China Mama Express

I can't believe how bad this place is!!!!! The duck is hammered to the point of being brittle and unchewable! The "fried" rice is steamed rice with frozen cubed carrots and peas in it. 150.00 for this???? NEVER AGAIN!

1st time here! Wow!!! What a fantastic and delicious dinner! This location is super Easy to find, they have great signage, and plenty of parking! I asked the counter clerk for recommendations and she pointed out their most popular items and gave me a variety of choices! She was so kind and patient. They are so fast and my “made to order” food was in front of me in record time. I ordered veggie spring rolls ~ they were fresh, hot, crispy, and full of fresh vegggies! Sauce is fantastic too!! For my entree, I ordered the Crispy Beef, and seriously, this beef is one of the best that I’ve ever eaten! Generous pieces of tender beef, that are perfectly crispy and in a tangy and not overly sweet sauce. I loved every bite!!! A generous portion of steamed rice came with the Crispy Beef and it was moist and well cooked. This location is incredibly clean and the bathroom was immaculate too! I will 100% be back, because they deserve 10 STARS = everything was EXCELLENT!!!

I drive 40 minutes to this side of town just for the stir fry green beans. Deliciously devine. China Mama, please open a location on the northwest side of the valley.

Stopped to get food to go last night. I was very tired and didn’t feel well , just wanted to get it and go. . I ordered a couple items and was immediately pressured to put in a five star review in order to get a $5 coupon off the next order. The lady waiting on me would not put my order in to be cooked till she helped me do a review. I told her I couldn’t write a review without tasting the food. She offered to help me but I am editing that fake review now. I ordered chicken chow mein and beef broccoli.The taste of both was very disappointing . There was barely any meat in either one. Definitely not worth the price I paid and will not be using that coupon.

Love China Mama!!! And when we don’t feel like going to a sit down restaurant, the fact that they have given us this option for dining at home is awesome. Love the House chow mien and fried rice, honey walnut shrimp is best in the world in my book, beef and broccoli is fantastic (beef is always so tender and egg drop soup is simple and delicious! If you’re looking for great Chinese takeout, look no further than!!!

This is my first time ordering takeout from my mom's house. I ordered boiled fish, and I felt it wasn't spicy enough. But I think it's better than boiled fish in many other stores. Especially today, the two waiters were very nice. I asked for a little more, but they both tried their best to meet our needs. I will come again next time!

This is a counter order restaurant made for take out however they have a few tables inside if you want to eat in. They serve food on take out plates/boxes and give you paper plates to use if you eat in - which means its a very casual spot that doesn't have much in terms of ambience however the food is absolutely great and came out fast! Its pricier than a normal take out chinese place but the portions are still large and the quality and taste definitely make the prices worth it They also gave us more rice when we requested at no extra charge and the service was prompt and friendly. Definitely will be returning!

Was hungry for some comfort Chinese food but didn't want the corporate tastes of Panda Express, found China Mama purely by accident and what a nice accident it was. First of all, it's for your typical American Chinese food covered. Sweet and sour? Check. Comfort soup like the egg drop or hot and sour? Check. Deep fried goodness? Check. Ah but aside from the typical artery clogging stuff, want some "authentic" stuff that Chinese mommies make? Braised pork knuckles, dried tofu slices with pork, wood ear mushrooms (great for cholesterol), scallion pancake, and the list goes on. This is the place for Chinese comfort food only mama could make. Price is a higher than your typical takeout so don't go overboard.

Great food & great service. Love that there's an express version of our favorite restaurant :)

If you know, you know. And if you don't, let this be your introduction to China Mama Express--an absolute gem serving some of the most consistently excellent Chinese food in the Valley. The crispy beef is our go-to favorite: always hot, crunchy, never greasy, and packed with flavor. It rivals--and honestly exceeds--versions we've had at upscale restaurants. The wontons in Szechuan chili sauce are a must: tender, perfectly seasoned, and swimming in a rich, spicy broth that hits all the right notes. The stir-fried pork with dried tofu is subtle but deeply satisfying, and the salt & pepper shrimp? Easily some of the best we've ever had--light, crispy, and bursting with garlic and chili flavor. We always get two orders of the house special fried rice because one just isn't enough. Every dish feels thoughtfully made, not rushed or reheated, and the quality shines through. No frills, no fluff--just top-tier cooking, generous portions, and bold flavors that keep us coming back. A hidden standout in Vegas Chinese cuisine. Highly recommend.

I definitely recommend this place, if you are in a hurry for Chinese Food. Maybe not as good as the original China Mama, but is still better than other Chinese Restaurants. One item I did not like, are the eggplant (one of my favorite Chinese dishes). The sauce is sweet and boring.

I rarely leave reviews, but the kindness and quality I experienced from China Mama Express deserve to be shared! I ordered through Uber Eats, but unfortunately, my driver delivered the wrong order. I called the restaurant, and Anne--who I believe is a manager or staff member--was incredibly kind, patient, and understanding. She not only apologized (even though it wasn't their fault) but went above and beyond to personally deliver the correct order to my home. That kind of service is rare these days! And let me tell you--the food was exceptional. Everything was flavorful, fresh, and piping hot. From now on, I'm ordering directly from them whenever I can. Not only is the food top-tier, but the customer service is unmatched. Thank you, Anne and the team at China Mama Express--you've got a loyal customer in me!

Was hungry for some comfort Chinese food but didn't want the corporate tastes of Panda Express, found China Mama purely by accident and what a nice accident it was. First of all, it's for your typical American Chinese food covered. Sweet and sour? Check. Comfort soup like the egg drop or hot and sour? Check. Deep fried goodness? Check. Ah but aside from the typical artery clogging stuff, want some "authentic" stuff that Chinese mommies make? Braised pork knuckles, dried tofu slices with pork, wood ear mushrooms (great for cholesterol), scallion pancake, and the list goes on. This is the place for Chinese comfort food only mama could make. Price is a higher than your typical takeout so don't go overboard.

This place is not only bad, it is astonishingly bad! The duck was so hammered as to be brittle and unchewable! The "fried" rice is steamed rice with cubed frozen carrots and peas in it. 150.00 for this????? NEVER AGAIN. THE WORST EVER!!!!! Where did the good reviews get food from?? Can't be the same place.

Don't order here. They will mess up your order. This is the third time they've messed up an order and it's just comical at this point how bad it is. Personally I'm never ordering here again, but if you do, make sure you make them show you your order right on the spot. Otherwise, I can guarantee, they'll either get it wrong, have something missing, or a combination of both. I'm telling you, it's a clown show.

Food is very delicious and we love the salt and pepper pork chops. Highly recommend it. Everything is very good! Staff is very nice and knowledgeable. Definitely the best Chinese restaurant in Las Vegas.

China Mama Express is my go-to for fresh, flavorful Chinese takeout. The orange chicken is perfectly crispy. We love the beef chow fun. Food always comes out hot and fresh, without the long wait. Friendly staff and great portions--highly recommend!

Overhyped place so disappointed their spicy dumplings had no flavor to them no ginger no onion bland and hot. The crispy beef was OK more like beef jerky also bland Xiao Long so much better.

My favorite Chinese food in town!!!!!! It doesn't matter what you order, the food is so good here!!! Favorites: crispy beef, house chow mein, salt and pepper fish, stir-fry green beans.

Very professional and the food was not there is a little wait time at the restaurant on orfers as soon as I got there

I've been coming here for almost 20 years- since they've opened. They are wonderful. Their food quality is always great and tasty. As a Chinese person, their food is always authentic and amazing! Thanks China Mama!

Visiting my daughter from California looking a place to get a quick meal found them on yelp and the food was great ordered the orange chicken side of white and side of spring rolls

Service was fast and they're super sweet. So excited to try the food! I asked for recommendations and she helped out perfectly!

Order here all the time. The foods pretty good. I usually order the mapo and it's not watered down like most places.

Where to start? In Vegas with some buddies and we try this place based on a recommendation from our Uber Driver on a previous trip. Located in Shanghai Plaza away from the strip this place could double its size and easily keep the tables full. In fact, if you have a group larger than 6 you will end up being shoehorned into a table. But the food and service easily make up for that. We had a group of 7 so our seating arrangement was a tad tight but they made it work. Sapporo beer and Sake helped wash down some of THE best Chinese food we've enjoyed anywhere. Seriously. We had several appetizers and 7-8 dishes and they were all fabulous. From Mama's Famous Pork Buns (you gotta try them) to the Twice Cooked Pork (spicy), the Orange Chicken, Kung Pao Chicken, Lo Mein, Mama's Special Fried Rice etc, the meal was spot on. Mama has another place opened in the Palace Station Casino which I can only assume is bigger. So next time in town we'll have to go there. China Mama is the real deal.

Very good food and friendly service. We love the cucumber salad, crispy beef, and stir-fry green beans.

Same great quality. Fav place for takeout. Fast and efficient. Always delicious food.

SOOO yummy! Had shrimp fried rice (honestly, it was just so-so) ginger scallion fish filet (OMG SO GOOD) honey walnut shrimp (delicious) and roasted duck (delicate and nice.) Erika was super sweet and helpful-- excellent customer service! Sure, it's a really small space, but it's also a nice place to sit and enjoy high quality food. Great people, too. Highly recommend this location!

Congrats to China Mama for being glossed as the eighth best Chinese restaurant in all of America by Yelp. Holy Pot Stickers, there are about 50,000 Chinese restaurants in the U.S. so that's quite the honor! (though I don't necessarily agree) Of the four entrees tasted: Mongolian beef - generous portion of nice tasting steak pieces with most of the fat and gristle trimmed off. Crispy beef - a mound of beef slivers that are battered, fried, then coated with sweet and sticky spices. Comes with rice and tastes almost dessert-like. Beef roll - looks like a wrap rolled up with paper-thin slices of spiced beef and then fried. Nice taste (hoisin flavor, as in Mu Shu dishes?) but could have used some dipping sauce like their website photo shows. Chicken fried rice - drab tasting with pre-frozen peas, carrot cubes, and under-spiced chicken pieces...the dish is prepared with little or no soy and a packet or two of imitation soy sauce added after the fact does not rescue it. Pass on such a weak attempt at this 'non-gourmet' version of fried rice. But aside from the traditional, there's also a nice option to order lesser known dishes which is always tempting to do. I was all set to try the 'Husband and Wife Lung Slices' for $15.99, but collapsed under pressure because a visual of Hannibal Lector saying, "Bon appetit!" appeared inside my head and wouldn't go away. In the end, I like most of the food at China Mama Express although they could class things up a bit. It's in a tight space and upon entering, there was one customer waiting for a takeout order while a staff member chowed down on a mini-feast in front of us at one of only three tables. After I ordered she disappeared into the kitchen, presumably to help cook it, while her half eaten meal sat there. She emerged a couple times, went back in, never wore gloves, her late lunch sitting there interrupted. An employee stuffing her face is never a good look for the diner to see when entering any small restaurant. C'mon, do better! But despite the weird vibe, the food mostly does taste good. Maybe they can improve on a few things to make it more worthy of the high ranking.

It's my second time here and the food is good! It's essentially a take out place but there are a few tables for a quick, easy and delicious meal. The crispy beef was great -- just a tad sweet. Definitely try this easy convenient place! You'll enjoy it

Service was exceptional. Food was great. Ambiance was awesome. Would recommend to friends and family.

This is my first time here and the service is great. Annie was the server at the counter that help us. Please come and try their food. We Ordered mapo tofu, stir fry green bean, braised pork knuckle in rock sugar sauce, beef chow fun, wood ear mushrooms salad and wonton in Szechuan chili sauce. I request for the chili sauce to be mild.

Crispy beef and beef roll is cery good! Very tasty! One of my go-to chinese restaurants in rown! #1 Chinese place

Ordered my food to go and Service is very well mannered. Food are delicious and portion are massive. Will recommend to others and will come back again for sure

Quick and thorough service! Loved the food. Would highly recommend this establishment. Quaint place but great and open ambiance.

OMG ! This restaurant is super delicious. Dry pepper chicken, salt and pepper shrimp, and string beans flavor were on point. This is my 3rd time coming back. What a little hole in the wall restaurant

Amazing and fast service! The food was really good -- fresh, flavorful, and satisfying. Highly recommend to anyone looking for a great meal and efficient service.

My son loved China Mama when it was on Jones and Spring Mt. I stopped by here the other day while my car was being worked on. It was around lunch time and I asked if they had a lunch special and they said no , but online it shows a Mama Special Lunch Box. So , I ordered the Sweet and Sour Chicken which came with White Rice and I got a Soda. It came to $18.87. It took maybe 15 minutes and I ate about half of it there and took the rest home. The chicken was nothing special more like a lesser Panda version. I was a little disappointed. It did have Pineapple Chunks in it as well as pieces of Bell Peppers. I usually get the General Tso's at other Asian restaurants and not all of them put in the Pineapple Chunks. I wanted my son to try it since he liked it so much at the old location , but they were going out to eat that night and the next day he went to work and never ate the leftovers. I personally wouldn't come back here. I've had much better food for the price at other Asian restaurants. Also the guy at the register was wearing a mask which is fine if you are still afraid of Covid or whatever , but I could barely understand him when I asked him a question and made my order. The dining area is small , but clean. It's just too bad the food was almost like frozen grocery store food.

A little pricy for "take out" but you get what you pay for in this case. No mystery meat and very tasty food. We tried the fried rice, orange chicken, and walnut shrimp. I can't wait to come back to try more items on the menu.

Amazing food! Everything we've ordered is exceptional! Everything is take out which is convenient.

I ordered the stir fry green beans, salt and pepper shrimp and dry pepper chicken. Service was quick and efficient. The food was so delicious!!!!! I couldn't stop eating. I should've took a picture but I was so hungry. A small and cozy location, but busy.

The food here was such a let down and NOTHING like the real China mama in China town. All of the food had a weird texture and the crispy beef tasted old. My dad who's not a picky eater even said this food has a weird consistency and didn't want to eat the left overs the next day. The chow mein was so greasy and also tasted like old noodles. Then the next day when I went to eat the left overs after it had been in the fridge, a weird blue color appeared on the chow mein. I definitely put it in the fridge so I don't know what that was. Absolute waste of $77 something dollars

My friend and I came to dine for late lunch and we were greeted warmly by Anne . She took the orders right away and they live by their name ... express. Food was great and quick. Restaurant was clean and had a friendly ambiance .We'll come back for more.

I literally live like around the corner I have no idea is was so close This is an Express of China Mama, is mainly to go, even tho they have couple of small tables there, but 98% of their business are to go I ordered the first time few weeks back, I think I ordered the Orange Chicken, it came with white rice, but I added another small white rice, cuz I just love rice. lol Brought it home, the Orange Chicken is a bit disappointed, because is very dry and don't really have sauce to cover the rice, so is very dry. Also the chicken have so much starch in it, not much meat, so another word, hardly any chicken just a bunch of starch Will not order that again A week after, I went back and ordered the House Fried Rice, remember I love rice? lol The House Fried Rice ended up pretty good, however the portion is a little in the small size, and I guess because China Mama is a well known Chinese Restaurant here in Vegas, like Panda Express or PF Chang, so their price is a bit higher I think I paid like $16+ for the Fried Rice, and if you go to one of those American Chinese Restaurant, they give you like huge portions, you have to eat 2 meals to finish it, and normally only cost you like $11 So you can see China Mama is a bit more expensive side Will I go back? Probably, even tho is a bit more expensive, still good food

Come here and the food and service are really care. They always nice in a smiling was a beautiful place to eat or to take out.

Ordered food here on DoorDash, and wasn't sure what to expect! But we were so pleasantly surprised with how good the food was for take out. We ordered the yuxiang eggplant with minced pork, stir fry beef rice noodle, and the big mouth pocket (pork filling in a flaky sesame bread bun). The eggplant was so good but super oily! Hit the spot- perfect fry to the eggplant with the flavors cooked just right. We asked for a side of rice to eat with it since it was pretty heavily seasoned and overall pretty heavy dish. The pork pocket thing was nice and flaky with ground pork inside! It was nice and light but would be great with a sauce to dip it in. We really enjoyed this dish though! The stir fry noodle had a char taste to it which we light but wish it was cooked more charred! They had a good portion of beef and onions and some veggies!

We ordered food for 50 people. It was absolutely amazing. The food was just like any of the restaurants that China Mama has priced incredibly well. Service was on point large portions fit 50 people for about $400 highly highly recommend for parties.

New location since their previous location had a fire, but not the same. The interior is charming. Very well spaced for the limited space given. It can get noisy since it gets packed. The wait time was 40 minutes, but it wasn't worth the wait. Ordered the crispy beef since that was the most memorable, but everything since this new location is overly sweet to compensate. I do like the glass window displaying the kitchen, but the food was overly sweet. The power went out for a blip while we were dining, but I guess that's just Shanghai Plaza for you.

When I think about Mapo Tofu the first place that comes to mind is always China Mama. It is very spicy and has just enough Mala seasoning that I can enjoy the garlic, ginger, tofu and sesame oil. Mala is a hot and numbing spice used in Szechuan cooking. I'm not a fan of heavy handed Mala dishes that leave my entire mouth and tongue completely numb. It just ruins the rest of the meal for me. I wish they would give a bigger portion of rice with the Mapo Tofu though. The half order is not enough for such a spicy saucy dish. The Cucumber Salad with Mashed Garlic is a can't miss dish as well. It is delicious on its own but it also serves as an extinguishing aid for the spicy dishes. It's so delightfully cold and refreshing. We also ordered the Vegetable Spring Rolls that were hot and crispy and the Hot and Sour Soup. The soup had a great balance of peppery spice and vinegar. The Potstickers were on the bigger side. They had a flavorful filling and a thicker chewier skin. The sauce was good but on the milder side. A little dip won't be enough. The skin needs to be filled like a DIY Xiao Long Bao. They didn't really have the crispy skin that a potsticker should have. That could be due to the steam that collected during transit. Even with the little things that weren't perfect it deserves five stars for a great meal.

The best Chinese food I have ever had in Las Vegas! Every dish was bursting with authentic flavors and beautifully presented. Highly recommend to anyone looking for an unforgettable dining experience!

Excellent service & even better food ! Comfortable & peaceful place , 100% recommend.

I have been to 3 of the other locations before and absolutely love their food, especially their dumplings, beef roll, etc. I knew this location existed but just hadn't gotten here yet. I was so excited I was in the area and dropped in. A lot of the same items including the pastry, soup, and mains. Cute little take out place but no wait and a few tables if you want to eat in. Same friendly service and great food.

Great food very fast service and of course delicious , they just renovated inside and I like how it looks now.

Great food, always fresh and fast service A great spot for a Togo order. Friendly staff, clean and quick.

Great service, good food. The last to times the crispy beef has been horrible. It taste burnt. I usually like burnt food so that is saying a lot. The restaurant is better.

Their food is delicious! I definitely recommend! If you are looking for fast and really good service this is the place to go !

I really like the food here great place to get some food really authentic Chinese food