5/17/25: Short version - Wild Ginger is a cute little place with tasty food, healthy servings, friendly staff (although we only met with the one woman), and colorful decor.
Long version - This particular Saturday we arrived about an hour after opening and had the entire place to ourselves. A few people came in but only to pick up orders.
The restaurant was spotless, well decorated, and the young gal who handled us was very friendly. All the dishes came out hot, and there was so much food, my leftovers fed me lunch for three workdays.
The appetizer platter had a wide variety of items on it, crab rangoon being my fav. Although I don't like crab :-), I didn't really taste it because it had more cream cheese than crab, which was just the way I like it. Ha!
The egg drop soup only had corn (most other places there are peas and carrots), and I wonder if they put too much yellow food coloring in it (?). It still tasted good, though, no complaints there.
Two slight disappointments keep me from giving the 5-star rating. First, their Thai tea was a little weak, not so much in flavor but in consistency. It tasted more watery than milky, which I can only guess is attributed to the milk / creamer used. I like my tea creamier & sweeter, where WGAB's was thinner. Second, the cashew chicken needed more chicken and less celery. I know celery is cheap but there was waay too much in the dish -- and there was no water chestnuts. That was disappointing.
My sister really enjoyed her butterscotch braised pork. I will say it had a very unique flavor to it, but it's not something I would order because it's too fatty...
Read moreThis is the worst customer service I’ve ever seen. We placed an order for take out and pick up. The way their website is set up you have to place your order through door-dash or one of the other delivery companies, they all stated there would not be a service fee to order thru them. The total of the order was over $100.00, when we picked up the order the receipt stated $87+. Called to get my card credited, explained the problem, she stated the I should have called the order in rather than using the door dash app, well its difficult to know that if their website does not say that. Anyway after further discussion and being told to talk with DoorDash. I then complained about the food, that the noodles and fried rice was not good. She stated to bring it back and they would credit my account. My husband did that and after they took the food, they told him to he would need to get the refund from DoorDash. I have continued since the first of Feb to try and take care of this, their email back to me stated they are reviewing the situation and will be back with us within an hour. That’s the longest hour since I have yet to hear from anyone.
I just spoke with wild ginger again, explained the problem again and they again stated to contact DoorDash. I explained again that I had been trying and they hung up on me again. I really don’t understand why the person on the phone can’t pass a message to the manager to try and take care of this problem. Thoroughly disgusted, will never order from here again. Nothing...
Read moreWell, well, when you at the barber (executive mens grooming great hair cuts!) 2 doors down talking about Wild Ginger Bistro. I finally made it before church. I didn't want to be disappointed so I set the standard differently. I went in...expecting ok Mandarin food, what I received was well worth the anxiety of trying a new spot! $40.04 well spent on great food and very nice people working there( 2 people). I started with the lemongrass chicken, flavoring a little off from what I normally would enjoy. The lemongrass was a package, not fresh, can you taste the difference absolutely! Chicken moist and tender with lots of garlic, onions and lemongrass flavor. Honestly not the top of the list. But the Mongolian Beef tender juicy pieces of beef marinated in all the goodness top choice. They only have plates therefor if you want just the entrée unfortunately you can't. I was by myself and didn't want to order extra fried rice. Fried rice seasoned heavy on the soy sauce, delicious non the less! Absolutely no doubt this is a STAR in Gilbert rising up.. I did ask if the lemongrass was fresh or packaged. They said packaged, you can tell once again not a bad thing, maybe take the fresh and freeze some fresh lemongrass ya that may do the trick. 谢谢您的热情款待!thank you for the...
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