Happy Gathering - Cardiff

Absolutely appalling!!! Booked over a week ago for our birthdays!!! Not open!! No phone call! Travelled 3 hours to come for a Chinese to join our children for their birthday! Couldn’t be bothered to give me call. We now have no where booked to eat on a Friday evening at 7.30 pm! Absolutely disgusting, why you don’t have the courtesy to call me! So disappointed and cross. On top of a £30 round trip taxi fair had to pay for!!

As always the dim sum is delicious. Service always great I think I've been coming here for over 40 yrs. I think some of the decor has been here that long. LOL

Went to the Happy Garden as looking for somewhere for Dim Sum in Cardiff with family and friends. Saw this restaurant in a general search on the internet had good reviews so we went there: we were not disappointed. Very good traditional Dim Sum offering with prompt service. Good selection with menus in Chinese and English which is really helpful as the two were aligned so easier to make choices. All dishes selected were very well presented and had good flavours. Roast duck and pork was very tasty if a little small as dishes go. Fried seafood noodles was nice and enough for 4 to share. Deep fried squid had an unusual sauce not the standard sweet chilli: very tasty. Only downside, was seating upstairs and no obvious signs of a lift, so may be a challenge on access: downstairs was closed. Didn't see any lift marked.

The food at this restaurant is decent, but the decor is a bit outdated. The portion sizes are generous, but there are other Chinese restaurants in Cardiff that serve tastier dishes.

I just have to say this is the worst Chinese food I’ve ever eaten. Tasteless sloppy. The “oyster sauce” tasted more like weak gravy! Satay sauce was terrible. Think twice before going!