Dragon Cafe

We had the chicken chow mein, chicken fried rice and chicken lomein, all of which were very good. We also had the general sous chicken and I don't think I would order that again as some of the pieces were just very dry. We ordered for take out, but the take out service was good and timing was right on. The ambiance seemed to be quiet inside but I only went in to pick up our order.

I didn't have any expectations based on the very mixed reviews for this place. Based on my food I don't understand how there are bad reviews! I thought all my food was some of the best Chinese food I have had. The fried rice was the stand-out for me. Compatible to LeeAnn Chin fried rice in my opinion. It had wonderful flavors which you don't get with a lot of fried rices. The sprouts added a perfect onion crunch to it. There were also some small mushrooms and eggs in it, loved it. That's how fried rice should be. They have really cheap lunch combo specials and you get a fair amount of food for the price. The sesame chicken was also super good! I liked how they give you the option of breaded or not. I will for sure be going back to try more!

not a fancy place but great food. my beef, tomato, and green pepper was great TRY IT. my pork fried rice, popular cashew nut chow mein for 2, and chinese sugar donuts were awesome too. definitely recommend dragon cafe on marschall road in shakopee MN

Food was not very good, sauces were overly sweet. Portions were crazy small. Wouldn't get again unfortunately

I'll preface this with the fact that I'm a transplant to minnesota, and have spent my 23 years here constantly searching for good Asian food. I usually just settle for something edible, and have been making dishes myself at home.
I read the reviews for this place, and they are both wildly negative and positive. When I see tgat fit Asian places, I'm never sure if it's low/high expectations and pleasant/disappointing, or if it's just what Minnesotans are used to vs transplants. So always a heavy pinch of salt wrt relying on other reviews.

So I decided to give this place a try after driving by it for 4 years.

Im sorry to say that I'm solidly in the massively disappointed camp.

Ordered egg rolls, pot stickers and Kung pao chicken; pretty standard order for me. The prices were higher than their online menu (by about 40%), not a huge surprise given the last couple of years, but the food is so so so not worth the price.
The egg rolls and pot stickers were very oily (like they'd been fried at too low a temperature), and really bland- almost tasteless. Even the dumpling sauce was bland - didn't taste any vinegar or onions.
The Kung pao chicken had spice to it (which was pleasing, since I'd pretty much given up on any place in minnesota actually believing I wanted it truly spicy), but the sauce had very little flavor (I ended up boosting it with a few dollops of PF Chang's sauce I had in the fridge), the chicken was cut so small it was practically mince, and not much of it (I often make it at home without any chicken at all, so it actually took me half the portion to realize I hadn't actually tasted/felt a bite of chicken) and there were very few peanuts (and I didn't have any at home to beef it up, unfortunately). Otherwise, it did have water chestnuts, bamboo shoots (were really fibrous though, unpleasantly chewy) and a lot of celery, didn't see any spring onions/scallions. I didn't see any peppers, so they might be using chili paste (as they should) or oil (no biggie) and at least it wasn't overwhelmingly sweet like I've also had it before.

The weirdest thing though, was the super tiny portion of rice! It was maybe 1 cup - totally not enough to go with the standard-sized 1 quart portion of the Kung pao.

Normally, I'll give a place a couple of tries before leaving a review, but I'm just totally not wanting to go back here. Nothing I got was worth trying again.

Dining area was closed so you could only order to go. Food is a little too salty for me and I have had better chinese food than what they have.

My favorite place to go to for shrimp lobster sauce! I always also order wings and chicken fried rice. Great small family owned business.

Solid three stars. My server was very attentive and very polite. No complaints there. I ordered the "special combo" that came with garlic chicken, an egg roll, and fried rice. I also ordered a cup of hot and sour soup.

The food is very, very Americanized. Expect that going in and you won't be disappointed, but if you want a more authentic experience, you're better off going somewhere else. The fried rice is almost brown due to the large amount of soy sauce used. I was pleased there were no carrots in the rice. A decent amount of egg and a very large portion of rice is served. The entree was decently solid given the environment. Nice cuts of broccoli were present. I ordered it "slightly spicier" than normal. It did not disappoint. Whenever my nose turns into a fire hydrant, I'm happy. The egg roll was a standard edition and certainly not outstanding. But I've had worse as well. Hot and sour soup was a little more hot than sour, but certainly a respectable effort. There was quite a few pork strands and lots of bamboo shoots. No mushrooms if that's your thing (I was happy there weren't any). There's duck sauce available on the table in a large squeeze bottle.

Star deductions: 1.5 stars off for a dirty water glass. I've worked in a dishroom before and I know things get missed. It doesn't make it acceptable. Some kind of food particle was on the inside of the glass. The water isn't filtered either, so you get all kinds of Shakopee goodness. .5 star off for not having authentic hot mustard available.

All in all, its a decent place to get some takeout if you want to support a local business. Had the dirty water glass not happened, I would have leaned towards a four.

Keep looking if you want Chinese food. Very disappointed. Ordered orange chicken and there was a ton of vegetables in it and barely any chicken. Ordered cream cheese wontons and egg roll and got a teeny micro sweet and sour container for all of that. What the? Why would you think that's sufficient? Come on people. The fried rice was not tasty at all. They wanted to do an up charge to remove the bean sprouts in the fried rice. The customer is always right and you do what the customer wants without trying to rip them off!! You want a thriving business? Run it right!! Also, this restaurant was by far serving the smallest portions of food they can get away with!

Normally when I do reviews I try to say something positive and not keep it all negative but I have nothing for this place. This place is pathetic.

Chinese restaurants are a hit or miss. If you happen to be traveling to Duluth, Mn, I highly recommend hitting up Golden Inn in Superior. Now that's a high quality Chinese restaurant with nice size proportions for left overs and great tasting food.

This family consistently makes good food. Over the years I have sampled different places, I always come back to the dragon café.