We love Mandarin Kitchen. Â This is the best dim sum we've found in the Twin Cities by far. Â You can find equally good or possibly better dim sum in New York or San Francisco, but not here! Â Arrive a few minutes before 10:00 AM or plan to line up for a table. Â It's a large, bustling restaurant and the crowd is mostly Chinese -- this is happily not Chinese American cuisine. Â A friend and I were there last weekend, and it was as good as ever. Â It's the most fun to go with more than 2 people, though -- you get to try more things!
Review Source:We love this place for dim sum. That said, just went for dinner (first time in about a year) and remembered why we don't get dinner here. We had several mediocre dishes including the eggplant hotpot and some stir-fried vermicelli noodles. The salt and pepper shrimp was good.
When we got home, however, we experienced the following:
self: had the runs
sister: upset stomach
wife: headache
mom: headache
which was likely the massive amounts of MSG in our food. We will continue to go for dim sum, but never the lunch or dinner.