Shen Yang Restaurant

Northern Chinese food. It is good and spicy. But don’t expect it to be spotless or have good service, but the food was good and I was happy.

My mom’s favorite restaurant, my son also likes this place. Their northeast food is very good. But you know if you expect great service or clean environment, you will be disappointed. Sometimes I don’t really care the service here is warm or not when their food is delicious. Don’t forget grab a mahua (麻花) as dessert!

Delicious food! I was excited to try some traditional Chinese food and this restaurant did not disappoint! Very fast service and an amazing meal. Highly recommend!

My shenyang friends took me here on a Friday night. It’s very crowded and 99% of the customers were Chinese. My friends ordered a lot of food and said what they ordered were traditional dishes back at home, such as the cumin fried chicken and sweet and sour dried pork. I loved most of them except for the spicy ones. But it’s just personal intolerance of spicy food. Will definitely come back!

kinda old, kinda dirty, but food comes out fast and is tasty. 3 stars because no Diet Coke. who has a restaurant and no Diet Coke? and asking for iced water seems to be a big inconvenience to the staff. they are lucky to have a bullet proof menu that we can’t find anywhere else and keeps us coming.

Horrible horrible
Waitresses were dumb and rude, no patient at all when taking order.
Out of normal standard of service. Served with dirty, smelly, bloody finger after preparing BBQ sticks.
Meat in cold noodle went bad in a sticky and stinky condition, which had been considered as normal by the restaurant.
Food and health department should come in and check this place over and over with different agents. How come there was a A hanging on the window? Does this restaurant really deserve it? or it had been paid for shame and dirty good looking sign?!

Not feeling too RED HOT right now after eating this for dinner tonight. I feel sick and nauseated…
Food:
1. Shredded Meat & Bean Curd Wrap
Although this dish tasted alright, the dish was super greasy. I accidentally got some meat on my hand and that in itself left a greasy film over them. YUCK!
2. Chicken Bones
My friend only came here for this dish and she said it was not very authentic. Even though it was not salty and spicy like she imagined, she said it was still pretty good.
3. Pickled Pork & Cabbage Soup
I am a huge fan of pickled cabbage but the scent of theirs is super potent. The smell was kind of offsetting but the plus is that there was an abundance of the ingredients like the cabbage, fatty pork, and vermicelli. Only complaint is that there was barely any soup… come on now you called it a soup for goodness sake.
4. Cumin Lamb
My friend was super disappointed with this dish! She thought it tasted nothing like the original. Most of this dish was left uneaten.
5. Lamb Skewers
Nothing special
6. Shredded potato appetizer
I have had this dish from other restaurants and it tastes nothing like the others. This dish should of been tart due to the addition of vinegar, instead their version was sweet. NOT A HAPPY CAMPER!
Complaints:
1. The place reeked of old oil smell and just seemed super unkempt.
2. We had a gnat flying around the table the whole time we were eating and in the end it flew right into our leftovers GROSS!
3. Although this didn’t directly affect me, I personally saw it go down so I think I should address it. So another customer came in with a stroller and requested to sit in the back. However, the waitress rudely said «No you can’t because you are going to create more work for me». Umm… what kind of customer service is that?
Final Verdict:
Food inspector gave this place an A?! Welps not in my freaking book ! Service sucks too!

Wow, AVOID this place! Terrible food… the people giving good reviews must really have low expectations.
Had lamb, cold soup, and a beef roll, and some other items. It was all bottom-​of-​the-​barrel low quality ill-​prepared food.
Service was lackluster.
I usually finish all of my food, but I didn’t this time. I lost my appetite.

Horrible experience. I called before I come. They told me they would close at 10:40pm. when I arrived at 10pm, they told me they closed and the lady there, the attitude is so bad! It took me two hours drive from San Diego. I would never come to this restaurant.

Horrible service!!! We were kicked out 20 minutes after our plates were served. This is ridiculous!!! Three waitresses came and asked us to leave in a rude tone. I can’t believe it. AVOID IT!

It is good Chinese food. But the Lamb skewer is not really good.
Chicken bone in cumin sauce, sweet sour pork are toasty. If you can handle spicy their ma la tang is worthy to try

I just walked out of this restaurant. It is 9:30pm right now fyi. I got there in hopes of a good meal to go. I sat down and took a menu with the staff looking at me. The moment i turn open the first page, the staff said «closed». What??? «close»! Not only it was in a rude tone but also with a horrible look. I found this restaurant on Unilocal so i thought it close at 11pm. Its okay, maybe they updated their hours. So i went out thinking maybe they can do to go. So i walked back in and asked if i can get to go. The same girl told me with a frustrated tone. «i said its closed!» i was done. I walked out and look at the operating time it saids close at 10pm. I feel like they just don’t want my business.
Look, i dont care how good your food are. But i am still not going to go to a restaurant that looks dirty and with rude customer service. I hope that girl is the owner because if i am the owner of the restaurant she will be fired on the spot.
I will not go to this restaurant nor will i recommend thus restaurant too anyone and even if i have a gathering and my friend suggest this restaurant i will ask to change location.

Went here with a friend and one of her friend’s last night. She called me two or three times to make sure I was going to try out her people’s food. She was really animated that the food is good and that I should try it with them.
Tip: This place is open from 11am to 3pm (Lunch) and 5pm to 10pm (Dinner). The hours on Unilocal states that it opens from 11am to 11pm. We got here at 430pm and had to wait for 30 minutes before it opened.
Location/​Parking: Located next to the Hong Kong Supermarket. There is a lot of parking during the time I was there last night, but it can be hard to find parking during lunch or dinner hours.
Service: Service is pretty. Seemed like the waitresses liked to hangout near the cashier area a lot. Totally felt like I was in school raising my hand to answer or ask a question. Workers didn’t seem like they wanted to work here and never checked up on us and ask if we needed our water refilled.
Food: We had a total of 5 dishes tonight, but the majority of the food that we didn’t finish was brought home by my friends’ friend.
1) Guo Bao Rou: This was one of the main highlights of tonight’s dinner. It’s basically like sweet and sour pork. The sauce had the right consistancy and didn’t overwhelm the pork. Every bite ended with a crunch! :)
2) Grilled Eggplant: Was a crowd pleaser and whoever knows me knows that I’m a eggplant fan. This dish has john’s seal of approval! It was a bit salty, but the rice and the corn neutralized the saltiness.
3) Beef Roll: Wasn’t the best beef roll I had. I was expecting it to be like mama lu’s or noodle 101 express… it wasn’t just okay for my palate. It was a bit dry and wished they put more hoisin sauce in it.
Tip: Request for more cilantro!
4) Kungpao Chicken: Had better. It was mediocre and wasn’t eventful for me.
5) Corn with Pine Nuts: It was quite boring, but the pine nuts made things a bit better. Plus, it neutralized the flavor of all the other dishes we had last night.
Wouldn’t be a place i’ll go out of my way to eat at.

Bomb looking menu, and delicious comfort food. Northern Chinese food. A place Chinese is more valuable language than English. Apparently everyone gets the berry candy, and pig bones dish. Yum!
Last most memorable Northern Chinese restaurant standing. My favorite childhood one closed in Rosemead awhile back.
Cold Hawthorne berry sesame candy 1.50
— Special, don’t know anywhere that makes this frozen defrosted delight, first time trying it!
Five delights glass noodle 7.98
— One of my favorite Northern dish
Crispy beef roll 6.98 and Jing dong meat pie 4.98
— recommended for general public, not scary, meaty and easier for foreigners to eat
— recommend with less sauce or less salty
Garlic eggplant 2.98 decent. Down to try their kebobs next time.

Love this place! Very traditional Dongbei Cai!
Lol
I wish they would open a branch in Rowland Heights…

One hour after I dined here, I had stomach ache and then diarrhea. I m glad that I m still alive.
The food doesn’t taste good. But what’s worse was the service. The waitress came and asked us what to eat in a very rude way. The speed of delivering the food was slow too. We almost finished the big plate of meat before the second dish was delivered to us.
The restaurant doesn’t look clean at all. I do not recommend you trying this place. It is not good.

I’m a shenyang girl so everything they make is pretty much as close as it can get when it comes to northern chinese food. i’d recommend the the smoked meat with pancake and the pepper with fried-​dried-​tofu. if you feel adventurous, try to cold dishes. a lot of mustard and very fresh for the summer. this place actually have a lot of vegetarian options. more than a typical chinese restaurant.
the only thing i would not recommend is the chicken and mushroom stew. i heard it’s not that great. the real way to make it right is to use organic, free-​ranged, young chicken and a handful of mixed organic wild mushrooms… which they just buy the stuff in bulk so the chicken isn’t going to give it the flavor the dish needs. anyways, i’m being too nerdy with this.
i’m not gonna rate based on service. because anything good chinese food place has their way of service. you’ll get everything you need if you ask. but don’t expect anything with a smile on top.
this is a hole in the wall and the parking lot is shared with a grocery store with a few other asian businesses… so park carefully.

One of the best Chinese restaurant in southern California for a very long time. Featuring northern style of Chinese food. I came here many many times. I will recommend to try every dish and find your love one.
But remember, you are here for their taste and try to let go everything else!

Chinese: ShenYang cuisine from Northern China.
Shenyang is the largest/​most populous city in Northeast China. The cuisine is heavily influenced by Mongolian and Manchu regions. There is also a large population of ethnic Koreans that reside in the city and there are some dishes that reflect the fusion of the two cultures.
Here at Shen Yang, I went with the Manchu/​Mongolian influenced dish cumin spiced chicken. The waitress in her broken English repeated the order as «chicken bone?!» This dish is pure genius, but only for those who love fighting for your food. The restaurant has taken it’s bone in chicken scraps and seasoned it with a sugar, soy sauce, cumin combo that is unabashedly finger licking, bone suckingly delicious. There are bits of the bony parts of the breast and butt and if you’re lucky you’ll get a few chicken necks in the mix. The seasoning is sweet, spicy and the cumin gives it a great kick.
You do risk chewing on some tempting pieces of bone that look like crispy fried seasoned coated flesh, and once in a while you will unpleasantly be poked with bone fragments; but it’s a risk adventure seeking, culture loving foodies will embrace. The bits of meat that are left on the bone are full flavored little treasures.
This would definitely be classified as peasant food, but in todays world lets say it’s a restaurant using all of it’s resources and not being wasteful. It’s an idea that the rich have began to embrace with it’s fancy head to tail themed restaurants. The poor have already learned how to do this well and it’s an utterly flavorful and ingenious use of the chicken parts. Waste not want not.

Well I finally got a chance to eat at Shen Yang Restaurant with a few friends after hearing that they specialize in Northern Chinese cuisine. After an eleven course meal, I’m not convinced that it was the best tasting food among the others in the San Gabriel Valley. The food tastes okay, but it’s just not the best that I’ve tasted. I do give Shen Yang Restaurant a thumbs up for being a decent place for cheap eats with no frills. The price for each dish was around $ 3.95 — $ 6.95 each dish.
I wasn’t too thrilled with knawing off the Cumin Chicken Bones… it seemed to be more hype and never lived up to it. However, the respectable dishes on the menu were the Lamb Skewers, the Eggplant with garlic sauce, and the Shen Yang Spicy Peanuts Cucumbers with Dried Bean Thread. The Beef Noodle soup was also worth ordering as well as the Stewed Pork with Napa and Rice Strips.
This place is cash only so make sure that you have it.