Jade Panda — Restaurant in Rothschild

First and foremost: Charging $7 for “milk tea” that comes in, what looked to be, 14 oz. plastic Solo cups, is completely unacceptable. What’s even more unacceptable is that I highly, highly doubt that they even contained tea. The brown sugar-flavored one I tried tasted like 2% milk coupled with the cheapest imitation brown sugar flavoring (if you can call it that). My mom tried the strawberry-flavored one and— I kid you not—it looked and tasted nearly identical to the color and flavor of Pepto Bismol. Zero exaggeration. The cups were inundated with ice, too. There are a fair number of places in Wausau that offer boba teas of varying quality, but none of them are this caliber of highway robbery & horrid taste. It’s just downright offensive.

It took us almost a half hour just to receive those drinks, and by the time we took our first sips, I was already over it. I tried to explain to the wait staff in the most polite way possible that the quality of service along with the drinks were already so unacceptable that I couldn’t imagine paying for the food when (and if) it finally arrived to the table. So, for that reason, I can’t comment on the quality of the food. Maybe it’s good; maybe it isn’t, but if you’re going to charge that much just for awful-tasting beverages in the smallest size of any “boba tea” cups I’ve ever seen, it doesn’t bode well for what the rest of the menu...

Jade Panda apparently opened, like, 3 weeks ago but it doesn’t feel like it. This place is out with a vengeance to be the best Asian food in the Wausau area, which as you know is stiff competition. Ramen was spectacular. The pork belly was crispy, bacon was a fun addition, and the broth was rich and creamy goodness. Bourbon chicken was good, but what made it great was the condiment selection—the “hot” topping spices and the “chili” as well as the fish sauce were great additions, the hot topping being the best we’d had. I’m already coming back next week!

UPDATE: Went back. The Perfect Cast and the Gangnam Style are both stellar. The softshell crab is some of the best seafood you’ll get outside the Pacific and Atlantic, and Gangnam Style is all the creamy goodness...

It's very disappointing.Was expecting Pilipino food but not even close. Adobe I don't know what was that very bad. Halo-Halo took 2 bites couldn't swallow it, Garlic Rice OMG, Lola's Lumpia made out of pork worse I cannot even eat it. Took my son I was excited to finally have Pilipino food close to home but OMG I guess I will drive to Chicago at Seafood City anytime to get real Pilipino food. Never come back there again. Very bad to introduce our food on this town I hope people that try eating there don't think our food tastes like this, Nope this is not our traditional Pilipino food. Sorry just wanted to let everyone knows Do not try ordering our Pilipino food at this place you will be...