The General Taos chicken was very bland and tasted like the used sweet sour sauce and had zero spice. Made with green and red peppers like Derek sour chicken! Fried rice consisted of rice with soy sauce on it Very disappointed I stopped in again this Friday as I had heard how good the orange chicken was Sure not what I qualify as good! Chicken was cut so small that you could not taste anything but the batter. Sauce was average to below average. Fried rice was boring Service was good read more

Lotus Garden - Chinese Near Me - Apache Junction, Arizona

Food was good. Staff not friendly (except tall male server is very nice). They make you feel like your bothering them. Also they play video games behind counter with sound on blast. So if you buy...do as takeout unless you enjoy listening to video game while you try to enjoy your meal. Probably wont go back. read more

Got this delivered, and it was really good. Was hot and tasted fresh even though it wasn't dine in

Great food and large portions. Highly recommended in Apache Junction. Family Fried Rice Caine with chicken, steak and shrimp. So good!!

Still fast, with excellent quantity in each dish. Chicken w/vegetables is very good...along with fried rice! read more

We found this place 3 years ago while staying in the area. We are here again, so stopped in. The food on this trip left a lot to be desired. The shrimp Lo Mein was drowning in watery sauce and not very good. The Chicken Broccoli was mediocre at best. The fried rice was loaded with pepper, which we found unusual. All of the food was served too hot to even try to eat. This place has really gone downhill over the past 3 years. read more

Great food and service! Live close by and our definite go to Chinese food restaurant. Been going for years! Love the put crispy wontons and sweet n sour sauce to snack on before food arrives at table! read more

This is my favorite favorite Chinese Food Restaurant! Fantastic. Large portions and very delicious.

This place is awesome! Love the food, always fresh and hot. The people here really care about you as customers and their attitude proves it. read more

Good pork fried rice. Really busy in their dine in. Smelled yummy prices are reasonable

Some of the best egg fu young I've had. They don't mess with it or "fusion" it, just keep it real. My husband likes the house spicy chicken. Always enough for lunch the next day. Great local place. Disfunction junction doesn't have a lot of great places to eat, but this is one of the best. read more

Always friendly service. Delicious food. The egg drop soup is fantastic, very nice on a cold rainy day. The wonton chips with sweet and sour sauce is delicious as is the sweet and sour chicken. Also, crab puffs!! read more

Absolutely top-notch! Hot, fresh food with lots of flavor, will definitely be coming back.

I ordered BBQ pork fried rice. Huge portion. I'm getting 3 meals out of it. Tastes delicious. I read the reviews before coming in so I expected good food and poor service, and that's what I got. It's okay. I'm an introvert so if I had asked for napkins and water, I would have gotten them, like I saw another party do. read more

Do not let the location fool you. this is Chinese done right. Great flavors, they care about special requests. We usually order delivery and they will call us to check on special requests to make sure we get what we want. They even garnish every dish. The extra steps make this place 5 stars. read more

Lotus Garden - Orange Beef - Chinese Near Me - Apache Junction, Arizona

Stopped by for dinner with my wife as we looked at the reviews on Yelp and they were pretty positive. We ordered the House Lo Mein, Potstickers and Kung Pau. Everything was really good. We also noticed that a lot of people were picking up food for take out which was a good sign. Would definitely eat at this place again. read more

Awesome Chinese food. My husband loves egg fu young, and has never found a place that makes it so good. The food is excellent and authentic.

In the month or so that the reopened after Covid, the quality of the food has improved almost to the level it was before the shutdown.

Nice place. GOOD food. I will be here again. Its a good option in this area. I will have to try something spicy next time. read more

Great food, ok prices, but they aren't always forthcoming about delays on orders. Great Spicy Garlic Eggplant!

Best Chinese food in AJ. Found this great place when we first moved to Apache Junction and it's our go to place for chinese food. Everything we've had has been outstanding and fresh. Other places don't come close for flavor or freshness. read more

Keeping the same rating but updating my review for a few tips. 1) If you're a spice hound and need extra heat, specify the spice not the generic term "extra spicy". For example Singapore noodles ask for as for extra curry. Orange chicken ask for extra chili flakes. 2) Their apps are still so very limited and so unusual. If you select the crab puffs you are getting cream cheese fried. The egg roll is not a beef and cabbage mixture, it's more like a chicken and greens mixture. They taste good. Just not what you would expect. 3) The portions are HUGE. Lunch after dinner for sure. That's a nice bonus. Get anything with noodles and you will be eating lunch for days. read more

Small business with great food. Nice people. Very friendly. Not overly priced. Huge portions. Can't eat all of it.

Our go to place for Asian food. Food is prepared exactly as requested. We have been ordering from Lotus since we moved into area.

Placed to go order for 4 people and told 25 minutes. Got there in 20 minutes so could pick up as soon as ready. Dine in patrons came in after our expected pick up time of 25 minutes came and went. They were seated, ordered and were served their food before our order was ready. Delivery services picked up multiple to go orders as well. When asked why our order wasn't ready yet and were told priority is given to dine in and delivery service orders. From time placed, it was 49 minutes for our order to be ready. Horrible service. Don't know what happened as wasn't like this in past. read more

I have found that I am normally disappointed by most Chinese food restaurants. It's hard to find a real gem. I am SO glad that we ordered from here on a whim. It was absolutely amazing!!! I mean it when I say that everything from there was delicious. I normally don't finish my meals but, I finished my meal and was incredibly sad I didn't order more! We will definitely be ordering from here for now on!! read more

Absolutely amazing food!!! I highly recommend the Lotus Garden if your in Apache Junction AZ

Pleasantly surprised. I ordered sweet & sour chicken and chicken lo mein. Both were delicious. The sweet & sour chicken had nice chunks of pineapple and bell pepper, and the lo mein wasn't greasy. Prices are decent, too. I like the fact that they wear masks and gloves, too. I'll be a regular customer. read more

An awesome find in AJ! We ordered take out - Sweet and Sour Shrimp with fried rice and Kung Pao Tofu with white rice, along with a spring roll app. The shrimp was perfectly fried, not greasy and not overly battered. The sauce sweetly sour with fresh crunchy pineapple, onions and green pepper. The sauce could have used more veggies but it complimented the shrimp nicely. The tofu was flavorful, fresh with crunchy veggies and just the right amount of texture in the tofu. Both rices were cooked well and tasted fresh. Spring rolls were tasty and crisp and didn't have that bitter aftertaste found at many Asian restaurants. Service was quick and friendly on the phone and order was ready within the promised time frame. Will be back to this Garden again soon. read more

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I normally don't go to AJ but I had an appointment yest so My husband and I had to be in the area. After finishing the appointment, we wanted to have lunch. We hesitated to eat in AJ at first but we passed by Lotus Garden and then thought, Chinese food? Maybe? On their door, they had the "People love us on Yelp" sticker and I thought, OK that's a good sign! So I went ahead and checked their rating on Yelp & I was pleased to see it was a 4.5 overall. So we went in. The first thing that caught my attention was how clean the place was! The tables were spotless, the furniture looked new and the whole place looked very good. We were asked if we were there for take out or dine in so we said dine in. We were offered to pick any table we wanted & the waitress immediately came to ask us about our drinks and if we would like to order from the lunch menu and we said sure, if it's still on! It was 3:25pm and their lunch period ends at 3:30pm but they still offered that to us which we thought that was nice! So for the lunch order, you can pick any main dish on the lunch menu with either white rice, brown rice or fried rice. It comes with a spring roll, a choice of either egg drop soup or hot and sour. While we looked at the menu, we were served wonton chips with sweet & sour dipping sauce. For our meals, my husband chose beef Lo Mein with fried rice and egg drop soup and I picked the sweet & sour chicken with the hot and sour soup and brown rice. About 2 min later our soups were out. I was a bit worried my soup might be too spicy but it was just the right amount of spice for me, I was very pleased. As soon as we were done with our soups, the main dishes were out. The food looked fresh and tasted delicious. The waitress came by after a little while to ask us how the food was and if we needed any thing. Towards the end of our meal also, the chef himself came out to every occupied table and asked if the food was good and how we were doing which I thought was a cool thing to do. Overall, very satisfied with our meal there. We ended up getting a bill for around $12 which was great considering how wonderful our whole experience was. Good food, good service and great lunch prices. Definitely worth considering if you're in the area! read more

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Love that they opened a second location! Good is great! Love the Orange Beef, house fried rice and soups

Food was not great and neither was service. The only thing good about my meal was the fried rice, but it's pretty hard to mess up fried rice. read more

Excellent Place, Food Quality is Great, Not like the rest of these "throw it together" places around here. The sauces for the entrees are very well balanced and full of flavor. I highly recommend this place if you're in town! read more

This is high quality Chinese food. Flavors and textures done right. I've eaten at a lot of Chinese takeout places. This stuff is bomb. Egg drop soup is good and so is the rice and other dishes. Would recommend for a date night or family night forsure. read more

My friends and I have eaten here over 30 times...combined, probably over 100 meals! It is consistently great quality food. AJ is a small town, and is not famous for great restaurants! lol . This one is a pearl in the shell, and their lunch specials at around $6.50 are the best deal in town! This is NOT a buffet, but order by menu. The flavor and quality of the food are exceptional. The service is great also. The only problem is that is has about 12-13 tables, and is getting really crowded. Their to-go counter is non stop all evening long...that outta tell you something! Hopes this helps you out! read more

Great menu ample parking. Fast service! I think they might be the only Chinese food in AJ that does it right! Great little hopping place, phones are constantly ringing for orders, quick turnover on tables! Spritely staff! This place fills and empties in a fun flow! The cooks even stick their heads out to check in the faces of those enjoying their work! Saw the staff exhibit great patience and kindness helping a gentleman with a disability order on his own. They deal with everyone in a quick and efficient manner. It feels like a well run family restaurant. Sincere greetings of 'sit wherever you like' upon entry and sincere smiling faces with a 'thank you' at the end. No worries on extra sauce or extra rice to take with your left overs. Also no worries with leaving out certain veggies if they are not your preference. Made to order and happy to do it your way. Watched several couples order food for here and items to go. No issues there either! What a fun place to come for tasty bites. Stay awhile or eat and run! Not at all my experience when visiting Hong Kong where if you want to adjust something with the menu... was told to just leave go somewhere else! No time for picky people! Complete opposite here! Lots of satisfied faces of customers seem to match the happy employees. Sweet, satisfaction! read more

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Right when you walk in you feel welcomed and ready to eat! The service is great, very hospitable and kind. They are very good at catering to our needs. Our food came out nice and hot very fast and it tasted great! Servings are big so beware! The kids plates have a generous amount of food. The beef broccoli is very good as well as the kung pou. Would definitely go to again and highly suggest!! read more

The best Chinese in AJ. The lunch special is great. Love how much it comes with. You get an entree, rice, soup, egg roll all fro $7.

Reviews for Chinese food are always so skewed. They always seem to be very high and everyone loves Chinese food, both the bad and the good varieties. This place is the best in the Far East Valley. It doesn't say much, because your options are limited and there are some real stinkers out here. You wouldn't know it based on reviews, but this area is snow bird country. They seem to like more bland foods. However, this place tastes great. Their deep fried options are actually crispy. This is rare out here. In addition, almost everything is good. Most places out this way have a couple of safe options and then the rest is a gamble. You don't have to worry about that here, they do all meats and vegetables well. If this place was in Phoenix it wouldn't be a 4, but out here it's the best you'll find. Keep that in mind! read more

My wife and I have been trying local restaurants lately and came across Lotus Garden. Quick service and nice staff. We placed an order to-go and I tried the Orange Chicken and fried rice. Food tasted great, it says the Orange Chicken is spicy but I don't think it was spicy in my opinion. My wife enjoyed the egg rolls as I'm not much of an egg roll person. Will definitely be going again. read more