Mandarin Garden

Reviews

• Michael S.

  star star star star star_border 9 November 2026

  I've been a fan of Mandarin Garden for years. Stopped in during a trip upnorth and got the pork fried rice, which is always good. The crab rangoons were excellent and I'm always missing the ones from here whenever I have chinese downstate.
  
  Also worth mentioning the fantastic and friendly service. Definitely recommend checking out if you're in the area.

• Mina S.

  star star star_border star_border star_border 7 November 2026

  I expect the bare minimum from Chinese restaurants in Michigan but this still bombed. Two stars solely for the friendly service and the fact that I didn't get sick.
  
  When ordering, I asked our server if there was meat in the Hot & Sour Soup and he warned that it does contain pork. I do appreciate when servers know their menu. Instead I opted for the Egg Drop Soup which looks very unusual but tasted ok. Although the Mandarin Bean Curd was labeled as spicy, nothing even registered for me. It was very salty.. I needed more rice! The actual bean curd and snow peas were good. The reason I won't let this coast by with 3 stars is because there was a piece of meat mixed into my dish and I bit into it... ):
  
  This may fly for people who live in the middle of nowhere but it's not going to cut it for me.

• Edwin P.

  star star_border star_border star_border star_border 30 October 2026

  The food was great but the waiters were rude. I asked the waiter for some more crunchy noodles and plum sauce and he ignored me and went to other tables and waited on more people that came in. And I asked him again and he told me that he would have to charge me for them. When all the other times I come in I never get charged for them. And the time before the same waiter was waiting on us and towards the end of our dinner I was snacking on the crunchy noodles and the waiter didn't even ask if I was done and took them back to the kitchen.

• Melissa M.

  star star star star star 28 October 2026

  The food here is always good. From the hot tea to the Rangoon's and egg rolls. We always stop here when we visit Alpena. Delicious sit down Chinese food.

• Megan K.

  star star star star_border star_border 27 October 2026

  Food not bad. We got take out. I ordered Chicken with Broccoli and the sauce was almost red. I've never seen the sauce for that dish that color. They had a special with buy one, get one free egg roll and it wasn't really an egg roll. They were good but it was more of a spring roll.  My friend ordered Mandarin Beef (which I finished the next day) and that was pretty good. Our entrees came with soup and fried rice. The fried rice didn't really look like fried rice either. It was more like white rice with some veggies. They forgot to put my friend's order of crab cheese in, which he discovered once we got back to the vacation home...so he drove back to get it.