinese. Super authentic and the fact they were made even better. Service was awesome and the food was so good. I wanted to order everything. My new friend was nice enough to share!! This place is delicious and will not disappoint. Good price for portion!!! Unfortunately I was having such a good time with my new friend I forgot to take pictures of the food. I got the Peking Duck and it was so good!! read more
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