Pine & Bamboo Garden

Pine & Bamboo Garden is a family-owned Chinese restaurant that spent more than four decades at Shawnee Mission Parkway and Nieman Road in Shawnee before relocating, in the fall of 2025, to the Quivira Crossing shops at 87th Street Parkway and Quivira in Lenexa. Its menu is the full American-Chinese canon — Hunan, Szechwan and Cantonese, plus pad thai — with a separate “Authentic Chinese” section, weekend dim sum, boba tea and a full bar. Johnson County Post readers voted it the best Chinese food in the county in 2022, and the restaurant’s own feeds in 2026 describe “more than 43 years” of service.

Description

Pine & Bamboo Garden’s self-description has been stable for years: “a taste of China,” offering “Hunan, Szechwan, and Cantonese cuisine at its finest” — “Cho Cho Beef, Moo Shu Pork, Shrimp with Broccoli, Phad Thai Chicken, and more!”¹ The current site still carries the old line that the restaurant is “located west of I-35 at the corner of 63rd Street and Nieman Rd,” a leftover from the Shawnee years that the Lenexa address on the same page contradicts.¹

The menu is large and numbered. An American-Chinese core — lo mein, fried rice, sizzling rice, sweet-and-sour, General Tao’s, sesame and orange chicken, Mongolian beef, honey walnut shrimp, moo shu with pancakes — is joined by Singapore- and Indonesian-style curries, “sa cha” and “New Ze” preparations, a jalapeño beef, pan-fried noodles, Atkins and Weight Watchers sections, and a separate Authentic Chinese menu that opens with fried pork intestine and continues through seafood, vegetables, and pork, beef and duck dishes.² Reviewers consistently single out the hot-and-sour soup, pan-fried dumplings and egg rolls; a 2018 Tripadvisor reviewer describes cart-service dim sum, and a 2026 Nextdoor recommendation says dim sum is served on Sundays.³⁴ The restaurant’s own promotional videos in 2026 lead with the pan-fried dumplings.⁵

Lunch combinations, served daily 11 to 3 with egg drop soup, pork fried rice and an egg roll or crab rangoon, run $13.95 to $18.95; dinner entrées are $16.95 to $22.95.² The dining room closes between lunch and dinner, but carryout and delivery run straight through to 8:40 p.m.² Corporate catering is offered by phone.¹

Ownership and history

Pine & Bamboo Garden is a family business; the owning family “has lived in Shawnee a long time and believe in supporting the community,” in the words of a longtime Lenexa customer on Tripadvisor.³ No published source names the owners, and the restaurant’s own site and social pages do not. A Dun & Bradstreet profile exists for “Pine & Bamboo Garden Company” in Shawnee Mission but its content is behind a paywall.⁶

The founding date is triangulated from the restaurant’s own claim. Facebook and Instagram videos posted in 2026 open with “For more than 43 years, Pine and Bamboo Garden has been serving up comforting, time-honored flavors,” which puts the opening around 1982–83.⁵ Customer memories corroborate a long run: “I’ve eaten there for 30+ years and still love their food” (Tripadvisor, undated but pandemic-era), “more than 30 years” (Nextdoor’s summary of neighbor reviews), and a Shawnee native who has eaten “in the original location in my hometown of Shawnee since I …” (Instagram, December 2025).³⁴⁷

For that entire period the restaurant was at 10915 Shawnee Mission Parkway, at the parkway’s intersection with Nieman Road, “visible from Shawnee Mission Parkway and just south of the downtown core” of Shawnee; the Johnson County Post also gave the address as 10915 W. 63rd St.⁸ In March 2022 the Post’s readers named it the No. 1 Chinese restaurant in Johnson County — “This Shawnee restaurant easily surpasses them all” — at a moment when it was still takeout-only: management said it could not return to dine-in “until the restaurant can bulk up staffing,” having struggled like many restaurants to hire after COVID-19.⁸

The move to Lenexa

In August 2025 the restaurant announced on Instagram: “We’re Moving! … New Address: Quivira Crossing shops, 12102 W. 87th St. Pkwy, Lenexa, KS 66215. Opening at the new location on September 27th, 2025!”⁹ A parallel Facebook post said it would be “moving by the end of September, 2025.”¹⁰ The actual opening slipped by a few weeks: the restaurant’s Facebook announced “The Pine and Bamboo Garden is officially opening its doors on October 16th, 2025 at our new home,” and a follow-up photo post confirmed “as of October 16, 2025, we are completely moved and open at our new location in Lenexa.”¹¹ The Shawnee location is now marked closed on Yelp, Tripadvisor and Mapquest.³ Why the family left the Shawnee building after four decades is not stated in any source found.

The Lenexa space had previously been Fortune Palace, a Chinese restaurant that the Johnson County Post listed at 12102 W. 87th St. Parkway as an honorable mention in the same March 2022 poll that Pine & Bamboo won.⁸ The intersection of 87th Street Parkway and Quivira Road is about three miles south of the old Shawnee site.

Links

• Website: https://www.pinebamboogarden.com/
• Menu / online ordering (official): https://www.pinebamboogarden.com/order
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pinebamboogarden/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pine.and.bamboo.garden/

Menu

Last verified: 2026-08-28 · Source: the restaurant’s own online-ordering menu at pinebamboogarden.com/order · Confidence: High for items and base prices (”+” indicates size or protein options at higher prices). The full menu runs to roughly 200 items; a representative cut follows, with the restaurant’s own spellings.²

Combination luncheon (daily 11–3; with egg drop soup, pork fried rice, egg roll or crab rangoon)

• Sweet & Sour (chicken or shrimp), Almond Chicken, Cashew Chicken, Moo Goo Gai Pan, Chicken with Peanuts & Hot Peppers, Mixed Chinese Vegetables, Bean Curd Family Style, Lemon Chicken, Green Bean Chicken, Jalapeno Beef ($13.95+)
• Chicken & Shrimp Sauteed, Shrimp with Lobster Sauce, Beef with Green Peppers, Broccoli, Shrimp Szechwan Style, Sha Cha, Pad Thai Noodles, Ginger Basil, Triple Delight, Moo Shu, Mongolian, Green Bean Beef ($14.95+)
• Indonesian Curry, Mushroom Combo ($15.95+) · General Tao’s Chicken, Honey Walnut Shrimp, Sesame, Orange Style ($16.95+) · Peking Scallops ($18.95+)
• Lunch fried rice ($13.95–16.95), lunch lo mein ($13.95–14.95), lunch noodle soups ($14.95–16.95), lunch specials: Honey Chicken ($14.95), Sea Bass with Seasoned Veggies or Szechuan Sauce ($15.95)

Appetizers

• Egg Roll (2), Chicken Spring Roll (2), Vegetable Spring Roll (2) ($4.55) · Cho Cho Beef (4) ($6.95) · King Crab Rangoon, Dragon Roll (4) ($9.25) · Steamed Shrimp Dumpling (6) ($9.95) · Signature Fried Chicken Wings (6), Chinese Style Fried Wonton (6) ($10.25) · Hong Kong BBQ Pork Bun (4) ($10.95) · Steamed or Fried Dumplings (8), Lettuce Wrapped with Chicken ($13.95)

Soup

• Wonton ($3.55+) · Egg Drop ($3.95+) · Hot & Sour ($4.35+) · Seafood Delight or Chicken Sizzling Rice Soup for 2 ($18.95+)

Entrées

• Chicken ($16.95+ unless noted) — Lemon, Moo Shu, with Fresh Broccoli, Sweet and Sour, Cashew or Almond, Moo Goo Gai Pan, Boneless, Pineapple Cashew, Szechuan, with Peanuts and Hot Pepper, Sa Cha, New Ze, Garlic, Green Bean; Ginger Basil, Singapore Curry, Hunan ($17.95+); Indonesian Curry ($17.95+); Sesame, General Tao’s, Orange ($19.95+)
• Beef — Spicy Shredded Beef Szechwan Style, Jalapeño Beef ($15.95+); Ginger Basil ($16.95+); Orange, Hunan, Sesame ($17.95+); Sizzling Hot, Moo Shu, Mongolian, with Mushrooms/Broccoli/Green Pepper/Snow Peas/Seasoned Vegetables, Sa Cha, Green Bean ($18.95+)
• Seafood — Moo Shu Shrimp, Sweet and Sour Shrimp, Shrimp with Broccoli, Triple Delight, Shrimp with Seasoned Vegetables, Sa Cha Shrimp, Shrimp Szechwan Style, Green Bean Shrimp ($16.95+); Ginger Basil Shrimp, Seabass with Vegetables or Szechuan Style, Indonesian Curry ($17.95+); Sesame Shrimp ($18.95+); Honey Walnut Shrimp, Crispy Shrimp, Singapore Curry, House Special Pan Fried Noodles ($19.95+); Seafood Pan Fried Noodles ($20.95+); Peking Scallops, Hunan Scallops, Scallops with Hot Pepper Sauce, Sizzling Seafood Combo ($22.95+)
• Pork — Spicy Shredded Pork Szechwan Style ($14.95+); with Seasoned Vegetables, Moo Shu, Mongolian, Double Sauteed, Bean Curd with Hot Sauce (ma po) ($16.95+)
• Vegetables — Broccoli in Oyster Sauce, Mixed Chinese Vegetables, Bean Curd Family Style ($16.95+)
• Noodles & rice — Lo mein ($16.95–17.95+), fried rice ($16.95–17.95), Pad Thai chicken ($17.95), shrimp or combo ($19.95), noodle soups ($19.95–20.95), sizzling rice ($18.95–19.95+)
• Atkins’ Diet (no cornstarch) $15.95–16.95+ · Weight Watchers (steamed, sauce on side) $13.95–22.95+
• Authentic Chinese — steamed or fried meat dumplings ($14.95), fried pork intestine ($14.95), lettuce-wrapped chicken, plus seafood, vegetable, and pork/beef/duck sections
• Also: sides & sauces, boba tea, beverages, desserts

Sources

Footnotes

1. Pine & Bamboo Garden — official website, home page. Retrieved 2026-08-28 — Confirms: name; Lenexa address 12102 W 87th St Pkwy, Lenexa, KS 66215; phone (913) 268-9545; business hours (Mon, Wed–Sun 11–2:30 and 4–9; Tue closed); carryout/delivery hours 11–8:40; “Hunan, Szechwan, and Cantonese cuisine” blurb; stale “corner of 63rd Street and Nieman Rd” line; corporate catering; service options “Full Bar.” ↩ ↩² ↩³

2. Pine & Bamboo Garden — official online-ordering menu (Menufy/HungerRush). Retrieved 2026-08-28 — Confirms: every item and price in the Menu section; “Dine-in is not available from 2:30PM to 4PM”; July 4–8, 2026 closure notice; menu sections including Authentic Chinese, Boba Tea, Atkins’ Diet and Weight Watchers. ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴

3. Tripadvisor — “Pine & Bamboo Garden, Shawnee — CLOSED.” Retrieved 2026-08-28 — Confirms: Shawnee listing marked closed; reviewer statements: “eaten there for 30+ years,” “the family who owns the restaurant has lived in Shawnee a long time,” pandemic-era takeout only; December 2018 dim sum cart service. Third-party, provisional. ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴

4. Nextdoor — “Pine & Bamboo Garden, Shawnee, KS” (business page and neighbor posts). Retrieved 2026-08-28 — Confirms: summary “family-owned Chinese restaurant … for more than 30 years”; Shawnee page marked permanently closed; a Lenexa neighbor’s note that the restaurant “relocated … at the end of 2025, but they are not closed as reported by some” and serves dim sum on Sundays. Third-party, provisional. ↩ ↩²

5. Pine & Bamboo Garden — Facebook video, “For more than 43 years, Pine and Bamboo Garden has been serving up comforting, time-honored flavors …,” 2026 (a related post dated 2026-03-19) — Confirms: “more than 43 years” claim; pan-fried dumplings featured; active posting in 2026. ↩ ↩²

6. Dun & Bradstreet — company profile, “Pine & Bamboo Garden Company, Shawnee Mission, Kansas.” Retrieved 2026-08-28 — Confirms: existence of a registered business record under this name; details paywalled. Lead only. ↩

7. @tedliberda, Instagram reel, 2025-12-16 — Confirms: “I’ve been eating at @pine.and.bamboo.garden in the original location in my hometown of Shawnee, Ks since I …” (snippet via search index). ↩

8. Leah Wankum, “5 to Try: Chinese picks,” Johnson County Post, 2022-03-25 — Confirms: readers’ No. 1 Chinese restaurant in Johnson County; “visible from Shawnee Mission Parkway and just south of the downtown core”; “on Shawnee Mission Parkway and Nieman”; address given as 10915 W. 63rd St., Shawnee; takeout-only pending staffing; 2022 hours; Fortune Palace listed at 12102 W. 87th St. Parkway, Lenexa (honorable mention). ↩ ↩² ↩³

9. Pine & Bamboo Garden (@pine.and.bamboo.garden), Instagram, “We’re Moving! Big news …,” August 2025 — Confirms: “New Address: Quivira Crossing shops 12102 W. 87th St. Pkwy Lenexa, KS 66215”; “Opening at the new location on September 27th, 2025!” (caption via search index; post not machine-readable). ↩

10. Pine & Bamboo Garden — Facebook page. Retrieved via search 2026-08-28 — Confirms: “The Pine & Bamboo Garden is relocating to a brand-new spot! Moving by the end of September, 2025! 10915 Shawnee Mission Pkwy, Shawnee, KS 66203.” ↩

11. Pine & Bamboo Garden — Facebook photo post, “We’re officially open in Lenexa!,” October 2025 — Confirms: “as of October 16, 2025, we are completely moved and open at our new location in Lenexa! 12102 W 87th Street, Lenexa, Kansas 66215”; companion video text “officially opening its doors on October 16th, 2025 at our new home.” ↩