There ain't much that's new about the New Chinese Garden Seafood Restaurant. I've been coming here…read moreon and off since the 90's and the menu, table layout and quality has remained pretty much frozen in time. Dining in the spacious enough restaurant has never been an issue - even on Christmas day for dinner - as I've never seen the place over half full. On top of that, most of the clientele are middle aged to elderly Aussies. Not a great sign for a Chinese restaurant. But don't let that fool you. Yes, the food is very mid ranged, mid priced, mid portioned, but it's consistent and that counts for a lot with me & my lovely but finicky fiance. The proprietor, Lee, juggles waiting on customers and working the wok in the kitchen as the place is usually dead. The "Wait staff and kitchen hand wanted." sign seems to be perpetually propped up on the counter as you walk in, but with that being said, Lee handles the customers with an understated smile and is a rather shy gentleman, but totally accessible for any questions you may have regarding the menu. More importantly, in the kitchen he turns out some pretty tasty dishes. Nothing life changing, or likely to make your top 3 list if you're a connoisseur of Asian cuisine but the basics, done damn well. The satay chicken skewers are stand outs (there's even a mixed satay skewer entree with beef, chicken and prawn skewers for the indecisive) but everything else is merely just good, and that's good enough for what you'll pay. Aside from obviously catering to the well known Aussie-Asian staples like Sweet & Sour Pork and a variety of fried rices (Hong Kong style and with crab meat sauce) there are a few less common gems to unearth like the delightful West Lake Beef Soup (a simple flavorful broth with minced beef and coriander). If anything lets the restaurant down from a culinary stand point, it's the sizzling/braised dishes. Don't get me wrong, they're most certainly edible and the meat is tender. But that's about as far as the praise goes. The main problem lies in the sauce. For my daring, explosion of flavor loving palette, I found the Chinese style and Mongolian sauces to be lacking some serious personality. Very bland and the most exciting part is hearing the sizzle as the meal makes the way to the table. But the dish it's self...meh. Go for the char kway teow (a delicious ho-fun noodle dish with that addictive fiery wok flavor) to remind yourself what Lee is capable of. For the experienced lover of Chinese food, nothing at New Chinese Garden Seafood Restaurant will bump off your tried and true favorites from the higher end establishments, but if you feel like a relaxing meal (dine in or take away, the quality remains good) without the elbow wrestling with your fellow diners that some of the busier places at Sunnybank can result in, visiting Lee and co. - well, usually just Lee - will fill your tummy and not break the bank. 3 3/4 Stars.

New Chinese Garden is on one of the busiest roads on the north side of Brisbane. It's one of those…read morerestaurants, from the outside, that appears to get so much business. At night, the parking lot is always empty and if the lights weren't on you'd suspect it was closed. Inside, it's the standard set up, large tables with a Lazy Susan in the centre to wheel around the assortments of mains you order. However, every time I go there to pick up an order there's never anyone inside. The best explanation for this is that everyone is that the majority of its business is usually comes during the lunchtime service. Today its packed and bustling with people in collars and ties. It's a far cry from the night service. Non-the less, the food that they make at Chinese New Garden is absolutely fantastic. You can feed two people with a couple of mains and a starter for and average of $30. I definitely would recommend the Lemon Chicken and any of the Omelettes. Usually, in the evening, you're looking at a 20 minutes wait until pick up. For the price you pay, the quality of food stands well above a lot of Chinese restaurants in the area.

Delicious Shanghai style dumplings on the northside and a great price. All of the dumplings are…read moreindeed yummy. But the Xiao Long Bao (little soup dumplings) are excellent, they aren't on the online menu because they take a long time to make, but if you ring the store direct and ask for them they will tell you if they have them.

Wow the food was so inedible my dog wouldn't even eat it. It was not worth 1 star even, but eat now…read morewon't let you give no stars when leaving a review. When I tried to speak with the restaurant about it they would not let me finish a sentence and kept cutting me off saying we are very tired and we are very busy and you have to understand that the food won't always be good!!!!!!!!!! On top of that when I said I wouldn't be back, I was told I was acting like a teenager.

Ordered home delivery from these guys as our regular Chinese was shut... Prices relatively cheap…read moreand servings quite large; the entrees we ordered were nice; the beef and black bean sauce should have been called barely cooked onion with a little bit of beef and almost no sauce; fried rice was greasy and had an odd flavor; honey chicken was good. Not really very good at all; definitely won't do that again..