Royal Garden

I wrote a review of this restaurant about a decade ago. It was a decent neighborhood, Chinese restaurant. The food was good, the consistency, reliable, priced reasonably, and they delivered. I went back recently because of the delivery service, which they still have. However, when I looked up the website, it appears that they have merged or were bought by or bought an Indian restaurant. The menu is extremely extensive and is half Indian and half Chinese. The food options are vast.The website itself works well, is easy to navigate, that is intuitive for all of the functions to explore your options, order, and check out.I ordered a drop soup, pork, fried rice, and beef lo mein. The food was delivered in a timely manner. The delivery person, was a restaurant employee and extremely courteous. The food however, was quite poor. My wife had the soup and said it was OK. I had a lo mein and pork fried rice. The pork fried rice tasted like it was reconstituted from being cooked much earlier in the day. Nothing about it was hot or fresh. The lo mein was absolutely horrendous. It tasted like it was made yesterday and I was stored in a refrigerator in a container, and put together right at the end in the walk just to heat it up. Lo mein noodles were tiny in terms of length-about1 inch. There was very little sauce and the whole dish Tasted as if it were dehydrated and reheated.Like so many of the decent restaurants of days gone by, or garden, too, deteriorated into a very mediocre-let's milk it for the money institution. Too bad. Unfortunately, cannot recommend it at this time just on the basis of food quality. If I ever get the guts to try the Indian side of this restaurant, I will post a review in the future.

I was traveling north on I-43 towards Mequon for a movie and needed a quick dinner beforehand. I had eaten out a few times recently, but hadn't had Chinese food specifically, so I opened my Yelp bookmarks to see what was on the way that I could pickup. Royal Garden was close to the highway and I had yet to try them, so I called in an order that I could easily eat while driving. My order consisted of pork egg rolls and crab rangoon.The thick egg rolls were clearly homemade and did not have a store bought quality to the ingredients inside, which I always appreciate. Unfortunately, I didn't think the flavor was very dynamic and, as an odd observation, I thought they were kind of dry while eating them. Not that egg roll filling needs to be sopping wet or the wrap greasy, but I wouldn't have complained about either in this instance. As of right now I don't know if I would get them again.The crab rangoon were HUGE. That is to say, the wontons were as long as an adult male's hand. The filling was maybe a tad more than a normal amount, so much of the wonton was just crispy goodness while the center area had the filling mixture. I thought the filling was more sour than sweet, which wasn't to my liking and I found hard to finish. Of the two, I'd be much more inclined to get the egg rolls again, which doesn't say much for the crab rangoon as I'm already on the fence about wanting the egg rolls again. At least the crispy wonton itself was fabulous.

The Chinese restaurant part of this restaurant within a restaurant is okay. They preserved the usual Americanized Chinese choices the previous owners had. The real reason to come here is to try the authentic Nepali menu, it's like they hid a unique restaurant within a more standard restaurant. I wonder if it's all a front for some secret spy organization.

With covid and getting more takeouts in general, we got to try more of their food. (We used to eat at their lunch buffet more, and it's just not the same) In general, I lean more towards a more authentic cuisine than the americanized Chinese. This place is definitely more on the Americanized side, more sweet than spicy, and a lot of fried. Their dishes are really a hit or miss. So far, our favorite was the moo shoo pork. Adding to that (and as an update to my previous review), we discovered their orange flavor beef. Very nice with orange peels and broccoli. (But like, just 3 pieces of broccoli, which is a great deal for the bucks, unless you really like your veggies I guess) The only problem with this dish is that the meat chunks are pretty huge, rather than bite size. Since we were home, I just got my kitchen scissors and cut it up. No problem. Popping flavors. Oh, and we got extra spicy - but didn't really feel spiciness (note above on "americanized")We also tried their new menu item: MOMO Nepali Dumplings. So, I'm not really Nepali food savvy... and didn't really know what to expect. It's a curry infused dumpling with some tomato sauce on the side. Interesting mix. Good to see good reviews on it from people who seem to know more about them. Personally, I think this was not at all "Americanized, but also not Chinese, which is more of what I was expecting (i.e. soup dumplings - oh, please add soup dumplings to your menu!!!!). So not for me.Oh, and we ordered from ubereats because we had a 75% off coupon, but they don't seem to feature their full menu there (Like the fried wings). For takeouts, I do prefer to just call them up unless there are awesome deals like the one I just mentioned.

Best Chinese in town! We've been eating here for over 20 years and it's as good today as it was back then.

They always make the orange peel chicken just right for my hubby and I. Sometimes we sit in, and they are very attentive, and sometimes we get it delivered. Either way it tastes good and the portions are huge!

I've been laid up in a health care facility in Glendale with two broken arms and a broken leg, so a fellow patient and I split a $20 order, the minimum for delivery, which I believe cost another $3. The food arrived right on schedule and was really good. Brad liked his pork fried rice, and I enjoyed the hot and sour soup and kung Pao chicken. For 5-star Chinese food, try Fortune in either West Allis or Hales Corners. Virtually everyone I go out to dinner with raves about it, too

I used to order from here a lot in the 80s and 90s. I've been so disappointed with all of the Chinese places in the area recently so I thought I'd check it out again. Just not a good experience. I arrived 5 minutes after the scheduled pickup time and was the only customer in the restaurant, yet my food was not ready. Waited another 5, not a big deal. But as I discovered when I returned home, they had committed the cardinal sin of takeout! THEY DID NOT LABEL ANY OF THE FOOD. We had 2 different kinds of fried rice and egg foo young in our order. It was such a thrill to have to pick through an egg foo young patty to see if it was pork or shrimp! And that egg foo young was packaged WITH the gravy in the container with the patties! No one serves it like that for takeout. The gravy should always be packaged separately. No wonder it was all watery and not gravy-like at all! So then, after all of that, the food was bland and we ended up throwing away most of it. Another once good place gone downhill.

NEVER AGAIN! After reading that the restaurant's Everest Cafe served flavorful Nepalese cuisine we decided to give it a try. We ordered pick up and once home when we began unpacking were stunned by what we received. First indication of problem? Our anticipated order of crispy fried vegetable pakora was instead a soft & soggy due to being wrapped in plastic wrap ! Then there was the sloppy mess of dishes like Daal and Tarkari vegetarian curry packed in plastic containers whose tops were cracked, broken & leaking.... Seriously packing was so bad it was almost funny . Once we plated everythingit was time to try the food ... we found all of it whether whether a Nepalese or Chinese dish utterly FLAVORLESS . Plus if a dish contained chicken or pork it would be better described as 'mystery meat' . Food so disappointingly inferior we ended up throwing all of it out! From start to finish -a total waste of money The only reason we gave one star is due entirely to the politeness of the hostess

So bad and so disappointing! We had been coming here for over 40 years, back when it was Sun Toy. After covid, quality of food went downhill. We decided to try it out on New Year's Eve. Disappointing mistake. Egg rolls were dry and tasteless. Duck sauce could not save them. Hot and sour soup had no meat and very little else in it. And it was RED, not the normal brown color. Pork fried rice had some pork, one shriveled bean sprout, one sliver of egg, soy sauce to color it brown, and nothing else!! The Chrispy Sesame Chicken was soggy, in a thick, unidentifiable sweet sauce. The General Tso Chicken was exactly the same, with the addition of a sprig of broccoli! We tried to eat it but ended up tossing it in the garbage.