I would recommend this place only if it's convenient, not worth bypassing any other nearby restaurants. Got fried rice, sesame chicken, broccoli beef, egg foo young (?), and some egg rolls. All were fine. Ended up being almost $90. Portions were decent - not outstanding. Service could use some work - didn't ask for name or number when wife ordered and since I was picking up for my wife I didn't know exactly what was ordered which was the only way for the lady to identify my order. If you're there at the same time as anyone else, there is no where to wait except outside. The pick up area is the size of a phone booth, inside is closed so pick up only. read more

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Love their party tray lo mein, chicken wings and cheese wontons! Also you can't beat their lunch special combo price anywhere! Really short staffed so be prepared to wait a little but always best to call ahead. Take out only and the walk in area is small. read more

Yin Yang Chinese Restaurant - Chinese Near Me - Saint Paul, Minnesota

biggest complaint is that my orange chicken melted through the styrofoam container they put it in so that was pretty unappetizing. had to pick styrofoam off my chicken. it was fried chicken with orange sauce on the side - fine, but not what i expected. suppose the separate sauce saved me a big mess... read more

Yin Yang Chinese Restaurant - orange chicken - Chinese Near Me - Saint Paul, Minnesota

This used to be my go to for grabbing food to bring to a potluck. I usually get the normal chicken wings or the cheese wontons. I was not a fan of the spicy wings, as I think the sauce takes away the crispness of the wings. The service is very fast, as it takes about 10 minutes to get a tray ready, but we aware that they no longer has indoor seating, as far as I know. It all goes through a cut out in the door that you pay through. I usually call ahead to save time on waiting. read more

This place is terrible! I googled it cuz.I just wanted a small inexpensive chinese lunch. I walked in and they just have a small entryway, that is full of cobwebs and dead bugs.And nowhere to even sit. I ordered sweet and sour chicken. It was absolutely terrible. I mean, good value for your money.If you can actually eat the food, they serve you. I ordered through the small crack window.And the gentleman didn't even bother to offer to bring it to my car. So I just had to stand there. Never again! read more

Great food. Insanely quick service. All for a price that can't be beat. We're avid fans of Yin Yang!

The worse Chinese food I ever had by far me and my wife was in the area decided to try it and I was let down I ordered spicy chicken and fried rice platter the chicken didn't have any taste and it was just not spicy at all the rice was old rice I could tell just by taking a few bites of it hard and just a bitter taste my wife got the beef fried rice which was surprisingly ok and didn't taste old I tried it and it was like nothing the rice they gave me but I learned my lesson the hard way read reviews before I eat at a new place and don't tip unless I had it before read more

My family has been getting Chinese food from here for my whole life and we have never been disappointed I would highly recommend it.

My husband and I had never had their food before. He got the combination dinner of chicken chow mien, fried rice and egg roll. I had the sesame chicken. We have never had such bad Chinese in our lives. We couldn't eat it. He said something was not right with the sauce and chicken for the chow mien, egg roll very dry, fried rice yucky. My sesame chicken looked like it had been sitting for hours. it was over done very dry. We will never be back there. We love Pagoda and it is closed on Sundays. Waste of $$$. read more

Amazing food! Chicken Chow Mein in the best! Been using the same recipes since early 1990's

We always get our party trays from them. We love the orange chicken and chicken vegetable stir fry. I've never been disappointed. The food is always fresh and the owner/cook is not stingy. The trays are always full. read more

This is a hidden gem for a quick and easy lunch. It is cheap, the place needs to be tidy up but for a 5 buck lunch, who cares!? I'll stop in more frequently from now on. Cheap food doesn't mean it's not good, because it is actually good with a fair amount of food. The lady might greet you with a blank stare but that don't bother me. 5.99 lunch specials. read more

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Food was ok. It def had a greasy oily taste to it. I didn't enjoy that at all. Remained in my mouth even after rinsing. I hate thin noodles and that's what what served in their lo mein. Chicken pieces where somewhat interesting. Didn't taste like chicken but weren't gross. Fried rice was greasy. Didn't taste too bad but I honestly can't say I loved it. As you walk in, you can see it's filthy. But my inner piggy just had to taste it. Restaurant didn't look the cleanest either. Organized but not clean. I can say that it wasn't terrible but I probably won't be back. Amazing deal and tons of food for $5 from 11am -3pm tho. ..try it. And last but not least. Older lady took my order. Wasn't rude or super friendly, but I'm not complaining at all about customer service. read more

Yin Yang Chinese Restaurant - Chicken lo mein & fried rice $5 for lunch. - Chinese Near Me - Saint Paul, Minnesota

I love Yin Yang their chicken wings and house fried rice! Probably the only thing I'll ever get from them. So good and they have a good price range. read more

Great service. I always get my catering foods from here. Although the place is small, and it used to serve foods.. they still do. But I think many people prefer pickup orders and orders to go, most of the time. Very delicious food. I'd say the chicken will he hits jackpot for this place!! read more

I called in an order of a tray of chicken wings to-go for a party. Fast turn around time. They said it would take 10 minutes. Chicken wings were tasty. I would order from them again. read more

Yin Yang is a solid Chinese restaurant. I've only ever gotten takeout so I can't speak to the sit down experience but I've never had an issue with my order! My favorite thing on the menu is the sesame chicken combo (#6) with an eggroll and a side of the dumplings. Their wontons are meh, I would skip them and get the dumplings or wings instead. Their pricing is fair and I usually get 2-3 meals out of one combo! read more

I've been getting take out from this awesome little gem for twenty years! Guess what? It never changes! The best egg foo young I've ever had! I'm going to try their wings today - I'll let you know how it goes! I hear they're awesome read more

I've been sampling the bean curd/tofu and veggie dishes in the area. Most recently, I was at Yang's in Woodbury. This one was disappointing. It was quite expensive and tasted bland. Mings Garden, which is a few miles south of here, serves a better tasting one and it's a better value. read more

Small family own take out restaurant. Owner is also the chef of the restaurant, and he is really friendly and always comes out to say hi to customer when he is done cooking. Really good fried chicken wings! Their fried chicken wings is deep fried then stir fried with some garlic and green onion! Really good combination and portion!! I always order the fried chicken wings along with the chicken fried rice! Only these two items I like from their menu though.. read more

I'm at a tie between this being my favorite Chinese restaurant or south China inn. You yang has really really good food. Every single food I've tried from here has always been excellent. They are usually pretty fast with your order too. You can also sit down and dime if you'd like, but we just get take out. The same people are always working and they are very pleasant to be around. I've been coming her for a year because they were recommended to me by my uncle and he's been coming here for 6 + years and neither one of us has ever had a bad experience. I give them 5/5, good job guys. read more

Great flavor and prices. Take out is very quick. Recommend! Located off White Bear Ave.

I've eaten here a couple of times, once as a take-out customer, and found the food to be great quality, carefully prepared with huge portion sizes. I feel I've found that mythical restaurant that doesn't look like much from the outside but treasures are contained within. read more

Small buffet-five bucks. Waiting for my car to get fixed-so we grabbed lunch...nothing to write home about.

Poor customer service. Too quiet seems sketchy when dining in, we were the only people. Food was cooked super quick and was warm not even hot. Overall I wouldn't go again. read more

Was very disappointed. Waitress was rude and the food was bad. I ordered chicken in garlic sauce. I could only swallow one scoop as it tasted like pure oil! No sauce. And I can usually eat anything! Also waitress brought spicy wings when we asked for fried and forced us to keep them. My kid didn't like the beef and broccoli either as it had an overly oil taste too and the meat tasted weird too. The garlic chicken was hardly touched and we asked for it to be taken off bill. She said you order it you pay. Just bad service altogether. read more

I knew it was there for years but I have my own go-to places that I hit up for Chinese food, but I was on that side of town and wanting food, so I decided to give them a try. Walked in and it was empty and ordered the shrimp fried rice and cheese puffs, its not the cleanest place ( I lived in MPLS and found even the not so cleanest places actually have really good food ) and had empty boxes stacked up in the corner. but my order was done in like 10 minutes. I know all places make fried rice different and add different things... the fried rice was alright, the shrimp were big and the taste was fine but didn't like the carrots and peas and missed green onions. The cheese puffs could have been fried longer. The price wasn't bad. Not sure id get the fried rice again but might wanna try the wings because some ppl say they are good. But I would probably take Yin Yang over leann chinns tho. (which is down the block) read more

I've eaten a lot of Chinese resutrants, but by far this place is the worst. My girl friend and I order dinner combination seaseme chicken, tso chicken and fried rice with a egg roll to go. From the MAPLEWOOD location ON white bear avenue. Get it home still hot took one bite of everything it all tasted like burnt food. The tso and seaseme chicken are the same they just play people and add seame seeds to it. I called to complain told them everything tastes burnt and I'm on to them and I wanna bring my food back and recive a refund the lady with short hair told me no refund cause I paid already and hung up. Please people save your money and your time and go else where it was our first time and our last time trying this place. read more

Is it the best Chinese place ever!? No. But when you have that craving for Chinese food. This place is great. Gives you just what you need. Fried rice is good. Chicken wings are chicken wings, If you fry them they're delicious. read more

Great lunch specials that even run on weekends! We love their Sesame Chicken and their Egg Rolls. We never order the soda since it's in cans, we get tea instead, so lunch never runs us more than if we ate at a fast food place, and you get more than enough food. This place deserves more credit than it gets. We LOVE Chinese food, and we're particular about where we eat. This is one of our favorites! read more

I always order the big trays of chicken wings and cream cheese puffs here. They always have my order ready on time even when i call 30mins ahead. Prices are better here than everywhere else when ordering big trays read more

0 stars. This place was nasty. The salt and pepper shakers were dirty, as well as the silverware. My son's white rice tasted like it was 3 days old and had been sitting out. Our cream cheese wontons were overcooked. The chicken wings we ordered looked questionable and tasted worse. Lastly the chicken fried rice was bland and also looked 3 days old. Service was poor. Restaurant was plain old filthy, I was completely disgusted. We didn't eat more than 2 bites of everything. I wouldn't suggest this place to my worst enemy. read more

This place serves amazing lunches for $4.99 !!! Always great !!! Have had great food , always clean ,great friendly staff !! Have tried at least 5 different items !!! Love their sesame chicken & fried rice !!! Try it !!! Way better than Leann Chinns !!! read more

yes I know I left 4 stars before for having only canned pop and price but I got it for take out again last night so I had my own beverage at home and didn't get an appetizer this time as I now know how huge the portions are and I decided this place gets 5 stars based on deliciousness alone. I ordered the kung pao shrimp again and it is to die for. That poster who posted 2 stars and said nothing worth writting home about must be a san francisco china town chinese food snob and think a chinese place in "whiteyville" midwest can't compare to anything they have, which Mn has the 2nd highest asian population in the country so why wouldn't we have an abundance of great chinese restaurants like "china town"? This place rocks and hits the spot. read more

I seen roaches crawling in the bathroom place was super dirty before the food even came out I left.the place not have a pleasant smell either! read more

small portions for such high prices. i once ordered a chicken wing combo... the chicken wings weren't fresh. had an odd fishy smell to them. neither was it your typical fried chicken youd expect at a chinese place. it had a thick flour-y breading and the wings themselves were cut in half. weird. make the trip to mings garden a few miles down the road. you wont be disappointed. read more

Worst place possible. Me and my son order the 50 piece wings and house special fried rice and got food poisoning do not go here. Great moon buffet or mings garden is the way to go. Scratch this place off your list. First time and definitely my last. read more

I have always ordered from Yin Yang when I have a gathering but as of today they had lost me as a customer. I called to placed an order for my workplace in which we are tax exempt and he refused to give me that. He told me that everyone pays tax, I explained that we are an Education in which we do not pay tax and he refused and said everyone pays tax and that their restaurant doesn't do tax exempt. He was very rude in the beginning to the end when I said I will not be placing my order he said ok bye bye and hung up. Very rude! read more

picked up wings yesterday to take to a party i was starving so i grabbed a wing and bit into it. it was cold and raw. took chicken back and got money back. the chicken smelled spoiled today im lying in bed bubble gut diarrhea please dont eat here read more

Okay...can I barf now! I found a great review on another site and went for it. OMG...I have no idea what the heck they were eating, but the crapola that was served at Yin Yang Chinese Restaurant in Maplewood MN was by far some of the worse Chinese food I have eaten in a long time. Both people there spoke no English except for "You Ready Order?" "Coke or Pepsi?" and "You want box?" sorry...they knew "Thank you" too. They should be thanking me, for blowing $40 on CRAPOLA there. My purse is still mad at me for getting my wallet out. I ordered the salted spare ribs because the review on the other site sounded like they would be superb. HELLO...they were deep fried pork fat. I told Mrs. Yang when she stopped over to ask "You want box?" that they were terrible. She walked away and stood over by the cash register and waited for us to figure out you have to get up and walk over there and that the service was OVER. DO NOT GO TO THIS RESTAURANT! SAVE your money. Fortune cookie was stale too! DANG! Try North China a bit North up the road. I wish I didn't have to give Yin or Yang a star! YELP - please reformat your side so you can give thumbs up or thumbs down. read more