China Pagoda Restaurant

If you go in with the expectation that the food is catering to people from Minnesota, you'll be fine. If you want an authentic experience, you'd better keep driving north until you hit Lake St. Sampled this place per a co-worker's recommendation. Most of the dishes were sauced fairly heavily. Dishes on 10/24/19 at lunch included black pepper pork, general chicken, sweet & sour chicken, egg rolls, egg foo young, chicken fried rice, and Mandarin chicken. They also had a bastardized version of kung pao chicken. The celery was cut in thin strips, which made it tolerable. There was slightly less than a smattering of peanuts. Hot and sour soup was good; not much in the way of tofu or mushrooms which is my preference. Good balance of vinegar and stock. Egg rolls were good as well and actual hot mustard is available. The older Chinese lady working the dining room never did bring me my tea, but at least she refilled water regularly and cleared plates. Felt like she was rushing me out though after I was on plate two and the check was dropped off. An inoffensive experience overall; I'll probably come back through every so often.

Disappointed this last visit...sorry, used to enjoy their food..not anymore . I'll be looking for a new Chaska go to for Chinese!

Pretty good food! I want to go back to try more options. Sesame chicken is a go to for our family. Fried rice and cream cheese wontons. I wish the wontons had a little more flavor to them. Friendly staff and SO FAST!!

It's really more like 3.5, but for price and friendliness, it's worth rounding up. We grab takeout here maybe once a month or so, and we did try the buffet one Saturday recently when we didn't feel like driving to a bigger place a few towns over. It was limited, but they kept the food fresh and the kids were happy (which is just as important as me feeling well fed!). Overall, it's pretty standard Chinese-American takeout food - albeit a little milder than the flavors I'm used to back east. We've tried a number of things off the menu, including the egg rolls, soup, sweet & sour chicken, shrimp & snow peas, orange beef ... nothing has disappointed yet.The place is as dated as the strip mall it's in, but it's generally clean and like I said, everyone is friendly. Portions are great for the price, and while they always seem to have customers, they manage to have our food ready on time every time.I guess my only real lament is that they don't deliver for those times I'm feeling EXTRA lazy. But then again, it's not a bad spot to have just down the street.

China pagoda has great food. Being in the older strip malls is real to bad because their food is great. I'm sure the building look is keeping people from trying it. That's a shame!!!The lunch is great and buffet is worth while.

I use to live in Chaska and LOVED their wonton soup and cream cheese wontons. I would come in get it at least once a month after I got paid. Today Monday July 15 I had happen to be in town for a doctors appointment and decided to treat myself to some of their soup and wontons. I moved out of town about 2 years ago so I was extremely excited about this. I had googled the hours and it had said 11 am - 9 pm. Even more excited now. Got to the restaurant and the doors are locked and the lights are off. Even the little open sign. I live about 45 minutes from town now. And DO NOT have a decent Chinese restaurant by my house. You can just about imagine my disappointment. Next time I think I won't go by google and call instead of driving 3 miles out of my way. FYI owners might want to update your hours on google and your front door so you don't loose customers.

Everything is always good. we frequently get the Sweet and Sour Chicken for our granddaughter. it's her favorite. Mary ByeChaska, Mn

At one time the food was great, no longer. After many years as a customer I have noticed the food quality and taste has been poor as time continues Example, the Main dish had missing ingredients and the sauce was nothing more than watery beef broth and the egg foo young was burnt. Very inconsistent food taste the last few years.

Best Chinese food I've had in this state! Good quality meat, and very generous portions for the cost. Very friendly staff, as well.

This place has has its ups and downs over the past few years, and it's definitely got an up now. I've ordered twice in the last couple of weeks and it's really good food. The moo goo gai pan was excellent - great variety of crisp vegetables, not just a big pile of chicken ; seemed to miss the mushrooms, which is a major component of the dish, but had plenty of others and tasted so good I didn't even realize they were missing/few til I started writing the review. The chicken was velveted and cooked beautifully. Sauce was light and not muddy - perfect, and the right amount (many restaurants don't include enough for my taste). Egg rolls were excellent, crisp, hot and made the trip home without getting soggy. I can't say the same for the fried dumplings, unfortunately. They were still hot, but got very soggy in the container and the dipping sauce was forgotten. The meatball mix, however, was really good, and the dough was cooked through. Egg drop soup is likewise very good, but could use some scallions sprinkled as a finishing touch.