Yue Bai Wei 悅百味 — Restaurant in Pittsburgh

The dining experience at Yue Bai Wei restaurant today was terrible. I used to go there frequently and sometimes bought milk tea from Tsaocaa with me, which was never a problem before. We tried plum juice and mike tea from Yue Bai Wei before, which were disgusted, that's why we brought milk tea from Tasocaa. However, when we arrived today, an elderly female server wanted to confiscate our milk tea and wouldn't let us drink it. We saw other people also had their milk tea from Tasocaa on their table, the server and owner did not stop them. Maybe there are more of us and they want to earn more money from us. During the ordering process, the attitude of that server was also very poor, constantly recommending expensive and bad-tasting dishes, such as pig's feet with intestines for $58, and continuing to promote them even after we declined. Later, we refused to let them take away our milk tea and wanted to drink it after ordering. However, the owner insisted on charging us an additional $3 for a cup of milk tea. I think the owner is particularly stupid. We ordered dishes worth at least $300, but they wouldn't let us drink milk tea and had such a bad attitude. The loss is on them, and we left the restaurant without eating and went to another place. At first, the owner didn't let us leave, saying we couldn't leave after ordering. We ignored her and left. This restaurant is not a fine dining place, the service attitude is poor, the environment there is crowded, the dishes are priced but not worth it. I will never go to this restaurant...

It was honestly awful. My standards for food are really low—at most, I’d just say something is “okay.” But this place? It was genuinely terrible. The last time I got this mad about food was at another spot that just microwaved frozen stuff and served it. If a place like this can stay open in Pittsburgh, then any student who cooks for half a year could easily do better. Honestly, home-cooked meals are far superior. The beef was drenched in soy sauce, and that’s all it tasted like—just soy sauce. The "Three-Cup Chicken" had sesame oil. Why? Even if you do use sesame oil, shouldn’t it just be a drop or two to enhance the flavor? Instead, the whole dish reeked of sesame oil. The chicken and the sauce were completely disconnected, like chicken soaked in sweet syrup—no harmony at all. And the sesame oil was so overwhelming that the only flavors were sweetness and sesame oil. As for the basil? A few wilted leaves drowned in the soy-sauce-colored sweet syrup. To top it off, I ended up with diarrhea after eating there. And it’s expensive! In NJ, where there’s more competition, restaurants are better, tastier, and cheaper—a delicious stir-fry with meat might cost less than $15. But in Pittsburgh? A dish cooked at amateur level is almost $20, and the kicker is—it tastes awful. Absolutely infuriatingly bad. The only decent part was the service. The waitstaff was friendly and attentive. Oh, and there was a women pacing around the restaurant the whole time—no idea what...

“PITTSBURGH, PA — The Allegheny County Health Department has issued a consumer alert for Yue Bai Wei on Forbes Avenue in Squirrel Hill for numerous health code violations.

An inspector on Tuesday found opened packages with rodent droppings in and around them in the dry storage area.

The inspection also revealed raw whole chickens sitting in stagnant water in a prep sink and moldy whole cauliflower in a walk-in. Raw uncovered fish was found in a dripping pan above uncovered cabbage and raw chicken or pork in a bowl was sitting on top of cabbage heads.

Ready-to-eat prepared food, such as cooked noodles, diced raw chicken in sauces, raw organ meats, cooked egged product and tofu, were not marked with a use or discard date.

No employee handwashing was observed during the inspection. The health department mandates restaurant workers properly wash hands and exposed portions of arms with soap and warm water before starting work; after tobacco use; after handling garbage or soiled tableware or kitchenware; after coughing, sneezing, touching the mouth, nose or hair; eating; using the toilet; before and after handling raw meat, raw poultry or raw seafood; and as often as necessary during work to keep them clean.

The restaurant...