Great Khan’s Mongolian Festival

Ernesto was very friendly and cooked everything perfect. Food was good and service was as well. Great place for stir fry when on the go

I will drive for this place. The food is the best.
This is an amazing place. It’s magical. You can pile your bowl with your wildest dream. I stick to the original. You can be a carnivore one day and a vegan the next. It’s a dream come true.

Little hidden gem at Horton Plaza. GET SOME!
SOOOOOO Good and the chef was very helpful when I was filling my bowl up. I had never done this sort of dish before or had to help myself to the ingredients. I manage to always mess them up! Thankfully, the pro’s were there and as I was piling meat, veggies and sauce I ended up going back for more! The one bowl for $ 7.95 isn was MORE than enough for two people and extremely fulfilling. Delicious! Can you tell I’m craving it RN?

This location is good because they have green onions. The one in mission valley doesn’t and it ruins the whole thing.
I know this is mall food but I really love this place every once in awhile.

This place is actually pretty cool. It could be better but for an Asian food court place it’s pretty good.
The service is that of any fast food place. Not great but not tremendously horrible. It took about 10 minutes for someone to actually show up from the back to take our order.
The food is pretty good. Noodles are amazing, carrots and broccoli were pretty good too. The beef was not as great. In a way it tastes like old beef jerky. The sauce is also pretty good but it could have been better.
Only real problem I had with the food was it tasted plain. Food was cooked thoroughly but it could have been more flavorful.

I LOVE this place I have been coming here for about 5 years already. There’s no other place than this one. Great food and awesome customer service.

Gentlemen working the cash register is a huge jerk. No sense of customer service. I feel bad for anyone who tries this for the first time and is confused on how to order, the employees are of no help. Oh and thanks for snatching my bowl from my hands… Real classy.

First frozan meat and they watch you as your making your bowl there was flies on the vegetables so I had to take them from the bottom (cuz I figure it was safer that way) anyway they get to put on the sauces for you which I’l wasn’t enough I ask for more he told I had to pay for extra sauce. the guy told me I put to much stuff in my bowl next time he would have ro charge me no worries there will be no next time. Didn’t get enough noodles which he blame on my bowl being over stuff u mm ok so I had to pay for extra noodles. the food had no flavor at all 1^st time and last

Waahhh… BF and I were looking for something fast to eat for lunch at the mall and when I saw GReat Khan’s, I immediately wanted it. We always went to the one at the Westfield mall in Santa Ana and it was always good.
This experience, well, the employee was horrible. He watched us put meat/​veggies in our bowl and when we got to the sauce/​seasoning part he continued to stand and stare at us. My BF asked me what I wanted to put, but I was like «we’re not suppose to put the sauce/​seasonings ourselves???» then the guy said «I’m suppose to do that». We gave him our bowl, we told him we wanted everything in it. He cooked our meat/​noodles for a few minutes, it usually takes longer for them to cook it. This guys just rushed it as if there was a line. Boo…

Day 2 of jury service — the Great Khan’s chain hasn’t disappointed me thus far, and seeing how I was in the mood for Mongolian, off I went to the Horton Plaza location.
As always, you choose your protein (chicken, beef, pork, tofu), veggies, and sauces (mix them all — it just tastes good that way), and watch as the cooks grill it all up and bring it to you. Make sure your bowl stuffing skills are up to par, as those bowls are deceptive-​looking!
I went with The Works combo — extra rice and soup (which was made of veggies and beef; very good) at $ 9.95 before tax. Unfortunately, it looked like my eyes were bigger than my stomach, as I wasn’t able to polish everything off. So, on the way back to the courthouse, I dropped off my leftovers with a couple of homeless folks (seeing how I didn’t think it would be ok to bring leftover spicy Mongolian stir-​fry into a courtroom). Hope they liked spicy food!

This is in a mall food court so I wasnt expecting much but needed a quick bite. I love that they do not use oil and you can custom build your dish. However the sauces were bland and the soup wasnt good at all, all a could taste was ketchup :/​It servered its purpose but I wont eat there again. Friendly staff and clean counters :)

great cheap stir fry… make sure to load up on meat and tofu first and then put veggies on top… also be sure to get a mixture of all the sauces, like they recommend… makes the flavor perfect… a little spicy.
we like to get jamba juice downstairs and stir fry here for a quick cheap lunch

I like this place a lot.
You start by paying which item you want on the menu. Then you select your meat (chicken, beef, lamb, or pork), your vegetables and additional items, then you serve it up to the chef who will grill it right in view with the choice of either noodles or rice. Shrimps are available for a little extra cost.
The key is to get as much meat as possible and stuff it at the bottom of the bowl. Then pack the vegetables on top.
It was pretty good for what it’s worth, but make sure you have some gas pills on hand. Don’t want to stink up the entire mall :)

My friend has a technique where you can add more meats and veggies– push down everything you put in the bowl with a napkin so that you can get more! You are supposed to do it every time you add an item. The food was aight, but I wasn’t full because I didn’t get enough noodles.

i seriously jones for this place every now and then from my desk at the office…
beef, pork, chicken… tofu, green onions… spinach, onions, water chest nuts, cilantro… all the sauces… extra noodles to finish it off…
then fry all that shizznit together…
yum yum gimme sum.

I know its mall food but for mall food it’s not so bad. I like the ability to pick and choose what I like best in a grill experience and the ingredients seem very fresh.
Today I went to Great Khans and it was really fast and after they added three scoops of super hot fire chili sauce my taste buds were happy and my sinus cavities were clear. I suspect any H1N1 was unable to breach the fiery hot chasm between my nose and my immune system.
Thanks Great Khan!

Great Khan’s Mongolian Festival is owned by Korean David Kim & has locations in the United States of America, Hong Kong, Taiwan, & yes, Mongolia. But it is not really a festival, just a place to get your own mixture of food cooked to order.
Patrons choose from five types of meat (beef, pork, chicken, & lamb), thirty different assortments of fresh vegetables, noodles, & Khan’s secret sauces. The ingredients that the consumer has chosen cooked on a custom Tappan Grill that is designed to cook at a very high temperature to lock in the flavors & juice using little or no oil. All this is done in the open view of the customer. Seafood (shrimp) is available for a little extra.
The cashier/​order taker was very pleasant & confided to us that the seafood was merely small shrimp & not really worth upgrading to unless we really like shrimp. I chose chicken (of course!) & stuffed as much as I could & topped it off w/​some mushrooms & bell peppers then the saucer (I just made this job title up) poured in her combination of sauces & plopped on a heaping pile of egg noodles & handed it back to me. Then I scooted my tray to give my mini mountain of uncooked goodness to the cooks who used super long chopsticks to cook my food.
The concoction turned out most yummy & satisfying. Had the saucer & cook been a bit friendly, Khan’s would have scored five stars from me. Too bad too, as the food was very good.
Santa’s Unilocaler sez: «Smile folks, so you can get five stars for your yummy food!»

Ok, so I pretty much should have known this place was going to be lousy, but I’ve had really good mongolian BBQ other places and have been craving it. So I went against my better judgement and grabbed a tray.
You put frozen slices of meat in your bowl, then add vegetables of your choices tell them what sauce and they whip it up for you right before your eyes.
They tell you for best flavor use all the sauces… so I did, and even 6 different sauces made it super bland! They loaded it with noodles-​which weren’t good and made it even more flavorless. Lousy lousy lousy. I ended up with a plate of noodles that tasted like soy sauce. Damn, I’m not asian and I make better stir fry. Its so disappointing when you go someplace and realize, you could have done it much better yourself.
I say, don’t bother… go to the pretzel place (or any other place) instead.

Their menu is very simple yet offers many different variety of combinations for patrons to pick and choose. The concept of «Designing Your Own Meal» offers different combinations that is sure to satisfy even the pickest eaters. Each dish comes with special sauce accompanying 4 different kinds of meat (beef, pork, chicken, and lamb).
I eat there once or twice a year, when I am in town for the San Diego Comic Con. Located a short walk from the convention center, I always eat there (it’s cheaper and quicker than eating at the Gaslamp restaurants).
My trick to maximize my meat intake: Pile on the frozen sliced meats into your bowl and then use your hand to mash down hard. Then repeat until you are satisfied. The veggies and noodles can follow. All this for $ 6 + tx.
Once it is cooked, add on the chilli sauce and you are ready to feast.
Oh yea, be careful not to spill any food onto your costume while eating. I almost ruined my Virigin White Storm Trooper costume. I should have wore my Halo Spartan Battle-​Ravaged Armor Suit instead!