Yen Ching

Found this little gem on a recent family trip. Great service and the food was amazing! Our order came out super fast. Great place for sit down or take out. Highly recommend this restaurant. The only negative aspect of our visit was that we had to wait a bit for our check but they were very busy and we weren’t in a hurry so even that wasn’t such a bad thing.

Went with 7 other couples. I have traveled around this country and consumed many cuisines. I have to say this was the worst Chinese food I have ever experienced. The Orange Chicken was awful, egg rolls-​terrible, service was bad. There were leftovers and I did not bring them home. Wait staff was horrible! Did not deliver what I ordered and tried to convince me to take what they brought which I refused. Had to beg 3 times for a refill of my ice tea. Old, not clean front door was dirty… a hint of what was to come.

Great food very nice atmosphere. Love the fish we have been going here for over 15 years. Friendly service We go at least twice a month

Outstanding service and food. The owners (Ruby and Tom) are the sweetest people and take great care of their customers. Sizzling rice do up was delicious, as was the chicken with vegetables and Kung pao chicken. We will definitely be back.

This place has been around forever. I remember it 25 yrs ago and it hasn’t changed. Nice, with a touch of old fashion elegance. Table cloth and soothing soft music in the background. Kick ass cocktails. Good service. Guys in bow ties. The food is better than most places out this way. We will be back.

I had the Kung Pao2 (Kung Pao with shrimp and chicken). It was very good. It came with white rice ($ 2 more for fried rice seemed too much). The rice was cooked well, not too mushy or too crunchy. The amount of food seemed a bit small, maybe enough for one person, but definitely not for two. The price seemed a little high. All in all, it was good food and service and I’d go back again.

Went in and asked for Sweet and sour pork. Pork wasn’t seasoned and vegetables were way to large to eat.

Order the hot and sour soup to start, to share or as your entrée. Just be sure to order it. It’s my favorite H&S. The service is always great.

Ordered take out tonight 7÷22÷15. Garlic shrimp is heavily breaded and soggy. The shrimp are very small and have the tail on them still. Lemon chicken was awful. It was breaded, dry and tough. The lemon sauce came in a separate container and is really awful. Tastes like the smell of lemon pledge. Thankfully the spicy fried rice and vegetable fried rice were good or we would have had to order a whole other dinner from somewhere else. I probably won’t return. If I could rate 0 or negative stars, I would, but 1 was the lowest available.

Good service, egg drop soup was salty but wasn’t bad and you get a chicken wing dipped in brown sauce with a cream cheese dumpling. The lunch menu is pretty large and has an entrée with a side of plain fried rice. I asked that the vegetables be well done and they weren’t. The sauce on both our entrees was so strong it was almost uneatable. I had to mix it with the rice and a couple spoons of sweet & sour. Neither of us was able to finish our entrees. Best I can say is Been There, Done That

My entire family loves this place. The décor is outdated, but the food and the staff are awesome. My Husband introduced this place to me 10 years ago, and it is by far our favorite chinese place to go to. I prefer to there rather then take it home. Even though the décor is not awesome, I like the atmosphere and the staff.

I highly recommend this place. The chicken lo mein, and pork fried rice was excellent. The greeter was very busy when I walked in, and he even didn’t skip a beat, he acknowledged everyone in the room, with a smile, while performing his job. I was very impressed with his customer service. This place was packed. That means, good food and service, we’ll be back.5 stars!

This place is the best Chinese food around by far. The staff is so friendly especially David, he is a server. I’m a college student on a budget and the prices are great for the amount of food you get! Yes the furniture is a little out dated and at first I was so skeptical but it is VERY clean :)

I went to Yen Ching’s for the first time last night with my mother. I was probably several decades younger than the majority of the clientele as well as the décor but don’t let that fool you. This was probably some of the best Chinese food I have had in quite a while. I’ll be taking my husband (he’s very picky about Chinese food) here soon so he can try it out too! Thanks for a great meal (and tons of leftovers), Yen Ching!

Terrific food! Great drinks. Usually very busy but will worth the wait! Nice place white table cloths even!

Nasty. Better off going to Panda Express. It’s just sloppy, greasy, and bland. Not to mention that they forgot an entire entrée for our take-​out order, which we didn’t find out until we got home. The old folks around superstion springs probably love it — cheap and bland.

Well let me start that this place has been around for forever, so they must be doing something right. I remember going here with my family after all my silly plays in elementary school and I still go here, I’m now in college. The food is really yummy and the price is inexpensive. The restaurant décor is a little funky but I don’t go there for that. The people who work there are super nice and will take very good care of you. They have weird hours on Saturday though, which is my only complaint. They open around 4:30 pm but the food is so worth it.

Ive been coming here for almost 20 years, and the quality of food, staff, and décor have not changed one bit.
Please, please, PLEASE check their hours before stopping. They tend to change. Now, when you get here, DO NOT be put off but the pink and blue 80’s décor. The food is worth it. So, so worth it.
Everytime we come here, we get the same older gentleman (who really is the *sweetest* guy) serving us. He’s always prompt, attentive, and more than cordial.
We always get a Bo Bo platter (also called a Pu Pu platter), tea, and 2 side dishes. The platter (for 2) comes w/​an egg roll, deep fried shrimp, crab puffs, foil wrapped chicken (one of my faves), spare ribs, and beef on a skewer (complete w/​a flaming platter to crisp it up). This place is one of the only places in AZ Ive found that serves this platter w/​flames.
The tea is always delicious and hot. We opt for chicken fiend rice (some of the best in the valley) and chicken chow mein (crispy noodles), along w/​an extra order of crab puffs. Its enough food for take away and it’s as delicious the next day.
Be sure to as for some real hot mustard to go and enjoy some of the best Chinese food in the valley!

Went with two other people, ordered the General Tso’s chicken and the Spicy Braised Fish with the intent of getting a third dish if we were still hungry.
The fish came with an option to substitute fried rice for white rice for $ 1.50, and I requested that. The fried rice came out way too fast for it to have been fried to order. It tasted like steamed rice seasoned with soy sauce, and there were maybe 5 carrots/​peas in the entire bowl. It was too salty for me to enjoy, but I kept it on my plate hoping that the sauces from the main dishes would cut some of the salt.
Spicy fish and chicken came out, neither had even the faintest spice but both were horribly salty. In addition they were overcooked to the point that I couldn’t tell which meat was which, and had to rely on the garnish to tell the two dishes apart. The chicken was the worse of the two, because in addition to being salty and overcooked it was cloyingly sweet and buried under a thick (ketchup-​consistency) sauce that was impossible to eat around.
I told the waiter that we wanted to exchange the chicken for a different dish. He said that this was impossible, and that this is how General Tso’s chicken is supposed to taste. I started to argue, but decided it wasn’t worth it since even if we got a replacement, we’d likely be trading one inedible dish for another. We picked at the fish some more, and left hungry. When we got the bill, it turned out that we were charged three times for fried rice, even though we only requested it with one dish.

On the menu for us was
General Tao’s chicken
Chicken Lo Mein
Kung PaoToo (chicken and shrimp)
Fried rice
Crab puffs
Everything came out fresh and hot and very delishish! The service was fast and very attentive !
Portions are huge! The cost for dinner was $ 40.00 bucks not bad for great food and great service!