The Lotus

I always love eating here! The service is always quick and the staff is always friendly. It never seems busy but the food is amazing. They even know my order by heart lol (firecracker beef w/​extra sauce) ¹⁰⁄₁₀ would recommend

Just stopped here to get a quick bite to eat for dinner while my dog is getting groomed. Good value, good portions, friendly staff. Always have had consistency with their food taste presentation for the past three years so I figured they deserve a good review.

The food has always been so good and the service is wonderful. Lovely little family place. Unfortunately, when we ate there a couple of days ago. The cleanliness left a bit too be desired. Been going there for years and never had that happen. I would go back and give them another chance.

I have been coming to this place since I was a kid. I love this restaurant. Excellent food!

I have been coming here for over 15 years. My wife and I had our first date here. I USED to love this place, until last night. I will never go back until i forget about this…
You know the food is bad when you take most of it home to feed it to your dogs…
This isnt a troll post at all! This an honest post. I cant imagine eating worse food! And Ive had some bad suhsi and burnt lemon grass fish… this tops it!

Not impressed at all! First off I ordered coffee and it was burnt, stale, and cold as if it was warmed up from yesterday. Then after we order our food my daughter had to use the restroom and that was absolutely disgusting I wouldn’t let her touch anything in there and there was still urine in one of the toilets. So then we get our food and everything tastes like day old and reheated! The rice was dry and hard. The chow mein was also dry and hard. The only thing that was good was the egg drop soup which was kind of bland but still good and the egg roll. I would never recommend this restaurant

amazing service and delivery! food was awesome! I loved it! great place to order delivery from downtown. good coffee too!

I have one word to say about their bland tasting soup having, over sweetened and cornstarched flavored, no veggies in their fried rice having, eggroll having hardly any filling tasting $ 5.99 lunch special is…#Yuck!!!

You won’t be disappointed with their food. It is very flavorful. They ambiance needs some work but the food is delicious.

I usually come to Lotus for their great lunch specials. The lunch specials start at $ 5.50. You get soup, entrée, egg roll and rice. The rice you get with the lunch special is plain fried rice. It is ok but the fried rice off the menu is much better. I’ve gotten take out a few times after work. We usually go for the basics wonton or egg drop soup, fried rice, chow mein, sweet and sour chicken. We’ve always been happy with it. Service is friendly. Food comes out quick even when they are busy. The restaurant is dated inside but I don’t mind. We don’t need them redecorating and raising the prices.

I am a fan of the Chinese restaurant lunch special. In my opinion, the Chinese restaurant lunch special is one of the best deals around. Why? Because for the same price or even less than a fast food chain, the Chinese lunch special usually includes a delicious entre with soup, fried rice, and sometimes an egg roll. Additionally, the Chinese restaurant lunch special is a chance to become acquainted with a Chinese Restaurant. If the food is delicious at a reasonable price for the lunch special, then the restaurant could be a great place for dinner or a date. Recently, the lunch special reacquainted me with the Lotus, when I took advantage of their lunch special twice recently.
The Lotus sits in the heart of historic Henderson in the Water Street District. It is diagonally across from the Eldorado Casino and City Hall. There is a small parking lot adjacent to the venerable building that houses the Lotus. On my visits, I parked in the Eldorado parking lot, cut through the casino and walked the short distance along Water Street to the Lotus.
The Lotus lunch special differentiates from several lunch specials on account of the fact that it ends at 3 PM in lieu of 4 PM. Additionally, the Lotus is one of the few Chinese restaurants that I am aware of where the lunch special includes wonton soup.
The inside of the Lotus is grander than it appears from Water Street. There are two dining rooms. Both times I recently visited, there were relatively few people dining inside. Both times the host turned waitress invited me to sit in the dining room to the right. The ambiance is more casual and relaxing than a take out with a few seats.
On the two visits, I ordered a different lunch special combination for $ 5.95. On my first visit, I ordered the beef chow mein soft noodle style. It came with fried rice, an egg roll, crunchy noodles with duck sauce, and wonton soup. The beef chow mein was far better than what China Go Go and some other restaurants use as filler with the entrée. It was far better than a handful of fast food restaurants. On my second visit, I ordered the pepper steak that included the exact sides. The pepper steak was delicious at the same time that it had a unique taste that my taste buds would consider brisket. The wonton soup that came with the meal, complimented the meal. I wish more Chinese restaurants would offer wonton soup instead of the standard soup of the day that is usually egg drop or hot and sour soup. On visit one I complimented the beef chow mein with a Coke and on visit two I complimented the pepper steak with hot tea. With the beverage, tax, and tip; the lunch special totalled out at less than $ 10.
The waitress was friendly. I felt more like a guest in a person’s living room with a sundry of tables than a diner in a restaurant. My favorite Chinese restaurants are the cozy places where I mentally feel that I am in a living room. Throughout the lunch special, she’d see to it that everything was good. Both times, she’d conclude my visits by saying she hopes I return soon. With a reasonable price for lunch specials that gives you a lot for the same or less price of a fast food chain in addition to good service in a cozy environment it us a possibility that I will return to the Lotus soon.

They have great lunch specials. Good food for a great price. Service is always good as well.

Love this spot on good old Water street! I’ve been here several times and it’s always good. Joel and I enjoy coming for Lotus’s lunch menu. It’s a super good deal. You get soup, plus entrée with rice and an egg roll for $ 5.50! Not only is it cheap it tastes yummy. The egg drop soup has a rich flavor. I love the egg rolls they are always crisp and don’t flake all over when you bite into it.
I switch it up when it comes to the entrees. The Mongolian Beef has a perfect spice. They have excellent Chow Mein and it doesn’t matter if you get the pork, beef or chicken it’s all good. The Moo Goo Gi Pan is also one of my favorites with all the veggies. The rice they serve with it has lots of garlic flavor which I always dig.
The ambiance isn’t the best, but the tasty food makes up for it. Plus, our waitress is always friendly and always keeps our drinks filled. The food comes out in quick amount of time and the soup is never scalding like in some places. You can tell all their ingredients are very fresh and they take pride in the presentation.
If your in old Henderson make sure you check out this small, but tasty restaurant.

I love Lotus. It is my favorite Chinese restaurant so far. I have been here at least a dozen times over the past 10 years and it’s fantastic. I usually one of a few different dishes when I go there.
This last trip 2 days ago was with my husband and we ate inside the restaurant instead of taking it home. The restaurant is definitely in need of some updates, but it is always clean inside.
They have the best pot stickers in the entire valley btw. They are cooked perfectly, the dipping sauce… omg. I’m drooling right now thinking about them. AND most important to me is no onions. Try the pot stickers when you go, you won’t regret it.
They take your order right away or at least acknowledge you immediately. They also give you crunchy noodles to munch on while you wait and always make sure your glass is full.
I ordered the dinner sweet and sour chicken, which comes with hot tea (you have to request it), wonton (or egg drop) soup, rice (I got fried), and an egg roll. I usually have a hard time finding restaurants that serve fried rice without onions, but the Lotus does not add them (hooray!). Good portions, the right amount of crisp in the sweet and sour chicken, and the wonton soup is fantastic. My husband always gets the Mongolian beef and it has just the right amount of sauce and spice. This does have onions but is easy to pick through (or order without).
They have never messed up an order whether we eat there or call in to go. Located in downtown Henderson in Water St. They have very little turn over and friendly staff. Check it out.

This is a little hole in the wall Chinese Restaurant. Upon arrival of this restaurant it may seem like its not that great, little do they know the food was awesome! Me and my friend had the lunch special which was less then $ 6 with taxes and you can’t go wrong with that.
I had the sweet & sour chicken which was delish and you can tell there was no MSG. Most Chinese places I’ve been to in Vegas was okay. This place is a must if you’re in Henderson. I will defenitly be back!

Any time I am not feeling well, I like to head over to the lotus for a bowl of egg-​drop soup and crispy noodles! The soup is hot and thick, just the remedy for a sore throat or when you are feeling under the weather. The soup honestly has magical properties.
This place is an outdated Chinese Restaraunt but the food is good. The décor is horrible, lol, but I don’t come here to look at walls.
Although it isn’t PF Changs, the service is good and the food is made to order.

Now THIS is chinese food! Who cares about the outdated décor, all I see is a grade A posted up, issued by the health department, which translates into ‘get ready to GRUB’ for me.
I went with 2 men and a 6 year old. We ordered 7 main dishes-​a variety of chow mein, shrimp, beef and chicken. The waitress was pleasant and even offered suggestions on some of her favorite dishes. There wasn’t much food left once we dug in. It was that good.
Every dish was simply amazing. ‘Authentic’, hole in the wall chinese food at its best. Drinks were always filled, and food was on par.
A highlight for me? THEY DELIVER. Even if they didn’t, the drive is less than 5 minutes for me. I can safely drive home even after overfilling myself and am in a food coma.

When I say that the décor reminds me of something one one find at a Best Western café in Tonapah, I am by no means hating. I remembered a more Chinese type of flare during my last visit, but that was a long time ago I reckon.
The service was friendly and while I did not particularly dig my «General» chicken, the GF’s chow mein was pretty damn good.
See tips for the lunch special.

Very above average Chinese food. We had the szechuan meal for 2, which is quite a bit of food. We did this on purpose, as we wanted to try several items since it was our first time. The fried rice was of much higher quality that I’ve had before. The veggies were clearly fresh, a lot had a «snap» or crispness to them. You could taste the egg and pork in the rice.
The ribs were a winner, although they were messy. The egg rolls were a bit on the small side, I would want more substance there. They deliver to our neighborhood, so for future cravings, I won’t have to suffer the indignity of leaving my couch.
Excellent, friendly service. There is a parking lot, but it’s small, only a few spaces, and it’s a tight fit. Wish we had more places like this on Water Street.

Disgusting, boring, blah food. With tip and all I dropped $ 40 on Lotus tonight and I wish I had went to Von’s and picked up something from the frozen food section instead. It’s hard to mess up Kung Pao chicken but Lotus found a way to crank out the most boring, uninspired Kung Pao I’ve had in a long time.
My 2 year old wouldn’t touch his vegetable lomein, and the rest of the food we ordered ended up in the trash.
For my family Lotus is off our list of possible options. We won’t be back anytime soon, if ever.