Quan Linh Asian Bistro

Delicious. Best Chinese I’ve found in Portland. Soups are great and the Jade tofu is the best!

This place is a for sure hole in the wall a family own restaurant but serves non-​traditional food that serves food that is good for family style dinners. This place is a good place for groups to try different Vietnamese and Chinese food. they serve a whole chicken in the ginger green onion sauce which is one of the best in the area very memorable.
The other dishes like stir fry meat and veggies is pretty basic but also the clay pots are good. The catfish, lamb, and pork belly clay pot is always consistent and delicious! The catfish clay pot isnt too salty and pairs well with the sweet and sour cat fish soup canh chua.
The food here overall is pretty authentic to the vietnamese and chinese taste. The workers are very nice and friendly but also because it’s a small place so they are very tentative.
I would recommend this place if they are having a family dinner or a get together with friends!

Me and my wife were in the area and wanted to try this place out. We ordered the Kung Pao Chicken and Seafood Chow Mein. Portions were more than enough for one person. Food was presented well and very flavorful. Would come back again.

That was delicious! Especially the won ton soup, the wings, the General Tso chicken, basically the food was my favorite part. Nice people too.

I think we’re going start working our way through their menu more thoroughly. We’re fans of their wonton soup and have tried various items over the past few years (salt-​pepper squid and some others I don’t recall), but everything has been tasty. Their lemongrass chicken vermicelli was one of the best I’ve had in years — extremely flavorful, with a little bit of heat to it. We’ve eaten in and have gotten food to go; I understand the comments about the lackluster décor, but I noticed that they’ve recently done some remodeling and it looks a little lighter and brighter now. The staff have always been very friendly to us.

Great food, good speed, fairly priced. The décor left something to be desired, but don’t most small places? The food made up for it.

Delicious food. Super varied menu.
They were very nice about special requests and substitutions, and remade food when it had green peppers in it, and we’re very apologetic.
Would definitely eat here again.

Great spot for your basic Chinese food! Owned by a really nice brother and sister, super friendly and accommodating. Got the Kung pao chicken and beef with Chinese broccoli. Both were really good, perfect amount of spicy. They’re working on getting their liquor license so they’ll serve beer/​wine here in the next month.

We love coming to this place with the whole family. Very kid friendly and the kids love the food. They just remodeled so it doesn’t look like such a hole in the wall anymore. But it’s still very basic and there aren’t many tables.
If you are looking to try authentic Asian food, this is the place to go. Great soup noodles with different noodle options (egg, vermicelli, rice noodles (all sizes). I usually get the chicken with egg noodles you can eat this dry with the broth on the side or as a soup noodle dish. (add chili oil and chili with vinegar to taste).
The menu is endless and there are photos to help with the descriptions. The owners are very friendly and they usually serve a wonderful free bowl of dessert.

I’ve eaten here twice. After dining in the first time, I understand why many people seem to get theirs to go. The restaurant is run down and has a certain feel about it that is difficult to describe.
Now to the food. It was really, really good. This more than makes up for the interior, however he second time around getting it to go was the better option. Recommended.

Lottas wok-​hay. I joined the Chinese New Year crowd at Quan Linh’s earlier this month. I had to try the hot and clay pot dishes everyone on Unilocal was raving about.
Like most Chinese and Asian-​centric joints, Quan Linh was slammed on Chinese New Year. There was only one person working the dining area, who also multi-​tasked as the cashier and phone operator. Kudos to him. They probably aren’t normally this busy. So on a very busy night, be patient and kind.
I had a huge plate of Beef Chow Fun, wet style. The wide rice noodles were slippery and topped with tender beef and vegetables in a brown gravy. This is my comfort food. I wish the noodles were more separated but who’s got time for that on the restaurant’s busiest day of the year?
I also ordered the combination or house special hot pot. It’s a pot of fried tofu, dark meat chicken, and mixed seafood cooked together with vegetables in a delicious brown gravy. It was different than the Chow Fun gravy. I am particular about dishes tasting the same. One was more gingery than the other, but which one that was, I’m not sure.
The food was good and the staff was very friendly. Although delightful in almost every day, I prefer the prices and flavors at my other favorite Chinese food place.

A small place so huge groups (6+) is not recommended.
Always had a good experience here and I’ve been eating here since it opened.
Service can be slow at times but never had to wait till the point I was willing to walk out

I’m not sure what the fuss is about here. We wanted to try a new spot and settled in this place. We expected bare bones décor, but were hoping for one of those gems with really delicious food.
We ordered the chicken salad, fresh rolls, and the catfish hot pot. Unfortunately, our dishes didn’t taste fresh and the flavors were surprisingly bland. We left feeling a bit disappointed.

Stopped at this place, hungrily, on a whim, while on my way to a place while running errands. Small[er] (~20 seats) restaurant that has the feel of someone’s home kitchen; the staff was very attentive and friendly and provided prompt service.
I ordered spring rolls and seafood soup. The spring rolls were nice and hot, crispy, and flavorful, and the seafood soup (shrimp, squid, and scallops, with noodles and some vegetables (beansprouts, green onion, and lettuce leaves)) was also very hot and reinvigorating on a cold day as it was.
Small, hole-​in-​the-​wall restaurant with great service and food; definitely a place I’d visit again.

This place is amazing to me. At this point, I’ve tried a few things from their menu. I had the catfish and pork belly clay pots. The catfish clay pot was solid with delicious, flaky fish over rice with a nice, savory sauce. I’d probably pass on the pork belly in favor for the catfish. The pork belly was just a little too fatty for me.
My friend got the catflish clay pot later on and loved it. She’s a lovely, put together lawyer who just came off of a raw food vegan diet, so I gave her massive props for going whole hog — we just didn’t realize how whole hog. There are these delicious crunchy tidbits in the clay pot. My friend asked what they were and the owner said, «roasted pork fat.» My friend may have seemed a little dismayed because he continued, «Most people seem to like it.»
I think the problem was that my friend realized that she did, indeed, love pure roasted pork fat crunching in her mouth. Next time, maybe don’t ask the down home cook his secrets.
I went with another friend who proclaimed that this place had the best won tons she had ever had. I won’t make this claim since I’ve had a lot of won tons and I didn’t order the ones here, but my other friend is REALLY enamored with the won tons here.
As for me, I ordered the salty fish fried rice (ham yu chow fan). If you are the rare fan of this dish, this is perhaps the best place for it in Portland. If it’s on the menu, I always order it at least once, so I’ve tried it at a LOT of places. I am tired of ordering this and wondering where the ham yu is! Even as a kid, I used to ask for this dish with EXTRA HAM YU. This is the place to go if you want to get a generous portion of fried rice (it lasted me 4 meals) with some stinky fish.
Most A+ as far as I was concerned and the owners seemed to take genuine pride in the food they were serving (very happy when I mentioned my friend’s roast chicken looked very delicious)!

Just ‘Ok’
Not much meat and strong on the garlic, I like garlic but not over done.
We were the only two in the restaurant and got our order to go.
I probably won’t be back:(

I was expecting better based on all the other positive reviews. After being sick and not being able to eat for 24 hours, I was starving and craving chicken soup. This place seemed to be the only place that would deliver it to me for a reasonable price ($ 2 delivery fee). They have a $ 25 minimum, which is a lot of food for one person. My experience was really inconsistent.
I’ll start with the good part: The chicken broth was the best I’ve ever tasted. It was SO GOOD! I want to jump into a giant vat of it. Next time, I will order $ 25 of chicken broth though, because the rest of the meal was basically inedible. The chicken in the soup was tough and chewy, and there were a few unidentifiable chunks of fryer detritus in with it that obviously got there by accident; nothing in the dish was fried. Yuck.
I also got the Jade Tofu with Chinese Greens, which was OK — the greens were nicely flavored with garlic, the sauce was good, the tofu was a little weird (soft tofu that had been breaded and deep fried) but not bad — but the rice that came with it was so gross I couldn’t really eat the rest of the dish with it. They had obviously scraped the bottom of the rice cooker, because there were hard, dry pieces of rice mixed in with the rest of the rice, which was overcooked and mushy. To get up to the minimum order, I got pot stickers too, and I had no idea you could overcook pot stickers to the point where their exterior turns into cardboard. They were so hard and tough they were difficult to chew. I swear I’m not a picky eater, but I couldn’t eat these either, which is unfortunate because the sauce that came with them was good.
The chicken broth was so delicious, I might give them another try – but proceed with extreme caution here.

Hidden away in a strip mall, simple and uninteresting interior, and menu that takes half an hour to digest, but DAMN the food is good.
The tiny place was pretty much packed when i was there, and everyone’s food looked awesome. Sure, things come out one at a time, as they’re ready, but if it’s that good, I’m cool with it. Prices are also on the low side.
I’ll be back.

This was one of those spontaneous moments. hungry but not for turkey. Let’s hit up the Unilocal app and see where it takes us. Well the other restaurant that Unilocal pointed us to happened to be closed on the day after Thanksgiving. We then headed into the little mall that has Brothers Crawfish in it as we were close by and knew that there were a few restaurants here to choose from.
This place is a hole in the wall, let’s be frank. It’s an old asian hole in the wall, old paint, old stains on the walls. The folks are nice enough though. The menu has chinese/​vietnamese choices and it’s a big menu. It’s also one of those places that have Asian families sitting at the tables and we were the only white faces. All that gives you a good idea that the food must be decent.
We ordered the papaya salad. We did not think to see if it had chicken on it which it did. I had already broken my pescatarian vow during Thanksgiving so we just went with it. The salad really did have some nice spicing to it and the papaya did not appear to be soggy. That’s a good thing.
We also ordered tofu and filet. The filet was very tender and the tofu was deep fried but not oily at all. We had asked for no MSG, or salt so the spices/​flavor was very subtle. We saw some condiments on the table which were basically salt and water. We saw one that was 860mg of sodium– 1 tablespoon! WHOA.
Anyway, once we had finished eating they brought us a sweet little warm dessert of corn, coconut milk and mung bean. It was a sweet gesture.

Nestled amongst the many other asian eateries in the asian mini-​mall on the asian strip of 82^nd Ave is Quan Linh, a chinese & vietnamese lunch/​dinner joint.
I came here on the recommendation of a trusted friend who knows her azn food. She said I HAD to try the Hui Nam Chicken or the General Tso’s Tofu. Given the hui nam wasn’t fried and looked a heck of a lot like Nong’s Khao Man Gai chicken and rice dish, I opted for that.
At $ 7.95, the dish was really good; perfectly sized for a 1-​person lunch or dinner. The marinated chicken was oh-​so-​tender and juicy with just the right amount of salty broth to bring out the other flavors, and the minced ginger/​oil sauce paired perfectly with the chicken and rice.
I’ll admit I like Nong’s chicken dish best, but this is still a decent option if you’re here and wondering what to try. I’ll definitely be back to try General Tso’s chicken!
I wish they had a lunch menu since most of their entrees are $ 9−10+. Jin Jin Deli and Good Taste Noodle House are in the same complex and are my go-​to options when I want a cheaper $ 5 – 7 lunch option.