Swan Garden
6228 N Interstate Avenue, Portland, OR, 97217
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Address :
6228 N Interstate Avenue
Portland, OR, 97217 - Phone (503) 285-6250
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Specialities
- Takes Reservations : No
Delivery : No
Take-out : Yes
Accepts Credit Cards : Yes
Good For : Lunch
Parking : Private Lot
Wheelchair Accessible : Yes
Good for Kids : Yes
Good for Groups : Yes
Attire : Casual
Noise Level : Average
Alcohol : Full Bar
Outdoor Seating : No
Has TV : Yes
Waiter Service : Yes
Categories
Chinese Cuisine
The popularity of Chinese food in America can be adjudicated by the appearance of China Town in many major cities in the United State of America. The popular trend of ordering or opting for Chinese take away food isn't unknown in America. Chinese take away food comes to rescue when you're too tired from work or too exhausted to cook. No one can resist the temptation of eating spicy noodles, shrimp, chicken, beef or pork cooked in the sweet and spicy sauce. The cooking method of authentic Chinese food is a lot different compared to what is served in America.
Generally, Chinese use dark meat small bones and organs to cook dishes but this changes when you are eating American-Chinese fusion food prepared using white boneless meat cooked with broccoli, carrots and onions. Back in China, the food is less spicy and oily as they favor steaming and braising method for cooking the most popular dishes. So, if you have a taste for authentic Chinese food, then try finding a real Chinese restaurant in the city. You can also try the most popular fusion Chinese food like Pecking Duck, Chicken Feet, Hot Pot, Shrimp Dumpling Soup, Mapo Tofu, Wontons, Chop Suey, Egg Rolls and not to forget Fortune Cookies.
There are not many restaurants in America serving authentic Chinese food. A little research on Restaurant Listings directory can help you locate the best Chinese restaurants in the city. Chinese cuisine is continuously evolving, and you can find a variety of dishes categorized as the food for lactose intolerant, gluten intolerant, vegan, vegetarian, and diabetic friendly. So, if you have a group of friends with different taste patterns, save the hassle and visit the nearest Chinese restaurant in your city.
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Michelle H.
Okay, hear me out: It's dead 99% of the time. It's kind of sketchy looking. But sometimes I get wicked cravings for fried Chinese appetizers. It stems from living in a small town with the best hole in the wall food ever [Chinese Cafe in Washougal. Look it up, or don't.]. I get tired of mediocre chow miens and fried rice in epic portions. I don't need it. I do however party with egg rolls, BBQ pork, and other various things like crab puffs and fried shrimp. Getting the appetizer assures that I won't likely descend into a vicious greasy food coma. I'm a clean-your-plate girl, born and bred. To-go portions of Chinese food are dangerous. So I popped in for their appetizer sampler. $7.50? Jesus. Kind of steep. But it comes with egg roll, BBQ pork, and fried shrimp. Okay, so I was hoping for crab puffs, but no dice. I'll take it. You get dinged with a 50 cent surcharge for any and all debit/credit transactions no matter the price point. I'll deal. I don't carry cash. Since I was the only one there, I swear they had to warm up the deep fryer. It took almost 15ish minutes to get my food. It fit in a single to-go container, which kind of made my heart sink. I was hoping for a bigger one, especially for the price. When I unwrapped my treasure box, I unveiled the following: -2 spring rolls -4 pieces of bbq pork -3 fried shrimp That's it. I was officially disappointed. But then I started eating it. And it was actually decent--good really. Fresh oil. Freshly fried. I can dig it. And frankly, I probably didn't need more. It saved room for chocolate cupcakes with peanut butter frosting anyway. So it hit the spot for a little bit of an overcharge. Nothing is over $8 that I saw, so it's not terrible. Next time I might check out a combo plate just to see what the hell, but it'll be hard to tear me away from the appetizers. Plus, it saves me a trip to Washougal.
(3)shyam a.
Well I can't say I like the food or the ambiance. I don't enjoy giving a place one star. But the owners are very nice people. It's up to you to keep this place alive, (but mainly video lottery) buy a drink from the full bar play a game of pool socialize with the indigenous people maybe even order a swan special support your local chinese dive hole... because if you don't this place will become an overpriced vintage store and you will say, "wow, I lived here for 11 years and never even gave it a chance." and that is the yuppification process of a neighborhood in a nutshell.
(5)Holy-foo' X.
They lack the knowing, reveling-in-their-own-swinish-tackiness, ala' Wishing Well or even Lung Fung. They have been in business a very respectable 30 + years now there on N. Interstate, although to all appearances, the bar lounge and video poker, etc, is how they pay the rent. The menu offers much of the same staples you can find at pretty much any Chinese place the entire world over---- the chow mein and sweet sour ribs/soups and curry chicken and wontons and fried rice. They have no salt and pepper squid or shrimp, sadly enough, and the shrimp fried rice offered middle-sized, quite fresh and juicy rice. This was the best American-Chinese shrimp-fried-rice I've had in a while, and I've been actively on the lookout lately. Most of it was NOT good The lackluster menu and complete lack of effort w/decor is what loses The Swan Garden a couple stars. Neither the menu nor the decor look like they have had any modifications or brushing ups. It's far from clear that anyone has even SAT in the one of the boxy, pleathered booths since 1981, as the last few times I've been by, all the customers were in the lounge and/or video poker parlor. However, the staff was friendly and patiently gave thorough answers to any and all questions. Here's hoping they're able to keep it up for another 30+ years...
(3)Hhaley D.
Should be shit down for terrible service and food poisoning! Also three employees came out to yell at me for parking in the parking lot when I was planning on getting wine at new seasons(across the street) and then picking up my order. I wish I would have cancelled everything from this disgusting establishment.
(1)Beth W.
I love this place. Great food. I've been going to Swan Garden for as long as I can remember. I have never had a bad meal. Needs updating but other than that the food is great.
(5)Cary M.
Neither my husband or me have ever posted on Yelp, but the food at Swan Garden is so terrible that we felt compelled to warn the public. We ordered $33.00 worth of food to go, and it tasted so foul that we threw the entire order away, along with the menu.
(1)Michelle M.
My husband and I have been here twice. It's nasty. It reminds me of being in the grade school cafeteria and getting a scoop of the 'chinese surprise' for lunch. Nothing looks fresh and its a sloppy saucy mess. We ordered the chicken chow mein and mongolian beef. Both were puddles of salty goop. The ambiance is lacking with its 70s era decor and table tent advertisements for 'year of the dragon - 2010.' Hello, its 2013. My favorite Chinese right now is Republic Cafe in China Town.
(1)Jessi W.
I just threw my entire dinner from this place away, and will never, ever be back. I ordered the dinner #8 which consisted of Mar Far Chicken, Shrimp Fried Rice and Chicken Subgum Chow Mein and Egg Roll. Two seconds after biting into the Mar Far Chicken, I instantly regretted it. The coating on the chicken was completely soggy, and the oil tasted old and burned. The chicken inside was grey, tough and stringy. I spit that in the garbage and shrugged, maybe they forgot to change the oil, stuff happens right? I decided to pass on the Egg Roll, since that too was fried. So, I opened up the Subgum,. The vegetables were limp, over cooked and when I took a bite, had the after taste of a musty basement. The Shrimp Fried Rice had nice large whole shrimp in it, which would have been nice, had the rice not had the taste of burnt oil, basement and too many bean sprouts for my liking. I really feel like bagging the whole thing up, taking it back and telling them how awful it is. tl;dr: Stale, stale oil, tasted like a basement, sopping with grease. Will not be back.
(1)Keith D.
The original part of this place is a tiny little restaurant that looks as though time started and stopped in 1977, especially for the pleather banquettes and the string art lamps. The food is fine. This won't be the best Chinese you've had in the city but its not the worst and it seems very clean and the staff - though small - is friendly. While we ate the front door opened and closed again and again with locals picking up take-out; for this part of North Portland, there's not much else for Chinese. So I'll give it three stars for all that. If you live in the neighborhood and don't want to blow your carbon-footprint for the week by driving over to Thien Hong on Sandy for the really good stuff, then Swan Garden is the place for you.
(3)Nichole M.
Karaoke tus&fri. Nights! I live a block away & love that its dead! I get fresh food &stiff drinks! Nice local dive. Good people!
(5)Erin E.
This place was horrible! We went in to order take out. I am a huge fan of fried shrimp, and theirs was soggy, and everything fried tasted like 3 month old oil. I will never eat here again, and unless you like stale oil, you shouldn't either.
(1)walter m.
Don't eat the chicken. Have been dealing with food poising for the past 24 hours. I contacted the restaurant and no one will help.
(1)Micah D.
Just went there and got some take-out, the food was okay. I'm not a Chinese Food Expert but I ordered Shrimp Chow Mein and they gave me shrimp with bean sprouts and a bag of what looked like fried noodle sticks, when my sister, who was visiting saw this, she said it was wrong. We went back and asked her for what we ordered and she said that is what we ordered. We explained that in all of our years of eating Shrimp Chow Mein we had never seen it with just shrimp and bean sprouts. She wouldn't let us order something else saying that it was not like a dress we could return, funny. Big fat zero in customer service. She got to keep the 8 bucks she charged for the dish, but she lost my repeat business.
(2)John W.
The food here isn't great by any means but you get a large portion for what you pay.. The drinks may not be overly strong unless your a regular but they are cheaper than any place around. Also, the pool table is a dollar a game but its a newer table and much better than any in the area.
(3)Justin T.
I dropped into this place a few nights ago, because it was on my hit list now that it was non-smoking. It was a Saturday night, the place was dead except for this really drunk girl. I couldn't help but overhear her conversation with the bartender. She was asked if she's got a job and she said yeah she's a laborer then did this pantomime of rowing a boat like she was a slave in a ship's galley and that she wasn't some office person, then she acted like she was talking and giggling on a phone - then she settled up and staggered out. My vodka-tonic was good, didn't seem too weak, but at $3 it was cheap so it was fine. There's a pool table, but other than that not much going on.
(3)Rachael L.
I live nearby and have gotten the take-out a few times. Last time was probably the last time. The food is pretty average for Chinese food, I've definitely had better, and probably haven't had much worse. Whatever you do, do NOT order the sweet and sour soup as it will make you want to NEVER EVER eat here again. It looked so gross I was afraid to try it. My husband had about 3 spoonfuls and couldn't bring himself to eat anymore. We might eat here again if we had a sudden overwhelming and immediate desire for Chinese food and were utterly desperate, but will probably just find somewhere else not too far away.
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