Mandarin Palace review
What Mandarin Palace is worth when you actually play: licence, payouts, support.
See the offerIn practice: Mandarin Palace is a foreign operator without a Belgian licence. For that reason, this is mainly interesting if you already know the brand.
Our verdict on Mandarin Palace
Pros and cons of Mandarin Palace
✅ Pros
- Signup is usually faster
- Often more payment options, e-wallets included
- Bigger game catalogue than Belgian licence holders
- More generous bonuses than Belgian law allows
❌ Cons
- No statutory €200-per-week deposit limit
- Disputes fall outside Belgian oversight
- No EPIS link: self-exclusion does not work here
- No Belgian licence — black-listed
In brief
| Type | foreign operator |
| Oversight | Belgian Gaming Commission |
| Licence | no Belgian licence |
| Operator | — |
| Deposit limit | €200 per week (default) |
| Self-exclusion | EPIS |
| Tax on winnings | none for the player |
| Minimum age | 21 |
What you play on
Mandarin Palace operates outside the Belgian licensing system and therefore shows a wider catalogue than a B+ hall may: a catalogue of slots, live casino and crash games. The wider catalogue costs you the Belgian protection.
Typically Belgian are the dice games: open The Safe, Gold Spinner, Gold Mine, that makes the catalogue hard to compare with a foreign site.
Is this legal in Belgium?
Mandarin Palace is not on the Gaming Commission's white list. The domain mandarinpalace appears on the black list, which now holds more than 900 addresses.
EPIS does not work here, and neither does the statutory ceiling. What goes wrong is settled outside the Belgian framework.
Mandarin Palace versus a licensed Belgian site
| Criterion | Mandarin Palace |
|---|---|
| Belgian Gaming Commission oversight | no |
| EPIS self-exclusion | no |
| €200 weekly limit by default | no |
| Bancontact as a deposit method | not always |
| Complaint to the Belgian regulator | no |
| Winnings untaxed for the player | yes |
What players report
★★★☆☆ 2 months ago
KYC took longer than promised, three days on a proof of address.
★★★★★ 2 months ago
Bancontact deposit landed instantly, withdrawal took two banking days.
★★★★★ 2 months ago
Lowering the weekly limit worked right away, which I appreciated.
Mandarin Palace review
What Mandarin Palace is worth when you actually play: licence, payouts, support.
See the offerFrequently asked questions
Yes, by card or app. The payout then runs by bank transfer. Mind the app's daily ceilings. Reckon on a minimum of around €5.
The minimum age is 21; since 1 September 2024 it is 21 for casino, hall and betting. A falsified age costs you the whole balance at payout. Without valid ID you do not get through.
Check which games count: slots often 100%, table games sometimes 10% or nothing at all. The terms usually sit at the bottom of the bonus page. Check whether your game counts before you start.
No. In Belgium gambling winnings are untaxed for the player — the levy sits with the operator. This has been the Belgian rule for years. The operator remits the levy, not the player.