MisEatery

New beautiful look, same low grade food - 2 stars!I arrived excited but I left angry. I saw the new restaurant and I was hopeful. The old place, Ming Tree, was pretty bad. After commenting about being happy that there's a new restaurant in this space, I was informed (by Mi) that this is basically the same place but it was "re-branded". Mi's Eatery is technically a new business with a new interior, a new name, a new logo, a new POS system - it looks really nice. It also has a second business in the same space for tea, smoothies, and Boba drinks called "Where 2 Tea".Unfortunately, they've adopted the same old food menu, most of the same staff (according to Mi), the same sad looking turtles, and a weird attitude along with some perplexing rules for customers. If they spent as much attention to the food as the new décor, they might really have something great. But sadly, this is not the case. The 3 things that irritated me the most were the food, the seating rules, and the captive Painted Turtles.GOOD:1. The décor is beautiful.2. Everything looks clean and organized.3. The food comes out fast.4. The stir-fry type foods are obviously made fresh & it comes out piping hot.5. The Hot Sour Soup was good. The Egg Rolls tasted good too (but they were cold).6. The prices are reasonable.7. Parking is easy.BAD:1. NO FULL SERVICE: There is NO "full-service" in this fancy new space "for now". If you want to dine-in, they yell out your name, and you pick-up your cafeteria tray of food inside to-go containers with plastic flatware & sauces in little plastic packs. It definitely doesn't match the fancy new décor. (I predict there will never be full service.)2. SEATING RESTRICTIONS: I was told that I couldn't sit in the large main dining room with my food. That's only for the tea and smoothie drinkers. Really? I was the ONLY person in the restaurant on a snowy winter night! So I had to sit in the small side room like a little kid getting a time out. Any other place would happily let you sit where you want in an empty restaurant. This was very disrespectful to me as a first time visitor and as a paying customer, definitely turned me off and made me angry.3. POOR COMMUNICATION: I had a million questions about the new place but the main woman could not speak well, I could hardly understand her. It was so bad, I finally gave up with my questions. But the other woman (standing right next to her) had perfect grammar. Why wasn't she the one talking to customers? My wife is from Peru, South America so I have sympathy for people with accents. But you need to understand your customers and they need to understand you. Put your best communicators front & center.4. NO FLAVOR: My Mango Smoothie had ZERO taste of mango. It was okay. But it had a weird artificial factory candy type of taste...but no hint of mango whatsoever.5. COLD FOOD: My pork egg rolls tasted decent but they were cool! Come on, cold food?6. LAME ENTRE: My Beef Garlic meal had wimpy portions of beef (see photo), big over-sized chucks of green peppers (see photo), and I couldn't taste any garlic. Basically, this was an amateur green pepper stir fry with beef flavor and some canned mini-corns & water chestnuts - poorly executed & a waste of money. I threw most of it away. I didn't even save it for my Mastiff. I was actually angry about the food they foisted on me.7. SAD TURTLES: The poor turtles are still there (see photos). The tank is now clean but they have an undersized light propped up with a pitcher and an empty plastic food container. No UV light anywhere, no plants, etc. I feel very sorry for them.8. INCONSIDERATE RULES: Weird seating rules. The big fancy room - no food allowed, only drinks. I bought a smoothie (from Where 2 Tea) and food (from Mi's Eatery). Despite buying a specialty drink, they still made me sit in the little room. Strange.9. POOR SERVICE: The general vibe is unfriendly, no smiles anywhere. And yelling my name out when my food came out - really? One of the 2 staff couldn't walk 15 feet and put it on my table? I was right in front of them. And I'm sure they saw that I have major health problems and I have a hard time walking, limping, and sitting down. Yelling out my name when I was staring at them was actually kinda funny, like a vintage SNL skit.10. GASTROINTESTINAL SIDE EFFECTS: I've been on the toilet ever since I came home from eating this stuff. This is the only thing I ate all day. (And I'm notorious for being able to eat nearly anything.)11. DONT DO IT: I recommend that you only come here if you have no standards for the food you put in your mouth.Finally - amazingly - I saw a steady stream of people picking up to-go orders. I don't understand how anyone in Champlin and Anoka thinks this stuff is good, especially since there are several excellent Asian restaurants nearby (for example, Ginger Café or Bamboo Village about 5 minutes north). Personally, I won't spend another dime here.

The sesame chicken is AMAZING. The Mongolian chicken is very subpar. They force you to tip for takeout (no option), will return for the sesame chicken and boba .

Trying to order over the phone is hard. Placed order today, and was told 30 min. Got there after running 2 other errands at 25 min mark.Checking in she wanted to review my order, over again. Before I would pay. I asked 3 times if my order was processed yet. She didn't answer and went to the back. Out comes the cook, I asked again and he said no my order wasn't processed yet because she didn't know if I wanted the fried rice or white rice. I asked why didn't she call me back? The first thing is you ask for is my phone number.No answer and I just needed to get home with the other errand stuff.All done.

Food portion was small . Expensive for small portions. Food all tasted the same . "Oily" I order pad Thai, egg rolls, pork fried rice , beef &potatoes , walnut shrimp and triple grand duke. Pad Thai & fried rice had no flavor. How can you mess up fried rice ? Fried rice is easy to make but they somehow mess this up. Egg rolls did not taste right . Beef and potatoes was super oily. It had carrots in it and it was mainly oily soggy potatoes/carrots and there was barely in beef in this dish. I was expecting a crispy potatoes with this dish. Triple grand duke was all bambo and was not spicy . Idk why they even put spicy lover's favorite in the description. First time there and last time there .

I am giving this restaurant 5 stars because its the only place in the Twin Cities that knows how to make sesame beef correctly. The beef is crispy and yummy as it should be. I have ordered this several times and plan to order it again on this snowy day because they are consistent. I have my food delivered because of the pandemic right now but do plan to come in person and check them out later. I also really love the mu shu pork and the option that you are able to order extra pancakes. I have read the negative reviews on this restaurant and I think its unfair to target and punish a place because they are short staffed like every other restaurant in the cities. It is hard finding good help right now and I am glad they are still staying in business during this struggle. The price of food is skyrocketing however I am not into the all you can eat or large portions of food. I prefer quality food and their beef is that, no fatty grizzly pieces, lean trimmed beef. Today I might even order kingdo pork I have never had that before. Regardless, I would recommend this restaurant, they are working hard to stay in business and they take pride in their food. I will update this if I try the kingdo pork.

ew the food tasted like crap very rude waiters the person taking the order on the phone was very rude don't come here EVER!

I love this restaurant. I have been ordering here since it was Ming Tree before Mi's eatery. I order the Sesame Chicken, which is great, and I also love the Cantonese style Chicken LoMein that has the thin egg noodles. I also like the simplicity of the cream cheese wontons, there is only cream cheese inside and nothing else. They are crispy and delightful! Sometimes you have to wait a long time for the food order but I don't mind. I also love that you can order online and that they offer text messaging when your order is ready for pick up.

Great bubble tea and many options for eating and drinking!! I tend to order Szechuan chicken extra spicy! Very clean and nice indoor area.

I was looking for a good restaurant like Bamboo Village and Osaka. Everything in this place comes in a box from a Sysco truck. Although it has been remodeled it does not cover up the fact that it is just not good. Very basic strip mall style nasty.

How can you mess up cream cheese wontons but this place did! Chicken wings have to be from Cornish game hens they were so small. Lo mein Noodles are dry and terrible. Sesame chicken is nuggets with what I am sure is some kind of bottled sauce. Prices were OUTRAGEOUS!!! "Fried rice" was brown whit rice. No veggies at all. It really was terrible. Please save your money and don't go!!!