Red Ginger China Bistro Minnesota — Restaurant in Shoreview

Spent 46 bucks for two dishes, 2 kinds of fried rice, and dumplings. After the sticker shock I expected great flavor and healthy serving size. However I am so disappointed and wishing I had spent half of the money to drive further elsewhere.

The beef lo mein: $10.50 for noodles basically. Dry bland lacking in flavor. I found 6 pieces of meat and vegetables that didn't even have taste. Onions still firm but yet nothing to give you belief you ate one. What a joke.

Orange chicken: $10.50 Should be an easy one to knock out for any oriental restaurant. However the lack of seasoning accompanied with out of the box tasting sauce left us with no choice but to drown it in our own sauces to make it more appeasing. Even the kids wouldn't eat more than one if they even ate one to start with. Chewy nasty chicken that we couldn't convince the kids to try again. I too found this dish difficult to keep eating.

Fried dumplings: (6.50?!) I always judge a place by these. The dumpling sauce is nothing more than a watery sweet and sour not a dumpling sauce at all. Not even close. The dumpling itself was basically a unrecognizeable blob of what I hope and assume is meat. Poor flavor and I can say frozen ones from the grocery store beats these hands down. Sloppily laid on lettuce the outside was cooked hard where the filling had been pinched. Eaten without the sweet sauce is honestly comparable to chicken nuggets without breading.

Pork fried rice: (9.25 for a large?!) More dry than what's desirable however good sized chunks of meat but like the rest of the food. Boring on your taste buds. However likely the best part of the 46 dollar meal. Expect the fortune cookies.

Shrimp fried rice: (6.05 for a small) Good sized shrimp and comparable in the lack of seasoning to the pork rice. Nothing to wow you however not much more to gripe about aside from what's been mentioned already. Bland. Unexciting. Dumbed down.

All in all we found the food barely bareable if you have a plethora of sauces to add at your home. However the prices for what you get are absurd I have eaten all over the country and even gas station egg rolls have more flavor than the entire meal put together. The Asian salad at McDonald's blows this place out of the water. Nothing seems to be made by hand or from scratch even; the incredible lack of seasoning and care for tradition combined with poor appearance sums up to a suspicion that the chef does not understand what he's making or the recipes have been heavily altered from what's expected from staple dishes.

TL;DR: save your money if you're expecting Chinese food and flavors, this place is not that it has been watered down to bland dry American with a Chinese cuisine look and disappointing...

Sweet and sour shrimps are good that I never had eaten before! It’s my Dad’s and my first time to eat late lunch at this new place on 31 August 2022. Looked like this place was quiet and walls looked awesome because of painted art flowers

I had to warn that they do not allow real service dogs to go into. I was lost because of what they told my Dad and me. It will make my Mom to get mad if she saw my review that this restaurant did not allow me to bring my service dog into with me. My dog scented fears, so I had to put her into my accessible van then went back in to done up with my meal. It was in 31 August 2022, but it ruined my memory. I am not going back to this place again because I found out they do not allow real service dogs to go into. Like my Dad explained to me, “Chinese people are afraid of dogs.” but it’s still no excuses for them to tell my Dad like that. I know what my dad told me because I am deaf.

I am sorry, but I have to put 3 stars on because of they said no service dogs allowed. It’s not because of culture, just said they were afraid of dogs. It’s no excuses for people who owned small Chinese businesses or Chinese restaurants to make me to throw my service dog into my accessible van. They made me to look like my service dog’s abuser because of their NEGATIVE comments. I am not trusting some of people who are afraid of my German shepherd dog for no reasons. Foods were good, but just only did not allow my service dog to come in with my Dad and me. I did not know what’s happened to Chinese people in past times who afraid of dogs. I felt in my heart that was not cultural nor religious. I am not discriminating them, just very concerned about why people were afraid of dogs. I would not want to freak them out with my dog because she did not bark in this restaurant that left me to...

I ordered with Red Ginger China Bistro for the first time via Door Dash. Ended up getting wontons, donuts, house fried rice, orange chicken and sweet and sour chicken.

The orange chicken was probably the worst I've ever had, the sauce was bitter and the chicken was extremely soggy where the breading was falling off the chicken. I've had take out/delivery with other restaurants and received breaded fried chicken dishes in sauce that were not extremely soggy. It may be better when ordered and eaten at the restaurant, but I wasn't very impressed and ended up tossing the dish because it was difficult to eat.

Sweet and sour chicken dish ended up being a chicken nugget dish because the other main part of the dish, sweet and sour sauce was missing. I heard good things about the sauce especially, so it was disappointing to not have received one of the main parts of the dish. The chicken itself was fried well and decent quality meat though.

The other three dishes were good though, cream cheese wontons, donuts and house fried rice. Others may have a better experience if they try it. However, my experience was bad enough that I wouldn't order...