Mandarin House

I have eaten at this place for lunch sporadically from 2011-2017. For the price, the taste and amount are okay, and you get an appetizer plus sit down service. However, I could not ignore the slowly decreasing portions as the years went on. The last straw was a beef bibimbop with countably three pieces of beef. I will not patronize this place again.

Love the Bi-Bim-Bop and soups. People who work here are friendly and sweet. I will drive many miles for their BBB. I've tried Korean food at other restaurants, and while I like ethnic foods of all kinds, Korean's generally a bit too far from what I'm used to to actually like it. So if you like your standard fare of Asian foods without getting into the gamey regions, come here and try the Bi-Bim-Bop with Poolkokee (sp?) meat. It's fabulous. And no, it hasn't changed. I'm on the young side of 50 and have been coming here since I was in middle school or high school. For those who wonder what Bi-Bim-Bop is, it's a carefully sorted mix of vegetables like shredded carrots and Korean delicasies, plus sweet/BBQ Korean beef (the Poolkokee), and a fried egg on top. You mix it all together and add the "hot" (not so hot) sauce, and you have a bowl of food you can eat with a spoon. Colorful and healthy. Mandarin House is very popular with Northwestern grad students and professors at lunchtime.

It's among the worst chinese food I've had in years. Imagine if you were in a prison in the Soviet Union, and they had a special Chinese night. This is what it might look like. I hate to waste food, but, unfortunately, much of what we ordered -- very basic Chinese comfort food -- (pork fried rice, pot stickers, Mongolian beef, tempura) was awful.