Mandarin

This place was DISGUSTING. I felt like Gordon Ramsay picking apart everything that was gross about this place from the moldy stained ceiling tiles to the dead bugs on top of the pendant lights hanging over each table. The level of filth here is appalling. Tempura was horribly overcooked as was much of the rest of the food. Seriously, how do you screw up Chinese food? It comes off the truck ready to heat up!
Waitress was friendly, albeit not exactly attentive.
This was the first Chinese place we went to after moving to the area. We will not be back.

best chinese food in town, great drinks!

I sadly didn’t check Unilocal reviews before visiting this restaurant.
I got sweet and sour chicken, crab rangoon, and pork fried rice. Hubby got beef and broccoli with white rice. We both agreed that our food tasted like reheated leftovers. Will not return.

I was just perusing Unilocal and was shocked to see that Mandarin was rated so low compared to the other two Chinese places in town (Jade 3 and China Star). Mandarin is definitely a cut above the other two, and we have ordered from here many, many times and tried many different items from both the Chinese and Japanese/​Sushi menus. We’ve never been disappointed. The food is just a bit fresher, more flavorful and less greasy than the others. That said, it’s fairly standard take-​out food and I wouldn’t go out of my way to eat here, but if I’m in Amesbury and I want Chinese take-​out, it’ll be Mandarin every time.

I hate writing bad reviews. My only experience is with their sushi. It was horrible. When I got it home as soon as I opened the bag all I could smell was fish. I have never had this before. Sushi grade fish should be the freshest, cleanest. Also the texture was off. It was stiff and old. IF this was not enough the rice not sticky sushi rice but hard and pearly. I could go on and on… I am praying I do not get food illness tonight from this experience.

ANIMAL ABUSERS– DON NOT SUPPORT THIS BUSINESS
WARNING– DO NOT READ THIS IF YOU DO NOT WANT TO HEAR ANIMAL ABUSE STORIES!
These people are fannyolios. I don’t even care about the food or anything else about this place because they are animal abusers. The fish tanks in use were so filthy that the fish could have died right then and there. We were seated nest to an empty fish tank which was really smelly and bad. Partway through my meal, I looked down at the bottom of the fish tank and noticed a home depot 2 gallon bucket with a small bubbler hose in it. It looked like they were cleaning white paint brushes in it– the water was so chalky. Then I noticed that in that chalky water, there were little orange fins swimming around– you could not see anything except a fin here and there it was THAT BAD. They had freaking fish in that bucket that were supposed to be in the tank! I couldn’t believe it. I will not stand for that kind of animal abuse. Don’t have fish if you can’t take proper care of them. ANIMAL ABUSERS. DO NOT SUPPORT THIS BUSINESS!!!