Evergreen Restaurant
Evergreen Restaurant
Peking Duck (Take Out)
a plate of food on a table
the interior of the restaurant
Cute pandas playing in an Asian forest
Storefront, circa 2022. It's a carbon copy of my 2010 shot.
Fancy menu
The peacocks and flowers in the painting are gorgeous.
Their big menu (p 9 of 9), circa May 2023.
Gold fish swimming
Their big menu (p 5 of 9), circa May 2023.
food, ramen and noodles
oysters, shellfish, mussels, food, oysters and mussels
Their big menu (p 2 of 9), circa May 2023.
Szechuan Eggplant
Their big menu (p 4 of 9), circa May 2023.
Their big menu (p 6 of 9), circa May 2023.
Succulent lobster extra sauce
mongolian delight
Their big menu (p 7 of 9), circa May 2023.
Tofu with baby bok choy, Peking Style Sweet and Sour Pork
Their big menu (p 1 of 9), circa May 2023.
Betty U.
Jun 25, 2024
Family reunion always means dinner at Evergreen! Finally introduced my daughter's bf here after raving for years. Delicious big egg rolls we gulped down so fast I forgot to take a pic lol. Rolling in were some of our favorites: lobster w extra lobster sauce, beef green beans in black bean sauce, baby bok choy, fish filet tofu vegetables and I mean perfectly cooked/flavored steamed flounder. Every bite was so satiating felt like taste buds dancing up a storm :p. Service is always super friendly, efficient and kudos to hostess Bing who's been there 10+ years and remembers & welcomes us like family. Drool over these pix and eat or take out there soon! Easy street or meter parking. Spacious dining room.
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Jen M.
Jun 19, 2024
The food/service/ambiance here: everything was good (maybe could use a good carpet-cleaning though). Nothing was really spectacular, except my daughter got the meal that came in a basket made of taro, which I had never seen before. It was interesting but not something she would order again. I always like to try hot and sour soup, and theirs was very good.It was super hot outside and I would have appreciated more water without having to ask a couple times, and we wished the mango smoothies would have come before the meals did.
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Mona T.
Nov 11, 2023
Overall Thoughts: Evergreen is one of the older restaurants in the Old Chinatown area serving a diverse, expansive menu of primarily Cantonese staples. While I really liked some dishes (namely, the Fried Egg Tofu and Fried Taro Basket), other dishes were just so-so. The interior is arranged in classic, spacious Chinese banquet style, and the service is quick and direct. Food I tried:- Wonton Soup: Refreshing and aromatic, but there are better wonton soup options out there in Chinatown.- Fried Egg Tofu with Pea Pod Tips: Really good and would recommend!! Pea pod tips were well-sautéed; the egg tofu was full of flavor and had a great crispy exterior texture combined with a soft, silky interior texture. - Szechuan Eggplant: As a lover of Chinese-style sautéed eggplants, I was disappointed by this dish. The mix of eggplants with American broccoli didn't work for me, and the eggplant wasn't soft / fried enough.- Deep Sea in Basket: This is a creative dish that I haven't seen before in other restaurants in Chinatown-- it's sautéed seafood placed in a "basket" made of taro. The basket was the best part in my opinion-- it was both soft and crunchy, and had a nice subtle taro flavor, like eating taro chips. - Mongolian Delight: This was a standard, but very solid and flavorful dish of sautéed veggies and beef. The beef was tender and the flavors were rich.- Thai Pineapple Shrimp: Didn't love this dish; it was originally supposed to be mango shrimp, but they ran out of mango and substituted pineapple. I didn't love the monotonous flavor combination of the sour/tangy pineapple with the mildly sour/tangy sauce. Split between 4 people, the total came out to ~$30/pp including tax/tip, which was solid considering we were all extremely full afterwards and still had leftovers to take home. -- Price (relative to peers): 4.4/5Food: 4.2/5Ambience: 4.7/5Service: 4.6/5Overall Value: 4.2/5
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Irene Kitty L.
May 22, 2023
I have not been to Evergreen restaurant in over a decade but my family wanted to come here for a traditional Chinese dinner and it was not great. We wanted the fried oysters but since there were 8 of us, we decided to order 2 orders and it was $25 each order for a total of $50 for 2! Wowza! Probably one of the most expensive meal I've had for a long time and it was not even a lot of food. Service was good but very short handed. Seems like only 1 waitress is really doing her job while the owner sat around peeling peapods during dinner rush hour which made no sense to me. Get up and help your waitress! Why peel peapods on a busy weekend dinner? Food was below average and it was just not that flavorful. For $300 and less than 10 dishes which is about $30 per dish, it is a bit absurd which I will never go back again.
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L L.
Jan 1, 2024
Evergreen is one of the oldest restaurants in Chinatown and still serving excellent Cantonese foods. We had another wonderful Chinese banquet style meal and everything was delicious! I especially loved their Corn egg drop soup, Walnut Shrimp, Beef with Chinese Broccoli, Mixed Vegetables with Tofu, Ma Po Tofu, Fried Smelt Fish with Fried Pumpkin, Spicy String Beans with Pork, and Sweet & Sour Pork. Service was excellent.
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Freddie E.
Jan 10, 2024
I had not been here in a few years and the food was pretty good back then.Now it is horrible. We ordered sweet and sour shrimp and shrimp fried rice. The shrimp came from a can and the rice is small and mushy. The batter that the sweet and sour shrimps came in was hard as a turtle's shell.
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Steve A.
Mar 18, 2022
Chinese food in a family friendly environment. Evergreen is one of the average restaurants in Chinatown surrounded by so many others. It has about what you expect from somewhere like this. Lots of things that come on rice, average flavor. The prices are kind of high mostly. I checked it out with the woman recently on an evening. Pretty average size place but there weren't many people inside. There's a few big tables. Menu is pretty typical of American Chinese. We each got the Bean Curd With Straw Mushrooms. It's about $13 for the only size. This is only among a couple of the vegetarian vegetarian items with any tofu. It's not much of a selection. The others only have vegetables. Anyway it was pretty good. The tofu was pretty crispy and had good texture. Hard to find a reason to not like it, but still not liking this enough to regularly be coming. It's pretty average for Chinese American food. There's lots of other places to choose so we'll try around for better ones before coming back here for the next visit.
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Lisa A.
May 28, 2023
Going to an authentic Chinese restaurant you can not expect much service and if you are able to find someone it still doesn't guarantee you will get what you requested. I attended a lunch for 60 people and the owner was working and simply did not add additional staff. It also took about an hour to get the 8 course meal started but once they did it all came out quickly. All I wanted was a glass of water but she said I would have to wait. She wanted to get the paying drinks out first. It really would have been easier to have set out the water and tea out.I haven't eaten here in over a decade but I will say the food was good but ladened with MSG. I was so thirsty as a result. It is kid friendly but there is no children's menu. The decor hasn't changed. I doubt I will be back except for family arranged events.
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George J.
Dec 24, 2023
We have gone here for multiple family receptions (both wedding/newborn/funeral) and come away saying the same thing.....fantastic food and great service. I will say that staffing is lower than in prior years, but with Covid, likely many restaurants have same issue. Fried rice/fried chicken with crispy wafers/chinese broccoli beef/fried fish filet/tofu & seafood soup/etc is always the best. Flavors have you saying "fantastic food". You can argue that the inside of the restaurant has been the same in my 30 years coming here, but when I think Authentic Cantonese style Chinatown food, this is the place. Worthy of coming back many times again.
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Don F.
Jul 7, 2023
Amazing food & service, the energy/ambiance is on point. 10/10. Their tenderloin and sauce is great and so is the appetizers.
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