The two stars are for allergy awareness. The woman taking my order knew everything on the menu that was gluten free. Unfortunately the food was too gross to eat. I don't recommend the honey garlic sauce. It's really just honey and raw garlic. Mushy rice. read more

Wow! I had a sweet and spicy vegetarian bowl and was blown away by how fresh the veggies are. I'm so used to crappy over cooked veg, but it was awesome! Carrots, broc, green pepper, straw mushrooms, yellow pepper, cabbage, bean sprouts... All fresh and healthy. couldn't help but give it 5, because as a little fast food joint, they couldn't be tastier, fresher, or quicker. Might not be totally "authentic" but it was fantastic. This is my new stop for sure! read more

WORST WORST WORST. We had to spend a long time at YVR and ended up having 2 meals throughout te day from here. Both were horrendously terrible. Honestly the worst meals we had in years. Absolutely NO flavour, the meat was disgusting and the vegetables slimy. It's as if they really don't give a damn about any quality whatsoever, all they want is your money. They are all laughing at us, that is for sure. read more

The food is note even cooked the rice is hard like sands and they don't know how to cook the jasmine rice worst experience of having food in a busy airport restaurant read more

I am vegan and appreciate being able to eat in this section of the airport! Our last flight of the day had just been cancelled and we were super tired from a long day of flying. The staff were friendly and helped me find a vegan option on the menu. I got their noodle bowl with veggies, tofu, and peanut sauce. They also have rice bowls and non-vegan options. My food was very yummy! The peanut sauce was amazing. read more

after a long exhausting flight followed by a tour of the city, all I could think of was a warm hearty meal. Gate 52 had nothing of the sort. However someone told me to go back towards gate 39. There are quite a few options in that area but Rice Tales just hits the spot. Quick clean rice/chicken bowl for $6.99 + bottle of water =$10.44. I was fully satiated and on my way in no time. Location: Gate C43 read more

For airport food, this was pretty decent. The flavors for my honey-garlic chicken came out well. I liked how they had a lot of veggies stir-fried into it. The rice was a tinge on the mushy side, but still much better and more authentic compared to other "Americanized" Chinese takeout places. I also liked the variety of sauces you can choose from. My main gripes are that it was on the expensive side for that amount of food (but I guess that's to be expected at the airport), and that they packed it into a box, with the rice buried at the bottom, which meant I had to "mine" the rice out from beneath the chicken as I ate. Staff was very friendly and considerate. When I said I didn't want a drink, they offered me a cup of water without my asking. read more

I had the curry sauce with chicken and it was tasty. A bit greasy but it hit the spot. It's different for a food court in a airport. I will be back. read more

It's hard to get a rice bowl with lots of spicy chili to taste bad, but it tasted gag-terrible. Unfortunately, it's one of the only vegetarian fast-food options in that part of YVR, so maybe bring a snack if that's your restriction. read more

Chicken curry was good - large portion, tasty chicken and a pretty good curry sauce.. but very very mild. No spice to it at all. Rice was great. Staff was friendly and quick to help. read more

What can I say about a pre-flight late lunch? I picked the sweet and spicy rice bowl with chicken (dark meat is the default, and was pretty good). It was ready quickly and reasonably priced, and pretty good! Filling and pretty tasty, a solid choice for your pre-flight meal. read more

I was just joking about this place the other day with a friend of mine. Every time I leave for a flight I take some cheap Asian fast food to go 'cause you get a lot of carbs for cheap that both my bestie and I can share. Bad customer service, lots of mistakes with my order but cheap which is what I appreciated at the time. read more

They blatantly overcharge you and add items on that you did not order. Three times in a row now I ordered chicken (just the regular chicken that isn't extra charge) and even though I corrected the lady when she punched it in, she STILL charged me (after pointing out the "mistake") for "double meat" and "white meat chicken" (which are both extra. So magically my $11.35 stir fry becomes $19 even though I ordered no extra charge items. Also they did not give me the extra items. My meal still came with about 4 tiny chunks of brown meat chicken. Charging people for items they explicitly did not order, and especially then not even giving them those items is theft!! read more

Definitely one of the best spots at the airport to eat. My favorite is the seafood curry. My suggestion is to ask them to prepare it without oil, that way it is less greasy and healthier. read more

Tasteless slop. I ordered a seafood bowl with peanut sauce and the food didn't have a relationship with salt, let alone peanut sauce. Easily the worst airport food I've ever eaten. read more

At the airport to fly home. Time for dinner. How wrong can you go with a rice bowl? Very wrong. No offence to the cashier but she was hard to understand due to the thick accent. Others struggled as well. The cook was having a hard time getting the orders straight. Finally got my rice bowl - rice noodles, pork with honey garlic. Should be good. Not. Worst Chinese food I've had ever and I'm 60. Not mixed up. Bland vegetables. Not sure what the pork was - Varied thicknesses and tough. I almost took it back but managed to eat half because hey I was hungry! If you're at the airport gO anywhere else but Rice Tales. read more

Probably the best bang for your buck at the airport and you don't have to pick something that's been in a steam bath for who knows how long. The cook does make a difference on the quantity and taste though, so that can be a crap shoot. read more

We paid almost $30 for rice noodles with beef in teriyaki sauce and rice noodles with beef in honey garlic sauce. What we got was food that was nearly inedible, you wouldn't feed it to a dog. Instead of honey garlic, we got noodles drenched in watered-down honey and raw garlic, and they gave us soy sauce instead of teriyaki sauce. The nappa was mostly uncooked, and tasted bitter. For almost $30 we got: - Horrible-tasting, overpriced food - Bad service (they charge for empty boxes and questioned us when we asked for one extra fork, and failed to carry out our order correctly) -The restaurant smelled very enticing and attracted a decent line of customers Needless to say, we were highly unimpressed. read more

Warning!! to any one who ate at this Airport location on or near Feb 29th 2012. My husband and I stopped here and the Chicken rice dish I ordered had lots of fatty pieces and bones in it but worst of all it was pink in the middle. When I brought it back and showed them, they refussed to give my $ back. I love all foods and am not picky. But when you choose to eat some where based on a healthy menue you expect to get healthy food, not clumps of fat. This was the last dinner my husband and I had alone on our vacation and it was spoiled by their terrible food and bad service. They can keep my money but they will never get my business again! read more

Worst Meal EVER! Ordered 2 honey garlic chicken stir fries for my mother and myself - we were on a layover from Anchorage to Toronto - wanted something healthy. The attractive cardboard carton was filled 2/3 with tasteless mush- topped with greasy, tasteless veggies and very scary looking chicken. Took 2 bites and chucked it. Pleasant service, horrible food. read more

5 stars. hot. fast. tasty. curry beef on basmati rice. $9.99. more than enough. fast food done right !!!!

I think this is the worst meal I have ever had in an airport. I wasn't expecting great food but was expecting edible food. I ordered fried rice bowl/peanut sauce and chicken. There was hardly any flavor, the rice was mushy, and the chicken was tough and yucky. I added some soy sauce and salt, ate a few bites and threw the rest out, $14 in the garbage. read more

I was pretty unimpressed with the food at Rice Tales. I had the chicken rice bowl with black bean sauce. There was very little taste and I had very few pieces of chicken (thigh meat with too much gristle). Lots of bok choy though (yuk!). I had the stir fry meat, but the old lady at the wok did anything but stir fry the food. It just kind of sat there and she poked at it a couple of times. Everything was all mushy by the time it got to me. read more

Tasty and Gluten Free seafood and lemon sauce. Writing this the next day...yes I'm sure. Really enjoyed it. Pricey for what it is, but it's the airport. I would definitely go back. Lots of bok choy and carrots with squid and a load of shrimp on rice. read more

Don't eat here. I paid almost 17 dollars for my meal that was not seasoned, or fully cooked. Rice was hard near the bottom of the bowl therefore under cooked. And although I confirmed my order twice it was still wrong. read more

I had the vegetable noodles with teriyaki sauce. Although there were a lot of vegetables, the noodles were were tasteless. I couldn't taste the teriyaki sauce at all. read more

I received a generous helping of food poisoning after consuming a peanut sauce rice dish here in March 2014. The recent news story about Canada's dirtiest restaurants had me looking this place up on the Vancouver Coastal Health website and I found them to have required 3 re-inspections for various violations in the past 2 years. Just putting it out there. read more

Total rip off! I know airports can cost a bit more, the price for added meat,$3.29 plus tax, you would expect a discernible amount. There was less than the amount equal to a strip of bacon all cut up. Outrageous! And they know you'll probably be long gone on an airplane instead of coming back to complain or get a refund. Well played guys but I'll never go back. Hope it was worth it. And I'm in the airport at least 5 times a month and I would always prefer a noodle dish for a meal. read more

So gross. Ordered a pork-based rice stir fry... the pork was disgusting. I tried to eat some of the rice underneath the pork because I didn't want to waste my money but I ended up throwing it out. Just buy an overpriced sandwich somewhere else in the terminal. read more

I travel a fair bit and healthy options in restaurants are hard to come by. My favourite here is their vegetarian noodle bowl with extra veggies and house sauce. Lots of veggies with a good variety (onions, peppers, bok choy, carrots, mushrooms, corn, water chestnuts, baby corn cobs, broccoli, green onions), tofu chunks, and a heavenly mild coconut curry sauce. I get it every time I pass through YVR! They offer a variety of rice and meat options, with 15+ sauce options. They are quick and will pack to go in a leak-proof bag. read more

Got the sweet and sour rice bowl with chicken. Flavour was very lacklustre and the sauce was runny. The lettuce in the bowl was bitter. The chicken was okay, but otherwise the meal was underwhelming. Likely won't return. read more

Had beef, rice noodles with ginger sauce. Was not good at all. Noodles were overcooked, sauce was dry and had no flavour, and the beef was pretty dry too! Won't eat there again. They need a menu re-write, seriously where are the vegetable options? read more

Can I give zero stars? This place is literally retarded. It was 8am and I stood at the counter and no one came over to me for a good few minutes. I thought maybe they were still opening so it was fine. One of the guys took my order finally said it would take 10 mins. I had my wallet out to pay but strangely he didn't ask me to pay so I sat down. Around 10 mins later this loud Asian lady appears who seems to be dealing with the counter and I ask her what's going on with my order, and she says these exact words. "Ok, we'll make your order now... it will be around 10 mins". I go back to my seat, wait a little longer and a man comes by, orders something and gets it in a few moments. I rush back to the counter and ask what is going on and she shrugs multiple times and says you need to pay in order for it to come out or some excuse that doesn't make any sense. I argue with her at the counter pointing to the guy who took my order while he doesn't say anything in the back, THE WHOLE TIME. Such an unnecessary experience. read more

Good concept poorly executed. Terrible customer service, hard to understand menu, and expect to wait a long time for your food. If you like spicy food, don't order spicy. Just say mild. I threw mine way after several bites. It was completely inedible. That said, with a little help and better management, the concept is a great alternative to the other options in the airport. Potentially healthy and tasty. I wish them luck. read more