Jade Rabbit at The Emerald Room

2117 NE Oregon St Suite 202, Portland
(503) 720-0253

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MadhuriPydisetty

Absolutely delicious. Went with my Taiwanese vegan friend who stated the taste was authentic. Sui Mai & Spicy 🌶️ wontons were my faves!

EABessel

An off day? Slow service, some dishes seemed too salty while others just seemed a bit off, mis-charged for one dish, had to ask for utensils and napkins after food was served. The non-alcoholic drink was really tasty.

probemily

The staff was wonderful. Very attentive.

Katefo

I'm not sure what happened. I used to love Jade Rabbit. Their dumplings were special and everything I'd tried was flavorful and had "wow" factor. But I recently tried their new location and a couple new menu items and a couple of old faves, and found it lacking. I can't in good conscience recommend Jade Rabbit anymore and it makes me sad. I love dim sum, and vegan dim sum is exciting, but the new Jade Rabbit is bland. The new location desperately needs a deep clean and attention to regular cleaning. The tables had greasy fingerprints, dust and cobwebs all around the windows. Even coming to the restaurant door you're greeted by old equipment behind a rusty chainlink fence. Inside to the back of the dining room the windows look out on a weed infested patio that could be a an ideal place to sit and eat on a warm spring or summer day. But it hasn't received any TLC since opening. Service was very slow. No attention to keeping water filled. Servers wore street clothes. Ours wore jeans and an oversized wrinkled t-shirt. Her apron was black knee length and also wrinkled and dirty. The attention to detail and class of the previous location is simply gone. To the food: We started with the pink lady salad. Nicely grilled radicchio with the bitterness I expected. But it needed acid to cut through it and unfortunately the ginger soy dressing didn't have any punch. I wanted texture and it came with fried potato sticks and mung beans, but they had lost any crunch by the time the salad was delivered. We then had the kimchi mung bean cakes. The cake itself was fine. Nothing wow. It was however dense and lukewarm. (a theme through the dinner. Plate warmer??) It was to be served with a sauce of chili paste, soy sauce, and sesame oil, but it was so incredibly salty even the smallest dip left the bite inedible. A table near me also complained that the chili sauce was "straight up soy sauce". I agree. Mains: We had mapo tofu and black sesame noodles. The mapo tofu again was bland. No punch, no acidity or cut from ginger I expected. The black sesame noodles had interest and flavor, they were good, not great. The noodles alone were great. I would love these in a bowl of ramen. But this dish was missing the acidity which I expected from the pickled mustard greens which I couldn't find in the dish. My main complaint was temp. Lukewarm and sauce served on the bottom made it hard to eat with chopsticks. I would try again if the patio opens. It has potential but needs hel

burnsria

First off, I LOVE the vibes of the restaurant it's gorgeous in there. I do think that unfortunately a lot of items on the menu are hit or miss for me. I hadn't had dim sum since before I went vegan, and I wasn't super impressed by the dim sum here. My friend and I both got drinks, i liked mine but they didn't enjoy theirs. Then we ordered the wood ear mushroom, rangoons, lo mai ga, and puto pao bunny bao. The sauce on the wood ear mushrooms wasn't doing it for me, i felt like it wasn't as flavorful as it could have been. The rangoons were pretty good and we loved the sauce that came with it. The lo mai ga was very yummy as well, I loved the texture of it. The bunny bao was alright but was overpoweringly sweet in my opinion. While we did enjoy about half of our experience, it was pricey as hell and nothing was so amazing that I have to return.

EarthyCrunchy

The atmosphere was laid back and the menu was loaded with tempting options! The two dishes I ordered were very good, but as with most imitation meats, they were pretty heavy on the salt. I wish I had ordered a dish that was more veggie forward.

wiseharts

Fiery Wind Noodle Soup was the best noodle soup ever. Rangoons were oily, yet quite tasty. We were very disappointed about the variety in regular food options. Amazing desserts (we tried all) and cocktails, but zero options for regular food without an imitation something.

andjanine

Cute atmosphere and great meals. I get the adobo almost every time I visit. But not sure why a Filipino dish is served with chopsticks.

cjfussner

Lovely atmosphere and even better food. The cocktails are really fun too! We went for a late lunch and didn’t have any problem getting a table but I could see how at dinner it would be difficult. The dishes labeled spicy are an American spicy for lack of better words so don’t be afraid.

1AP1

Food is always really good with some misses along the way. For a vegan restaurant, it's actually somewhat lacking in vegetables so for me, a bit less fake meat and a bit more veg would make it even better.

Brandon Ward

Really cool place to go. Toured the distillery. That was cool. We had a temp guide that didn't know much though. Food was really good.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 3

jordikers

We went (with our kids) to celebrate our anniversary and tried so many of the things on the menu. Yum!

Ballentine Palubinsky

I took my mother here who isn't a vegan or vegetarian and she eats a lot of meat and she liked it. There was a wide selection of choices to eat. We ordered a pot of tea and I ended up getting some kind of rabbit shaped dumpling and some fried foods. All of it very good. Would definitely recommend

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Vegan Dimsum, Chili Oil Wontons, Jade Rabbit Dumplings, Bunny Dumplings Crab Rangoon Fake Beef Dumplings Mocktail and Tea

Will Weitzer

Had a wonderful lunchtime birthday meal to celebrate with a couple friends. Delicious food, great variety, nice tea, and all VEGAN!! Dim sum, dumplings, wontons, bao and more galore. They even make mochi brownies. Yum! Jocelyn was a wonderful server and did a great job of helping us and the other tables with ease and expertise.
Lovely atmosphere and fun decor! Will be coming back for more delicious treats!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Tristan Hutcheson

We had some of the house drinks and 6 plates. Very hungry and hadn’t eaten all day.

Food was so worth it. I’d never had dim sum before due to it featuring so much meat.

Definitely worth stopping by and making this part of your travel plans.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

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