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    Bambu Kitchen & Sushi Restaurant

    3.4 (102 reviews)
    Open 11:00 am - 9:00 pm
    Updated 3 months ago

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    Where this food belongs. Harsh but true.
    Matthew H.

    This review is more focused on the food itself as I picked it up to go. The ordering and pick up process was fine. The food was terrible. Thai curries were watery, pepper forward, and bland. No thai flavors came through just pepper, old vegetables and watery curry base. That goes for both we ordered. Just terrible. My wife ordered pad Thai, this also had water in the bottom of the to go plate. Bland and basically tasteless. I already knew this was place was a problem as they claim to do 3 countries cuisines. That typically means they will be sub par or marginal at all of them. This was def the case. Not to mention we paid 80 bucks for 3 entree's and an app which was also terrible. Worst asian food I have had to date in the TC. Do not bother coming here.

    The robot coming with our food.
    Alysha W.

    We used to go to the Maplewood location quite often when it was still open but have only been to the Oakdale location twice. Her stuff is way way overpriced! Every little thing you have to pay an extra fee for which is ridiculous. When we went the other day after all the extra fees (plus the extra fee for using a credit card) our meal cost over $90. What we got was two glasses of lemon ginger tea, 4 egg rolls (two pork and two veggie), a tuna sushi roll, a vegetable sushi roll, a sweet potato sushi roll (made with Japanese sweet potatoes), pork egg foo young with fried rice and a half order of coconut curry with tofu. The Pork and the tofu each cost us an extra 4 dollars. We also had to pay 3 extra dollars to switch from white rice to fried rice and $2 extra for two sides of spicy mayo (which wasn't even spicy). That's a total of $13 extra for things that should not be that much of an up charge. Not to mention the $2 extra for using a credit card. The food is not worth the prices they are asking for and this time they had a $8000 robot deliver our food when there was only one other person in the restaurant. No wonder they have such high prices!!! We will not be back as nothing is great except the egg rolls, the prices are outrageous and the Two times I've asked for my food spicy they ignored me and didn't put in any spice. There are a lot better Asian restaurants out there where you get more food, with good quality with way cheaper prices!

    Mango spring roll, veggie stir fry and mango bubble tea
    Maggie H.

    2.5/5 The flavors have changed on the stir fry end and they are not good. Mild is too spicy and the vegetables are not cooked well. The bubble "tea" is good but it's more of a smoothie and not your typical tapioca pearls. The mango spring rolls are usually good but not always fresh.

    salt&pepper shrimp

    I love the food here! The pho here is so good and the service is great. The broth is very flavorful as is and doesn't need anything added at all. 10 of 10 would recommend.

    Xia Y.

    Great and flavorful food but very slow service. If you're expecting a fast service, I would not recommend this place. Other than that, the food is good, slightly overpriced compared to pricing around the area.

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    Whitney D.

    This place is awesome and a robot delivers your food to the table! My son loved it. The food is delicious and they have Chinese and Japanese menu! Yum

    Bambu signature stir fry, vegan by default ($11). Fine, nothing special.
    Kedar D.

    Bambu is a pan-Asian spot in a stripmall in Oakdale. It labels all its vegetarian dishes (nearly all of which are vegan by default), but is too safe/generic in its recipes and didn't leave much of an impression. The Twin Cities is blessed with excellent Indian, Thai, Vietnamese and Chinese places; Bambu comes across as a tribute band playing the greatest hits. It's fine, but not the real thing. The vegetable spring roll ($3) is utterly bland and forgettable, consisting of rice noodles stuffed inside a rice wrapper. get the Vietnamese crispy egg roll ($5 for two) instead, which is much tastier. The khoai tay fried potatoes ($11) is part of the Vietnamese section of the menu and one of the more unusual/interesting dishes. It tasted okay on the first few bites with a cool mix of green onion and fried potatoe, but becomes a starchy mess after twenty minutes and doesn't reheat well at all. The broccoli stir fry ($13) and Bambu signature stir fry ($11) are nearly indistinguishable from each other. I'd go with the Bambu signature because it's cheaper. The chow fun ($11) was fine but nothing special. The online ordering has a glitch which doesn't allow you to modify it to pick your protein, but the restaurant clued in that we'd want tofu given all our other dishes. Lastly, I had high hopes for the green curry ($12), as it's hard to find a truly vegan/vegetarian Southeast Asian curry (99% of the time they use shrimp paste in the curry mix). At Bambu, it tasted okay, but was basically a thick coconut creme soup filled with vegetables and tofu. It didn't have the kick or lightness of a true Thai or Cambodian curry. I didn't dislike Bambu, but I didn't love it either. That said, Oakdale doesn't have a ton of other options, so I'm glad it's around.

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    Fried rice was 10/10. Great place cool spot and friendly people. We will be coming back.

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    Some fantastic pho and an overall deep menu for options. I go here as a treat for myself and my family.

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