May Garden Chinese Restaurant Dartmouth

My first week in Dartmouth, went out to eat with two of my friends. Food was horrible, we ordered chicken Chowmein but they brought beans sprout a few pieces of dried and stale chicken stuffed in soy sauce. Other foods like egg rolls, fried rice were stale too. We asked server (server was nice) to change it but instead Chinese lady came and said she can't do anything. Food was horrible at its best. The worst restaurant experience in my life. At this point they should realise how bad their food is and close down the restaurant.
We ordered:
Dinner for 3: $65
Drinks - 2 diet coke: $7
We asked hot sauce but they charged for that as well: $1
Total bill was $80 but we barely ate anything. We are outgoing and we don't mind paying for food , but this is absolutely scam. I urge everyone reading this review, please please stay away from this restaurant and save your money.
If I have to rate, food is absolutely 0/5.
Please close down.

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 1

Service: 1

Was not a fan. Chicken balls were mostly soggy dough, sauce was flavorless. The rest of the food wasn't much better.

Excellent customer service excellent communication

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

really bad and really expensive

Atmosphere: 2

Food: 1

Service: 3

Ordered takeout for my nephew to pick up and I put his name as the pick up person for the order. He arrived to pick up the order and was told that there wasn’t an order for him. He waited one hour for the restaurant to figure out that they did in fact have his order. I had sent him the text confirmation and he had the phone number of the order but it still took the restaurant one hour to determine that they did in fact have the order which by then had been sitting for one hour and was therefore stone cold when it was finally given to him.Update. Nephew ate his General Guy Chicken and let me know it was not at all like the chicken on the website and that the sauce was not good at all. Probably tasted worse due to the fact it was cold. I haven’t received feedback for the 2 combo plates that the others ate.Restaurant food is expensive. I am not happy when I feel like I have wasted my money.I always add a tip on take out orders, but I wished I had not rewarded this negative experience with a tip.We have ordered take out from Modern Orchid Dartmouth Crossing for pickup by another party and have never encountered any problem.Their food has always been hot and delicious and very reasonably priced.

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 1

Service: 1

The food was delicious, the service was also great. We were the only table there but the take out was very busy!! I would go back for sure (or order from there)!!

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: May Garden Special Fried Rice

Terrible. I think my ginger beef was cooked last week. So soggy and pale in colour.

Food: 1

I went to eat here a lot during the earlier hours of the day. It was very quiet and pleasant, and the food was fantastic. The waiters were very chatty and interested in learning a little about us. Although I do not live in the area, this restaurant and the food are one of the major things I miss and will revisit when I am back in the area.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Jst came for a quick meal with family. Randomly tried the bean veg sprout chowmein, then fried rice with veggies. It was best ever tasty veg meal for us. Spring roll though bit expensive for the quantity but was worth trying.Service was awesome. Great homely place with such positive and inquisitive environment. We ended up ordering 3 more dishes from menu . They were all so delectable neither very spicy nor mild.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

My spouse and I, came for a quick bite . Took out combo 8, fairly expensive for the amount u get. More rice than anything else for the price . Ribs were dry and looked 2 days old. Chicken balls were fluffy but felt like not enough meat. Sweet and sour didn’t really taste like sweet and sour sauce. Tasted as if it was watered down. Bland. Didn’t know this place was known for explosive diarrhea. Staying at home for the rest of the evening as a precaution. Wouldn’t recommend to my worst enemy. Service was great and fast tho. Personal shoutout with guy with black nail polish. Excellent customer service .

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 1

Service: 4

Hello my partner & I visited the Dartmouth location for lunch just to be extremely disappointed when we came home. First of all, for almost $30, we received more rice than anything else. The ribs looked sad and lacked flavour. Resembling the texture of carpet. Chicken balls were mostly dough not chicken, watered down “sweet & sour” sauce. Fried rice was decent though I only noticed that there was approximately 3 pieces of chicken in the entire entree. Rice was the only thing cooked well??After eating our very sad lunch, my partner felt a little uneasy so we decided to look at reviews. Was very surprised to see that this place was well known for the “explosive diarrhea” & food poisoning. Now we are praying we survive this evening. Should’ve noticed the 2 caucasian males working service as the first red flag. Considering that I am half Chinese, my chinese mother wouldve cried if I brought her here. Sorry but never coming back, pls do better.

Atmosphere: 2

Food: 1

Service: 3

My spouse and I, came for a quick bite . Took out combo 8, fairly expensive for the amount u get. More rice than anything else for the price . Ribs were dry and looked 2 days old. Chicken balls were fluffy but felt like not enough meat. Sweet and sour didn’t really taste like sweet and sour sauce. Tasted as if it was watered down. Bland. Didn’t know this place was known for explosive diarrhea. Staying at home for the rest of the evening as a precaution. Wouldn’t recommend to my worst enemy. Service was great and fast tho. Personal shoutout with guy with black nail polish. Excellent customer service .

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 1

Service: 4

Really gone downhill, place had a smell and atmosphere comes of dark and dingy.

Atmosphere: 2

Food: 3

Service: 2

Very nice

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

I love their egg rolls best in the city but not as good as the double Dragon in New Minas. Fried rice was way overpriced but acceptable in flavour.

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 4

Service: 3