Arcadia Garden Cafe

Great Hong Kong style food. I ordered the baked pork chop over rice. I loved the tomato and cheese sauce on top of the pork chop. My friends ordered a club sandwich (sandwich meat and cheese between three slices of white bread), eel fried rice, and a stir fried noodle. The service was not too long. The servers were kind. Considering that I was hard core craving Hong Kong style cuisine, this place hit the spot!

They offer an extensive menu of Chinese and French-Chinese items though I don't find that anything they offer is particularly great in flavor. It is mostly mediocre in taste. Many of the dishes are accompanied by either white rice or spaghetti with watered down sauce. Clearly these aren't advisable for people who are concerned about hypoglycemia. Their chow mein and other noodle dishes are probably the better choices they offer.

Food is OK, almost cafeteria type of quality. We dined there several times and the ratings have consistently remained low. Food is either too greasy or too salty with ample MSG. Service is even worse, I needed to wave to the servers to get their attention to come take my order. Their waiters don't have a great attitude like we owe it to them for dinning there. I ordered additional food to-go but they forget. NOT going back unless I have no other places to go which is highly unlikely in SGV area. Not worth me taking any pix of my dinner.

This review is not my usual approach to reviews. I like to focus my reviews on food because as long as the food is delicious, I actually don't mind how I'm treated. Despite the many negative reviews on here and on Yelp, there's always a steady flow of customers so I wanted to try it for myself. Food - They are known for their Hong Kong-style food, but they also have pretty much all different types of food from Italian to American. I think they would actually do better if they focused on their Chinese specialities. The food is Chinese comfort food. Surprisingly ok, the beef in my crispy noodles was tender, and the flavor was decent. But it doesn't stand out, 3 stars at best, and I wouldn't bring guests here. Now the service, which is what I usually don't like to focus on with restaurants. Our server took our order, our drinks came, and only 1 of 2 dishes were brought out. About 5 minutes later, our server came by and pointed out that we were missing a dish. I thought she was going to remind the kitchen, but she did not. Another 15 minutes passed, our server was now working the front desk and didn't come back. Since my husband was already completely done eating, I started eating his leftovers. I went to our server to let her know that my food hadn't come out yet. She sent another employee to go check. After another 5 minutes of watching that other employee serve food to another table and still not being checked on by our server, I approached her at the front desk again and this time she did apologize by running to the back. Another 5 minutes pass with no sign of our server so we just decided to wait and pay at the front. While standing there, the food finally came out so I asked for it to go. I know I'm technically getting the food, but many restaurants would not have charged me for the dish that took 40 minutes. They were apologetic at the end, but man...that took quite the effort on my part. Very disappointed.