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WHAT THE CRITICS SAY
Critics' Scoring
Scores will be assigned based on a 0-100 scale broken down as follows:
100 = Perfect
90 = Excellent
80 = Very Good
70 = Good, not Great
60 = High Average
50 = Average
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30 = Disappointing
20 = Nearly Without Merit
10 = Poor
00 = Worthless
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Mpls.St.Paul Magazine | Steven Brown
12/06
Located on a desolate stretch of Lyndale in Bloomington, Mandarin serves food so authentic, it could easily be located in Chinatown. The ethereal things of which I speak are the dim sum (served from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on weekends only), and if the lines are any indication of the experience that waits inside, this place might be better than the Wild Thing at Valleyfair.
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StarTribune | Jeremy Iggers
08/15/96
The Chinese menu, however, which is translated into English and Vietnamese, offers many dishes seldom seen in the Twin Cities, ranging from crab with XO sauce and jellyfish with beef to roast duck and taro hot pot, and beef tripe with sour vegetable. Nightly specials not on the menu have included live shrimp and Dungeness crabs cooked to order.
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BUZZ
City Pages
Best Of: Best Dim Sum
2006
here are many ways to judge the excellence of a dim sum palace, but for us, the decisive factor has always been dumplings. Mandarin Kitchen has the most: chive flower dumplings, with their dark greens peeking through the translucent wrappers; cilantro dumplings, fragrant with herbs;
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Metro
Best Ethnic Restaurants
When Wong goes out for dim sum, her pick is usually Mandarin Kitchen, where she keeps an eye out for the carts serving chiu chao fun guo (a dumpling stuffed with dried shrimp and Chinese pork sausage), beef tripe and egg custard, which she says must be eaten while it's still warm. Meanwhile, her kids gobble up a couple orders of sticky rice.
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