Lok Yaun

First up, please ignore the reviews that say the food here is good or better. The food here is just ok. Some dishes rise above mediocrity but not by much.
The only saving graces to this place are the huge amount of parking, the cheap (very cheap) prices and the astronomical portion sizes. Once you fill your belly, take the rest home and slop the hogs.
People watching is also fun, I especially enjoy the goons who look at the menu and say «Wow, they raised the prices!». Look pal, if you can’t afford to eat here, you really suck at life…

This used to be the best thing ever and we could not even finish we threw it away we will never go back. I wonder if it was bought out?

I’ve been eating here for years now. It’s good. It’s Americanized Chinese food, so not really authentic, but it works.
I like the sweet and sour chicken. I always order my sauce on the side. It’s moist and cooked well, never dry. I usually get a combination plate, chow mein, rice, pork/​chicken, ect. So again, it’s pretty basic food, but good. I definitely enjoy the pork fried rice and egg flower soup. The egg flower soup has a slightly thicker, more chicken soup like base, but that’s my preference. Some egg flower soups are watery and bland. This isn’t.
Portions are huge! I mean, fat kid huge. I typically order off the kids menu and have two more portions to take home. It’s a little bit ridiculous. My husband can eat large amounts at once and it’s rare I see him finish a plate here. But with that, you definitely feel like you’re getting a good bang for your buck.
Parking is annoying during dinner because they share a big lot with the strip mall and Applebee’s. So it can get hectic, and people don’t pay much attention when backing out. So always go slow and be prepared to use your horn.
Service can be hit and miss, depending on who the server is. Some love what they do and some don’t. The ones who don’t make it show. Heather is the best server they have. She knows her regulars and enjoys her job, and is efficient.
The price is quite cheap for the amount that you get. For 3 of us to eat, it’s around $ 30 – 33. But we take lots of food home, with more than one portion to eat later.
It’s a restaurant we’ve gone to for quite some time and will keep returning to.

fast, tasty and large servings. I ordered The Generals chicken wth pork fried rice and Shrimp Fried Rice. Both come will plenty of meat.

I love this place their food is to die for plus big severing of food too I will tell about here

M y family has gone ro Lok Yaun for over 20 years. Never have we had a less than a perfect
meal.We went for lunch a couple of weeks ago and our meals were disappointing. The quality was poor, our veggies were raw. and there was no sauce on the subgum with pan fried noodles– very bland with raw veg. The Marfar chicken was dry and stringy
The bathroom is dirty and
needs attention. I wonder if someone has taken over the business?
business?

Worst Chinese food ever. I cannot earn you enough, do not go here! Safeway’s Chinese food is so much better even. The food is just poor quality and old. I could see the shiny look on the beef even under the sauce. Too bad I tried some first. Ended up getting sick a few days later. Not sure if it was them for sure but I don’t know what else it could have been. I think the only reason people like this place is the amount of food they give you. A serving for two could feed 4 (if it was edible). Just because the reviews are higher than some other restaurants really doesn’t mean it is better. I made that mistake, don’t make the same!

Good Bad Chinese Food
There are times when you want to eat good, authentic, cleanly made and flavored Chinese food, and for that there’s Kung Fu Bistro. And then there are times when you want to indulge yourself with American-​style Chinese that’s starchy, slippery, salty, filling and reasonably priced. A few times a year we do Lok Yaun, and order enough food to make a week’s worth of leftovers. It’s always served pleasantly, the flavors are fresh enough (no rancidity or off flavors), and it’s always enough to feed a young army. I’m certain moods, nothing else will do.

I took my Dad and Stepmom here for lunch and I ate here with a friend on a different occasion. This is probably, besides the Panda Express, the best Chinese I’ve had here so far. It is basically a small coffee shop setting with good customer service. The prices are rather good for Chinese, which makes it a great place to hit up for Lunch once in a while. Plus it’s just a bus ride up the street from me!

You get a lot of food here for your money but it’s not the highest quality Chinese food. It’s a little salty and not particularly memorable. For a cheap night of Chinese it’s an OK experience but not my favorite restaurant in town by any means.

Up until my last visit Lok Yaun provided what I expect from Eugene when it comes to American-​style Chinese food which is to say greasy, over breaded, and pretty bad. The same terrible noodles every Chinese restaurant in Lane County uses now too. It is like mall food, not something you ever long for but for some reason it occasionally calls to you to scratch a certain itch, maybe if only to make you yearn for the good American-​style Chinese food you used to have long ago in a big Bay Area or New York restaurant. Since Eugene has no GOOD American-​style Chinese food, these are the places we have to work with.
Unfortunately even this lower standard is starting to slip at Lok Yaun.
The straw that broke the camel’s back for me was my last visit, just yesterday. We ordered the usual combinations we like to get, plus some Fried Shrimp. The Fried Shrimp has always been the common fluffy-​battered fried prawns we are used to seeing at any Chinese place. This time when we opened the box we were stunned to see a weak handful of straight-​from-​Sizzler-​style breaded butterfly shrimp. That is right folks, the kind you eat with cocktail sauce, if that is your thing. My mind was blown. It does not even remotely go with the rest of the food served here not to mention it is a fraction of the serving size previously provided all-​told, at the same price.
If you order your chow mein pan-​fried, you will also notice you hardly get any vegetables or meat these days. It is 90% noodles with a small topping of protein/​vegetable. This is not how it used to be.
To top it off, the website, which was never that great to begin with, is offline. This makes ordering over the phone even more challenging than it already was here. Especially considering other local options allow actual online ordering and some even have Delivery.
No thank you. We will check back in on Unilocal and see if the quality starts heading in the right direction, until then there are less-​mediocre places to get bad Chinese food in town.

I don’t know what happened to Lok Yuan. I go there once a month after a standing appointment in the area. Between last month and this month, my standing order of fried shrimp and Mu Shu tofu declined. The shrimp is no longer battered, but fried with sharp breadcrumbs. The Mu Shu had no flavor other than salt, and was so watery that, after leaking into the surrounding box, my car, the counter and my clothing, there was still so much thin sauce that it was swimming. The pancakes disintegrated and were unusable.
There is now no decent Chinese food on the West side.

I really love the chinese food here I really like the egg rolls here. Its really big portions my husband and I share a plate. its deffinetly worth a try!

If you live off of fast food, this is the place for you. Lived in San Francisco Bay Area for 40 years, this is the worst Chinese food I’ve ever had in my life.
Over salted, no flavor, not fresh, over battered and fried, not one dish has just vegetables and starch. As fast as your order comes to you, it passes through you…
I would not recommend this Chinese food to anyone.

I moved away from Eugene a few years ago, but every time I go this is one of my destinations… can’t beat the price, or portion size…
The food flavors are starting to blend and everything tastes similar, also, stay away from the giant egg roll things. not down with that!
best part about it is that there is nothing else like it in the area… I’ll go ahead and add that last star to give you the full 5.

Finally got my Chinese fix tonight! This is my usual «go to» restaurant when I’m craving delicious food! I always get the daily special which is fried rice, chicken subgum chow mein, sweet and sour chicken, bbq pork and a cup of egg flower soup. For $ 9.50, you get a lot of leftovers! You could easily feed two people with this meal. We also had crab puffs as an appetizer and they were good but could be a little less greasy. I realize they are deep fried, but our plate was coated with oil once we were done with them.
I really enjoy the food here and haven’t had a bad experience. The servers are always fast and on top of things.
Don’t forget your fortune cookie! :)

I am sorry. but this is NOT the place for Asian people. The portion is large but the food quality is just so poor. It’s way too salty and looks quite unappetizing. Do not order combo number 16. The chowmein we ordered was supposed to have crunchy noodles. They used the «crunchy noodle» salad topping. Like the croutons you would purchase at a grocery market. What the hell? I would have rather flown all the way back to California just to eat my mother’s cooking if it weren’t for finals. I feel as if they didn’t try. The server we had though, was very nice and courteous. She made us feel comfortable and welcome.
Terrible first time experience. We need better asian restaurants around here.

One of my all time favorite Chinese places in Eugene (Check out Twin Dragons for a different vibe but also awesome food)…
The food is plentiful (ie HUGE portions) and cooked fresh. Their egg drop soup is always fresh and fantastic. Cup is a normal portion of a cup… the bowl, however, is freaking HUGE — definitely shareable.
The hot tea is fantastic as always although I don’t know how this could be done wrong.
The daily special (mar far chicken, pork steak, pork fried rice and chicken subgum)… OUTSTANDING and HUGE PORTION — definitely will be taking some home. These are all my favorites so this is generally what I get. The mar far chicken has more breading than I normally like but it is always crisp. The pork slices are awesome and always lean and cooked well. The pork fried rice is actually very tasty as well and I am not a huge fan of rice in general. The chicken subgum has a ton of fresh celery, peas etc and so it is very green. The sauce is excellent and it is served atop crunchy noodles.
The Lemon Chicken (one of my moms favorites) is quickly becoming one of my favorites. Their sauce is out of this world awesome. The lemon flavor is just FANTASTIC… the chicken is crisp and just frankly this dish is awesome. Wish it had veggies too because that would be fantastic.
This place is definitely well known to locals and it is a seemingly hole in the wall type of place but ohhh so good and affordable for the portions.
Service is generally very prompt and the servers focus but don’t chat much.
Update from ⁹⁄₂₀₁₅ … The Egg Drop soup is awesome — I recently had a bad cough and just wanted this — although chilled it is somewhat gelatinous heated up it is still awesome!

Lok Yaun is good in the sense that we eat it out of the convenience of no real Chinese food that we used to have in the Eugene area that I used to remember. This is more of the Americanized style of it if you ask me. I still eat it and don’t mind it if that’s what I’m in the mood for because we go here for the special and it feeds at least 2 – 3. Just order extra soup. If you want more authentic Chinese food this is not the place for you. And if you have found it in Eugene please let me know because it has been missing for years! Until then this will do and I will just go out of town for the more authentic stuff I’m used to.
My family and I do go here maybe once a month give or take when we don’t want to cook.

Lok Yaun is a really popular restaurant there is always a wait and always a line which, yes you have to wait but that is a good sign.
If you have a large family or appetite, this is the place to go. It is affordable and you get a pretty good amount of food for it.
My go to dish here is the sesame chicken and fried rice. Also the pots tickers are good as well. The service here is good, but it is not there fault because it is just so darn busy that they need to get through people quickly.
You won’t get the best chinese food, but it will be good and won’t hurt your wallet.