"On September 1, 2022, our favorite Chinese restaurant, Ginger Blossom [hidden link] unexpectedly closed. They seemed to do well despite the pandemic, but changed ownership sometime in the last couple of years. The beginning of the end perhaps was the fact that since around July they did not have a sushi chef, but they also did some renovations in preparation of the return of dine in service that never seemed to materialize for them. Regardless, my wife and I would order take out every Friday the same five appetizers spring rolls, crab rangoons, pan fried meat dumplings, boneless spare ribs, and fried chicken fingers and some entree , and the staff got to become familiar with me as a result. Is that a good thing or not? Super disappointing to see them go. I realized recently that I never reviewed them, but I would have given them four stars. In the weeks since, we've been trying to find a new Chinese restaurant that could possibly hold a candle to Ginger Blossom without being too far away. So far we have tried Main Garden [hidden link] , Hong Kong Garden [hidden link] , and Mandarin Wilbraham [hidden link] , in decreasing order of quality with regards to the aforementioned food. Most recently we tried Ichiban East Longmeadow, and so far their food has been the best of the four, but still lacking in portion size. Their General Tso's chicken was much spicier than Ginger Blossom's, that's for sure! So our search continues on for a Chinese restaurant on par with Ginger Blossom, but for those like us who frequented Ginger Blossom, Ichiban East Longmeadow seems to have good quality food."
