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    Joy Garden Chinese Restaurant

    3.3 (36 reviews)
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    Open 11:00 am - 9:30 pm

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    Zoe S.

    Really good meal options. I like the combo that comes with a main and you can get pork fried rice and an eh roll which is exactly what I wanted for such a good price. The food was good but not amazing.

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    Darshana M.

    Decent place. Had the vegetarian lo mein and vegetarian springroll. The food is not as spicy as you would expect. So be sure to tell your spice preference.Portions are huge. A full portion is sufficient for 2 people. Being a vegetarian,I do not prefer the distinct oil taste (which I think is fish oil or similar,I wouldn't know for sure) ,but I was pleasantly surprised here. One star goes solely for that.

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    5 months ago

    Yummy food and kind owners! Service is fast, portions are good sized and the price is fair.

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    2 years ago

    My family and I have been coming here for over a decade. Friendly service, fantastic food, great people.

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    3 years ago

    As always, delicious! Our favorite place to order takeout Chinese food. Great service! Good people!

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    4 years ago

    Absolutely the best food!! Love the environment here and the owners! We have been coming here for over 10 years

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    9 years ago

    Does not deliver....kind of defeats the purpose of a Chinese restaurant since so many others in the area do deliver.

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    7 years ago

    Great Chinese food, honestly the only Go-To spot for me. No complaints. My favorite is their chicken on a stick. The best I've ever had.

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    9 years ago

    Best Chinese food I have had in the Newark hands down! Start delivering :D

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    9 years ago

    Good food, service, and restaurant. Had good customer service. Best chinese i've had in Newark!

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    14 years ago

    Love this little family owned place! Delicious veggie spring rolls. I usually just get a pint of chicken fried rice with broccoli.

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    9 years ago

    Food is always cooked the way I like it! Best Chinese restaurant in the area have been coming here for 16 years!

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    CHEF TAN

    CHEF TAN

    3.6(103 reviews)
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    I've been wanting to try this restaurant for a while as I had read reviews saying food was…read moreauthentic. I came in very hungry and ordered the following: wontons in chili oil, Dan Dan noodles, Sichuan spicy tofu. I've had all these dishes at other restaurants before and make the first 2 routinely at home. 1. Dan Dan noodles: portion was huge. It was topped with a creamy very garlicky sauce, including rough chopped fresh garlic ( warmed through but still had some crunch/bite to it). OMG so delicious. Not meat forward (if there was even any meat, I think it was maybe finely sliced fungus instead, it worked perfectly in any case). 2. Wontons in chili oil: I was expecting a bit more flavor to the sauce, instead it was literally just chili oil and seemed kind of diluted and bland even. I added some pieces of garlic from my Dan Dan noodles and let that sit with some dark soy sauce the waitress brought and that did the trick. 3. Sichuan spicy tofu, recommended by the host: came with chicken, fish or beef, I chose chicken. This was massive and I have leftovers I'm looking forward to eating later. Very flavorful with silky tofu. I didn't really enjoy the texture of the chicken though and would have preferred it minced or lower chicken:tofu ratio or with pork. It looks like they have a smaller mapo tofu dish in a different part of the menu without the added meat and I might try that next time. The wild part was the intensity of the Szechuan peppercorn. I routinely crush it freshly at home and eat dishes containing it when out but have never experienced such an intense tingling effect. It felt like my lips and tongue were vibrating and then my water tasted like it had lemon juice squeezed in it. Not sure if it is a different kind than the red one I have at home, or if it is just THAT fresh, but wow. All in all, very enjoyable meal and service. I will for sure be back for the Dan Dan noodles but not if planning to socialize much after given how intensely garlicky they were. Looking forward to trying other dishes on the menu! A suggestion for the menu: I really like the large glossy pictures of each item but it ends up being a lot of pages to turn back and forth through to make a selection, so it would be nice to include just a plain typed list to glance at as well, like a table of contents.

    Chef Tan is one of the better Chinese places in the Newark area. I really don't think authenticity…read morematters a great deal, but Chef Tan is about a 7.5 on a 1-10 point scale measuring authenticity (with Golden Wok Mushu Pork being a one and Richmond Vancouver Chinese stores being a ten), though obviously some dishes are more or less than others The place is relatively spacious, and you can totally have a large party come here. It's also regularly open on typical US holidays, such as Christmas or Thanksgiving, so if you need somewhere to go when everything else is closed, you can really rely on this place. Some things that I think are pretty good here: the vegetable options (though somewhat expensive), the kung pao chicken, the eggplant, the lamb options (including the sliced version, as well as the cumin one where you can add lamb as your option).

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