Mandarin Kitchen

Bad service. Takes a looong time and they want to charge for any additional condiments.

We love Mandarin Kitchen.  This is the best dim sum we've found in the Twin Cities by far.  You can find equally good or possibly better dim sum in New York or San Francisco, but not here!  Arrive a few minutes before 10:00 AM or plan to line up for a table.  It's a large, bustling restaurant and the crowd is mostly Chinese -- this is happily not Chinese American cuisine.  A friend and I were there last weekend, and it was as good as ever.  It's the most fun to go with more than 2 people, though -- you get to try more things!

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.