Happy Valley Chinese Restaurant

Best Chinese food in Manhattan! The hot pot and fried wontons are excellent. The owners are very friendly and nice.

Best place hands down for authentic Chinese food! Crab Rangoons RULE! And a must try is the hot pot! (This is my husbands fave place for date night)

Two words: HOT POT. I have only come twice, and only for hot pot. Both times I dined with Lydia Y., a Mandarin speaker. She says stuff and food appears magically! Yesterday Eric R. joined our hot pot party on a day destined to be with negative wind chills, and it just made sense! Eric R. and I had hot tea (free pot). We opted for the non-​spicy broth only (last time Lydia Y. and I did half-​and-​half but we were okay with spicy sauce instead this time). The sauces included peanut, chile oil, and garlic-​ginger soy. Eric R. and I asked for sides of rice. We were showered with sliced chicken and beef, tofu, krab, shrimp, potato, broccoli, napa cabbage, seaweed, and wontons. Everything was delicious and continued to flavor the broth. I mixed all of the dipping sauces in my individual bowl, eating the delicious hot pot food with with rice. It was filling, and seemingly unlimited. Service was okay, I think especially given my Mandarin-​speaking dining companion. I suppose I would be willing to return to try other dishes but I am not the biggest fan of Chinese food. If there is a secret authentic menu then maybe I will drag Lydia Y. back here. The hot pot is around $ 20 with tax per person.

Food was alright. A little greasy and definitely more expensive than the flavor profile provided. I’ll be back eventually to try a few more dishes as most of their menu looks to house more authentic Chinese cuisine, but that will be quite a long time from now.

This is an amazing find! The online order option does not work so I had to reorder upon arrive but I did not have to wait long and the staff provided me with a beverage while I waited. Best Chinese food I have had in a long time, if not ever!

Damn fine Chinese food, especially for Manhattan, KS. Delicious things to order: Steamed Dumplings, Spring rolls, Starch noodle salad, Wonton soup, Hot and Sour soup, any Lo Mein, Fish-​flavored Pork, Fish-​flavored Eggplant, Stir-​fried green beans, all you can eat Hot Pot (to the idiot who complained about the meat being frozen, of course it’s frozen, its called FOLLOWING HEALTH CODE!!!), and Shredded pork with sweet bean paste. I still have many more things to try, but this has been my go to Chinese food in MHK for over 9 years now. Dim Sum was better at the last location, they had a much larger variety of dishes, but I don’t think the turn out was large enough to support it. I wish the hot tea was higher quality, but that’s about it.

My review is for the hot pot only. For being in kansas this is pretty decent. I usually go for the spicy broth. It’s all you can eat and they give you a wide variety of items.
Thin slices of beef
Thin slices of chicken
Shrimp
Chinese broccoli
Regular broccoli
Mushrooms
Potatoes
Egg noodles
Rice noodles
Just to name a few. You pay about $ 19 per person but it’s worth it in my opinion.

Authentic Chinese food. There were some very exotic foods on the menu. Everything I tried was very good (Mongolian Pork, Crab Rangoon, Fried Dumplings). They even gave us a sample of a new menu item. Can’t wait to go back and try some more. Maybe not the Ants Climbing Trees, whatever that is, lol.

Ordered steamed dumplings first, best part of the meal. It was loud, hard to have a conversation. Had a family sitting next to us with three brat kids. Ordered cashew chicken, which was more like celery chicken. Few cashews and like two cups of undercooked celery. Even the steamed rice was horrible! How do you mess up steamed rice??? Service was slow and unprofessional. Side was barely carbonated. Table was wobbly. The worst Chinese meal of my life! Do not recommend.

The food is always cooked fresh to order and don’t get me started on the garlic sauce. I put that stuff on everything

This is where all of the Chinese students at K-​State go to eat, so you know it’s the place you want to go. Holy crap, is it good.

Happy valley is the best authentic traditional Chinese restaurant in town, serving fresh and delicious foods. As a foodie, I almost eat here twice a week. Lunch special is very valuable and please don’t miss their amazing HOT POT! You must be happy in this «valley»:)

Obviously, the people who rated this place 5 stars aren’t Asian… Takeahi B. knows whats up! This place sucks!

I might try this place again after reading more reviews and noting the items people like. For now I’ll just say the egg rolls were stuffed with shredded cabbage by itself (uninteresting) and super greasy. My main dish of shrimp and veggies was tasty. I did not care for their version of fried rice.
And the waitress was helpful, thoughtful, and actually cared. She was awesome. She is a five star waitress!

Must try their hot pot — it’s amazing!!! Also liked their sesame ball appetizers and salad. Great service. So glad to have an authentic chinese restaurant in town!

Went for the hot pot meal. You would pay an over the top price for frozen meat to put in the hot pot. Save your money and go some where else.

Worst F%+^in Chinese restaurant in the city! Save your money and don’t eat here! Wasted $ 30 on food that was just horrible. The Chinese server didn’t know shit about there menu, I asked if there cashew shrimp had mayo and she said «yeah I think so» and so I ordered it. Cashew shrimp came out and the dish is dark like soy sauce been poured into it. I asked her about it and she was like «what’s mayo?»
Don’t come here at all!!!

I thought the quality of the food was very high. Everything was fresh and came reasonably quickly. We had the moo shu and the walnut chicken. Both I thought were very good, but the moo shu was exceptional. You do pay for this quality. I thought the price was kind of high for being in the middle of Kansas and receiving only two wraps for the moo shu and having to pay extra for more was kind of stingy. I don’t mind paying for quality food and good service though.

Good Chinese food regardless of where you’re at. Happy Valley, in Manhattan Kansas, is a family friendly, sit yourself, and stay as along as you like kind of restaurant. It is enjoyable dining at a bargin price. And yes, they serve Tsingtao.
From what I’ve tried the food is delicious. The spicy eggplant melts in your mouth, the beef tendon is chewy yet soft, and the garlic suace which accompanies their spring rolls will blow your mind off. They let you know you’ve had a meal. And the white rice. The white rice is firm, but not crunchy, and soft, but not gummy. It has an airy structure where each grain is neatly stacked one apon the next. A necessary quality for dampening excess sauce from a scrumptous bite. A trait in rice which reminds you why its the worlds most popular grain. After spending a semester abroad in China, traveling from Beijing to Xian and Chengdu to Shanghai, I’d say the food at Happy Valley is respectable.
My only gripes are for pots, snacks, and heat. For some reason they serve tea in pots fit for two. This is fine for a date or a casual meal, but if you plan to stay a while, and there is no need to rush, they could bring more tea. For the soup, they don’t seem to offer a pot for the whole table. Their hot-​n-​sour soup is a balanced mix of bold flavors held a suprisingly light broth, and not too salty, so I figure they should let friends and family order a convenient supply. If only. While chuar is on the menu, they miss the novelty which comes from eating five little fleshy cubes: four meat and one fat. Say half an inch w-​l-​h. As is, it’s a mouthful. Heat is something missing from the menu. Nothing labled Scheuan is spicy. Nothing makes my lips tingle. We can all get fresh pepper from the market, so why not perk up a dish? I mean, what else am I using my napkin for? These are small complaints, but if corrected could increase the value of the restaurant, well, at leat for me.
Happy Valley is a satisfactory dinning experience. It’s food you want to eat with a comfy atmosphere.

Great Chinese food in Manhattan area. Love the hot pot