Wah Yee Cantonese Kitchen

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  This is not as bad as people had written. It's definitely not well seasoned, that is true, and perhaps that is because of the neighborhood. They are not like Chan's or Green Jade, that level of skill, there's no wok hei in their cooking. In their favor, they provide huge portions, and the things I ordered were not ambitious, they're Cantonese American staples: shrimp w lobster sauce, house combination noodles, curry chicken, beef with broccoli, crab rangoon, egg drop soup -- not challenging at all. The shrimp were plump and had a good fresh texture -- maybe achieved through baking soda -- instead of being soggy as in other places. They were pretty generous with the meats and other ingredients too. So they are guilty of not being very flavorful, but, 9/10ths of the way there. I'm OK with that: I can add chili and soy and salt and pepper at home. I just don't want to be burdened with cooking at the end of a day. And I now have food for three or four days.

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  Posted on 11.28.12 Zhong Y.

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  I was really encouraged by how busy this place was when I went to pick up my food, but now I think that people in the area must be sadly clueless about chinese food.
  
  When I called to order, I was told it would be 30 min. When I got there to pick it up, there were a few people inside waiting to pick-up food, and I had to wait another 15 minutes before mine was done.  They seemed really under-staffed with only 1 cook and 1 guy taking orders.
  
  The crab rangoon was decent if you like onions (which I do).  Everything else was totally tasteless.  I mean it. TASTELESS. We ordered teriyaki chicken skewers (super dry), Beef Lo Mein (beef was tough and sauce was bland, bland, bland), and General Tso Chicken (again, dry -almost hard -chicken and bland sauce).
  
  My husband was so disappointed that he ate oatmeal for dinner instead. Waste of $20.

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  Posted on 03.22.12 Xan X.

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  This hole in the wall take out only chinese restaurant, in an obscure strip mall, had my hopes up, as being close, cheap, and good.  The restaurant has been in business since 1978, and the interior looks it.  It is badly in need of a remodel.  The coat of lemon yellow paint, recently applied, does little to hide the age.  
  For dinner, I ordered the sesame chicken, and the chicken lo-mein.   When I ordered, the cashier specifically asked if I wanted the sesame chicken spicy.  It wasn't.  The larger problem, with the sesame chicken, was the tempura batter which should be crunchy fried.  Soggy, mushy, and more likely microwaved the sesame chicken was then stirred with a generic blandish orange sauce, and sparsely sprinkled with sesame seeds.  Not good.
  The lo-mein was not any better.  The sauce was flavorless, and pasty.  The one bright spot was the noodles were cooked to perfection, and the chunks of chicken were large, and white meat with no fat, skin or other gristle.
  
  Go somewhere else.  Seriously.  Silver Lake, White Pearl, even Noodles and Company (shudder) will be better.

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  Posted on 01.22.11 Rob H.

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