Happy Garden

Good place for cheap takeout! Big portions. The Chinese food here is as good as it gets in the area.

I come from a long line of people who love Chinese food. I have eaten at some of the best Chinese restaurants in Manhattan from mulberry street to fine dining in midtown. This is not good Chinese food. First and foremost, fried rice is not yellow. They use the same fry batter for the general tso from the sweet and sour. You know the puffy fry batter. The sesame chicken was way overcooked and tough. I gave them two stars because the fried vegetable dumplings are tasty and the lo mein is acceptable. The egg rolls are tough and tasteless. I’m saddened by the people who have reviewed this well and duped me into ordering from here.

The best Chinese restaurant in Croton for take out. All the food is always top notch for a to go place!

Fried dumplings are great and they even let us split the order, half veg. That’s good service! Solid lo men. Would order again :)

sesame chiken was so good and portion was very big.

hate to do this, but between the almost two hours it took to deliver, (to just over the croton town line) repeated assurances that the food was «five or ten minutes away»…enormous difficulty of the person on the other end of the phone to understand me and vice and versa and finally cold, mediocre food — never again.

Maybe I’ve just been suffering with less-​than-​great Chinese for a couple of years, but I find this takeout place to be EXCELLENT. There is absolutely no ambiance to speak of as I am sure that 90% of their business goes to takeout. However, there are a few tables and a giant fish tank with a pair of grotesquely huge, ugly fish.
There are a few dishes at Chinese places where, if they are not good, I’ll get pretty annoyed. That being said, if they are done «right» (i.e., the way I like it), I am thrilled. These include wonton soup and Chicken with Broccoli. It seems impossible to make a poor wonton soup, but believe me, it happens and you don’t want to try it. Happy Garden’s wontons have substance to them; the dough is thick and a bit chewy. The broth is just salty enough. They also have those thin crispy noodles that they give you in abundance to throw in there.
The chicken with broccoli, if done wrong, has soggy broccoli, rubbery, grisly chicken, a strange white sauce, and (if you’re really unlucky) tasteless other vegetables. Happy Garden does it right! JUST chicken and broccoli. Brownish garlic sauce, but not too much of it (just enough to wet your rice a little without making it soggy). The broccoli is still bright green and has a tiny bit of crisp to it.
Also? Brown rice! Thank you god. I am so sick of white rice already. This place offers brown!
The only negatives?
–the dumplings. Too puffy, not enough flavor.
–the place itself. I would love if this were an actual restaurant that I could visit without wanting to retch.
If I lived here, this would be my go-​to place for sure. Also, they offer free delivery with only a $ 10 minimum.