Yan's Chinese Restaurant & Lounge — Restaurant in Kelso

I normally don’t write reviews (at all) but this place really blew me away. Delicious food, big portions, and great prices.

So a friend and I came here just before our train ride back to Seattle, and wow do we wish we came here sooner. We ordered the Mongolian Beef, Shrimp Foo Yung, Egg Rolls, and Crab Rangoons.

The Mongolian beef was delicious. Visually, the dish had a wonderful pop of color (green/red bell peppers, zucchini, onions, carrots) which was balanced by the glistening dark brown of the beef. When it came to the flavor of the dish, it was delicious. A very hearty flavor and a big portion to match.

The Shrimp Foo Yung was just as delicious, covered in a beautiful brown gravy, the Foo Yung itself was very soft and light (I could eat a lot of these). I loved mixing the sauce and rice especially. Together, each bite was so light yet filling.

Both the Egg Rolls and Crab Rangoons were delicious. I could honestly get addicted. I loved the way the Crab Rangoons were presented. The Egg Rolls were crispy on the outside with a big amount of filling. By the time I ate some of the Mongolian beef and half a egg roll I was already so full.

Everything came out to be around $62 dollars or $31 dollars per person with quite a lot of leftovers. On our train ride back we continued to eat the rest of the food.

Overall, this place is a great find offering a plethora of great dishes along side fantastic prices. A...

Don't bother dining here. The food was tasteless and unappealing. I ordered egg foo young, sesame chicken and sweet and sour chicken. I have enjoyed beautiful plates of sweet and sour chicken at other restaurants that came with chunks of red and green peppers, onions and pieces of pineapple. Not here! The sweet and sour sauce was the tastiest thing on my plate and that was all that adorned the deep fried chicken chunks. The so called sesame chicken was pieces of dry chicken tenders with no sauce. Again, I have eaten a very tasty sesame chicken dish at other restaurants that came with a delicious sauce and sprinkled with sesame seeds. The egg foo young was just brown and tasteless. As I said at the beginning, don't waste your time or money at...

For the past 5 years we’ve enjoyed Yan’s meals. Our favorite mu-shu pork and hot and sour soup has always been excellent. Not tonight. The pork dish was mostly cabbage with a few bean sprouts, meat that may or may not have been pork, and some kind of thick we. The soup had none of the usual veggies, was also weirdly thickened and tasted of some strange chili spice instead of the beautiful “hot” to go with the “sour”. Has Yan’s fallen to the date of so many restaurants today - having to sacrifice ingredients to keep costs down, or did we just hit them on a bad afternoon (maybe before the cook showed up?). Not sure...