I love a hole in the wall place. You get good service, good food and a good price. Rose Garden in Down Town Henderson is no exception. I first heard of it through Yelp a few day prior to my visit. It sounded good but I was already home for the night and didn't want to go back out. Instead, I waited until after a morning hike on Saturday. I came it for lunch and was pleased to see the lunch menu on the table. So many places do not offer their lunch specials on the weekends. This place does. Awesome! And the lunch specials are a crazy good price. I think some of them start at $3.25. I got the lemon chicken lunch for $4.95. For this incredible price I got lemon chicken, fried rice, a bowl of hot and sour soup and a curry puff. Not a bad deal. Not bad at all. And it was good food too.
The chicken was the classic and better known to me style meaning it was a whole chicken breast breaded and fried then sliced and drizzled with lemon sauce. The fried rice was about the same as you would find at other places but I can't say that I have ever had just a stellar fried rice that blows all others out of the water. I've had some horrible fried rice in the past. This was not one of those examples. The curry puff seemed to be a cream cheese rangoon with some curry in the cheese mixture. It was good but I would have liked a little more of that curry flavor. I was given the choice between the curry puff and an egg roll. I went with the curry puff because it sounded different. I will be sure to try the egg roll next time. I was also given a choice of soup. It was between the hot an sour which I ordered and the tradition standard egg drop. I went with the hot and sour because that is what I was craving when I first read about Rose Garden a few days prior to this visit. It was more spicy than what I am used to at other Chinese places around town. It may have even been more sour. There was something that seemed off at first but I grew to like by the time I finished my bowl. Not sure what though. Probably just a flavoring I am not used to. I could get used to it though.
I will be back. Probably a lot I would imagine. I think this just became my go to Chinese restaurant in the Henderson area. I liked it that much. I look forward to trying other items on the menu. There is so much more on both the lunch and dinner menus. The one thing I don't look forward to is the radio. I think they are using an old radio with an antenna and it didn't seem to have the best reception. There was an awful lot of static. When it comes to food, service and price, I'll learn to tune out the static.