Young Chow Restaurant — Restaurant in Alexandria

Nice staff but terrible experience ordering from this "restaurant" that took 1.5+ hrs and someone stole my order even while I was already waiting there for my food. Do not pick up. Only do delivery. Half of my order was wrong but the correct portion was good.

I ordered on Uber Eats for pick up and spent over 20 min trying to find the "restaurant" in a somewhat sketchy area near a gas station at night. I tried calling the restaurant multiple times to get directions, which were poorly explained. Turns out this is not a physical restaurant - you have to go to the Uber Eats pick up waiting locker room behind the 7/11 where there are multiple "restaurants" but they only put your order in a locker for pick up. By the time I arrived my food should've already been ready but it took over an hour for them to finally get my food - I had to call multiple times and they started avoiding my calls. And even when they told me my food would be ready, they ended up giving it away to somebody else. The staff member had to deliver it later on and was very apologetic nearly another hour later. Half the food order was completely wrong but the part that was correct was good.

Gave this another try with delivery and they got the order right this time. Food was really good, especially kung Pao chicken...

The building is essentially a ghost kitchen factory with a designated spot for food dasher pickup in the back but it’s pretty well signed and easy to grab your food if you order pickup for yourself. Just make sure to go where the “Order Pick Up/Uber Eats” sign directs you and then call to confirm pickup.

Was a little worried the food might not be good as a result of that but it was actually some of the best priced and tasting chinese take out in the area. The veggies were really fresh and everything tasted like your classic American Chinese takeout.

They provided lots of sauces, silverware and everything was packaged extremely well for pick up. Will certainly be ordering again from here...

VERY good Chinese food. Probably some of the best Chinese food in the DMV. This is coming from someone who’s had a lot of Chinese food in NY and has high standards. The food is fresh, tasty. Price is definitely good for this area. Portions are above average. I’ve had a couple shrimp dishes which are usually an indicator of whether the place is using cheap ingredients or not. Shrimp that came with my udon noodles were huge, plentiful, obviously fresh. Gentleman who works in the back is very nice. Also open late which is a huge plus as every other Asian restaurant in town closes by about 10 or 11. Please note the place is behind 7/11 inside the four mile food...