China Mama Restaurant

We had dinner there Friday night. They have the best soup dumplings and pot stickers in town. Prepared just right and juicy. The two appetizers are almost enough for a meal for two. Other dished were also done well. Pretty, clean and good service.

–YESSSS!!!
–that’s some delicious Chinese food yo
–Beef noodle, green onion pancake
–GET IT ALL

Personally, I have not been blow away by the food here. It’s decent for a small Chinese restaurant. I do like the beef rolls. They are mildly sweet and are definitely one of the highlights. I didn’t like their specialty pan fried buns too much because they tasted a little bitter, but they were kind enough to make only the pork buns for me since I am allergic to shrimp.
I had their pork chop rice which to me was a little bland. I may have to try the beef noodles next time.
The reason I gave 4 stars is because my dad loves this place. He raves about the combination noodle bowl, saying how nostalgic it made him feel, and they make their own cat ear noodles with were pretty good.
Service was as good as you’d expect in a Chinese restaurant…

My son took me here for lunch. Yummy! Dumplings were great!
Planning on going back next time I am in town.

The food is just ok and the service sucks. We ordered two soy milk to go and the waitress askes us to pay first. After we pay, they just ignored us and never bring up the soy milk.

Food is okay, but very bad (no) service, expensive menu for no reason and they stare at you when you add a tip at the end of your meal!

Ruined. I have been going to this place for lunch with coworkers for about two years.
Still the same: The food and prices are the same.
Changes: Good: There is cute new décor.
Neutral: The waiters ring you up on iPads.
Bad: They do not have the ability to take part card payment and part cash. The slow service used to be tolerable when they let us call ahead to order, but now it takes them 90 minutes to serve 5 dishes to our table. It took them 30 minutes to tell us that one of the dishes we order was sold out. They brought us 2 waters and forgot the other 5 of us.
Overall, too much change for the bad to chance this place for lunch again. Good luck fixing it, guys.

Service sucks！in fact, there is no service at all. No water refill. No one cleaned nearby table! Feel like we are eating near a trash bin. Food is terrible! Not traditional! Not fresh! Make us feel sick all night! And they stare at you when you add tip! Remember they will ask you to pay extra money when you use Visa!

WHAT IS THE PROBLEM! ?
I would give them a negative star if there is one available.
For some reason, they do NOT accept VISA credit card for the payment only because it was issued by a Chinese bank. That is DISCRIMINATION!!!
The new owner/​management SUCKS!
如果你要用带银联标致的信用卡, 千万不要去这家!!!
它们拒绝接受这种信用卡。
菜品一般。服务奇差。最关键的是每个菜平均涨价2到3美元。

terrible service. dont go there！we have been there for about 10mins. and no one come to seated us with half place empty.

Don’t go here. Must be under new ownership. Filthy floors and restroom. They clean the tables with grimy old towels. Terrible service throughout our dinner. We had a very good garlic eggplant, but the rest of the food was extremely bland. They forgot to bring one of the dishes and the other dish was not what we ordered.

My family is here all the time. Their service SUCKS but their food is amazing. Last time we were in it took them 20 minutes to get our drinks. The food promptly followed and was amazing as always but getting refills or the check is an inconvenience for them. You have to flag them down, you can not rely on them to see to your needs.
Our favorites:
Chicken fried rice
Spicy wontons
Juicy dumplings
Walnut shrimp

As you can see from the tip I wrote regarding prices right after I ordered /​while waiting for my food to arrive, the prices threw me off a bit.
If you’re just looking at the menu/​prices, it definitely seems high for chinese food (about $ 2-​$ 3 more than normal for every dish) but don’t let that deter you from trying them out cause the quality and quantity you get are worth it!
Their fish fillet in Chili Oil and Mapo Tofu are probably the best and most authentic I’ve had in Vegas, comparable to places you would find in NYC or Monterey Park/​Rowland Heights/​Hacienda Heights in the LA area. Also, the fish in Chili Oil is a generous portion of both fish and veggies. NOT just a measly portion of fish on top of a ton of cabbage like many places.
The wide hand pulled noodles in the beef noodle soup were the perfect consistency & a huge portion as well (see photo).
I will definitely be coming back here!

Read some of the reviews and went with the beef roll and the xi hen or whatever it’s called. Basically potstickers that are steamed instead of fried. They were good but I still like the fried potstickers… I was really glad for Unilocal with this restaurant since their menu has 0 pictures. A ton of options and not 1 pic, not great for a picture eater which I happen to be. So I hopped on Unilocal and checked out all the pics which I suggest you do as well and was sold on a few items. I also tried the hot and sour soup and wasn’t that impressed. The service was good and polite but a bit disorganized. The orange chicken was good but super crispy. I wanted to try the salt and pepper shrimp but didn’t have enough room in my stomach. To sum it up — get the beef rolls and check out pics to get an idea of what your buying.

We go to Vegas once or twice a year. We always look for good Chinese restaurant whenever we are in Vegas.
Yesterday was first time we were in China mama. We found this place because of Unilocal review was good.
We ordered beef noodle soup, bao, also fried rice. The food was amazing good and tasty. We are picky Chinese food critics. It tastes authentic. Not sweet and sour American Chinese food.
We for sure will go back again and again!

The food is good as usual and the interior is newly remodeled and the service has improved tremendously!

This is a Five Star Restaurant if you order the right dishes.
My favorites dishes are the:
Xio Long Bao
Spicy Sliced Fish (Order a side of cucumbers and peanuts with it)
Twice Cooked Pork
Beef Roll
These four dishes serve 4 – 6 people easy making a meal less than $ 20 a person.

A coworker and I came here for dinner right after work one Friday night. The restaurant itself wasn’t even busy, but the parking lot was super full. The surrounding businesses seem to be very popular on Friday night. Chada Thai, a boba shop and a karaōke/​sushi bar all neighbor China Mama, and we almost couldn’t find a spot to park so be advised.
We walked in to a semi-​empty dining room and were seated right away. We started with the pan fried pork buns that come 6 to an order, and 6 soup dumplings. The pan fried dumplings were really tasty. They came with some type of vinegar sauce which I didn’t care for. Instead I mixed soy sauce with the spicy chinese chili sauce that was on the table to make my own sauce that was really good. The soup dumplings were pork as well, and were very juicy and flavorful.
After we ordered and ate our appetizers, it took some time for the server to come and take our dinner orders. They had not even brought us any water, just Jasmine tea. I have to say the service could have been better, but luckily we were not in a hurry. For our entrees we ordered the crispy beef and orange chicken to share. The waitress asked if he wanted rice with our meals and we said yes. I later found out they charge 50 cents for a small cup of rice. Not a big deal, I just assumed the rice came with the meal, but it doesn’t. Anyway the crispy beef was delicious. It has to be one of my new favorite dishes and I can’t wait to eat it again. It’s crispy, it’s beefy, and it’s a lil bit spicy. It comes with soft shredded carrots and is tossed in a delicious sauce. The orange chicken was tasty, but nothing special. We had plenty of leftovers to take home as the entrée portions are huge. I will definitely be coming back here to have more of that delicious crispy beef.

Food on the Strip can get expensive after awhile. If you’re able to get off the Strip for an evening, China Mama is a decent option for some inexpensive and good food. Plus, it’s only a 5 – 10 minute drive. Not bad!
It’s located in a very busy plaza in Chinatown. There’s a boba place, foot massage, and karaōke all in that plaza. The entrance/​door is quite unassuming. not the most pleasant looking entrance… not a good sign. We arrived at around 8pm on a Friday and there were only 3 – 4 tables filled. Also not a good sign. But don’t be alarmed as the food was quite good.
We ordered their hand pulled wide noodles with beef, kung pao chicken, and chicken fried rice. Portions were huge! Family-​style is the best way to eat here. My only wish was they had fried squid/​calamari on the menu. Service wasn’t too great. We had to ask 3 times for water. If the opportunity presented itself, I will be back and order their dumplings. The table next to us had HUGE and juicy looking dumplings that I couldn’t stop eyeing.

Suzie Q’s Fun Facts:
Xiaolongbao is a small variant of «guantang bao,» or Shanghai-​style soup-​filled dumpling, made with unleavened dough and filled with broth and pork.
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Wait a second… Las Vegas has a massive off-​Strip «Chinatown» stuffed to the gills with not only (super-​cheap) Chinese restaurants a-​plenty, but also Cambodian, Vietnamese, Thai and others? Who knew?!
This past Memorial Day weekend 2015, friends and I were driving through Las Vegas on our way to Zion National Park in Utah, and needed to stop for lunch. Unilocal made it easy to look for «$$”/​«****» (translation: cheap and well-​reviewed) lunch spots off the beaten path.
Of the five options we narrowed down, China Mama won out. LA foodies are something of an expert on xiaolongbao, as we’re blessed to have several restaurants specializing in that delicacy within a reasonable drive in any direction. So we were excited to try Vegas’ counterpart to our beloved soup dumpling houses.
We walked in at around 2:30 pm on a Friday afternoon, and while we were seated quickly, the service was way too slow for our taste (considering our by-​then-​ravenous hunger). It was obvious that the server was servicing the entire dining room, so had her hands full.
Here’s what we ordered, along with the «verdict» on each:
— The «Mouth-​Watering» chicken: Ironically, we felt it was anything but. This was the only dish we left half-​unfinished on our table. Imagine a cold chicken carcass with its rubbery skin still on, hacked to pieces with a hatchet and served with an oily peppery sauce. Yeah… not so yummy.
— Xiaolongbao: Delicious, with delicate wrappers that still stayed intact when bitten. Though I was a little surprised they weren’t served with shredded ginger, as is traditional.
— Fried tofu with shredded pork: We liked the deep-​fried chunks of tofu (served mouth-​scaldingly hot), but were a little perplexed by the sauce served on the side, which resembled beef stew without the beef (peas and all). There was none of the advertised «shredded pork» in the dish, though the waitress dubiously insisted the pork had been «blended into» the sauce.
— Crispy gyoza potstickers: The satisfying crust on these pan-​fried gyoza paired perfectly with the juicy, hot, savory filling. This dish was a winner.
— Shrimp and scallion dumplings: This was the least satisfying of the dumplings we ordered. The skins were unexpectedly tough, and the filling lacked flavor.
— Pork Bao: One of our favorite dishes. The typically starchy bao casings were surprisingly tender and moist here.
All told, we felt that both the food and the service were uneven. The consensus was that China Mama deserved no more than a three star rating.
I don’t know if I’d go out of my way to return the next time I’m driving through Vegas. But if I lived there, it would definitely be included on the restaurant rotation.