Mandarin Restaurant

Takeout food was quite good, We ordered 3 dishes and a couple of appetizers but the quantities were huge, enough for 5 – 6 people. The waitress gave us a menu when I picked up the food and I saw there is a $ 16.95 two item option for one person and another around $ 34 for two. Should have ordered that, We had way too much food.

I came here with my colleagues for our Christmas lunch. The restaurant isn’t very far from our office. We came here because it is conveniently close by and that it is good for big groups. I ordered the Wor Wonton soup. Everyone else at the table ordered one of the lunch specials. You get to select an item (sweet and sour ribs, dry ribs, chicken balls. etc) to go with chicken fried rice and steam fried vegetables and a drink for $ 11.95 plus tax. The food was ok. My soup was quite salty and the pieces of pork were dry but the vegetables were nicely cooked. My colleagues had similar sentiments about their meals that it was salty and some of the food was overcooked. I will say this though that their chicken balls actually had more chicken than batter so that was good.
The restaurant itself isn’t very inviting and definitely needs a face lift as well as a good scrub. The service, however, was good considering there were two large groups eating at the same time. This place will not be my number one spot to go to for Chinese food, but it will curb the craving if I can’t put it off when I am at work.

Hate coming to this place. It gets worse every time. But sadly I have a few older caucasian relatives who love «white chinese» food and who like to come for special occasions. After our experience today, I’m really hoping they’ll pick some other bad western chinese food dive next time. Edmonton is filled with such restaurants.
The quality of The Mandarin has been slipping for years, but after being served war wonton soup containing rotten wontons I will never agree to come to the restaurant again. I was suspicious of the soup just looking at the mushrooms, which I could see were past their prime (mushy grey stalks and very bruised and battered caps) but not just that, they appeared unwashed with visible dirt still on them. Yuck! The wontons themselves looked like they had mange. They were literally balding with no wrapper left on the meat, and here’s the kicker, the meat was spoiled. Old rotten wontons in the wonton soup. If something that simple and with high turnover doesn’t make the grade, I have serious doubts about the quality and safety of the other food. Just gross!
The owners did remove the soup from our bill, but in all my life and in all the dingy and dirty Chinese restos I’ve been to (there have been many), never have I had spoiled wontons. I was also just unimpressed by the service. Server/​owner slopped the soup all over the table, forgot to bring spoons for the soup, forgot twice to bring hot sauce for the dry ribs. These guys are not new at this business, and it wasn’t even busy.
Oh and my personal favourite event happened too, food racism, acting all shocked when the whitegirl declines silverwear, and as soon as we sit down removing the side plate and bowl on the assumption we won’t use them. What the heck is that? The crazy thing is, this owner is on a first-​name basis with a couple of my family members. Yet we still suffered this very amateurish neglect.
Honestly I’ve been a patron of this restaurant through about 20 years and 3 owners, and this is the worst it’s been. I really think it needs new ownership because it’s just so bad, it’s like the current owners are burnt out and don’t care about quality at all. They’ve been through rough times in trying to open and run a bubble tea shop next door, and have had two kids since buying the restaurant, and I think this burden has caused their main business to suffer in terms of quality and customer service.

Ordered wonton soup, fried rice and some traditional veggie dish. Two kids and parents. There was enough food for six! Very tasty. Not long wait. Staff very attentive

Such great food.
I’m really picky and allergic to almost everything so I only eat a few things I the menu and it’s so yummy every single time.
The service is great and the staff is very nice. Definitely somewhere I’ll go more often than not.

After waiting over 95 minutes for our food and calling to ask where it was the delivery man showed up. I called the restaurant to ask if there would be any discount due to the long wait. We spent nearly $ 60 and were given $ 10 off, without any apology. We opened the food to eat it and it was cold. Not impressed.
There are other chinese restaurants in the city so I certainly won’t bother giving this one my business any more.

If we have an option at 0, I will definitely vote ZERO for this restaurant. We’ve been there several times, every time, we need to wait forever for our food. It takes a waiter 20min to give the menu after you took a seat there. What’s more, once after we had dinner there, all of us 3 people had diarrhea that night. Taste of food is not that bad but you can have something the same or better at any other Chinese restaurant.
Yesterday’s experience made me so angry so I have to write a terrible review here. My cooker was broken last night, so I have to buy some cooked rice downstairs. I waited there for half an hour to get my RICE when the waiter told us rice will be ready in 10min. Yes, just rice. That’s incredible. In the meantime, I saw them serve rice to other costumers again and again. I complained about it, then the restaurateur said, ‘If you want to wait less, just call us before-​head.’ FOR RICE!
Another thing, I was charged $ 14 for 3 boxes of rice. I can’t say it’s a reasonable price.
Anyway, bad bad bad bad bad bad restaurant. It’s a shame its location is so great but they have no idea how to run a restaurant.

Ordered from Mandarin tonight and am very pleased! The food was still hot and got exactly what I ordered. Would highly recommend the Peking pork with pancakes it was so delicious!

To keep it short and simple. I was never a huge fan of Chinese cuisine before. This restaurant — NAILED IT! Its a whole new world for me out there now.
I live right opposite to this restaurant and must have walked past it everyday while commuting to work. Sometimes its even tempting to just walk in when you have had a long day at work and in no mood to cook yourself. But thinking about my super slim size zero wallet I usually decide to skip on the temptation.
But then one of my dear Chinese friend suggested we go here for dinner and I obliged by showing up thinking I would rather be eating Greek. Boy I was so wrong. I have never tasted such flavorful, spicy, tasty and downright delicious Chinese food in my life.
The SECRET to get the best out of this restaurant is to tag along with any of your Chinese foodie friends. The reason — they have two menus. One for bumbling no nothing guys like me and a completely different Chinese menu which apparently has dishes which are not featured on the main menu. We got mapa tofu, spicy fried beans, spicy fish and veggie bowl and a regular chicken corn cream soup.
At the end of the day, lets just say my tummy, my wallet and my soul were all completly.

After getting too hungry my sweetie and I ordered food delivered from the Mandarin Restaurant in Edmonton.
The spring roll appetizer was crispy but the oil in which they were done seemed a little off, requiring sauce to cover the slightly acrid taste: I went with soy sauce, my sweetie doused hers in plum sauce.
The shrimp with cashew nuts underwhelmed me: very mildly seasoned shrimp, unadorned cashews, and way too many veggies for my taste.
The fried rice, on the other hand, was very satisfying: savory, filling, with a great amount of egg and seasoning.
The best dish by far was the Szechuan Ginger Beef (Crispy & Spicy), which was in fact crispy and spicy, gingery, and all of the comfort foods my mother never made all rolled into one. A winner. I almost called the restaurant to have another one sent over. Perhaps tomorrow.
The fortune cookies: well, we’ll have to see how accurate they ere.
The Mandarin Restaurant isn’t a boutique artisanal showplace, but does deliver some satisfying food on a cold winters day. I’d order from there again.

I’ve lived around the corner from this place for years but never thought to try it until a friend posted about it on Facebook this week.
Our family ordered takeout last night and were pleasantly surprised by the quality and portions for the price we paid. The dinner for two included hot and sour soup, spring rolls, chicken fried rice, and two entrees of our choice (lemon chicken and ginger beef). The soup was excellent, and the rest of the items were all very good. We would have liked the ginger beef to be a bit spicier, and will specify that next time we order.
I think this is going to be our new go-​to Chinese food place. We still like Lingnan a little better (who can resist their dry spicy chicken?), but Mandarin wins for price and location!

This is the place we take our kids to when they come on weekend visits from university. The food is constantly good and their portion sizes are great to share, which we always do. Overall a nice and quite family run restaurant, not too far from our home. I am not an expert on Chinese cuisine, but I’d recommend this place.

Mandarin Restaurant merits three stars at best. It’s more like a two-​and-​a-​half star kind of place, but Unilocal doesn’t allow us to rate places using half stars.
The owners are accommodating and their children are charming. That’s where my love for Mandarin Restaurant ends. The soup that I was given appeared to be some kind of caterpak stuff (it may have even come from Safeway next door) and the two dishes that I tried were underwhelming at best. If I lived in the area, then I might stop by here if it were within walking distance and I weren’t too fussy about how good my Chinese food should be. Otherwise, I’d give it a pass.

Nice, quiet restaurant, very clean, and sweet family atmosphere. I’m a vegetarian, and I shared spring rolls, veggies with cashew nuts, and fried tofu with a friend, and we loved the food. Great portion sizes — we had leftovers — and great food. I can’t wait to go back again!

I am a huge fan of Mandarin Restaurant! A quiet, family-​owned place (adorable toddlers and all) that has a menu bursting at the seams with flavourful Chinese fare.
Two friends and I picked the «Dinner for Three» option — three full entrees of our choice, plus chicken fried rice, soup, and spring rolls for a good price. Food was hot, quick, and flavour-​FULL.
If you’re looking for a tasty meal that puts the POW back into kung-​pow (or the hot back into Hot and Sour soup), either for dine-​in or take-​out, Mandarin Restaurant will not let you down.