The food was GREAT!!! We just moved to NJ from Brooklyn and we couldn't find a good Chinese spot…read more We kept trying the local restaurants but was always disappointed. One place we ordered from prepared our fried rice from parboiled rice... horrible! We kept searching and saw this place had great reviews. We ordered boneless spare ribs, pork fried rice, general tso chicken, and shrimp & broccoli. Everything was perfect! Super tasty and didn't even add any soy sauce to my food. I think this place is better than our usual spots back in NY. The service is also great. The lady that took our order was super nice and quick. If you want good Chinese food this is your spot. - This is my Google Review from 10 months ago. We still order from here all the time and it hits every single time! When my family visits from Brooklyn they love the food. Always great customer service. The only con is that they don't deliver, but I do think they use UberEats.

How did this place come from being one of the best Chinese food restaurants in Hillside NJ to the…read moreworst Chinese restaurant in NJ??? The food is horrible, salty and the chicken is over fried!! Horrible!! Ivory ran it much better and she is deeply missed!!

I have not been to Kampo Garden in quite some time so I decided to stop in again recently. My last…read morereview gave this place a less than stellar rating but after my most recent experience I'm going to bump it up by a star. The interior of Kampo has changed a bit since my last visit. One side that used to have tables has been walled off as a storage area. The tables on the other side now have diner style booth seating. There are some seats towards the front for those waiting for orders to sit on. One of them felt like it was going to collapse when I sat on it so I switched seats. Be warned. My order was ready very quickly and the gent behind the counter was very nice. Sadly we did not speak the same dialect of Chinese so we muddled through with English. I wound up ordering two dishes: MIXED VEGETABLES IN GARLIC SAUCE This was a well done dish. Most of the veg was broccoli, which I'm more than okay with. There was also some Bok Choi and carrot in the mix. The garlic sauce was tasty and this made for a great dish to eat over rice. The vegetables were also cooked well. They still had some bite, but were not underdone. GENERAL TSO'S CHICKEN Keep in mind I took this to go so the dish had some time to steam in the packaging and wound up losing some of its characteristic crispiness so I did not get what you may call the "full" experience of this dish. Still, I enjoyed it! I'd say in the pantheon of various versions of this dish I've had in my time this rates at about a B-. The flavor was good, the chicken chunks were nicely breaded and they were a good size. The sauce was tasty and had a bed of broccoli underneath. I do wish there had been some spicy peppers thrown in for a bit of heat but not all restaurants do that unfortunately. Overall Kampo did well on this visit and I'd definitely consider visiting them again in the future.

Great food and service... I been bouncing around look for a good spot and I finally found it here…read moreat Kampo Gardens!

I have been a loyal customer for the last 8 years. My family and I love this place. What we order…read moreis what we get everytime. Consistent quality and great portion sizes.

This small shop along Harrison Avenue serves Chinese food. We tried their Fried Dumplings, and they…read morewere quite good. While they weren't the best, they were still a decent option for a local restaurant. I would advise patrons to use cash, as they offer discounts if you pay through cash.

I've live in around the corner form this spot for awhile....we have been ordering from here for…read morejust as long, long time. The food been consistent and service is always quick. We're not adventurous foodies but we know what we like and it always good. It's our regular thing.....

I used to love this place but since they switched hands, the food is not the same and they are very…read morestingy with their portions. I've been going to them since 1987 and soon I am going to stop.

Constant customer here, the service is always fast and straightforward but easy. Food is great just…read morea little dry on the fried rice but fixable with the condiments. The sesame chicken is always a go to truly its great. The place itself is great, the sun beaming through the windows gives life to the simple setting overall the place feels fresh and home.

I ordered my food at 7:30. They told me 40-50 minutes. I waited an hour AND A HALF before I finally…read morecalled them only for them to say I am outside of their delivery range. We are both IN THE SAME TOWN which is ridiculous but also nobody notified me. I had to call them. NEVER AGAIN!!!

For some reason, this FANTASTIC restaurant doesn't have any reviews, so I'm here to give it its…read morefirst so that the people of Newark will realize the Chinese gem that they're missing out on! My friends and I had been desperately craving Chinese food so we called THREE different Chinese places which all said they didn't deliver (which was a total lie since we had ordered from Panda (which is a HORRIBLE Chinese restaurant--never order from there) which was the same distance away). Ho King was the only one to say they would deliver to us, and they were extremely nice about everything. They even included 2 FREE sodas with our food which was well-priced (and cheaper than Panda). The food arrived exactly when they said it would, and the driver was super friendly! Plus the food was delicious; my friend and I both had ordered shrimp lo mein which actually had flavorful noodles, great shrimp, and cabbage among other stir fry vegetables (unlike Panda which gave half a container of bland bamboo shoots and onions). My other friend had the egg foo young which was awesome as well. Plus, they don't use MSG in their food! In essence, I definitely recommend ordering from here. (Note: THEY ONLY TAKE CASH!) And to make this recommendation seem more reliable, I'm Chinese, so I'd like to think I'm pretty good about correctly judging which Chinese restaurants serve quality food. Enjoy!!

I've been ordering from them for years and they still don't disappoint. The food is always fresh…read moreand hot and the delivery is always speedy. Highly recommended.

In my opinion is the best food in town to eat The owners in…read morethe family are very nice people they treat you with respect One bad thing is they don't take credit cards Another thing is is a little too expensive every year keeps going up

Back when I first moved to Elizabeth, NJ one of my go to places to get Chinese take out was Red…read moreApple. The General Tsao's Tofu and Lobster Lo Mein were among my favorites. For a variety of reasons once 2010 or so rolled around I stopped getting take out from Red Apple. Recently I wanted to grab some food for dinner so I got off my bus before my stop to grab some food. This is not a sit down restaurant. You go in and order your take out, sit on a chair to wait and then head out with your food. The place looks very much the same as it did over ten years ago but they added a Hibachi extension next door. When I look back at my older review, I really feel that I should have given it 4 stars, but Yelp ratings were a tad different back then if I recall correctly. I have to say that after all this time I am very sad to give it such a low rating now. I am very sure at this point that the owners of this place are not the same ones from years ago (at the very least the chef is different). I picked up three dishes and well...read on... SHRIMP TOAST This is a Chinese take-out classic that I remember having back in New York City from several Chinese places so I've had this dish a *lot* in my time. Usually you want it to be crispy but light with a nice chew on the inside where the shrimp paste is sandwiched between two pieces of bread. For the most part they did an okay job here but the toast was fried too long. Much of the outside ranged from black to dark brown when it should really be golden brown. The flavor was good but if it had not been overcooked it would have been better. COLD SESAME NOODLES This is one of my favorite dishes from Chinese take-out places. However, it is hard to find a place that does it *well*. Even when it is only "okay" however, it has some commonalities. Usually there are egg noodles with some type of peanut or sesame based sauce, scallion and sesame seeds. Some places also add hot sauce to give it some extra kick. What Red Apple gave me was...not this. Oddly, I"m not sure *what* they gave me. The noodles were warm, the topping was a vegetable medley with...onions? There was no sesame or peanut sauce. Really, the whole dish just tasted like a light veggie lo mein which was *bizarre* and not at all what I ordered. GENERAL TSAO'S TOFU This was one of my favorite dishes from this place so I was excited to have it again. Then I saw it and I knew something was wrong. Most General Tsao's dishes should have fried chunks of something (chicken, tofu etc.) with a thick red sauce that caramelizes around the edges. The sauce should have some sweet and savory elements (and ideally a tad of spice via peppers). What I got? Was...not that. The tofu chunks were in a runny, thin sauce that tasted *terrible*. It just tasted like sugary sauce with a pile of salt on it. It was so terrible I wound up eating a few bites and tossing the rest. I'm so sad to be writing this review. I really had hoped this update would be a 4* celebration of a place I used to go to but I think I'll be staying away for a while.

From calling to delivery man to the meal simply awesome. Highly recommend!!…read moreThe homemade hot chili oil putting it over the top!! Shi shi!!

Horrible manager and customer service staff.. When the owners worked there it was so much better…read moreand more friendly.. Long time customer too.. At this point it's better to just order from somewhere else.. Such a shame..