Pearl

If you prefer Chinese food drenched in sweet sauce then this is the place for you. We ordered noodles threw genereal tso chicken and the Orange beef and the meat dishes were both ridiculously drenched I n sauce, I mean seriously. The noodles were fine definitely not the best we tasted but fine. The restaurant though looks beautiful and modern thank you to our waitress for bringing the birthday desert for my wife.

Full disclaimer: I’m from central Los Angeles and frequently eat in the 626 area, and I am aware the majority of this restaurant’s customers probably come from places that don’t have the same access to authentic Chinese food…
I was attracted to this place by the stylish décor. In the end, the food here was just OK. We had the special with the lobster, filet minon, and chicken and I definitely felt that I was eating at a P.F. Chang’s but paying at least 3 times as much. I wasn’t left hungry, but definitely felt robbed. Next time I’ll try Hakkasan.
Don’t get the cokes. They’ll give you a small fancy aluminum bottle (with an amount LESS than a simple can of coke) and charge $ 6. What the hell was I paying for, the bottle???

Food was great! Service was very good as well. We went with the family style #1 the ribs were very tender and the crab spring rolls were quite tasty as well. I enjoyed the almond chicken more than the beef tenderloin. And the fried rice had a good amount of pork and shrimp. It was our anniversary. And they comped us a little chocolate banana cake. I would love to come back with some more people and just order a bunch of different entrées.

Average food. Great ambiance and service. The dumplings were outstanding! That’s about it. I had some type of curry noodle dish with thin rice noodles. It tasted just like PF Changs — nothing special. I did order two orders of dumplings because they were so incredible. I would only come back for those.

Food was delicious. Will definitely go back next time I am at the MGM. Hot and Sour soup is a must. Bit pricey for lunch but that also could be due to the fact that we ordered a ton of items. Duck was outstanding!

This is a great place to eat for Chinese food. Very well prepared and the servers were all very friendly. We ordered the Mongolian beef and combo fried rice. It was very very good. I highly recommend this. Everyone has their own opinions and for me this place is great.

The food here was about average. We had General Tso’s Chicken and the Almond Crusted Honey Chicken. Decided to add fried rice on the side. Total was almost $ 90.
The service was excellent but the food just didn’t impress. Both our dishes tasted far different from what dishes of the same name at other restaurants taste like.

Went to Pearl for the 2^nd time about a week before Christmas when I was in Vegas. We loved it the first time a few years ago and loved it again this time. The menu is mostly Cantonese and very authentic. The only negative I can say about this place is that the price are quite high, but what do you expect on the strip. Fortunately, the entrée sizes are large enough for 4 people when eating family style. On this visit we had a taro root clay pot, steamed chicken, baby bok choy, and a tofu dish. All were excellent. The service was top notch as you expect at a high end restaurant on the strip.

OMG! This place was ah-​mazing! Some of the best Chinese food ever! We have stayed at the MGM many times but never tried this place — shame on us!
I had the Singapore noodles which had just the right amount of spice. My friends all ordered various items and everyone was very happy with their selections.

I had dinner here last week with 2 friends.
What we eat:
Spring rolls
Macadamia nut chicken
General tsos
Pepper shrimp
The food was good, but same stuff as take out Chinese, except for 3 times the price.
The décor was pretty but the restaurant was pretty empty. The atmosphere was lacking.

YES.
My uncle, cousin, and I grabbed dinner here after I had spent an entire day wrangling the children (boy aged 3.5 and girl aged 1.5) with their parents (my cousins). Oh, it was the best babysitting reward I could have asked for!
To start, I ordered the Seafood Wor Wonton Soup. My uncle ordered the Dungeness Crab and Sweet corn Chowder. My cousin ordered the Shark Fin Soup (although not on the menu — the price probably would have scared everyone half to death anyway). All delicious.
We then ordered for the table: Pan-​Seared Fillet of Sea Bass with Spring Onion, Fried Rice with Barbecued Pork and Shrimp, and Beef Brisket and Turnips (claypot). I’d do almost anything for a delicious claypot and this one did not disappoint. The fried rice was pretty standard (and my standards are fairly high). And the sea bass was delicious and flavored well.
After this. Fiamma for dessert!

Actually came here as a «mystery shopper,» auditing the quality of service and food here a year ago. A quick background on me, I’m Chinese and have been to MANY Chinese restaurants, from trendy to tradition. This particular one, being in Vegas, on the strip, is definitely on the trendy side.
When making a reservation they answered in 3 rings and I was put on hold. They did a good job referring to my name throughout the reservation and asked where I was staying and if I were interested in any shows or other dining options (within MGM of course).
Upon arrival, my friend and I were greeted by the hostess and who I think was the manager, but both weren’t wearing any nametags. When we were seated the hostess didn’t converse with us, but I didn’t feel like it was rude or anything either. The ambiance of the restaurant is really nice. There’s large booths along with tables that are well spaced from each other. The lighting is medium to low and they tables are set with nice décor. As we seated the first server placed napkins on our laps, showed special drink offers and poured us water pretty eloquently if I may add. He came back within 15 minutes and recommended that we try the spider prawns and wines that would go with the meal. We ordered the spider prawns, lobster fried rice, crispy garlic chicken, honey walnut prawns and dessert (along with white wine).
Food came within 15 minutes and the server entertainingly showed us how to eat the spider prawns. He came back within 5 minutes to check up on us to see if we were doing ok and enjoying the spider prawns. The rest of the food followed promptly and was served by our server along with another. Everything was delicious. I have to say that most Chinese restaurants I’ve been to have to overtly salty, but I thought this place was perfect and I did not feel the need to have to drink water like a desert camel. The honey walnut prawns were AMAZING. A beautiful presentation also with blackberries, raspberries, and pineapple. I could eat that all day. The lobster fried rice was good and not too dry or salty, while the chicken was moist and flavorful. Again within 15 minutes our server came back and asked how I dinner was and refilled our drinks. We ate, and I was pretty darn full, granted we did order 4 dishes for the two of us though. They came and cleared our dishes promptly and offered coffee for our dessert.
The experience at this restaurant was great. It was definitely geared toward the trendy and expensive side of people and I don’t know if I’d ever pay this much for Chinese food again, but it was quite the experience. Service was excellent also. I’d recommend if you had some cash to blow on pretty good food and presentation (albeit Chinese) to give it a shot. As far as their audit went, they scored pretty well and they’re still there!

I was in Vegas over the Chinese New Year, and so I decided this was the perfect place to eat on New Years night.
Our party of three had a fantastic time. The service was near perfect with the restaurant packed, and the food was really amazing. For fine dining Chinese food isn’t the first thing that comes to my mind but this place was absolutely delicious.
I had the Chefs Tasting menu and for $ 70 I had more food than I knew what to do with. After all the food I had bought in Vegas this 6 course tasting menu ended up being my favorite meal by far. The last course being my favorite, a beautiful Chinese surf and turf of Filet Mignon and Scallops, Lobster fried Rice and assorted Veggies. I walked away completely stuffed and well taken care of, the staff was friendly and we had an amazing time.

If I wasn’t comparing this place to all the other food places in Vegas, this place would probably get a higher rating.
The services was really accommodating after a switched my reservation 2 times. I explained that I was coming from Los Angeles and had hit heavy traffic. They said it was fine, however knowing that Saturday nights are usually slammed it was probably a hassle.
Dinner Menu usually changes which can be a bad thing if you frequent this place just for that item.
The Australian lobster is really good and it’s live seafood, and def try the tasting menu.

Ugh. Super disappointing. Loved the ambiance and the menu LOOKED really promising. My friend and I decided to go for a few dishes that our waiter recommended.
What we got, in order of best to worst tasting:
An eggplant appetizer dish
Almond-​crusted lemon chicken
Orange peel tenderloin of beef
We actually loved the eggplant dish, and I was wishing I had only ordered that! My friend’s lemon chicken was palatable — too much of the almond-​crust coating for my liking but the flavor was decent. The beef was really awful, though. Absolutely swimming in sauce, and the meat was just gross. It did not taste like tenderloin quality at all, and I barely managed to eat a few pieces.
My friend doesn’t drink, and I’m preggos, so none for me either, so the cost of these three dishes alone — $ 80 something all said and done — seemed like highway robbery.

Did someone say Lobster fried rice?!?
HELL to the ya! We were in Vegas for the weekend to see Jimmy Buffett (awesome freakin’ concert btw). We were relaxing in out hotel room trying to decide on an scrumptious dinner to enjoy. I made the poor man eat so much fast and greasy food this trip that I wanted to make it up to him with a delicious sit down meal. The dilemma was finding a place near the concert that took reservations. VOILA, the combination of good Unilocal reviews and the fact that Pearl took reservations was the perfect storm of deliciousness for our dinner.
We started with the fried crab claws from the appetizer menu. So freaking amazingly delicious I had to steal one of the man’s as well. For dinner we shared an order of Almond-​Crusted Lemon Chicken and Lobster Fried Rice… yep, you read that right, Lobster Fried Rice!!!
The Almond-​Crusted Lemon Chicken was so amazing… the sweet and sour flavor of the glaze combined with the texture and crunch of the almond crust put me in Almond-​Crusted Lemon Heaven, ya I said it! The Lobster Fried Rice was the perfect companion. It was a large portion of rice perfectly cooked, not overdone or underdone. Lobster chunks spread all throughout. I’m sure someone will complain that they wanted more Lobster, but I had flavor in just about every bite so I was a happy camper. Once we were done with our meal, we strolled the hallway down to the concert in mere moments.
If you are seeing a show at the Grand Garden Arena OR KA this place is perfectly located near both. The prices are a little steep, but in my opinion completely justified by the service, ambiance, quality, flavor and convenience.

Upscale Chinese food. Pretty delicious, but when you think about what it is… well, it’s pretty $$ for chinese.
–Dungeness Crab Spring rolls: Meh… not enough crab, kind of bland.
–Lo Mein with BBQ pork: Fabulous. But $ 20 for some noodles and pork, it better be.
–Kobi beef fried rice: Pretty good, but ground kobi sort of loses it’s luster. I know it’s supposed to be «the best», but when you grind it up, it almost tastes the same as regular ground chuck. ALMOST.
–Wok-​Charred Mongolian beef: Pretty good, but the texture was a little weird. Kind of on the soft/​slimey side.
It’s a good hangover place cuz of all the carbs and salt, but you could also go to something in the foodcourt and eat just as well for ¹⁄₃ the price.

Not too good, but not good bad either, it is not cheap, but it is not extremely pricey either. The portions are smaller than usual Chinese restaurants.
I think it is kind of unnecessary to compare this Canton and Shanghai Chinese cuisine to most of Chinese restaurants. This restaurant is in MGM Grand hotel, they can’t have very authentic Chinese food here, because there is not too many Non Chinese people like real Chinese food.
The seating and décor is comfy and classic. The food is fairly delicious for Americanized Chinese food. I recommend simple dishes like hot and sour soup, Macadamia Nut Kang Pao Chicken, Honey-​Glazed Barbecued Spare Ribs, Fire-​roasted Mongolian Beef, Wok-​Fried Shrimp with Szechuan Chili Sauce. Skip live seafood, they are obviously over priced at a hotel restaurant, you can get better taste for the similar dishes at any regular Chinese restaurant.
Not a bad place for a casual lunch or dinner, the bill is from $ 70 – 100 if you don’t order live seafood dishes. $ 100 plus with alcohol beverages.

This is me and my family’s favorite place to eat whenever we go to Vegas. Located inside MGM, which is where my family and I usually stay at. The place is an upscale Chinese restaurant and service here is really good and the food is amazing also.
They have really great, fresh tasting Chinese cuisine and the thing to get here is the Peking Duck!!! I love Peking duck and this place hands down has the best Peking duck that i have ever had. The carve the duck table side and serve it with this thin rice paper… almost like a crêpe. Different than other typical Chinese restaurants.
So if you are ever in the mood for nice and upscale Chinese food this is the place to go. Make sure you make reservations though because this place gets really packed especially on weekends.

2^nd time back here for dinner. We got the same waitress as last time haha. The servers are very professional, they don’t kid around with you and they look serious. It’s always slow here. Maybe because the prices are on the higher side. But food is very good.
I got the $ 33 walnut shrimp plate again. I had it last time and it totally blew me away. I just had to get it again. The plate was huge. I also ordered a bowl of corn chowder. Yum. The saucy beef tenderloin chow fun wasn’t bad either, a bit on salty side.
We got a nice small table this time since it was just me and my handsome date. =) It was a romantic and quiet setting. Nice decorations.