Yen's Chinese Restaurant

Oh Yens. What has become of you. Used to be our go to place, but wow has it slipped! Tonight was the final straw. My dad liked his shrimp fried rice, but the pork fried rice was....not good, to say the least. The pork was SUPER dry and had a weird, sickly-sweet taste to it. We ate about 1/4 of it and threw the rest out.The kicker, though, was the "sesame chicken" that was anything but. Instead of what most people would expect (brown, sticky, sweet sauce with sesame seeds, we got plain breaded fried chicken pieces (like you would get if you ordered sweet and sour) with.....3 plastic containers of ketchup on the side. Not a sesame seed in sight. I thought they might have made a mistake and sent us sweet and sour sauce by accident, but no. It's ketchup. When I called, they tried to tell me that this was normal and that it was "homemade" ketchup, and that they include it with soy sauce and sesame seeds (which weren't there) so we can make our own sauce to put on the chicken. Yeah right, pull the other leg, it plays jingle bells. The upside is that they refunded the cost of the sesame chicken, which is nice becasue I tried a piece of the chicken and it was GREASY as it could be. If I had tried the rice before calling, I would have asked for a refund for it as well. Pretty terrible, and it pains me to say that because I used to love this place.Do better.

This place has horrible food and service. The food was greasy and the flavors were off. The large portions did not make up for the low food quality. Also, $6 for a mediocre cup of egg soup is ridiculous. Never going back again.

Tried it for the first time, pretty good. We are trying other Chinese Restaurants due to our favorite closing & reopening with new food/ owners.Yen's was good we will definitely keep this one on our list

One of my friends from Ohio loves Chinese American food, including Lemon Chicken, Honey Walnut Shrimp, Egg Foo Young, Broccoli Chicken and Egg Drop Soup.Yen's is his favorite Chinese restaurant in the Portland Metro Area.I, on the other hand like Shiitake Black Mushroom Beef, War Wonton, Shrimp with Lobster Sauce and Moo Goo Gai Pan.As a Chinese American, I also love their Tomato Beef Curry Chow Mein.Chinese American food is it's own authentic cuisine. It's down home country comfort food for some of us.Yen's is our favorite Chinese restaurant to meet half way since the menu is quite diverse, and the portions are large.If you don't see what you want on the menu, you can ask them if they can make it for you, especially if you know the Chinese name.For diversity, they have an American Food section on their menu, which includes hamburgers, fries, mashed potatoes, grilled cheese sandwiches, fish & chips, and chicken nuggets. This works when your dinner date only eats American food.I must admit, Yen's food is really good.Yen's is open for indoor dining. They have 4 rows of booths, which helps with social distancing and privacy.Yen's also has a large private dining room perfect for meetings or parties.Diagonal street parking makes it easy to park.

One of my favorite Portland area restaurants for Chinese cuisine. Large portions, excellent service.

I like it. I'm a big fan of the combo meal so I can try many different things but none of the combos had all the elements I wanted. So I opted for the general tso lunch special. It's just fried rice and chicken. Decent price though. The bag was heavy so there was lots of food. The rice had some pork. I hate the ones that are just essence of pork. It was ok. Some of it was a little too dry.The general would approve of the chicken. The breading just barely stays on but it's the right combination of sweet spicy and pungent. Definitely in my top five. Would I get again. Definitely. So I crave it...eh wouldn't go that far.

Very good food I wish they had DoorDash or Postemates!But it's worth the drive to pick up or eat in.

Great food as always Moved to AZ 11 years ago and nothing compares to this fresh Chinese foodfile:///var/mobile/Library/SMS/Attachments/fe/14/3046F76E-AD1A-44FC-8824-02BB4D8CA979/IMG_5344.heic

I just moved to the area and was looking for a place that makes egg foo, young. The typical egg foo young that I've always had since I was a kid was lots of vegetables in it and if you want your meat, my preference is shrimp and you get like three or 4 patties of it with it all covered in gravy. Well, I really hate to say this, but it was the worst egg foo young I've ever ate in my entire life. I actually got sick on it. What I actually ordered was I just wanted simple vegetable with no green peppers or celery cause some places put green peppers in it and I hate green peppers and no celery but all the other vegetables are totally fine. Anyway, I ordered shrimp egg foo yong and I had to open up every piece of what I got a couple days later because I had gotten so sick on it that night when I took it home and ate it.I opened everything up and all that was in it was I had a total of eight small to medium size shrimp and just little tiny sliver of onion that's all that was in it and it was all egg and the gravy was like a gel that would not liquify no matter what when I heated it up that's how I ate it.I bought it home. I didn't eat it till really late because I was busy so I tried to heat it up and it was just made of gelatin. The gravy was, it was disgusting. It wouldn't melt or cover the food, but it was all egg and it was just disgusting and no flavor and no vegetables. Oh little sliver of the onion. I think it was onion. I don't know why somebody would make a dish like that that's gross anyway, I will never go back they lost my business because I could've been a great customer because I love Chinese food, it's really too bad I'll have to find another place that knows how to make it right without all that egg in it they're not supposed to use tons of egg. This place must have used at least eight or nine eggs in it. It was that much anyway what a waste I even tipped them good, but what a waste of $20. People seemed nice.

Sad to say Yen's is no longer what it used to be. After a few failed attempts to lile it again, I will not be returning. Overpriced and low quality flavorless and oily. :(