New Mandarin Gate
New Mandarin Gate
food
Super salty won ton soup
Disgusting and NOT hot kung bao chicken. Lunch special comes with flavorless fried rice and inedible crab rangoon
Steamed dumplings are okay
food
Get your karaoke selections in early!
Lunch: garlic chicken
Lunch: cashew chicken
Yummy appetizers! Crab Rangoon, egg rolls, beef satay, pork ribs, chicken dumplings, tempura shrimp...
General Tso's chicken.
Ordered a 2 liter DIET PEPSI. According to receipt, I would get a free COLA for the amount of stuff I ordered, too. This arrived
This is suppose to be almond fried chicken gravy......yuck!
Chiefs duck special! Yummy
Takeout General Tsos Chicken and BBQ pork fried rice !! Huge servings and delicious
outside
General Tso not so good
I meet my friend at Mandarin gate We love Mandarin gate!
interior
drink
interior
ramen and noodles, food
Sam R.
Jan 7, 2024
I ordered delivery from here through Uber eats. I was excited to try this place and saw they had empress shrimp, which a lot of Chinese places don't have in Seattle. It said it was lightly fried. It came with so much breading I thought it was a donut. You can't even tell it's shrimp. The sauce itself was okay. The mushy vegetable came with so much egg, and I specifically asked for no egg. It just tasted like wet dog and after two bites I had to throw it out. The egg rolls were overly fried and nothing special. Even the steamed rice was dry and clumpy. Nothing beats Shanghai garden in Chinatown. I will not be ordering from here again.
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Chimi Y.
Dec 29, 2022
Dined in here before seeing a movie at the AMC next door. Honestly the food was good! The ambience of the restaurant is lacking though so it was not the greatest dine in experience. The Chinese food here is perfect for Chinese take out though! Crab cheese Wontons and egg rolls were crispy, hot and the filling was delicious. Wontons could have more immigration crab but the wontons had a great inside texture.The combo lo mein had great flavor and the meats in the lo mein tasted good. They could add some veggies in there for color since it looked brown but no big deal the taste was there.I really liked the sesame chicken it was smothered with sauce and the chicken was crispy hot and was not just overly breaded chicken like I have experienced elsewhere. NOTE: you need to order rice separately. Rice is not served with any entrees. I'm definitely coming back for takeout!
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Mike F.
Mar 18, 2023
Went to Mandarin Gate on a Saturday evening with 3 friends for dinner. I don't think they gave a rat's ass if we were there or not. The young man at the front desk remained seated, didn't stand up to greet us. He didn't speeak but stayed on his phone and simply pointed at the dining room. I immediately noticed there were no other diners but there were 3 tables that had not been bussed. Our waitress was pleasant but not especially concerned about serving us. Food was okay (no one got ill).This is an unfortunate change from the Mandarin Gate we used to know. Maybe since Covid19 they now exist mostly on takeout/deliveries and karaoke in the bar. Ain't going back. My wallet has legs 'n it'll find better Chinese restaurants.
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Krista R.
Jan 18, 2023
I tried a few different dishes and overall I was impressed! The egg roll and crab rangoon we great, nice and crispy even when delivered, and the sauce was different but delicious! Hot & sour soup is delicious- nice and spicy with lots of flavor. Sesame chicken had a lot of breading but it was still very comforting and yummy. And last, garlic chicken was fresh and tasty, it came with mushrooms and carrots which were both nice compliments. I'll definitely order again!
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Susane G.
Dec 6, 2022
The food was great and so was the staff. Very helpful in picking the amount we needed and to what was their best selling dish. Love this place and will be going back again.
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Tracy A.
Oct 6, 2022
This is a very easy stop if you're going to the movies right next door. They are open somewhat late even on a weeknight which is very convenient. They have a bar so you can get a Mai Tai or whatever you like with your dinner. The serving portion is generous. The vegetables spring rolls are definitely vegetable and have a very crisp snap to them.
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Clayton J.
Aug 23, 2022
Started eating here about 30 years ago. The Oaktree used to be Seattle best movie theater, so having quality Chinese food in the parking lot was a bonus. I think we tried this place because they used to be in the Entertainment Book annually. They may still be there, but I stopped buying the book a year or two before the pandemic. Most of the casual and fine dining option were limited, so there was no point in continuing to pay. When you came here, service was fast, friendly and prices were reasonable. There may have been a couple 5 star meals in the dozens I had over the years, but this place was probably 3.5/5, 4/5 on a really good day. They proudly posted a photo of George Bush Senior eating there. Never asked the story, but I figured if it was good enough for a world leader, it was good enough for me. On my most recent visit, it was clear it was my last, service was slow, rude and the quality of the food was 100% horrible. The Empress chicken is normally crisp, flavorful and spicy. I got soggy chicken that was bland and chewy and tasted more like sweet and sour than its normal flavor explosion. I also had the Fried Wonton, which I think are a new addition. I'm used to a gumball size wonton friend in its skin, what I got was a tic tac size. There were less wontons in the entire appetizer than a single piece from any other restaurant. Our water was never filled, and we were never served tea, flies were everywhere and the woman who was clearly the Boss according to our receipt didn't care anything about our experience. I'm not sure when this became The New Mandarin Gate, but feel confident that was due to an ownership change and new owners are going to milk and run this place into the ground. Seattle just lost one of it's last decent Chinese eateries.
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Matthew M.
May 1, 2024
*** CLOSED AS OF 4/30/2024 ***Yet another quality restaurant that just can't afford to stay open.One of my friends blamed it on COVID-19, which is not an unreasonable assertation, given that it killed a lot of businesses that would never return. It took some businesses to run their course longer than others. It's sad, as for me and many of my neighbors it was only 200 yards away. My brother had his wedding reception here in 2002.Goodbye, Mandarin Gate.
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Eric B.
Apr 19, 2024
Update. I attempted to order my dinner today. I received a little push back about my last visit/review. I will like to start out by saying, I do recommend Mandarin Gate as a restaurant. I had one bad experience over a 20 year span. Will I eat there again, Hell ya, will I check my to go order before I leave the restaurant, hell ya!!!I know if I was sitting at a table, there is no way they would serve me these brunt, old, dried out $17.00 ribs. No way! I will not retract my last post, but I want to make it clear the food at the MD is good.
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Mark W.
Jul 20, 2023
Ordered the "family dinner" for delivery. It says it comes with soup, crab rangoon, and spring roll. Literally got a single serving of soup, a single crab rangoon, a single serving of rice, and a single spring roll. Apparently, families are getting smaller.The chicken was good, but I'm pretty put off by the "family" proportions, and won't be ordering from them again.
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