Lotus Garden Restaurant
Lotus Garden Restaurant
Pan Fried Noodles
Eggplant w/ Garlic Sauce
a woman sitting at a table with a menu in front of her
Yang Zhou Fried Rice with Chicken and Shrimp
Menu
a menu with a variety of food items
the menu of the restaurant
diners sitting at tables
Menu
Entrance
Front entrance
Cashew chicken. Medium spicy.
Egg roll
Bar area
Nice spacious inside dining
Crab Rangoon
Yang Zhou Fried Rice and Szechuan Chicken
K9. General Tso's tofu
Hot and sour soup
Pan Fried Noodles, Fish Filet w/ Mixed Vegetables, Eggplant w/ Garlic Sauce.
menu
D2. Yang Zhou Fried Rice
Pan Fried Noodles, Fish Filet w/ Mixed Vegetables, Eggplant w/ Garlic Sauce.
Kelly S.
Mar 2, 2025
How have I never noticed this place before?? I think we finally found our go-to Chinese after living on the south side of Indianapolis for 15 years. Huge menu with something for everyone and fantastic flavors. My husband got the orange chicken and I had the stir fried beef with fresh chili. I was not expecting so many vegetables but it had a really nice flavor and just a little heat. We also had the green beans, which we shared and you can have them cooked a couple different ways but we went with the Szechuan style. They were great! Super nice older lady that was our server. I'm guessing she is an owner and she seemed to recognize a lot of the regulars and knew what they wanted to order. It was getting busy when we left and is kind of laid out in a weird way, but they have plenty of room inside for a big crowd. We will definitely go back or get takeout from here again!
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Doug H.
Jan 9, 2025
We love this place. Service is always prompt and on point. The food is amazing and so plentiful. Where else could you get a lunch special for $9.50 and have enough left for dinner too? Best hot and sour soup around. Quiet and relaxing atmosphere.
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Yi H.
Oct 26, 2024
Food is very tasty! Friendly staff! Spicy chicken, Cantonese style noddle and garlic vegetable are our favorite. My family had a good time here.
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Binnan O.
May 1, 2024
Ambiance: This place has the styling of a Chinese banquet hall but with some rough edges. There are accent walls in the front with a very modern feel while other areas feel much more traditional, there are taped up paper signs to watch your step and some of the glass looks like it hasn't been cleaned in forever. It kind of feels like they never freshened up after COVID. The staff are very friendly however and speak Cantonese and Mandarin. Food can take a little while to come out but did seem fresh.Food: We ordered from both the dim sum and lunch menu. The standard ha gow/shrimp dumpling, siu mai, bbq pork bun, and turnip cake were overall very good. The flavors were spot-on although there was room for improvement on some of the textures. For instance, they use rough chopped shrimp and the har gow rice wrapper was on the thicker side so these were a little tougher to chew. The regular menu items were a bigger disappointment. The Szechuan green beans weren't really fried and didn't have that puckery golden skin I was hoping for (an is in the picture on their menu). We also got the beef brisket noodle which was honestly a little thin and bland, not spicy at all for a reportedly szechuan dish. The meal did come with a complimentary egg roll and fried rice which was a nice touch. The egg roll tasted very fresh with wilted cabbage inside and comes out scorching hot like it came out directly from their deep fryer. The fried rice, however, was flavorless. It didn't have any egg, carrots, or peas and it tasted like it was made using only dark soy sauce which lacks the salinity and brightness of light soy sauce. Overall Lotus Garden was hit or miss. We enjoyed the dim sum and, if we don't find a better place, likely will come back just for that. The regular menu however looked and tasted pretty americanized. I will say the prices and portions are very fair but it ultimately doesn't live up to my standards as an american-born chinese person who grew up with good chinese food on the west coast.
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Jen F.
Mar 31, 2024
I wish this was the old Lotus Garden menu. I'm never going to get over it. They have a few old standbys that are reminiscent of the old place, but the overall menu has been pretty Americanized. After living in NY the OG Lotus Garden was the only place that could scratch my East Coast Chinese food itch. The service is fine. The guy packing up my food and ringing me up was eating while he was helping me. Like, popping food into his mouth by hand and then handling my bags and payment. It's fine. Everyone has to eat, but it was a lil weird. As far as Chinese food in the area goes, this is probably some of the best.
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Kris R.
Sep 22, 2024
Tried to go here Sunday and it was closed by the Marion County Board of Health on 9/19/24. I'm not sure how long it will be closed but doubt I will try again.
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Derek C.
Dec 15, 2023
When the old location turned into a car wash, I thought this piece of history might have been lost forever. The last Lotus Garden was finally gone.But it reappeared! And, unlike so many other restaurants, it moved from Greenwood to Indianapolis. It's no longer in a distinctive standalone building. It's in a strip mall attached to Walmart. At least, this is the strip mall that has birthed other greats like Ichiban.Some things have been lost to history, unfortunately. The tiki bar is now just a regular bar with beers such as Tsingtao. The food is still the same, though. War su gai is back!Sometimes, the places you remember do come back and it is important to support them so they stay around. I have been and will continue to be a new repeat customer.
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Michael R.
Oct 29, 2022
This location use to be a buffet long ago that we use to frequent, and I think it's gone thru a couple owners since then?The new owner is Lotus Garden and I hope they are there for many years to come!They have your standard American Chinese dishes (General Tso's, Hunan Chicken, Mongolian Beef, etc), but they also have choices that you would typically find in Chicago China town such as Pan Fried Noodles, Eggplant with Garlic Sauce, Fish Fillet w/ Mixed Vegetables (we ordered those 3), Smoked Tea Duck, Lamb w/ Cumin Powder to name a couple more - there is also Dim Sum to choose from which you don't see too often.I highly recommend this restaurant!
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Debra G.
Jan 5, 2025
Fried rice is gray in color and tasteless. Maybe we ordered the wrong thing but the service was terrible and we were seated right inside the door so the ambience wasn't nice either.
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Robin M.
Oct 18, 2024
Great service and food!!! Beautiful place with amazing menu. The servings were huge! We shared and still had some to take home. We loved it!!
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