Mandarin Gourmet — Restaurant in Page City Limits

2024 update:

Same food.. same dishes actually. May get boring for some but we still like it. Dishes get turned over fairly often as there are a good number of customers there even in mid-afternoons plus the almost daily visit from tour buses. There are perhaps more ‘refined’ Asian restaurants in town, but often times I want to skip the ordering process and just eat after spending a hot day at the lake.

We come here always more than once every time we stay in Page. You would think this place is worse than sh#$!! the bad reviews and pathetic ratings it has received. However one would never know from the bus loads of Asian tourists that come here every week. Also there are plenty of local families and European tourists alike. You think they come here to do what?

One can eat fairly healthy if so chooses. Even though it's a buffet, just don't overeat. I stick to the vege dishes and maybe some shrimp dishes, with a bit of noodles and rice, and fruits.

I see plenty of return customers usually local families even in between lunch and dinner hours. As the food gets eaten, the kitchen staff keeps restocking the food trays so you know they are made to order..so to speak.

What's not to like?  There's a variety of dishes to choose from. And they taste great. I saw the following just this afternoon. (I am sure I missed some in this list here.)

Vegetarian: stir-fried vegetables, mapo tofu, hot & sour soup, egg flower soup, kimchi.

Non-veg dishes: broccoli beef, Mongolian pork, fried chicken drumettes, curry chicken, popcorn chicken, kung-pao chicken, BBQ pork ribs, sweet n sour pork.

shrimp stir fried with vegetables, salted pepper shrimps, dry roasted crabs, crayfish, fish fries

Starches: vegetable chow mein, egg fried rice, pork pot stickers, vege mini egg rolls.

Sweets: mini sesame seed covered sticky rice balls with red bean filling, donuts Chinese version, coconut macaroons, almond cookies, fortune cookies, jellos, chocolate pudding.

mixed salads, sliced cucumbers, tomatoes, cantaloupe, honey dew, watermelon, sliced oranges, sliced bananas with strawberry syrup.

It's an all you can eat buffet folks!  And don't pretend it's something that it ain't. But you can't beat the value and selections...

We’re a group of 4. After a long day of Great Canyon visit, my 80+yld mom wanted some Chinese food. We had the dinner buffet, food was not so fresh but it’s warm. The cashier was very rude when we went to him to make the payment.

He took the credit card and charged $100 without giving us a receipt. When we asked the buffet price and where it’s displayed? He answered “$25 per person, besides tourists pay more than the locals, no menu or price display.”. We asked for a receipt, he printed out just one showing $25. We asked again for the total amount of $100, then he printed another one. Both receipts don’t show the restaurant name, address, phone number, etc. and the time showing on both receipts are earlier than the credit card receipt even they were printed minutes later. When we expressed never heard of tourists have to pay extra for dining, he replied “That means you haven’t been traveling a lot.”.

We called the credit card company to decline the charge and called local police. A few minutes later two police officers showed up. One of them told us that they can’t do anything about it since it’s not a crime, it’s a civil issue and we can take it to a small claims court. We asked if the restaurant is required to display a price for the customers? The officer went to talk to the cashier and came back with “He showed me a bunch of receipts showing $25/each. And this is a private business, they can price however they want, they run it however they want. “. We asked the officer where should we file this kind of complaint? He said “federal, public health department or IRS?”.

A video of tonight’s buffet and 3 photo copies are attached to...

If there is a -5 star I will put it. the food was not really good, flies everywhere on food and buffet. the most horrible thing, the waiter chinese old women was very rude with my kids, they only 6 and 4 years and she took the chopsticks from them very badly. the boss was the rudest restaurant manager that I ever seen in my whole life, when my husband was discussing about why he charged the kids because he even charged for my infant son less than 2 years, he was vey rude, he took the debit card to charge and throw it back into my brother in low face, when my husband ask him to smile for customers he said don't come again to my place and just leave. We left and he came back again was yelling and used the middle finger. He said come to fight if you want and a lot of bad words, all that and the kids were watching and crying because of his bad behavior. The experience was really horrible, I wish his place get closed. He made our vacation mood...