Crystal Jade

My favorite place to get Chinese food. Delicious, flavorful food. The staff is very attentive and the service is really fast, I would be very interested to see someone who got impatient with the service since it is so stinking fast. Usually a very quiet environment, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Overall, a wonderful place that I’m surprised isn’t so incredibly popular as it deserves.

I love the vegan menu. My favorite dish is Twin Generals, but also like the Mongolian Mock Duck. I have dined in and picked up orders from Crystal Jade. I have always found their staff to be friendly and helpful.

Great atmosphere and friendly staff. The food is great too. Anyone with food allergies come on in. The glutten free menu is top notch. Being someone with a severe allergy gluten allergy I have never had any trouble. This is the one restaurant I feel safe to eat at with my allergy and will keep coming back. My favorites are the gluten free sweet and sour chicken and the gluten free Mongolian beef. Delish!

Worth the drive. And I live over 1000 miles away!
Seriously, this restaurant has the best gluten-​free menu I have seen at any Asian restaurant. Ever. The portions of food are giant! The prices are extraordinarily low! The drinks are wonderful. The service is fast. I took my dad here for lunch, then I took my mom here for dinner. I way over-​ordered just so I’d have leftovers tomorrow! It’s that good!

This is a unique place (see pic added) where some of the entrees come out pretty darn good. But when they are, you usually get miffed by something sad like stale old fried rice. It’s just plain spotty. Service has been reliably good, not to mention the magnificent prices for wide selection of adult beverages. I enjoy this restaurant but with the varying food quality (even if you order the same thing every time) I struggle to get excited about returning.

I had a weekday lunch at this place which is a stone’s throw west of 72^nd street. My choice was the Chicken with Vegetables. It came with a cup of soup (Hot and Sour or Egg Drop). I opted for the latter and it was a bit salty but good.
The meal had fresh veggies cooked just right including: broccoli, carrots, water chestnuts, onion and those little edible ears of corn. The white meat chicken seemed fresh and it was all tossed in a light brown sauce. I ordered it with steamed rice which came in a separate small bowl. If more flavor is of your choosing, one could get fried rice instead.
For my beverage, I ordered the iced tea with lemon. It tasted fresh brewed with a hint of smoky flavor– very unique. I meant to ask the waitress about it.
The service was good and it didn’t take long to get my food. All in all, a budget conscious place to go for a good, efficient lunch.

This place has so-​so food and portion sizes for above average prices.
The presentation was pretty, but keep the fancy cut carrot for the extra 3 to 4 dollars per dinner.
Luckily, no one got ill from this visit, as I’ve heard of some bad results from others.
Wasn’t drinking that evening, but it seemed they had cheap beer?
Maybe go just for the beer.

Reliably fresh and tasty Chinese! Excellent value,!especially for the drinks! Needs more traffic!

I had high hopes for this place after reading the reviews. It failed to live up to those expectations. I had general chicken and the size of the plate was really small, and it lacked any heat or flavor. Fried rice barely looked fried and it was really plain. Our table went family style and sampled several dishes and all were extremely Americanized (either flavorless, or tasted like sugar), to the point that Leann Chin or Panda Express would be considered more authentic. Asian food is by far my favorite because whether it’s Vietnamese, Korean, Japanese, Thai, Mongolian, or even Chinese they all have one thing in common… flavor. Our dishes lacked that. It wasn’t the worst Chinese I’ve ever had, but it would probably fall into the bottom 5 I’ve been to. Two stars only because the service was good, and the egg drop soup wasn’t bad.

F U. 4 people at lunch when you’re surrounded by thousands of business professionals should have been a warning sign. Serving my meal in 3 minutes should have been the «LEAVE NOW» sign. I’ve been puking my brains out for the past 9 hours from your poisoned food. The Aksarben Suites next door will never recommend you guys again. (Thank you to the amazing hotel staff and a great stay there otherwise)

I was visiting Omaha and having just recently come from San Francisco I was not very terribly excited to going to a Chinese restaurant. However my sister insisted and we went to check it out I order the kung pao chicken spicy hot she ordered the broccoli chicken and we also had shrimp plate. I must admit when looking at the restaurant I didn’t think much of it but the service was great the servers were friendly and fast the food came out hot and very very tasty but we tried both the white rice and the fried rice and they were both delicious. We also got good portions. I would certainly come back

It’s been a while since I’ve had quality Chinese food. We ordered three dishes for take out. Sesame Chicken, Sweet and Sour shrimp, and Mongolian Delight. It was delicious, all of it. Definitely my new go to!

Unless Monday is an off day for them, this place is just plain bad. A pretty much empty restaurant should have been my first sign to turn around and find a different place.
Service seemed to consist of one waitress and one busboy/​cashier for the whole place. Not a big issues, as only 3 tables were occupied. Which makes the poor level of service received even more puzzling. Food was dropped off, but never a check on whether it was up to par or not. Then waiting forever to get a check; even though I piled the plates on top of each other in case there was confusion if I was done or not.
In terms of food: Egg roll did not taste like it was prepared in house. The entrée was ok: shrimp was good, but beef was «mystery shredded bits». The fried rice option is not really fried rice, just white rice with soy sauce (you can taste it) and some pieces of egg. I have had better food at $ 8.00 buffets.
Sorry, not sure I understand the high reviews; this place is a one star!

Vegan menu available. Wonderful employees and owners. Seriously one of the best restaurants in Omaha. Try the curry noodle soup and the crispy eggplant!

Mediocre at best the egg rolls had a funny taste. We didn’t finish our dinner. My thirteen year old who usually eats out of house and home didn’t even finish his meal and he loves Chinese food. We are leave here to get something to eat. I gave a 3 star because of presentation.

O.M.Yeezy. GLUTEN-​FREE GENERAL TSO’S???
It’s real. Real real.
Y’all, there is anything (literally anything) you need, Asian-​food-​wise, except Vietnamese, here at Crystal Jade. Vegans? They gotchu, boo boo. Gluten-​Freeda-​Kahlo? Thursdays, my friends. Okay, all the time, since they have dedicated an entire page of the menu to gluten-​free options. But Thursdays, in particular, they do half-​price chicken wings and a free egg drop soup with your GF entrée purchase.
Shut the front door, right?
This is the best damn egg drop soup I have had in Omaha, hands down. There is a buttery richness to it that is just incomparable. Ask for them to add green onions, as it doesn’t originally come with the soup.
Even if you’re not Celiac, the Crispy Shrimp on the gluten-​free menu is something out of a dream. And yes, there is GF General Tso’s. And Sesame Chicken.
Basically I died and went to heaven.
If they could find a way to duplicate Honey Walnut Shrimp in a gluten-​free way, I would never eat anywhere else in this city. But they haven’t figured that out yet.
Realistically this place may only be a 3.5 star. I haven’t had real Chinese food in so long that I almost forget what it tastes like. Maybe I’m a little too excited that they have so many GF options. But they also have $ 2 beers for my sweet husband, and other amazing drink specials.

Nothing puts a smile on my face like the vibes of an old school Chinese place. The menu here is very extensive and has a variety of different Asian-​American cuisine (hints the pan-​asian I suppose). From Thai to Chinese to Korean, you can literally mix and match appetizers, drinks and entrees — which is exactly what I did.
I ordered a Thai tea, which was very good – not to sweet and very rich, the chicken chow mein (brown sauce is the way to go) and order of crab rangoon. My friend ordered a green curry dish with tofu. Both our meals were excellent. The chicken chow mein actually had meat in it unlike other restaurants that overload on cabbage and skip putting a good amount of protein in the dish. Chow mein noodles were very crispy, as well as the crab rangoon. Crab rangoon had a good amount of cream cheese in it as well! The curry was also very good, actually thick in consistency and not overly soupy and was packed with tofu and veggies. Very good meal for a cheap price!
I commend our server, sweet little Asian lady! She’s very quick, polite, remembers your face, and always open to make suggestions or tend to your every need. The food and service always brings me back for more.

I’m glad we decided to try eating here. It’s very clean and the service is excellent. The crab rangoon and egg roll were as good as any I’ve had in omaha. My girlfriend liked the hot and sour soup, and I thought the wonton soup was amazing. It was salted perfectly and the two wontons were delicious. The mongolian beef was tender and well seasoned. The hot garlic chicken was also excellent, and both dishes had crisp fresh veggies in them. We found our favorite chinese restaurant! Yay!

My favorite thing about Crystal Jade is its abundance of delicious vegan offerings, both appetizer and entrée. A favorite spot for the Omaha Vegan Meetup group, Crystal Jade has gone above and beyond to accommodate people such as myself. There is even a dish named for Isa Moskowitz, proprietor of Modern Love, prolific cookbook author, and the «world’s coolest chef» according to Buzzfeed. (Isa noodle — dig it.)
For protein, a vegan can order tofu, mock duck (seitan), or both. If I had to choose one or the other, I’d go with the mock duck because of its substantial texture and savory tastiness. However, I love the tofu here as well and would just feel unfulfilled if I didn’t have it on my plate, too! Ordering both does result in the highest price for any particular vegan dish ($ 12.95 at the time of this writing).
I ordered the lemak curry for the first time this last visit. I now have a new favorite curry and a new favorite at Crystal Jade! My dish included tofu, mock duck, bamboo shoots, and pineapple. The curry was creamy, not oily, and so flavorful. Oh, and I got a vegan egg roll for an appetizer. It’s a pretty standard egg roll, crispy and full of a cabbage. Yummy enough and just one of several vegan apps.

I would say this was a 2.5 star experience but since there is no half star on Unilocal I had to round down.
The good — the fried dumplings were great and you can’t beat 1.88 bottles of beer.
The bad — crab rangoons were really sad and my curry noodle soup came out room temp. I sent it back and got the same temp in return. I did not eat it but I was still charged for it.
The mediocre — both of our entrees were just so-​so. My orange beef was edible but nothing I would return for and Aimee’s pad thai was soupy and sweet. We ate both but we are in no hurry to have either again.
I wish it would have been better because the service was not bad and the people were very friendly. Many other options in town that are much better.