Mandarin Express Restaurant

This place used to be my go to spot for good Chinese food. In recent years, they have reduced the portion sizes by quite a bit and increased the prices. But, the quality of the food has become quite embarrassing. The Sesame chicken I just ordered looks worse than what I can make at home on my own. You cannot reduce portion size, remove things like soups and egg rolls from combo meals, increase cost, AND reduce quality and expect to stay in business. I will not be back again.

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 2

Service: 4

My husband and I called in an order. It was a terrible experience and worst option to pick to get food from. Most definitely over priced for the low quality of food it was. Ordered combination chow mein, dumplings, chicken wings, and vegetable fried rice. First off, the chow mein was disgusting and looked like slops in a container. No noodles at all!!! They gave a little bag of the crispy things that go in the soups for it. It tasted like it was frozen and heated back up. I could not eat it. It was disgusting and unappealing. The chicken wings tasted old with no flavor and like they were put in an air fryer to be heated back up. The dumplings were good sized. They tasted like a dumpling was supposed to, and with good sauce. They were the best thing out of it all. The vegetable rice was tolerable except it tasted like it was all doused in soy sauce with strings of egg throughout it. The place itself was terrible and looked run down. Nobody was even at the counter when we walked in. It didn’t look or even feel like it was a place to eat. Worst experience ever. Would not recommend it at all!! Totally regret wasting our time and money. !! Had already threw the chow mein out before I took pictures. It was that bad.

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 1

Service: 2

Always a pleasure to grab takeout. I enjoy the menu choices and the friendly staff.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 5

Ordered Mongolian beef and there was virtually no meat in it! What meat that was in definitely wasn’t steak. It was almost entirely onions and bambo shoots. Also the egg rolls I ordered were overcooked and dry. Won’t be ordering from there again.

Food is average amd lil pricy

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 3

Service: 3

Recommended dishes: Egg Roll

Ordered pick up and although the quantity was good the quality was not. The general tso chicken was overcooked and the sauce was not evenly coated with a lot of dry bare spots. Both my boyfriend and I ate their food and had stomach problems for the next two days and had the ?. I do not recommend and will not be ordering from here again.

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 1

Service: 5

Big disappointment, but only option in Madison. Won’t be back.

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 1

Service: 3

I'm a local and Its my go to place. Cant go wrong with the chicken fried rice and steamed dumplings, such good food!!!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

I eat here every chance I get. They have the best lomein around.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 4

Recommended dishes: Combination Fried Rice, Chicken or Pork with Broccoli, Combination Lo Mein

Combination meals have gone up in price from the menu listed and they took away the soup. It still comes with rice and an egg roll.

We ordered a ton of food here for our party of four. The lo mein noodles with pork was delicious, as was the general tso's chicken and the cheese wontons. I wasn't a fan of the egg rolls, but I don't normally like egg rolls anyway.The food was prepared pretty quickly, and the staff were friendly enough.Just a heads up, this place is now take out only! There's no dining inside, but there are seats for you to wait for your take out order.

Recommended dishes: Cheese Fried Wontons, Combination Lo Mein

The food here is hit or miss. The staff are always friendly.

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 3

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Sesame Chicken, Chicken or Pork with Broccoli, Egg Roll

Haven’t found a better Chinese restaurant and probably wont

Food is always hot and fresh

I'm giving three stars because there was only two people working the store. My order took over 45 minutes to get done. But there were about 25 other people there getting food. They were swamped. And my order was very very large. I was ordering for 10. They stayed open late to fulfill everyone's order. I didn't get to see the inside though.