Desert Jade Restaurant

3215 E Indian School Rd, Phoenix - 85018
210 reviews
Chinese
(602) 954-0048

Definitely worth a visit. Plenty of options on the menu. Lunch specials are excellent. Staff was friendly and courteous. Hot tea served immediately after seated. Such a nice compliment.

This is the best Chinese food I’ve found in Arizona, hands down. Our server, Eileen was amazing, so sweet love her! Broccoli & beef, soooo good. Sesame chicken was an actual chicken breast and too delish. Will definitely be back!

To begin, we were immediately given tea, which was quite good, and the pot was never empty. The menu is reasonably extensive. We ordered three dishes to share for three people: BBQ Pork Chow Mein, Spicy Shrimp and Chicken with Vegetables. The latter two came with either fried rice or regular white rice, so we got one of each. The dishes came out fairly quickly and all were very flavorful. The chow mein noodles were thin and lightly fried so they were crispy and the pork was delicious, as were the other two entrees. The shrimp has a spicy rating of 1-10. I recommend midrange unless you like things hot. Our server was excellent, very attentive. All in all, a very pleasant experience, which I enjoyed again with leftovers for lunch the next day.

The service was great! Food was delicious! The portions were very small for what you pay for a dish.

We got sesame chicken which was decent, chicken fried rice which had like no egg or veggies and I needed to add a lot of chili garlic paste for some flavor, egg rolls that had really delicious filling but were really more like spring rolls, and the fried wontons which were cold and CHEWY!!!!!!!! They were literally hard to eat. And they had the tiniest dab of cream cheese inside which probably wouldn’t have been so noticeable if they had been hot. Pretty sure we got an order of them no one picked up that was sitting out for a few hours.

Picked up dinner here tonight. We went for some pretty standard fare, sweet and sour chicken, hot and sour soup, beef and broccoli, and some cream cheese wontons. The food ranged from mediocre to inedible. The sweet and sour chicken was wildly overcooked. Most of the chicken was rock hard with the few edible pieces being stringy and dry. The beef and broccoli was about as "good" as panda express and a few of our wontons didn't seem to have any filling. The soup was pretty good, but not good enought to excuse the rest of the food.

The worst Chinese I have EVER had!!!! Fried rice was stale, maybe a teaspoon of cream cheese in the wonton that were chewey and not crispy, and the egg rolls? Thin, paper like wrapping instead of thick and crispy shell. My boyfriend and I threw our plates and the rest of the food in the trash!! Do not get takeout here!!!

Used be a great place but now the food is just mediocre. So sad.

Food is always good ? very consistent and very reasonably priced and very friendly staff and they are very attentive and the lunch specials are great ?

It is said that Phoenix has pretty good food choices so we traveled from Maricopa Az to try & find a good Chinese spot. Reviews lead us to pick this place & see for ourselves how the food was. I wish we hadn't because our first experience will never lead us back here ever again. We ordered for pickup & I hate doing that because if something is wrong with food we will not see it until we are home eating it. Can't take it back & get money back. We ordered: Tangerine Beef- beef was dried out meat breaded & saturated in a overwhelming orange peel tasting sauce. Sesame Chicken- Fried tasteless thick cut of chicken breast laid in thin gravy. 2 orders of Chicken Egg Foo Young- found something stringy on patty otherwise they were good until found that long string & lost my appetite. Fried Wontons- way, way over cooked with 1/4 tsp of cream cheese sitting with all that Wonton wrap. Panda Express has better Wonton! They were absolutely unedible like eating a day old Wonton. Egg Rolls- very small, thin wrapping & nasty. My two year old wouldn't even eat it & she loves egg rolls. Chicken Fried Rice- Very dry, not a lot of flavor, hardly no vegetables or eggs. It was just like eating rice that soaked up all the soy sauce to get the color, no moisture at all. I was so looking forward to some good Chinese food since I hadn't had any in a month. Sadly to say, this place was a horrible first visit & lots of money in the garage. Portion size are small for take home orders, they don't even fill up your containers. The prices for the food is just way over priced for the quality & food portions. Very disappointing ? I hope this review make them step up their game & start making good food for the next customers.