Dragon Inn

We have recently moved to this area of town. After 2 visits we are adding this to our regular restaurants list. Service was exceptional both times! The food is very good. Great place!

The smells of the restaurant is very unpleasant! And the taste of the food is pretty much like the smell, moldy old carpet! I almost vomited after a few bites! General Tso chicken was overly sour, tasted rotten :(

First time here, not many other Chinese restaurants I like in the area. Great food, good price for a lunch special, fast and friendly service. Definitely making this a regular visit.

Convenient to the office and a place to re-​visit unpretentious Chinese food of previous decades.
Lunch specials are in the $ 7 – 9 range and provide a starter, soup, main and tea.
Fast, efficient and middle of the road satisfying.

Came here for the first time tonight and had a great experience. Ordered sesame chicken and vegetable fried rice for entrees; crab Rangoon and hot/​sour soup to start. Rangoons were crispy and airy, not thick so the filling was the star rather than the dough. Nice, but nothing special — no crab to be found but they were good. Soup was good, nice flavor.
The sesame chicken was tasty and the pieces were small with plenty of sweet, gingery sauce. Easily split between two people; we even had leftovers. The best dish by far was the veggie fried rice. It is prepared fresh with large chunks of egg, soy sauce, and veggies — lots of veggies — snow peas, bean sprouts, carrots, mushroom, peas, and broccoli. If you’ve been to a Hibachi grill and had fried rice made to order, then you’ll be familiar with this dish. I have never seen fried rice executed this well at a Chinese restaurant before. I will be back.

Best Chinese I’ve had in a long time! Everything was great from the soup to the fried rice. Only problem is the pricing on their website is behind what they actually charge. Website says 6.95 and it actually costs 7.25. Not a huge difference but annoying regardless.

I have been coming to this restaurant since i was born. Cathy and her family treated us like family. The food jas always been amazing. Unfortunately as time goes on and ownership is transferred to other family members.
The food is still outstanding but not as good as it used to be. The service is what is really suffering now. We still eat here on occasion but not like we used to.

Hidden little gem in old Overland Park. Tasty food for a good price. Service is quick and friendly. Very clean and organized.

I have been eating at the Dragon Inn since I was a kid and to this day I have never had a bad experience. Crab rangoon is by far the best I have ever had at any Chinese establishment. Any of the schezwan dishes are great. Moo soo chicken is also very good. The workers actually know myself and my family, and they are incredibly nice. Not the most attentive at times, but they don’t all speak english that well. It’s a true chinese restaurant. People who have left negative comments, sorry your experience wasn’t as good as all of mine! Overall, great place to get chinese food!

Dragon Inn offers a good experience in a somewhat quintessential Chinese restaurant environment. Though they advertise authentic Szechwan and Peking-​style Chinese, I find them to be more American-​style than anything… they have Chop Suey on the menu.
As for the environment, it is in a great building — there is a lot of charm in the old downtown Overland Park area. However, I would recommend that you avoid sitting near the kitchen — it’s not that the kitchen is dirty or unappealing, but it just doesn’t make for the optimal dining experience.
I had the Spicy Beef and Scallops and my wife had the Shrimp with Lobster Sauce; we also ordered some steamed beef dumplings for an appetizer. I thought the dumplings were tasty enough — but the duck sauce that came with them was fantastic. The Shrimp with Lobster Sauce was cooked well — it was eggy and delicious. The Spicy Beef with Scallops was not spicy enough for my liking, and the Scallops were a bit too soft.
As for the service, the waitress was attentive if a bit unfriendly… perhaps there was a bit of a language barrier. The restaurant was not even half-​full at 6:30 PM on a Saturday night — so the staff was not rushed in any way. However, it appears that they get a lot of takeout orders.
There is definitely some room for improvement, but overall I would go back. I would give it a B.

Dragon Inn almost sounds like a hotel but it’s a restaurant. There was street parking and maybe I was lucky to find a spot right in front. It was small inside and wasn’t busy. The back area was supposedly their private room, but it didn’t seem like it to me. There were 11 others at our table and we were going to all pick a dish from the menu then do a family-​style thing; however, we decided to split into two separate tables so it would be easier to share food.
We ordered a couple of appetizers which were the Fried Meat Dumplings ($ 5.95) and the King Crab Rangoon ($ 5.95). I can’t remember what we all ordered on our side of the table but I know I wanted to try the Sha Cha Beef ($ 9.95). The sad thing (kind of) was I had no idea which one was the Sha Cha Beef since I was taking pictures of food and didn’t hear what the waitress said on the other end of the table. I just know that they all looked similar to each other in the brown sauce.
The Fried Meat Dumplings were okay and nothing special. The King Crab Rangoons were pretty good though. The rest of the food came out and the other half of our table ordered duck for everybody to share. They had those pancake wrap things to wrap the duck but we were 4 short. I didn’t know this until the bill came but they will charge you for the extra pancake wraps! They were 50 cents each so just a FYI if you were going to do that. The food on my side of the table all tasted similar to each other and I didn’t feel like anything stood out. It was all okay to me.
Our waitress came by from time to time to check on us and to fill up our water. Even though we were in the back/​side of the restaurant, it didn’t feel like we were totally neglected which was good.
I thought the food here was okay and you can’t really go wrong with anything on the menu from what I saw. The prices were reasonable in my opinion.

Solid Chinese place. We used to go to their 83^rd St location for takeout at least twice a month growing up, and now we add five minutes to our drive to go to their OP location. The owners and staff are really nice, and the food is consistently good. We love the egg rolls, cashew chicken, and beef and broccoli. The fried rice is also tasty, and my dad’s girlfriend is rather partial to the spicy garlic chicken. This location looks a lot busier that the 83^rd St location was. When we picked up takeout on a Friday at 6:30 before a Royals playoff game, the place was almost full.