Most decent Chinese restaurant in town. Great service with plenty of room for larger parties. Food is good. Typical Chinese food but is not overly greasy. read more

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This was the only place that had pho in Lewiston, so I gave it a shot. I was NOT DISAPPOINTED. Great price for a great meal. Service was great and personable. Will definitely come back! read more

Workers were friendly, and service was speedy. But that's all the good things i have to say. The food tasted like something you could buy at your local grocery store hot bar- but that might be even better than this. read more

Always fantastic and freshly cooked food. Fabulous friendly service. Love the fishtank in the bar. read more

Food was good especially the prawns and steamed rice Service was slow even though we got there had they had opened Took along time to get requests from a waiter for extra condiments by the time they came food was getting cold Not good customer service unfortunately that day read more

This is an amazing Chinese restaurant. Good food, clean, well decorated and good service. The plates are tasty and made with fresh ingredients. I am always on the road for work and when I am in town this will always be a dinner stop for me. read more

I'm eating the best bowl of hot and sour soup I've had in a long time!! I'm pairing it with some dumpling and there's so much soup, it's a meal!! The waiter is delightful and the nice hostess sat me in a booth, even though I'm a party of one. I love this place. read more

Didn't like it. Overcooked, fried, sauces taste they are are out of a can. Tempura is thick and not tasty. I'm not going back.

Delicious food! The combo appetizer was very good. The General Tso was awesome! And the sweet & spicy Mandarin Beef was awesome too! Crisp, tasty, tangy! Hit the spot for sure! The service was very good as well! Our server did a great job! The atmosphere was pleasant as well! read more

Mandarin Pine Restaurant - Sweet & Spicy Mandarin Beef - Chinese Near Me - Lewiston, Idaho

This is the best place ever, food never disappoints great warm friendly staff and servers and lotsa food with leftovers to enjoy the next day and yes I will go back again and again read more

Mandarin Pine Restaurant - Mandarin pine appetizer - Chinese Near Me - Lewiston, Idaho

As busy as this place was last night, I knew it was going to be good! We sat at the bar as we waited for our food. They have a full bar with lots of specialty drinks. All their dinner plates looked so good as I watched people get their food. We got two different dinner specials and it was so much food that we have dinner for tonight as well. Their soup was so delicious, we both finished that off. We were impressed with their soft chow mein and fried rice. Found my new asian food go to! Will be telling everyone about it! read more

Mandarin Pine Restaurant - Take out combo dinners - Chinese Near Me - Lewiston, Idaho

Usually when you travel with athletes they want something quick and fast but on this occasion I got to eat with the trainers. Their number one rule is to never eat at a chain so we stumbled onto a random restaurant in Lewiston - the Mandarin Pine. Once you enter the have a strange little shrine of awards that they've won and you continue on into the dimly lit dining room. We got a variety of dinner combos and the lettuce wraps. The lettuce wraps were fine but not memorable, comparable to PF Changs version. The dinner combo started off with the classic egg drop soup. This version was a bit more viscous but not an offensive version of the staple. The combo arrived in a big heaping pile of chow mein, fried rice, and neon red chicken. Normally I like my American Chinese in all its gloppy corn starchy msg glory but this chicken had the weirdest aftertaste that was really off-putting. The chow mein was fine and didn't suffer from that but the fried rice too had a strange aftertaste of must and foilage. OH WELL it wasn't a bad meal... not a good one but not terrible. Maybe they should try to make their aftertastey dishes lean towards a pine taste to match their name ~ nyuk nyuk Ask for the special menu! We sadly didn't order of off it because 2 of my compatriots didn't want to go off menu and order family style. Overall, this place is ok and comparable to a lot of Midwestern Americanized Chinese restaurants but I wouldn't visit this place again if given a choice. read more

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Great experience & wonderful dinner. Covid limitations didn't effect our meal at all. These random requirements on restaurants to only use 50% seating are ridiculous - Mandarin Pine's tables are already spaced generously. Our server was incredibly observant & attentive, refilling drinks before requested. She came by often to keep an eye out for needs, but was not invasive of conversation. We wanted to see what they had comparable to Bamboo Gardens' awesome crab rangoons, & she said it was fried wontons that we were talking about. We didn't have high expectations that they could measure up, but they were amazing!! If you go, you HAVE to get fried wontons; you won't be sorry. The egg drop soup before dinner arrived was very tasty, and loaded with vegetables. Dinner was really good, as expected & as we've had there before. Almond chicken was flavorful, so was my husband's sweet & sour chicken. Lemon chicken was good, but not as strong as it used to be years ago (we preferred the chokes-you-when-you-inhale power level). Even with the appetizer, 1 drink (& 1 water), & healthy tip we came away spending $45. Other places in town average more. read more

Mandarin Pine Restaurant - #7 - (lemon chicken substituted for sweet & sour chicken), pork chow mein, almond chicken - Chinese Near Me - Lewiston, Idaho

The first time I visited Mandarin Pine years ago, it was just so-so, but like everything else, it changed. Now So-So is a Japaese singer, and Mandarin Pine is really good. The meats were tender and flavorful, and the vegetables fresh. Our group had beef, chicken, and pork dishes that were very satisfying. The made-to-order stir fry was delicious, and everything was reasonably priced. Just be prepared to take part of your meal with you, as the portions are fairly large, but you won't have to wonder about what you're going to eat two hours later. The only issues we had were with waitstaff attentiveness. read more

I am disappointed with how cold their food is, and not to mention there was a wasabi in one of their egg rolls that caught me by surprised. I love Chinese food and having grown and raised in asia, where chinese food are great, the food served to me is below mediocre. read more

Fresh food, clean environment, excellent servers! Easy to understand menus, and a great selection of drinks. Will always recommend the establishment! read more

I was not impressed with the food. I'm not from here, and it was not the same as what I am used to.

Very conscientious clean and friendly.love pan fried noodles. I think Sunday would be a great day for you but understand!

I got the egg flower soup and edamame which tasted amazing. All the decorations are pretty cool but the booth we got seated at wasn't very clean. Also all the workers were very kind! read more

Mandarin Pine Restaurant - Edamame - Chinese Near Me - Lewiston, Idaho

This is my go to Chinese restaurant in Lewiston. Their food is always fresh, hot and fast whether its to go or eat in. The employees are friendly and attentive and always eager to explain new dishes. They serve Stella beer on tap which is always a plus. read more

Wow! The best Chinese food that I have ever had! We had family meal C. Everything we were given was high quality and tasty. We had multiple courses. It was wonderful! read more

As I said, I will get to this place again, it is Chinese New Year and me and my friends dont want to stuck in Pullman for silly Chinese food, so we went all the way to Lewiston again for delicious Chinese food. The owner is nice, we made a reservation for 9 and she helped us pick some dishes again. I love it, they love it. I am sure we will come to this place more to celebrate some events or what else. I brought my camera this time, we get to met owner's son, they are all super friendly and the service is excellent. With smiles on our face, we enjoyed every single moment in the restaurant. I only give this place 4 stars because I still believe they can do better, but with the price we paid, I believe they did a very good job, maybe I will say a 4.5stars .... Hm....! Guess it will go up to 5 the next time I go again... read more

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Chow mein and rice ok. Ordered a side of fried prawns. Shell still on prawns. Pork ribs mostly gristle. Lemon chicken not up to snuff.

The worst Chinese food I've ever eaten. Cold, very few veggies in the stir fry - mostly noodles - not very tasty. The place is looking a little seedy. Needs a freshening and a new chef! read more

Decided to go out for lunch and this is where I ended up. I had the general tso chicken with mixed vegetables and steamed rice. I would have to say this was probably the best Chinese food I've had in a very long time. The steamed vegetables for probably the best part of the dish and the soup was not bad either. read more

I love their shrimp bowl. it's not a part of the lunch or dinner specials, so you gotta make a request for it but fresh veggies nothing frozen. and if you like American Chinese I typically like their almond or sweet n sour chicken w rice and egg-roll combo. read more

I have to say that this place offers excellent food and plenty of it. We ate here one night for dinner, and I don't think I've ever seen so much take out food going out the door at any other place. You won't go wrong choosing this place for Chinese food! read more

What a great restaurant! Service was excellent, they had great social distancing measures, wore masks the whole time. Food was good, all freshly made and large portions. We got the combos and took home most of it! Thanks for making our first visit to Lewiston awesome! read more

Really good Chinese food!! Wonton soup and broccoli beef is my favorite. All our food was delicious and the service was great! One of the owners was our waiter and he was great. I love to see a family business stay in the family through generations. We will definitely be back here next time we're in town! read more

The food has gotten to be discussed tasting got sick last Monday. No flavor cold they have been giving us the wrong orders. They can't pay attention. read more

We enjoyed our meal out always good! Service was exceptional! House chowmein is a favorite!

As far as looks go it's your typical Asian food place, I ordered honey walnut prawns and I will say they were awesome, the rice was also cooked great. Service was good and quick. Reason for 4 stars instead of 5 would be due to price, if you order off the "lunch special" then you will pay more, but the food is worth a visit. read more

Always great food. Timely service. At times they get packed but handle it best as they can. Food is fresh and hot coming out the door. Friendly staff, although they have unruly customers at time that want to make things difficult. All in all a great place to eat if your hungry. read more

We are new to the area and took a chance on Mandarine Pine...we hit a jackpot! The people, food and atmosphere were all great. My husband loved to gong at the front reception area...not easy to keep him from it! We will be back :) read more

I stopped by for the first time this weekend for lunch. When I walked in, I noticed the restaurant was beautifully decorated, so I was excited to try it out. I stood in the entry for several minutes before I was seated. I checked out the menu and decided on a combo lunch: sweet and sour chicken, pork chow mein and fried rice. The chow mein had hard noodles, which I really liked. The chow mein had shredded pork on top. It was sweet, and not at all what I expected. Once I spooned it off my chow mein, the chow mein tasted good. The sweet and sour chicken was good, as was the rice. The lunch combo was $7.95. Not bad for the serving size. I might stop by if I'm in town for lunch and in the mood for chinese. read more

Mandarin Pine Restaurant - Lunch combo for $7.95: Sweet and sour chicken, pork fried rice and pork chow mein. - Chinese Near Me - Lewiston, Idaho

The first thing you have to understand is that Lewiston stinks, literally. The town is dominated by a huge paper mill that makes the local air smell like the farts people get after they eat a lot of sauerkraut. Sadly, we did not realize this when we scheduled ourselves into a hotel there for one night during a road trip to Seattle. Well, there we were, stuck in Stinkville, and we needed someplace to eat. The Mandarin Pine had a great rating on Yelp, so we went. It turned out to be the first time Yelp totally let us down. If you are -- oh, let's say over 45 -- and/or you grew up in a very small town, you may recognize this food. It's like what passed for Chinese food back in 1965. The food definitely took us back to our youth, and not in a good way. First impressions: the restaurant's exterior is ornate, with lots of pagoda-style roofs and Chinese dragons and stuff. The interior is pretty nice. It is busy. The locals all seem delighted to be here and they are shoveling down huge platefuls of something. We each order a combination meal, so as to try as many different dishes as possible. I mean, this place has rave reviews, right? I do notice almost every combo includes "chow mein," which is a Westernized ersatz "Chinese" dish that has been around since at least the 1920s. That makes me a bit suspicious. So does the egg foo yung (who still makes that??? more to the point, who still eats that???) and pretty much everything else listed on the menu. It is like being in a time warp. Nevertheless, we order. First up: the egg drop soup. The waitress (who is very pleasant, by the way) sets down our bowls. The contents jiggle. I have never seen a clear soup that thick. It is like soup jello. You can almost stand a spoon up in it. We try it. The broth clearly contains a ton of cornstarch and MSG, and very little else. There are some grayish peas, chunks of cabbage and little nuggets of mystery meat in there. The veggies have been cooked "until they can't hurt you none," as they say in the South -- in other words, until they are almost disintegrating. The waitress seems surprised that we haven't finished our delicious soup, but we tell her kindly it is fine to take the rest away. Next we each receive a giant platter of -- I started to say food, but that doesn't seem to be quite the right word. Stuff. Lots of stuff. The stuff ranges from barely acceptable (my fried prawns, my husband's egg roll) to completely inedible (everything else). I was given a choice of "hard" or "soft" noodles for my chow mein and stupidly said "hard." (Not that the "soft" version, which my husband ordered, was any better, but still.) The "hard" chow mein consists of about 60% celery slices, 10% cooked bean sprouts, 10% some kind of meat niblets and 20% hard fried "noodle" nuggets like the kind that come with that old-timey canned La Choy Chow Mein that I hope to God is no longer sold. (If you have never heard of canned chow mein, thank your lucky stars.) The vegetables in the chow mein are seriously cooked. The only thing crunchy is the noodle nuggets. All of this is bound together by more of the jiggly clear cornstarch-and-MSG goo. I would describe the rest of our meal but it's just too depressing. Well, the inhabitants of Lewiston have my sympathy. It's sad that their nasal passages have been burned out by the stench of the paper plant and that they apparently have no sense of taste as a result. This seems to be the only explanation for the rave reviews on Yelp. In any case, if what you want is a plate of mystery meat and cooked-to-death vegetables in a glutinous sauce, and you want the maximum calories per dollar (my platter o' horribleness was economically priced at only $10.50), this is your place. Otherwise, stay far, far away. This was the only time in my life I regretted passing up Red Lobster in favor of a local restaurant. read more

Every time I'm in Lewiston, I make sure to stop my this restaurant for a meal. The food is good and served in generous proportion. You may get 2-3 meals out if it. Classic & what you expect. The dinner combos are the best bet, as you get to sample several dishes in a sitting. The new layout (2+ yrs old as of this writing) also features a decent bar area when you can enjoy libations while munching on Chinese and watching sports. For this activity, it's a unique place to do that in an Idaho town of 30k people. The restaurant is clean and is almost always busy & buzzing with energy. Note, this is Chinese-American, not true "Chinese". Real Chinese is exceedingly difficult to find in the west unless you visit a major city and even then. I've spent a month in China, so I'm familiar with the cuisine. For the other reviewer complaining about the smell of Lewiston - yes, the paper mill can make the air tangy. You're not in New York or San Francisco for food but you'll find the people here MUCH nicer than in either of those cities. read more

Ate here last night. Tried a few items. Fried shrimp, noodles and rice were good on the combo plate. The barbecued spareribs came in this thick glaze. The glaze was tasteless and there were a lot of bones in it: Mongolian beef looked good, lots of vegetables, however the dish had a strange chemical taste to it. read more

Oh yes. I've eaten here for years. For other reviewers who did not grow up in Lewiston and found the food to be "Lewistonized" I can only say: Lemon Chicken and Sweet and Sour Pork. These haven't changed since I was a kid, and I don't want them to change. Yes, I have traveled around now and been here and there and had some mighty fine cuisine. However, lemon chicken with its somewhat gooey yellow sauce that reminds me of jelly roll cake is so good on the chicken- and thumbs up for the sweet and sour sauce. Dinner is never complete without egg drop soup, although my favorite is the won ton. Fried rice- I crave it at other Chinese places. Is it probably authentic? No, but the portions are good, the rice is flavorful. The only drawback is that tea used to be automatic; I think you have to ask now? And they added a bar, so that is somewhat shocking and I think some food from a wok. Those I haven't tried- all the favorites on the regular menu I've eaten everything more than once. It's hearty comfort food for me, bringing back good memories, and a relaxing time. I've never had bad service at Mandarin Pine, and still love to get the fortune cookies. I cannot speak of the toothpicks. read more

Great food. Excellent service. Definitely going to be going back. Their fried rice is amazing, also the egg foo yung. Huge portions. Clean and quiet, even when it's busy. read more