May Garden

If I can give a minus rate for this restaurant, I’ll give minus 100 stars.
Worst service
Bland dishes
Wont go back to this place again. Never!

I find May Garden is really hit or miss. Tonight we ordered wonton soup and split a rice and sweet & sour chicken combo. The wontons in the soup were under cooked and so it was like eating raw flour & water. The chicken balls tasted like they were made months ago and frozen. The chicken inside was very dry and tough, and I had a lot of cartilage in some chicken balls rather than breast meat. Same with the rice, it was very obvious that our food was not made fresh. When you get a fresh made meal at this restaurant, the difference is night and day as it can be very good. Consistently fresh food would earn them a higher rating.

This place was my favourite place for combos and now it’s my favourite place for general tso chicken. They call it general guy but it’s all the same to me. Get some people. Also get a side of rice if your a saucy minx.

Good food for good prices. I think they would get better reviews if they didn’t flog their good-​but-​not-​great lunch menu so predominantly.

We went here for dim sum (we have tried every restaurant in the HRM for dim sum now) and we were satisfied with May Garden’s menu. They had good noodle rolls, dumplings and taro cake… it was a bit expensive however. I am finding that dim sum is expensive in Halifax in general (compared to where I am from in Ontario).
I enjoyed dim sum at Great Wall downtown more, as they had more menu items to choose from. Overall the dim sum here was good.

This location appears to be hit and miss on the service. So I am Unilocaling on this particular trip recently. We went in and were seated right away. On a Saturday it was surprisingly quiet. Our good came out very quickly and was as ordered. Hot and tasty too! Our waitress returned on several occasions to top up my water.
Almond Chicken Sou Gai (spelling?) was cooked perfectly, Sweet and Sour Chicken was stellar. Eggs rolls… our favorite part of the trip as usual… to die for :)
As mentioned by another Unilocaler… for some crazy reason May Garden has always been my husbands… as well as my. favorite go to for Chinese?
We left full and satisfied with our meals!

I’m sorry May Garden, but you’re really not cutting it for me. I recently went with a friend of mine and it was… well… not good.
–We were the only one in the restaurant, but it took forever for everything. To be seated, to take our orders, for our drinks, for our appetizers, for dinner. It was slow! I never expect anything to get to me as soon as I place my order. I was with good company, but this was ridiculous.
–I got Wonton Soup and the noodles were uncooked and quite a bit crunchy. I hate sending back food, because I feel like I’m being an annoying customer, but I had to tell my server that it was not good.
–When our mains came out, they didn’t give us a lot of food. I think I got 4 chicken balls and a small egg roll, plus the egg roll was pretty nasty and dripping with grease.
–The waitress never came to check on us (and remember, there was no one else in the restaurant, so it wasn’t like it was overly busy), which was terrible when I was really thirsty.
May Garden, I really don’t think it’s gonna work out for us! I think it’s time we part ways so we can find bigger and better things. I’m sorry to say this: but you’re kind of like the Dragon King Buffet…

So it’s the go-​to Chinese lunch spot in Bedford. The lunch specials are a great price for a pile of food and they include the meat paste egg roll that is so very yummy. Almond guy ding is a great combination of veggies and chicken. The beef and broccoli never disappoints.
Plus, there’s dim sum, in Bedford! It’s not my favorite dim sum, but it’s very good. Don’t skip the dumplings.
The wait staff get to know the regulars. Today at lunch they knew several peoples order as they walked in the door. They were ready and handled an unexpected group of a dozen in what was already a busy lunch.
Conveniently located and hardly a drive for those living in the ‘burbs closest the airport. But if you’re not in the area, there’s another one in Dartmouth and a third in Sackville.

I have eaten here a dozen times since the Bedford location opened and went back today after a hiatus. Place was empty at lunch so the fast service was no surprise. Compared to other Chinese restaurants in town this place is amongst the cleanest. Food is typical westernized Chinese but tasty and inexpensive. Good value, good service and clean pleasant dining room. Recommended for that Chinese food fix.

For some crazy unorthodox reason, this is my favourite Chinese restaurant.
It probably has something to do with the fact I lived a block away from it’s Dartmouth location for a little over a year.
It got bad that they knew what my usual was.
Since then I’ve moved… but my love for May Garden continues.
and this fine little location is perfect for me.
It’s nicely nestled in Bedford, which is bang in the middle between work, and home.
I’ve had a little better than half the menu items and have been disappointed by none of them.
I love the meat paste egg rolls… only way to describe them.
and I am a sucker for chicken balls!
If the craving for Chinese food, (American style) hits… I recommend this place.