Mini Garden Orient Cuisine

2065 S Beretania St., Honolulu
(808) 946-3828

Recent Reviews

imanidealist

My Dad's favorite restaurant. If you know...you know (and he knows good Chinese food). Always have the best celebrations here at the big round tables. The staff is friendly.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 5

Am Pascua

looked clean, but food needs to be better. sauces were not very

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 3

Service: 3

Pabs G.

I have been here about 5 times and since I wasn't familiar with the menu options, I would see what others were eating and ask for recommendations. The food is excellent! Very tasty and cooked to perfection. The veggies were crunchy just as I prefer. Serving size was descent for the price. The staff were very helpful and the restaurant was clean. They even give complementary dessert. I always come here when I am in the area. Dine in and take out. I tend to order about 3-4 entrees with lots of leftovers to take home. Support local businesses, folks. Good Chinese cuisine at this establishment.

Stephen Itoga

Vegan dishes were great.

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Steamed Fish Fillet with Greens Onion, Vegetarian Gau Gee

Jo C.

I have not been here for a long time and was very pleasantly surprised on my last visit. I attended a Chinese society luncheon and we took up almost the entire restaurant with 7 ( 10 top tables) there were still other tables available for people to eat at. There is street parking along Beretania street and they have their own parking lot right after the restaurant. The reason for 4 stars is that I think they may have either gotten a new chef or proactively stepped up their menu and food. Honestly everything that we had was delicious and my picky mom and grandmother agreed which is amazing in itself if you know old Chinese ladies and how picky they are, usually they complaining about too salty, not enough salt, too little/ too much of something etc..lol. Fried flounder was tasty and delicious a different dish we dont normally get. Cold ginger chicken was tasty even though it wasn't as "green" as we are used to but still tasty. The stand out dishes was the garlic shrimp look fun, braised beef and the shrimp tofu with ong choy beautifully presented. We had a few more dishes but I couldn't get a pic before my family dug in. Food was good not too oily and some of the new dishes were terrific!

Selena V.

Support local, small businesses! Super delicious, traditional Cantonese food in Mō'ili'ili. The waitress was so kind and insisted on serving us the chow funn & peking "duck". The vegan peking duck is delicious! Super duck-like, even with a crispy skin For $55 we had enough food for four people (but there was only two of us). The mushroom chow funn was fantastic, with good wok hay & perfectly seasoned. Also loved the tofu & eggplant, both fried before ending up in a sweet & sour sauce. The restaurant is decorated nicely & the seating was spacious. It was quiet and a good place for conversation. I will definitely come back! People who say this place is expensive probably do not respect the time & energy it takes to create such an expansive menu of Chinese food.

Pete, con chó đốm

We had dinner in early December 2023. Food was ok, small portion. Beef stew was not good! I would not come back.

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 2

Service: 3

Jon O.

An okay place for Chinese food in McCully. Our favorites were the pork chop, the steamed fish, and egg flower soup. My cousin is vegan and really enjoyed their vegetable dishes. But the beef broccoli was chewy and the gravy was bland, and the Chinese chicken salad hardly had any chicken, and thus hardly any flavor. Service was friendly enough.

Weimar Momma

Auntie treated us to dinner here and she pre-ordered the meal. Absolutely fantastic food with perfect texture and varied exciting flavors.Vegetarian options: Vegetarian butter fish and spare ribs were excellent as was the string bean with tofu

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Akemi O.

Chronic over-orderer...so for 4 adults we had a lot. Got it to go and now 2 of us will be eating leftovers for a while... HONEY WALNUT SHRIMP - Walnuts were burnt. Shrimps were good but not much. S&P PORK CHOP - I thought this was better than the typical. Little different with a nice kick. S&P SQUID - Think they forgot the S, but it was cooked well. GARLIC EGGPLANT - Suuuuuper sweet and cornstarchy. Not my fave. BITTERMELON EGG FOO YOUNG - Never had it with Bitter Melon. Theirs not too bitter but still good. I'd get this again. SINGAPORE RICE NOODLES - Okay. Not much of the curry taste, so pretty bland. CRISPY CHICKEN WINGS - No taste at all. MINUTE CHICKEN NOODLE - Didn't use the sauce since we liked the crispy noodle. Thought would be cake noodle style, but was just a ball of messiness. Tasty, but harder to eat. Chicken salty but yummy. DRIED SCALLOP MUSHROOM SOUP - Didn't get to it...but couple of them said was tasty. Seemed super cornstarchy also. Overall, okay. Some good, some okay, and some tasteless.

Susannah Nicoll

The food here is phenomenal! It always hits the spot. The people here are really nice, the other customers help make the atmosphere peaceful and welcoming.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Wonton Noodle Soup with Shrimp Wonton

Irene M.

Impromptu dinner... My indecisiveness makes for it a crazy decision making and what better place than Chinese cuisine as they have incredible menu choices for my belly to inform my thoughts for the night. With a decent size parking lot right beside the building makes it easy especially during the rush hour as street parking isn't allowed also making it safe to access the restaurant. Walking in I was surprised how spacious it was and with the old school style setting a lady came and took my order was nice and polite. What interest me is that they have a Vegetarian menu section for allergies like mine does make it comforting to know though there's no meat whatsoever which doesn't bother me and using mushroom stock actually sounds yummy and with so much to choose from I decided on the "Mushroom Fantasy Chow Fun" which is a dry type of noodle dish it didn't have the "star" notation categorizing it vegetarian she assured me there isn't any seafood in this dish. Food came out nice and fast I was surprised how little mushroom it had, using shiitake is great as it's my favorite type of mushroom it also had sprouts and some broccoli for the $13.95 price it wasn't much of a fantasy or mushrooms but it really was tasty and light not all covered in heavy seasoning which I do really love and would actually like to try other vegetarian dishes as well. Thank you!

Fate L.

This is the most restaurant I visit the most for vegetarian foods. It is so hard to get vegetarian food here. They provide varieties of choices and they can make as your request. They have good size dining areas. And is very clean.

Dacia B.

Vegetarian options here, so fricking good! Me and my Ohana drives across the island to come eat here... Waitress here are thee best customer service!!!

Lori M.

There was a hair in my minute chicken cake noodle and my walnut shrimp had burnt nuts. Mini Garden used to be good but not it's just bad

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