Lotus Xpress

Joplin, MO · Chinese restaurant

Rating
4.3/5
★★★★☆ 4.3
Reviews
20
Rank in Joplin
#71
of 274 restaurants
City Percentile
53%
rating percentile
Address
Lotus Xpress, 801 E 20th St #7b, Joplin, MO 64804
Phone
(417) 691-8552
Status
Closes soon · 9 PM · Opens 10:30 AM Sat

Lotus Xpress is a restaurant located in Joplin, MO. It is one of 274 restaurants listed in Joplin. Its 4.3-star rating is above the Joplin city average of 4.1 stars. There are 10 photos associated with this location.

Hours

Friday10 AM–9 PM

Customer Reviews

★★★★☆ 4.0 John Call · Oct 2025

Good price, great taste. Was surprised to see this amount of chicken in the picture for 7 dollars. I was expecting one or 2 more pieces, but Restaurant was slammed, orders were made prompt and timely.

★★★★★ 5.0 Gene Allen · Feb 2026

Pretty great place to"chow" down "mein" . They offer budget friendly dinners, which includes the main entree of your choice, meme chicken, cashew chicken, sweet and sour chicken, general chicken, spicy chicken, beef and broccoli, chicken or beef low "mein" orange chicken, moo goo gai pan shrimp fried rice , I believe they have a garlic chicken sesame chicken and maybe a couple others. All dinners come with steamed or fried rice, excluding the low "mein" options, your choice of egg roll or crab ranGoon. Don't forget to add on an order of hot and sour, or egg drop soup. Compared to other similar Chinese food locations nearby, or anywhere in Joplin you that matter, you will get the best value for your dollar here. It's a clean friendly environment, but a little on the small side . It G

★★☆☆☆ 2.0 Cyn Guzman · Aug 2023

I understand where the people say it’s a good place for the prices! The box deal phss can’t beat that and for the variety of food. The deal box is on special time and a few options with a soup, a egg roll or crab Rangoon with a beverage for less than 8$ a combo special. There is two variety of soup the egg drop soup and another one which I did not get the name. The menu is clear spicy and non spicy chicken and meat choices. Non of this food felt fresh to me it felt like a beginner cooker some one that gets can food or frozen choices and dump it with sauce and a little condiments here and there. The egg drop soup tastes and looked like to me like a chicken noodle soup Campbell with egg in it. The combos felt the same swimming in its sauce then actual suppose to be. The rice yes did felt fre

★★☆☆☆ 2.0 David Reed · Feb 2026

We hadn't eaten here in years, but we're passing through and thought we would have since it was one of my mother in law's favorite places to eat. We won't be back, they used to have really good food. This entire meal lacked flavor. The egg rolls were smaller, the hot and sour soup was bland, the fried rice was a big clump of flavorless gunk, and the cashew sauce tasted like it was mostly water.

★★★★★ 5.0 Vincent C Falbo II · Sep 2025

It's these little hole in the wall type places that'll getcha everytime 💯 💯 Incredibly nice staff, excellent atmosphere with a sprinkle of nostalgia Food was hot, tender and delicious. The "meme" chicken is fantastic. Not your lazy chicken nuggets thrown into some sauce, these are the real real chicken pieces. Tender and flavored to perfection 🤌 Fried rice is on point. Rice is properly cooked and not overly seasoned. Egg roll is delicious. It was a little soggy, but was devoured without prejudice. The wife got sweet and sour chicken and had the same opinion overall. "a toast to lotus xpress!!" she says 💯 💯 💯 Excellent job guys 💪💪👏👏

Accessibility & Amenities

✓ Wheelchair Accessible Entrance ✓ Wheelchair Accessible Parking Lot ✓ Wheelchair Accessible Restroom ✓ Wheelchair Accessible Seating

Services

Chinese restaurantFast food restaurant

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