Joyful Garden

Reviews

• David C.

  star star star star star_border 11 June 2026

  Ever since I started working in downtown Wilmington, I searched wide and far for a chinese food spot for lunch. Not only does Joyful Garden offer the convenience of online ordering, they give you a 5% discount for ordering online. Also, repeat customers can redeem a stamped "rewards card" for a free meal after so many orders. Of course the food isn't authentic chinese food, but it certainly does the job of filling you up, all while tasting pretty darn good. My go-to lunch orders are Chicken/Beef with Garlic Sauce, Szechuan Chicken/Beef or General Tsos Chicken. I'd avoid the egg rolls as they are quite anaemic when it comes to the filling. Where else can you get a full meal and drink for $6 in downtown Wilmington? The staff are always working hard and fast to get orders out as fast as possible, especially during lunchtime. I have yet had a negative experience with respect to waiting for my order. My order is always ready within 15 minutes of placing it.

• Jessica B.

  star star_border star_border star_border star_border 1 June 2026

  I'm wondering if the owners changed, because the food here has gone down in quality over the past 3 years.  I always loved to order from here because they carry Ho Fun noodles, which is a favorite of mine.  My coworkers stopped ordering after a few instances of clumpy sauce and bad textured chicken.  I recently placed an order from Door Dash and the food was easily the worst Chinese that I had in a while.  Sauces were clumpy and salty, meat was awful, dumplings bland.

• Joe P.

  star star star_border star_border star_border 31 May 2026

  I don't really like the taste of the food here. The sauce on the chicken and broccoli was not good. The chicken in the house special fried rice didn't look, feel (texture wise), or taste anything like chicken. I just ate around them because it was definitely not the same that was in my chicken and broccoli.
  There aren't a lot of good Chinese stores in Wilmington so I figured I write this for the next I want Chinese food I will be reminded to not get it here.

• Jade R.

  star star_border star_border star_border star_border 29 May 2026

  Worst experience ever! Do not waste your money! I ordered a shrimp lo mein, extra spicy no vegetables & got shrimp lo mein with extra vegetables not spicy. Called back in to let them know they made a mistake and the woman argued me down I didn't tell her my order correctly. Will never order again

• Mog P.

  star star_border star_border star_border star_border 17 May 2026

  Absolutely terrible. Worst Chinese me and my friend have ever had. Avoid like the plague.