Dragon Garden

Just awful… I ordered Szechuan chicken and Mongolian Beef and the meats were a weird kind of tender, the beef was very fatty and the sauces were kind of the same taste despite being two different dishes. We had BBQ pork appetizer and it was very fatty as well. Overall this was awful poor quality, parts is parts, strip mall Chinese food… I should have but the bullet and ordered delivery through Doorstep Delivery for PF Chang’s!

My roommate (a New Yorker) and I used to live within walking distance of Dragon Garden and now we drive from Madison because their egg rolls are so good.
Best egg rolls (they’re made in-​house and we get 6 – 10 every time), best shrimp Mai Fun, best sesame and General Tso’s in Nashville. Our friends have ordered other dishes and said the same of those.
The owners are great and welcoming people, so make the effort to pick up your order if you have the time and tip them well. They’ve certainly earned it!

Sadly, I read the reviews, but I had such a longing for crab rangoons that I ignored them! Big mistake! My son and I ordered the rangoons, sweet and sour pork, and Mai Fun chicken. My son refused to eat the food because he said it tasted «odd.» He made the right choice. I ate a little of everything and was sick from 3:30 am into the next day. Do Not Eat Here.

First, the food is perfectly fine. The shrimp toasts & egg rolls were tasty & everything we’ve gotten there is pretty good.
The problem was the service & timing! I ordered online & was told the wait was approx. 25 – 30 min. Considering it was a Friday night, I expected it to be busy & take a little longer, so I arrived to pick up my order after about 35 min– was told my order wasn’t ready. I figured that meant a few more minutes, which was fine. However, I then stood waiting for another 30 minutes in the cold! (They apparently had no heat, so it was about 40 degrees inside.) I scheduled a pick-​up order so it would be quicker than delivery-that’s the norm, right?!
Basically, if you know that certain times are always busy, warn your customers that their order time will be doubled. Also, if someone arrives to pick up an order, tell them that it will be another half hour (I could have left & done errands in that time).
Fine food, annoying experience.

This is a great little carry out place — I always call ahead and go pick up. It’s inexpensive and convenient on those nights where you just don’t want to cook.

Awful. Inedible. Ordered the beef and broccoli, fried rice, and orange chicken. The «beef» tasted like… I can’t even explain it. Certainly not real meat. The orange chicken was just a saucy breaded disaster with barely any trace of chicken in it. We ordered take-​out and I threw all of my food (and money) away after my second bite. My boyfriend hesitantly continued eating his meal and had a horrible stomach ache the next morning. Dine with caution. I will never even consider eating at this establishment again.

I’m back to the living.
We ordered from Dragon Garden a couple of months ago. The 3 of us felt sick after eating that night and the next day.
The other night I read all the reviews again and decided to give them one more chance.
Why would we order again? I like to give each place the benefit of the doubt so I never write a review without trying a business at least twice.
This time we ordered:
Vegetable lo mein
Fried shrimp
Crab rangoon
Sweet and sour chicken
Seafood combination
The results:
Vegetable lo mein — meh
Fried shrimp — would you like a visit to the dentist? I don’t. I tried to take a bite but it was so hard I cut it open, attempted to take a bite, couldn’t and threw the entire bag away. (The bag was so greasy I had to wash my hands after touching it.)
Crab rangoon — tasted like old grease and was a weird yellow-​orange color. (crab rangoon is my favorite appetizer, but this was nasty).
Sweet and sour chicken — our grandson loves sweet and sour chicken but he thought this tasted «weird and greasy». He ate some of it because he was hungry but we woke up to the sound of him throwing up first thing the next morning. LOVELY.
Seafood combo: what my husband ordered. (When ordering over the phone I asked if the crab and lobster were real or imitation. She seemed insulted that I would even ask and assured me ALL seafood was the real thing.)
My husband took one bite and let me know NONE of the seafood was real except the tiny shrimp so he went to throw it away. I stopped him, told him I wanted to taste it, had one bite and threw it in the trash.
The next morning we woke up to our grandson throwing up.
Get the idea? I have no personal vendetta against this restaurant. Every word i wrote it true but NEVER AGAIN.
I could have spent that $ 50.00 on anything more pleasant such as
having a toenail or tooth removed without pain killers.

I generally pass on food that I might describe as fried chicken knuckles, but Dragon Garden continually exceeds my expectations of what fried chicken knuckles can be. Bathed in a quart of sugary sauce, their General Tso’s has a crispy exterior, beneath which hides a sinewy, dry, meat-​like substance. For $ 6.50, you get that PLUS pork-​fried rice AND an egg roll stuffed with cabbage and bacon bits.

The food was a little too salty but it is the only place that delivers to my house that has tofu on the menu. The Tofu and vegetables was good, a little salty, but the vegetable egg roll seemed old and way too salty, I threw it away. The woman on the phone and delivery guy were both very nice. I would order there again. It’s not the best, but at least they have some vegetarian options.

Chinese food is Chinese food is Chinese food. Greasy, unhealthy, and delicious. If this is what you are after, go to Dragon Garden. Or even better, stay home and let the super nice man deliver it to you. After all, the traffic in Nashville is horrible!

All I can say is… wow. Just wow. Truly terrible food. I am far from a picky eater (and being a busy/​broke grad student, I don’t have time to be), but took a few bites and threw the rest away. It was that bad.
I only ordered from here (delivery) because I really did not feel like driving one day and just wanted Chinese food, so I looked up what I thought was the «best» of the places that delivered and took the plunge. I think this was the heavens’ way of punishing me for my laziness.
Didn’t have problems ordering on the phone, although it was a little difficult because of the language barrier. Got Mongolian Beef and a side of hot and sour soup. Like someone else mentioned, the delivery guy was reallllly sweet. Didn’t talk to him much, but the guy who delivered to me was a bit on the older side, looked like he had health problems, but was really so nice. Kind of broke my heart in a way (like when you see cute grandpas working at Walmart…).
Opened up the bag. First off, the soup had exploded in the bag, covering everything else with soup (ended up being no loss haha). The Mongolian beef (should be beef + green onions) was beef + broccoli + white onion chunks and NO SAUCE. Not only that, the beef was literally the cheapest cut of meat I have ever seen. Thank goodness I was eating alone because I was literally spitting out half of each piece because they were inedible chunks of chewy fat. Sorry for that mental image, but it was as disgusting as it sounds! Hot and sour soup was basically… a container of congealed yellow, way overly salted jello. I asked for everything «extra spicy»…and apparently the only spice they had was salt.
Even if it weren’t tasty, I would have probably still eaten it just because I’m lazy/busy/don’t want to cook. I threw this away and had no problems doing so. I may be lazy but this was just inedible… and I’m not that desperate!

I just moved to Downtown Nashville, so I haven’t tried many places yet, but I won’t try this place again. I got the szechuan shrimp (extra spicy) and veg. egg rolls… the sauce was salty, but not spicy (although I guess salt IS a spice…), the shrimp were tiny and oddly grainy– like they were frozen for too long or something, and there was only ONE mushroom! That alone is a high-​crime to me– i love mushrooms! :) The delivery guy was really sweet though, too bad I’ll never see him again. :(

Thought it was ok, nothing tasted particularly fresh or anything. To be honest I think i would have been more satisfied with a panda express.

Best Chinese delivery I’ve managed to find in Nashville. All the classic gringo-​Chinese favorites you’d expect. Truly expansive (by that I mean broad and big, not expensive with a Southern accent. It’s actually quite cheap!)
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I first decided to try out Dragon Garden because it was very convenient to my house. I’ve gone back because the food is pretty good. I’m a Veggie Cho Mein and Veggie Fried Rice (1 pint each) kinda girl. The food is pretty much the same you get at any local Chinese joint, not really special, but good and close. I wouldn’t suggest driving across town for it, but if you leave in West Nashville, or it’s on your way home, definitely try it out. The prices are very reasonable. Parking is kinda dodgy, but I’ve always been able to parallel right in front.

When I first moved to Davidson Co., my roommate suggested we order from this little place tucked away in a corner in a strip mall on West End. We ordered from there many times. Invariably, whenever we ordered, they would ask, always very loudly, «Do you know where we are?» and we would say yes, that we had been there many times. Invariably, they would always tell us, «We are in the corner.»
Things got more complicated when they moved to Charlotte Pike. They still always asked if we knew where they were, and we still told them yes, but they still told us «We moved. We’re on Charlotte.»
This place could move across town and I would find them whichever corner or pike they were on. Moving from Cool Springs, where we had the much mourned Peking Palace, I was eager to find a Chinese restaurant to compare, and Dragon Garden is really the cream of the crop of take-​out Chinese places. Their dishes are especially good if you ask for them extra spicy. It’s never really spicy, but it just makes their food taste better. Ask for the vegetable spring rolls, because they are so much better than the pork ones.
Dragon Garden also delivers, but it does take them a while, so I usually just pick up and if you do, your food is ready very quickly. They have been a standby for my entire residence in Sylvan Park.

Ok, so I usually don’t write reviews but felt this one needed one. I ordered delivery, all I got to say is «Don’t do it!!» It seemed to take forever for them to find the place. They left out my rice and egg roll and the food I ate seemed like it came from the bottom of the barrel. Not so great experience. Hopefully it was situational, but tell my stomache that.

I have been eating at Dragon Garden since i moved to Nashville in 2002 and they had a location on west end. I dont diversify a ton, so i’ve only really had the Sweet and Sour, sesame, and general tso’s chicken. Each of those dishes is packed with flavor and delicious. The TSO is the best flavor i’ve ever had, which includes dining in NYC. I currently live in LA and can’t get anything close to the flavor to curb my appetite. The lunch special is more than filling, and has a nice price of 3.99.
Since i’m a long time customer, the staff is always extremely nice to me. The owner’s children often work the phones, which can be a little frustrating if you call in. I’ve always either eaten there or gotten takeout, but i have heard from friends that delivery can take up to an hour and a half on some occasions. So i recommend the food highly, but pass on the delivery.

First of all I should admit that I am very picky when it comes to Chinese food. There are lots of Chinese restaurants that I refuse to eat at. Dragon Garden is kind of a hole in the wall but I will on occasion eat food from here. We always get take-​out so I am not sure how the service is. (and they will deliver it to you free if you spend $ 15 or more.) The broccoli with the garlic sauce and the vegetable lo main are good. Husband got the vegetable egg foo young and couldn’t eat it. I guess it’s hit or miss.