Green Jade Restaurant - Hobart

Great restaurant to go if you want an authentic Chinese food and experience. Family business for many decades. Beautiful, helpful and friendly staff, beautiful food with a quiet, cozy atmosphere and traditional decor. Never felt hurried for the service or needed to eat... my food fast to punctually before the next session, which is wonderful. I love this place.

This restaurant is warm and welcoming, with an excellent kitchen. Just be aware that they only accept cash or Eftpos.

We visited a deserted restaurant on Saturday at 8:00. The hostess was friendly. The restaurant was small and quiet, with no music. Surprisingly, there was no drink menu or ability to pay with Eftpos, which was odd for a licensed restaurant. The food was okay, but there are better Chinese restaurants out there.

This restaurant is perfect for anyone craving authentic Chinese cuisine. The food is beautifully presented and pairs well with local wines. The ambience is fantastic, with charming curtains adding to the atmosphere. The Flounder dish is a standout favorite.

I only wanted to go here for the kitsch and novelty value. I think they mainly operate as a take away, I'm not sure if people eat there much but it was empty at 6pm on a Saturday night when I went there. I wanted...to leave when I got there and I didn't think to ask to see a menu and then excuse myself. The lovely lady who came out to greet me was very friendly, so I felt embarrassed to leave and stayed there reluctantly, thinking it'd be pretty dodgy, and it was. The decor was really cool though, straight out of 1976-1985 and well-preserved. I kind of romanticise those innocent days of restaurant dining, to which there was a sort of conviviality, I feel the love in it and as such it was very sad and melancholy as I observed the deserted, abandoned love of a long-forgotten, bygone era. The food however, gave no room for such nostalgia and was a bit of a shambolic mess of inadequate care. I was actually looking forward to a simple and tasty dish, maybe unremarkable but pleasant, but saddened to say it had some hideous elements. Um, half-cooked packet beans past their use-by date and borderline off meat. I didn't get sick but my stomach felt uneasy afterwards. I had the ginger beef which I thought'd be interesting and when you could actually taste the ginger sauce, it was delicious, but there needed to be a little more of it. These are Chinese people cooking their own food in 2013, it shouldn't be this sub-par, and it'd be easy to do a lot better and make some use of the fun, campy decor. As there are plenty of good Asian places dotted along Elizabeth St., well, I don't know how they stay in business. Shame because if the host/owner was anything to go by, they're really lovely people. Surreal.