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    Mandarin Restaurant

    3.5 (90 reviews)
    InexpensiveChinese, Vietnamese
    Closed 10:00 am - 8:30 pm

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    What's the vibe?
    Casual
    Moderate noise
    Good for groups
    Good for kids

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    Beef chow fun
    Paul M.

    Great little hidden gem tucked away in a Brooklyn Park strip mall. Easy to find right off 85th and plenty of parking. Inside was clean with plenty of tables and booths. You know a legit asian restaurant when they have a table of just grab and go bahn mi sandwiches, fresh spring roll, drinks and things that I didn't know what they were unless you are vietnamese! Everything looked delicious. Service was excellent and the staff was friendly and helpful with the menu. Family run restaurant that has been open for over 20 years. Order: Garlic chicken wings. Sweet savory glaze that were perfectly fried, crispy and juicy. Beef chow fun. The flavor was tremendous. The flame grilled taste from the scorching hot wok during stir fry mixed with the sauce, noodles and tender beef made each bite cravable. The onions added a nice crunch and texture. Bun bo hue aka the spicy cousin of pho. Delicious meaty broth mixed with tender beef chunks. Add fresh been sprouts and shaved cabbage for a nice texture and crunch. Overall: Great experience. Definitely will be back to try more Vietnamese and Chinese dishes.

    Pho special
    Tippy P.

    I went to meet my friend for lunch. I used to come to this restaurant for years, but have not been back since we moved. This is one of my family favorite pho restaurant. Just in luck, my friend was craving for pho. Service is always great, I remember the servers there. Restaurant is always clean but busy. Full Vietnamese menu, everything is delicious.

    Maia J.

    Did a quick lunch date at Mandarin in Brooklyn Park! Used to go here frequently years ago and it had been a while. I've always loved their combination plates since you get to try a variety of different dishes with a few extra add ons. Today, we ordered the beef chow fun, fried rice young chow, beef in garlic sauce, and Vietnamese eggrolls. The beef chow fun had a light sauce that coated the noodles and the beef was tender. Unfortunately the eggrolls and fried rice were a miss for me. The eggrolls had an interesting flavor on the inside... I honestly can't even describe it, just didn't taste good? The fried rice had a "charboil" burnt kind of taste that really through the whole dish off. The beef and garlic sauce was okay. Super spicy which I kind of forgot, but overall not a bad dish. I think if you're craving a stir fried dish or pho, this might be your place. The service is always quick so expect to be in and out fast, which is kind of nice.

    Orange Chicken Entree
    Jonathan H.

    My son and I decided to try somewhere new tonight, and tried this restaurant. We were warmly greeted upon entry and promptly seated. There is seating for around 50 people. It is a quaint restaurant. The menu is huge. The food came quickly and tasted pretty good. The quantities are large enough to fill a big guy like myself. I ordered Seafood Chow Fun. My son ordered the Orange Chicken dinner entree, which also comes with an Egg Role, Fried Rice and Sweet & Sour Chicken. Overall the food was pretty good. We'll come back and try other dishes.

    Pho
    Minnesota P.

    This is our go to restaurant for our family. Food is always consistent, authentic and good. The kids always choose this place when we ask them where to eat. Best cream cheese won ton C1 rice platter with pork (pork tender) Hong Kong steak (the fries with this dish is so good. Wish they let us do an order of just fries only. Bun Bo Hue Pho overall not bad The headed shrimp is pretty good. My favorite all time dessert is here: D1 Che Thai They do try to provide good service. When you have picky kids and they enjoy a place. You just keep going back. Try out these dishes here

    Pho Tai Bo Vien
    Tuyen P.

    Decided to give this place a try even though it is a little far from what I'm used to for Vietnamese food. Almost mistaken this place for mandarin kitchen when my cousins brought it up but they're totally different. This place has both Vietnamese and Chinese food style dishes. Seems like they might have off menu dishes as well so definitely ask if you don't see it on the menu. They do sell snacks and appetizers on the table by the register as well. Not a lot of Vietnamese restaurants have Nuoc Rau ma or pennyworth drink so I liked that here. A little too much ice. They def could make it more flavorful with my leaf blended in my opinion but it was not bad. 3/5 Entrees: we only ordered Vietnamese food so not sure hot the Chinese food is there. Pho- broth was ok. Nothing out of the ordinary or different. Not the best but not the worst. Meat portion was alright. 3/5. Hieu Tieu - both the seafood and nam vang(ground pork version) has the same broth in my opinion. The only difference is one has seafood and one ground pork. Broth was also mediocre. I had to add some chili sauce for more flavor. A little bland for me but not bad. However, I do like that their Hieu Tieu has glass noodles. Not a lot of places offer that. 3/5 Overall, nothing too special here. If I was in the area and was craving Vietnamese food I would stop by but not somewhere that I would drive to go to since there's are other places around my area with same or a little better food. Also. Seems like it's a new trend but it's one of those restaurants that will charge for credit card fee. Business should stop charging consumers for the fee since we are paying for the service already. Businesses paying for credit card fee is part of having a business. So bring cash or be prepared to pay for the fee. 1/5 The service was not bad. Seems busy and not a lot of help. When we got there, it was not busy but almost all the tables needed cleaning up. Maybe everyone came and left at the same time?

    Bun Oc. Spicy Snail soup!
    Peter S.

    So we finally made it to the famed Mandarin to try their Pho. My family has been curious about this place when they ranked number one for pho in the recent Hmong Pages. Well I'm sad to report that while their pho is great, it did not out do number one on our list, 2 Wives Kitchen in East St. Paul. 2 Wives' broth has more depth of character and flavor than Mandarin. It is very obvious. Mandarin is good, but I would rank them slightly below all the mainstays on Eat Street and Frogtown: Pho Tau Bay, Quang, iPho, and Trieu Chau. The meat was all tasty, but for a large the portion was a little small, and I did have to adjust the broth. On top of the food they were short staffed and only had one server for the whole dining room. They had two bus people, but that was not enough on a Sat night. They really needed three servers. Oh well, I'm sorry to say this place absolutely did not live up to the hype.

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    We order "Banh Cuon" and it is like rubber, very bad. I would not come here again!!!!!!

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    MT Noodles

    MT Noodles

    4.2
    (364 reviews)
    1.9 mi
    $$
    Established in 2014
    Women-owned & operated

    **** #1 VIET RESTAURANT ***…read more This place makes the best grilled marinated pork you'll ever have in your entire life. It is char grilled to perfection. This place also makes the best grilled pork banh mi. It is the same grilled pork sliced up as you would get in the entrées. The pho here is also spectacular. You can really taste the oriental spices in their beef broth. I normally do not order the pho from here because they do not have tendon on their menu. I usually get any entrée that has the grilled pork. This place also has the best wonton noodle soup or plain wonton soup. They the wine times are Housemade dumplings and they're absolutely delicious. This place also makes the best eggrolls the most fresh ingredients inside their eggrolls I've ever had in my entire life. Wow, was this place happen for lunch on a Monday packed to the max!

    Food: good Service: good…read moreAmbiance: plenty of tables and good space I like the flavors of MT Noodles. Their fried rice is really good, their pork in the bun cha gio is marinated nicely and tastes flavorful, and I like that they use the rice paper to make their egg rolls. Their nuc mam is close to how my mom makes it too (sweet, sour, and spicy)! The Banh kot is just okay.. it's supposed to have the same batter as banh xeo, but it's not the same. It's thicker, white, and doesn't really have much flavor. I wish the appetizer came with more lettuce too. I want to wrap it all up and dunk it in nuc mam, but I can only do that with 1 piece :( I will go back to try other things and get the bun dac biet again though.

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    Sweet Basil

    3.7
    (138 reviews)
    1.2 mi
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    Visited Sweet Basils for dinner tonight. There were two other tables occupied, so it wasn't busy…read more Service was not good. We asked for tea when we arrived, we ended up having to ask again after the food was brought out. We had to ask for silverware, which was not provided at the table. The waitress didn't come check on us to see how the food was or refill beverages. The only time she came to the table was to take the order, deliver food and drop off the bill. As for the food, they have a broad menu with many options. I ordered the cashew chicken. Lots of veggies and some chicken, it was ok. Overall was disappointed by the service and food was just ok.

    Located in a strip mall in Brooklyn Park, off of 610…read more My second time giving this place a try. Overall good experience both times. Service is friendly. They serve some Thai, some Vietnamese, and some Chinese. I prefer a place that can pick a lane rather than try to accommodate 2+ types of cuisines. The place has about 15 or so tables. Both times I came for lunch and they have a $13.95 lunch special with choice of white or fried rice and then fried wontons or egg roll. Overall, flavor profile is sweet. They also use a lot of fish sauce. I ordered the spicy chicken Thai stir fry and egg roll. Egg roll is crispy and a little on the thinner side. The stir fry was ok. My friend ordered the lunch special chicken curry which she said that she liked. This place was busy with office groups out for lunch and a few other diners. This place wouldn't be a top choice for lunch but it's decent.

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    Que Viet Village House Three

    Que Viet Village House Three

    3.6
    (148 reviews)
    3.1 mi
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    I've been going to Que Viet since I was a young child like 3-4 years old (which is over 30 years)…read more Crazy as it sounds, growing up I ate a lot more than I do now. I used to love the the potatoes in the beef & potatoes, the meaty eggrolls w/ the fish sauce (I miss these so much as I don't eat beef/pork anymore), oyster wings, the best wontons as well as chicken friend rice. My mom loved the egg fu young. I love that over the years the menu has pretty much stayed the same. I've gotten to see a few generations run the place and things have stayed pretty true to what I always remembered growing up. My go to order now that my diet has shifted is wontons & chicken fried rice - add med. spice and no chicken. I know chicken fried rice with no chicken sounds crazy but I don't like the veggies in the veggie rice and I really love the flavor of the chicken fried rice without the chicken. Reheating the rice at times the chicken tends to get a bit rubbery after being reheated so many times and I just don't like it but the flavor is very solid without still. They have some of the best wontons I've ever had. Slight garlic flavor to balance the sweetness of the cream cheese. if I could I would eat an eggroll.. I miss them so much! I mostly order takeout these days but have also dined in a bunch and the staff are very attentive and nice.

    LOVE LOVE LOVE the Ginormous Egg Rolls! My mouth is literally watering while writing this review…read more The price went up to $11 for 2 but they are absolutely mammoth sized & the best thing you have ever tasted. The sauce they serve with them, HEAVEN SENT (I could drink it, it's that good). Upgrade to the medium size Egg Roll sauce, for sure! Their Cream Cheese Wontons are also huge & so incredibly crunchy. The sweet & sour sauce served with them is DIVINE. We also Love their Pork Fried Rice, Beef Lo Mein and Sweet & Sour Chicken or Pork. If you get anything here for sure, hands down the Egg Rolls are #1 Pick! The restaurant is decorated very cute inside & we love to eat in for lunch or dinner but we mostly order our food to go. They do have lunch specials which is nice. Did I already mention that you should come here and order the Egg Rolls, 100% :)

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