China Garden in East Lothian

Just home from our meal & we are all disappointed. The food was nice, no complaints about the taste but the restaurant was freezing so the food got cold as quickly as we did. Price- very high, £13 per dish as a minimum, which would be acceptable somewhere else but we were in a very basic setting & seated in the takeaway runway, we did not buy any drinks. Delivery drivers & staff were backwards & forwards with the door opening & letting in more cold. There was just nothing special about the place, it did not feel like a treat as a meal out should & the hygiene of our server was also off putting We would not revisit The takeaway was very popular. We did miss the free prawn crackers we get in every other restaurant

Food was warm and tasted okay, but we waited over 2 hours for delivery. If we’d known it would take that long, wouldn’t have ordered.

Still waiting on it at 8pm and I ordered at 5:30

Took nearly two hours to receive my order.

I have had food hear alot in the last 15years. I am very disappointed to see the, food quality slowly go downhill. Firstly, theres been a dramatic price increase within 3months. ChChicken chowmain was £8.50 and now £9.80! £1.30 increase on most main meals. pluss dramatic increase in everything else. The chowmain lacked flavour, i asked for extra sauce but it was the first time i had a greesy chowmain. Chips reheated, chicken balls over cooked, sweet & sour sauce was bland. Very disappointed!

I telephoned after half an hour late. They said the courier had just left. I phoned after an hour late and they said they had been busy and seemed unconcerned. Why give delivery times if they are unable to keep to them.

Delicious, hot and arrived when promised.

Very tasty, earlier than predicted and it aas a decent sized order. one item was forgotten but it happens

A Must-Try from China Garden, an Outstanding Quality Chinese Sit-In Or Takeaway Delicious Fresh Food Highly Recommend 👍👍

Great food. It was a really nice meal.

Disappointed, not good, rice has gone into the bin!

Ordered kung po chicken, they sent lemon chicken. Luckily I like lemon chicken and it was delicious.

Take away meal - for 1 , delivered £21 . King prawn , black bean sauce & rice - disgusting 🤮. Sauce flavourless and like water ...... Horrible experience

Food was good and hot delivery was quick.

Food arrived within 10 mins! Not bad in my opinion

Delivery was extremely late, and food was cold

This restaurant appears to benefit mainly from deliveries and take away meals thereby concentrating on the lesser important aspects of business, dining in customers. The have failed purely on the basics of table service. Staff seem to spend lots of time on phones rather concentrating on customers in their presence. Initially the welcome was far from warm or encouraging. Drinks available are served from 2 ltr plastic bottles that seem either passed by expiry date, or the lemonade and Cola was flat from lying over several days. When pointed out the staff member attending said she might be able to give a replacement, a statement that appeared by full of negativity. Main course plates were brought to the table and place in front of customers COLD rather than pre warmed. The main course was served in bits and pieces with long gaps between items adding to more waiting time and colder food. The food was rather less tasty than described, I could hardly wait to leaving the establishment. On my way to the main entrance/exit I opted to use the gents toilets only to notice that the front rim inner of the toilet bowl was very badly stained but I could hardly guess from what, but it was not fresh and looked like it would benefit from a bit of attention and effort from one of the cleaning staff. This establishment has me in some doubt about its internal hygiene judging by staff lack of enthusiasm.

YUM! What a meal. We got a takeaway tonight and it did not disappoint. The girl on reception was amazing, she answered all my gluten free enquiries and helped me with the order. Not only was there gluten free options, the gluten free food was so good! My dad also wants to add that the hot and sour soup and beef curry was one of the best he has ever had. Highly recommend 😁

Enjoyed the meal the beef chow mein was lovely

No prawn crackers when spent about £30

Service was terrible arrival meant to be 20 past 6 came far to early and I wasn’t even home yet then got a mouth full when I got home.

Over an hour and a half to receive my order. Not too happy.

It's the 1st time I've been there my oder was quick definitely go back.

£6.50 charge for over two hour wait. Not worth it.

The food was very good so was the service, it was a shame they served the main dish on a cold serving bowl, apart from that it was good, the prices were reasonable, plenty parking in the area.

Our last meal was very disappointing. Watery sauces with no taste. Bouncy chicken and a lack of an acceptable quantity of chicken and beef. Very dissatisfied, will not be using again.

Was sent a notification at 20.40 to say it was on route but didn't turn up til 21.30, order was put in at 19.50. Food was alright but sauce leaking all over the bag.

food was lovely but a total delivery time of 2hrs is excessive

Very bad food. Not worth for money

Placed an order of £46 last chicken chow mein had no taste, beef a green pepper bland salts chilli ribs was like trying to eat stick!twice now won’t be using them again for sure didn’t get refund from last time we sent whole meal back as it was same but gave them the benefit of doubt but not impressed at all kx

Took it to the wrong address. Arrived late & cold.

1 Chow mein was missing but granted it was a huge order of 17 items so understandable. Everything else was spot on and absolutely delish! Thank you definitely the best Chinese around here!

Just not impressed with food and the sauce was just oily and tasteless food was not eaten

Ordered the food for delivery ASAP so was disappointed when it showed as being delivered 60-80 minutes after ordering. After 90 minutes we phoned the restaurant who were very rude and unapologetic they lied and said we had ordered it to be delivered at 20:30. When it was pointed out that the time of the call was 20:35 they said it would only be 10 minutes. Phoned again at 21:00 and was told a bunch of nonsense about having to wait before they start cooking. The chicken was chewy and tasted bad.

great service food on time and still decently warn but absolutely ridiculous being charged nearly £6 for 4 bits / 1 slice of prawn toast is beyond a joke.

The food was unreal, however the delivery time was an absolute joke. Took ages to get here.

Food arrived three hours after order was made, and one hour and fifteen minutes later than estimated time. As a result, food was cold and soggy.

Order came 2.5hrs after first ordering. Estimate at checkout was 50-70 mins. That quickly changed to 80-100 mins then it finally arrived. An hour after the “estimated delivery time of 19:20”. Food tastes like a lot of it had been sitting under a heat lamp. Will never order from here again.

The rice wrapped chicken starter was all mushy and stuck together. The prawn and chicken chow mein was lovely though.

Honestly the worst Chinese I’ve ever had. Sauces were like water and oil. Beef like rubber and never even tried the chicken it looked that bad. Got notification that it was on way 5 minutes before it arrived but must have been lying about for an hour as it was freezing cold when I got it. Got a cheek with the prices as well.

order took 2 hours to arrive. As I expected, the food had obviously been sitting in the containers in the restaurant a very long time before it was delivered, things that were ment to be crispy were soggy AF and not even an apology on delivery.

Excellent scran after a long shift, delivery driver was a nice dude.

2hrs 15mins to get food. Put through as delivered when I hadn't received it. Phoned up restaurant and they just said sorry, didn't explain why the food was so late. Chips were burnt. Had to throw them out.

Wrong order delivered. We ordered beef and received chicken so disappointing.

delivered early and friendly delivery driver

Early delivery not a problem. Food hot and tasty.

Food was not good chips were stale curry was off

The Singapore rice noodles are flavourless and soaked with grease and the rice was the same. I know this is entitled but still every other takeaway does this so you never think to order separately, no free prawn crackers with the order.

Shocking, was told it would be delayed ended up not coming at all! Waste of money.

The food itself wasn’t the best. The sweet and sour pork had soggy batter with a chewy unpleasant texture and the sauce was very vinegary. The special fried rice was bland and the peking ribs were barely edible, meat so tough it was impossible to take it off the bone. Will not be ordering from there again

Delicious and hot as always. Excellent delivery too. Thank you!

Really dissapointed. Every dish was so so salty apart from the szechuan. I did order salt and chilli chips and chicken but it was so salty it was inedible (and I like it quite salty) the satay chicken tasted like wet dog. The sauce was just salty water. Won't order again.

Was informed it would be an hour we waited over 2 hours

Food arrived 2 hrs 20mins after ordering. Initially told there would be a 75-85 mins order time which is fine if you know that, but it then arrived another hour after that. Shame as the food was good, but I wouldn't use again for the delivery time.

Good food. As it’s £5 for delivery would be nice to get free prawn crackers

Previously this was my go to for chinese, food was great. 5 years later food isn't as described grilled chicken shouldn't be coated in batter! Won't be back

Pretty bland if I’m honest. Everything was tasteless and fell way short of expectations. Not what it was like about a year ago when I last used it.

Delivery time was pushed back and was still late. Awful service. However, the food was good when it arrived.

I forget every time how this restaurant takes orders stating there is a 50 minute wait for delivery, and it nearly always arrives two hours later. The food was mediocre. I won’t ordered again

Really as good food! Hot and order accurate.

Food was lukewarm and late. Not a good experience.

Food is fine but didn't seem to know about my order despite phoning up 15 minutes before prices far too high now!!

Prawn toast and Spring rolls were soggy. Asked for Beef chow mein wiht black bean sauce and just got beef in black bean sauce, no noodles.

Got the wrong food delivered .. phoned up to get it sorted and couldn’t do anything about it !!!

Food all cold and tasteless never use again would Not recommend

Horrible freezing food not worth the price at all.

The food was slightly cold, chicken wasn’t cooked properly and the sweet and sour chicken in sauce was just batter their was like no chicken and it was really soggy

Prompt delivery, enjoyable food.

The order was 90 mins late. 2.5 hours after I ordered it and to be honest, meal wasn’t great.

My order was time but the chips were soggy, the satay sauce and no flavour same as the salt and pepper chicken

Took 2 hours to come. Chilli chips had one bit of onion and one chilli. Sweet and sour sauce was watery! TERRIBLE

Was cold and dry not worth the money

Food is amazing and delivery was very speedy. A little gem in Haddington.

They sent one of the wrong dishes. I rang, they were happy to accept it and had the right one delivered in a few minutes. All the food was great.

I frequently order from the China Garden and the quality of the food can be variable…sometimes exceptionally good and occasionally, like this evening, dreadful. The food is much better mid week than at the weekend…don’t think I’ll be ordering again at the weekend…sorry

The chips and spring rolls were undercooked. The food was also half and hour late

Was very greasy. I prefer a drier, less oily chow mein. Spring rolls wet with oil, there was a pool of oil in the bag.

Food was soggy and not cooked properly

Delicious. Everything was piping hot.

Food arrived late after me having to call them to find out where it was, food came and sauce was burst out of the container and all in the insid if the bag, the rest of the food was covered, chicken was horrible. China garden have recently put their prices up and I'm sorry but it's absolutely isn't justified for the food that they are providing! I was a returning customer for many years to China garden and I absolutely will not be back!

Brilliant food - just a shame the delivery wait time is hour and a half +

Great tasting food. Order was delayed and we were kept informed. Will def order again.

We have been coming here for take aways for a few years now it has never been great but generally better than the other take aways available , but the Prices have gone up quite considerably and the quality of the food is now dire !! ordered food yesterday and was shocked at the price , when serving out ,the dishes looked revolting !! Chicken curry was so pale in colour obviously watered the sauce down and it was spot the chicken? it should have been oinion curry ! it was awful and went in the bin ! Chicken Chow Mein was also dire , the chicken was so dry and the meal bland ! We will never use again !

Food was tasty when it eventually arrived. It took 2hrs 35min to appear!!!

Ordered at 7.30pm told 8.30pm then told 9.10pm now 9.54pm food delivered??

Very disappointing dinner. Used to eat here quite regularly but hadn’t been back for a while. It’s always been lacking in atmosphere as it obviously catered mainly to take aways but the food was pretty good. Not any more. Bland, tasteless and expensive. Won’t be back

My order was as good as always just a shame half of my curry was inside the plastic bag !

Food itself was decent, but waited over an hour and 40 mins overall. Portion wasn’t massive so confused as to why the long wait. Delivery boy couldn’t find the house and told us he drove around our street for 15 mins. Eventually had to go and find him. Food was soaking wet and lukewarm by the time I got to him and he said that I needed a door number. You need a new pair of eyes more like. Surely if you were driving up and down street for 15 mins could’ve just walked up to the door and had a look for yourself? Not impressed.

Great service and early delivery.

Best Chinese I've had in a long time 😋😋

Was late and was cold when opened

Staff are really nice, great service. Food is fairly good. There's quite a big price difference between dining in and take away, we expected more in terms of presentation and quality when sitting down.

The good news was the speed of service service and quantity of the meal but the bad news is that it was bland and pricy. Sorry to say, but the Chinese sauces you get out of supermarkets have more flavour. I didn't pay but on reviewing the bill later I was appalled that we were charged £8.40 for one small pot of tea with no top up offered.

We ordered at 6.27pm and it arrived at 8.20pm. That’s a long wait for food. Very disappointing but the food was delicious when it finally arrived.

Food was late and cold once received.

Meal was really good but delivery charge a bit steep . £6 for one person Meal around 5 miles from shop

Food was lovely curry sauce was so tasty chicken fried rice delicious but not to fussed on the chips they were just ok but would order from them again next time I am back in Edinburgh

Can not fault brilliant service and food .

As bad as I have ever eaten I'm afraid. 1hr 20 mins to wait on underseasoned rice, watery black bean sauce, tough chicken, veg cut into tree sized chunks and overall terrible tasting.

We waited 2 hours for our chinese, when it arrived it was cold and had been cold for a while