The Mandarin

The best Chinese Food in the Bay Area since The Original Mandarin closed in SF. Ask for your favorites or let the staff tells you whats great. Pot Stickers take 20 minutes as they are fantastic and made to order. Chinese Chicken Salad is wonderful. Any noodle dish or mushroom dish also out of this world! Go soon and often so they stay in business.

Fried Rice 炒饭 tasted burnt and hurried. Kung pao Kung Pao Chicken Beef 宫爆鸡丁 牛肉 was swimming in red chilis and almost inedible. Egg Rolls (4) 素春卷（4) were pretty good.

Went for Lunar New Year and staff was super friendly in suggesting dishes from the menu that I haven't tried before. All of them were awesome including a hot pot and a sweet desert soup. Besides, the eggplant in spicy garlic sauce and sauted wide noodles with seafood were some of the best I've ever had.

We went on christmas night and the restaurant was quite frankly overwhelmed. we had a 545 pm reservation and the next available at the time of booking was past 8 pm, so you get an idea of how busy the 6-730 pm area was gonna be.it did take an hour from being seated to get our first course, which was hot and sour soup. there was a long line of to-go orders via doordash/ubereats/grubhub and phone-in orders that was also complicating matters, but the staff should be credited with handling it with grace even though everything took much longer than what i imagine is usual. communication was pretty poor, to be fair, however, and that's the only reason i would ding them one star. they should have told us they were running behind and set expectations accordingly. they did not.that said, the food was fantastic. we had the orange chicken, mapo topu, some kind of prawn dish (they have several), the dry braised string beans, hot and sour soup and a mixed fried rice. everything was amazing in taste and the portions were very generous. price wasn't the cheapest, but they also as expensive as, say, tai pan in palo alto. food, however, is very comparable.i will be back and hopefully will get the amazing service i have read about in other reviews so i can revise the rating to what i expect to be five stars.

If the option for tip starts at 20%, probably shouldnt let the customer wait for the check. Food is okay though.