House Of Yang — Restaurant in Phoenix

UPDATE: I think they are having some plumbing issues because I walked in yesterday 08/26/2024, and it smelled like sewage. Gotta keep it real, it's not cool when dining in.

This time around (08/26/24), I ordered a drink and they forgot it. I asked for a refund, and the manager does not know how to do it. So she said next time I will get the drink free with a new order. This experience made me want to go less. I ordered the sweet and sour chicken with fried rice, and it all tasted old except for the fried rice, like the smell of a dirty sponge, and so I threw it away. Do not get the sweet and sour chicken. Orange Chicken is your best bet.

They have their own in house chili oil and it is amazing. Savory and aromatic like garlic.

I've been to Ma and Pop Chinese Places, as well as the usual generic ones like Panda Express, Rice Garden, Dragon Garden, and Dragon Express. This place isnt the best I've had because of the dirty sponge taste from my last time here (08/26/24). It will move down a few tiers because this is the only place that has a dirty sponge taste to the food. The cost per portion is fantastic considering that this is located in the nice area of Scottsdale Arizona. You walk in, and the place was spotless: floors were very clean, and it did not smell like dirty oil. You can smell the sauces, as well as the charr when they are cooking your order. It does, however, currently as of 08/26/24, smell like sewage inside the restaurant. They need to get on that. The review below is from my first visit.

Today, I ordered the Orange Chicken dinner combo, which comes with your choice of white or fried rice, OR low mein noodles. It comes with an egg roll and a cream cheese ragoon, and I believe some egg drop soup. With tax, this cost me around $13, and I also ordered 8 pot stickers, and total this meal cost me $22, which is very cheap for how much you get. (PHOTOS SHOWN).

The fried rice was fire. It has this clean charr flavor from its cook, mixed with green onions, and has this intoxicating garlic scent that you do not need sauce with it. The orange chicken was crunchy, and not too saucy. It's drier than Dragon Garden's orange chicken, and less oily than Panda's. Just overall better. Flavor profile is predominantly garlic and something else I can't put my finger on. It's freaking delicious.

It's a nice, cool place to beat the heat, and the food and service makes me feel at home. Ranking from best to worst in terms of cost, portion size and quality, the order goes:

Dragon Garden House of Yang Panda Express Dragon Express

They need to fix these things if they want me to come back:

-fixing the smell of sewage problem inside the restaurant -forgetting simple orders

Thank you...

This place is reckless and could have caused someone with severe allergies to die. They “upgraded” one of my dishes with no notice to a more expensive dish that had a food in it that I do not eat- shrimp. I don’t eat shellfish or pork for religious reasons, so I didn’t die, but they shouldn’t change dishes with no notice or approval. I ordered through DoorDash last night from House of Yang for the first and last time. I ordered chicken egg foo young and beef with snowpeas. When the order arrived, I opened the box with the egg foo young and there were shrimp in addition to chicken. I immediately called the restaurant and talked to a woman. I asked her if the chicken egg foo young is supposed to have shrimp in it, because it didn’t say so online: She asked for my name and I gave it to her, and she said that because I was a new customer, they gave me the combination egg foo young or something like that. I told her how reckless she was doing that, and that I would be leaving bad reviews online and never eating there again. The dish I could eat was really awful too, flavorless and the quality of the beef was very poor. Don’t eat here. Put this horrible place out...

I just left here- I'm actually still sitting in the parking lot. I ordered a tangerine beef with an order of pot stickers. I've never had tangerine beef before, and pot stickers are a must every time I get Asian food. Both of them were really good. They came out fresh and steaming hot, and even the white rice was fresh. Usually, the "free" side of rice isn't fresh. The breading on the beef was nice and crispy, and not some soggy nastiness. I ordered the food for dine in, but I requested it in to go containers since I might have to run out at any minute for work. I was given the food in the containers, with a plate, fork, napkins and anything else I would need to dine in. The inside was clean, and as someone else said-it has an 80's Asian take out vibe to it. I actually could care less about how modern it looks, because I've found the best food is usually hidden in these places that are tucked away. For a last minute decision (I was actually about to go into taco bell), I'm impressed....