Bamboo House
West Des Moines, IA · Asian restaurant
- Address
- Bamboo House, 3701 EP True Pkwy Suite 400, West Des Moines, IA 50265
- Phone
- (515) 494-6964
- Website
- bamboohouseiowa.com
- Status
- Closed · Opens 11 AM
Bamboo House is a restaurant located in West Des Moines, IA. It is one of 224 restaurants listed in West Des Moines. Its 4.1-star rating is slightly below the West Des Moines city average of 4.2 stars. There are 10 photos associated with this location.
About Bamboo House
Chinese and Asian fusion restaurant. Offer varieties of Asian cuisines such as Pho, Bulgogi..etc
Hours
| Saturday | 11 AM–9 PM |
Customer Reviews
I ordered Szechuan style chicken and traditional Hunan style pork, and this was one of the most disappointing Chinese food experiences I’ve had. The Szechuan style chicken was completely different from what was shown on the menu. It was supposed to be a dry stir-fry dish, but what I got was chicken swimming in sauce. Absolutely not Szechuan style. Even more ridiculous, the Hunan style pork tasted almost exactly the same as the Szechuan chicken. These two dishes are supposed to have very different cooking methods and flavor profiles, yet they were basically identical. It felt like the restaurant just used the same sauce and called it two different dishes. This is honestly misleading to customers. As a Chinese person, I can say this food is not authentic at all, even Panda Express has bet
I've never been to the location, but I have ordered from here on DoorDash numerous times and have been satisfied. Prices and service time are both pretty reasonable. The food is pretty good - I recommend their rangoons, rice noodles and most notably their chicken skewers appetizer. They're pretty consistently good, except sometimes they way over-sauce their crispy chicken dishes. More than once, I order orange or General Tso's chicken, and it's so saucy that the breading becomes soggy and saturated, and I'm left with a pool of very sweet and decadent sauce that gets wasted in the end. Other than this, I'm very satisfied. They also frequently have BOGO deals and discounts on DoorDash, and I've yet to find an Asian restaurant in this area with better options & pricing. Pretty solid choice ov
Really wanted to like this place. The woman at the cashier seemed polite but it was all downhill from there. Walking to my table I noticed that my shoes were sticking to the floor. Then I saw the community spoons and chopsticks on the table and they were filthy. The food came and my hot and sour soup had no mushrooms or bamboo shoots (ironic for the name of this restaurant) but it did have celery. The tofu was actually ok in this soup. I ordered the Szechuan chicken and it was doused in what the cashier told me was a “homemade brown sauce”, but to me it was simply liquid brown sugar. No spice whatsoever, the chicken wasn’t seasoned, and the only good part about this main dish were the carrots. I told the cashier about my concerns and she said, “that’s too bad, I hope you come back.” Sh
Used to go here often with friends for lunch. Ordered the kimchi jjigae (김치 찌개), it always used to come served boiling hot in the proper black stone bowl, lots of ingredients, big portion size with rice. Now, for some odd reason, it seems they changed it to serving it in a saucer like bowl with half the portion size, and not very hot temperature-wise. Extremely disappointing. I used to recommend this place as a decent, all-around Asian cuisine restaurant if you need a quick-fix. I can't even recommend this now, I'll stick to the traditional pho restaurants, the quality of food, portion size, and even restaurant staff customer service is far better. For $14 it felt like maybe a $7 meal.. rip off!
Nothing impressive. Drove an hour to eat here because of so many other high comments. Ordered the Ramen. Broth was lackluster and tasteless. Chicken along with the vegetable egg rolls were nothing special, could've used even a little salt. He has the sesame chicken and the egg drop soup and thought both were pretty good. The kid at the front counter may have been new, didn't know what dishes were or what they had in them. The atmosphere is pretty simple, I suspect most of their orders are to go. Made me sad, seemed like a lot of people in the kitchen were working hard and wanted to put out good food. Unfortunately, for this time, it was average to me. Plus, my shoes seriously stuck to the bathroom floor, like crazy.
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