Place was empty decided to try for lunch. The price is great for the food items. The food was ok. The egg role was cold in the center. The servers were not very attentive.
This is the worst Chinese restaurant I have visited in CA. The food does not taste good because it is either very salty or very weird. The size is very small. The service is very bad. For example, I told the manager one dish was so spicy that I lost the sense of my taste because the chef dumped too much pepper oil. The manager replied: this is the way we cooked. Very bad Chinese Restaurant. I do not recommend it!!!
The night started out being almost forgotten about, until the ONE server they had got to us. The poor guy was running all over the place, by himself. There was no communication amongst the staff, it seemed. Normally I wouldn't mind waiting a while for food if it's good, but this just wasn't the case. We waited forever for our food, mine got there about 15 minutes before my husband's. It was okay, I had the Moo Shu Chicken. Husband had Sweet and Sour Pork, which was watery, the pork had the texture like it had been refried repeatedly, and the pork was not fresh. It was dry and rubbery. We also had chicken chow mein, some of the chicken was still pink and slimy, the flavoring was bizarre. I had gone back to use the restroom, and in the pathway leading there were bags of trash and cans, and an odor of garbage leading to the view of a disastrous and disgusting looking kitchen. I definitely would not recommend eating here, and we will not be dining here again, either.
The Mandarin Palace has been consistently good over a period of many years. On the standard menu there are few surprises, the usual Americanized Chinese food done well. I suspect that if you knew authentic Chinese food they would prepare it for you and it would be good. I wish that they would make authentic Chinese food available to Western customers.
Ordered seafood hot sour soup, green bean, boilled spicy fish, fried duck, mixed beef brisket and ear. Tasted very good.
The best egg flower soup on the central coast! ??
I have had many good meals here. But my most recent take out experience was less than good. Im a vegetarian and this place has a nice selection of vegetarian entrees. Both with veggies as the main and also soy protein "meat" substitutes. My order of orange "chicken" was awful. The "chicken" was dry and chewy. Could hardly swallow it. And the steamed rice was not edible. Under cooked and no moisture to it. Very disappointing.
Awesome place. Chill not to many ppl. Social distance with the seating arrangement. Great food and the servers were nice and pleasant.
My favorite Chinese restaurant in Santa Barbara. Food is consistently good. Absolutely love their cream cheese wantons.
They was the most tasty and original Chinese cuisine. But sadly not this year. Inaccurate salt use, excessive sweetness and the most disastrously, Szechuan dishes are far less spicy.