Mandarin - Isleta Pueblo

This place is great! I had the Kung Pao Chicken Lunch special and I loved it.

Giving the benefit of the doubt on service and atmosphere, as our food was ordered delivery. For the exorbitant price of the meals, the food is fully cooked, but disappointingly bland, and unappealing. There was a lot of rice, and celery, but basically nothing of substance past those. There were more chunks of semi-cooked celery in our dishes than there were pieces of anything else, including the meat portions. The chicken in our meal had multiple large tendons, and was honestly less meat than fat/tendons. The Egg Drop Soup tasted like thick egg water, and seemed to be missing key ingredients like sesame oil, and some sort of flavored broth base. The only really tasty part of our meals were the smoothies, and for the price of them, they're small compared to other equally tasty smoothie joints. Overall Experience: Expensive Bland. I'd sooner eat at almost any other Chinese place in Albuquerque after how much of an expensive let-down this was, and we didn't even order a meal for everyone eating.