Mandarin Wok Restaurant

"A classic Chinese restaurant with very friendly staff. The drink selection was limited but we enjoyed the Sapporo’s and Sake. The vegetable fried rice and cream cheese fried things were great. We didn’t love the Tsao’s chicken but the vegetables with it were delicious."

"Decent Chinese food just a half step above Panda Express. Classics don't deviate from what you expect, and everything was hot fresh and plentiful. Hot and Sour soup was as good as anywhere I have eaten. Special words have to be said about the tender beef. Too many beef dishes these days are tough or re-cooked leftovers."

"Love this place! So friendly, they'll always remember you if you come back with any regularity. Service is phenomenal and old-fashioned. Food is very tasty, served family style. All the Chinese-American classics and a few specialties of their own. The atmosphere of the place is so comforting, with classical Chinese music playing, cloth napkins, pretty fans, and mirrored walls, just like the Chinese restaurants of your youth. (Which this probably is since it's been there forever.) Hard to imagine a more relaxing place to dine."

"Very quiet, older-looking restaurant. It's pretty comfortable overall. The service was friendly enough but not very quick despite there only being 3 other customers in the building. Lychee duck is surprisingly good. The rice is not good quality - very reminiscent of minute rice instead of classic steamed short grain or jasmine rice. The fried rice was pretty dry. We're pretty sure we overheard some chatter from the servers about orders getting mixed up, which would make sense as the other table also told them they'd received the wrong thing and were told "that's how they make it here." They mixed up the menu items for General Tso's Chicken and Tsou's Chicken and when we let them know we were told that WE were wrong and that's how they make the dish, even though they're two separate menu items and they gave us the wrong one. Not badly priced but I would probably not return."

"Ahh I struggled leaving this review . My husband ordered salt and pepper wings and salt and pepper shrimp, honestly it was pretty underwhelming. If you live in San Diego and have ever eaten at royal mandarin off of plaza then you know the expectation bar was going to be high ( I didn’t expect it to be as great or exactly like royal mandarin ) however it just didn’t taste good. I’m also use our wings being deep friend nice golden brown and these wings… we’ll they were definitely on the light shade of tan lol . My husband said the service was good, just the food was not. Even our rice seemed To be a very cheap grain and didn’t exactly taste fresh. I don’t like knocking small business at all, so hopefully overtime they can improve."