Yoan Ming Garden

Disgusting. Period.
There are other Chinese restaurants you can try but definitely not this one. This is one of the worst.

The food is good for the great prices, but WHY does the woman always SCREAM at me?! I’m the most polite customer anyone could ever wish for and I place my orders very efficiently, spoken clearly. But somehow, the woman who answers the phone is always mad at me. :(

The only positive thing I can say about this joint is how amusing the sheer abrasiveness of the lady behind the counter can be. But that little freakshow can in no way make up for the utter mediocrity of their food, the mopped-​dungeon level of hygiene on exhibit or the misleading bait and switch of their lunch «specials». Plus free indigestion!!!

The worst Chinese food ever! I ordered sesame chicken with fried rice and broccoli 3 days ago and I got so sick! I was throwing up! I barely made it home to have everything coming out of both ends! I threw up the entire meal and I had the worst diarrhea ever! I will never eat here again.

Greasy Chinese food, and not all that great. I have only ordered from here once and they were nice enough to randomly throw in a soda when I picked it up, but I probably won’t be returning. Pick Up Stix on 91^st and Lex is better in my opinion.

This area is a relative wasteland of food.
I go here when I get out of work late and I’m too tired to cook + don’t feel like eating pizza, subway, mediocre sandwiches etc. This place is strictly a take-​out joint in my book, but there are a couple seats that I see people eating in from time to time. The food quality is probably slightly below your average hole-​in-​the-​wall americanized chinese food establishment. There is an A rating outside the door so at least you know they are clean.
Extra star for everything being CHEAP.
Go only if you are craving greasy, unhealthy chinese food and you have no other options for other greasy, unhealthy chinese food.

This place is good for lunch time but the food has a lot of oil in it and the women behind the desk is the loudest women in the free world. Even though there is a lot of oil in the food the price isn’t bad. The only thing I do not like is that they charge you tax even if you pay with cash that’s just un American

Typical chinese fast food. Oily but it removes my hunger. A lot of rice and food for lunch special. I will come back if im in the area.

Soooooooo cheap! The food is great, the service is fast. Everything about this place is too good to be true BUT it’s true. It’s really true!!!

This is the cheap greasy Chinese food spot that people crave. We order $ 20 worth of food and always have leftover. Delivery time is probably the quickest delivery place I know of in the neighborhood.

This place is great for several reasons.
1. They are fast, efficient and friendly.
2. It may be one of the grubbiest little restaurants in New York, but it still manages to have an A health rating.
4. Dishes are made to order. (I ask for very little oil and they actually do it!)
5. Portions are huge and the food is very inexpensive. One $ 6 meal over there is easily two meals.
5. Hot and sour soup is excellent. The chicken rice soup broth has excellent flavor.
6. Not the greatest in taste, but its fast food, what do you expect?
For quick, cheap, Chinese takeout, Yoan Ming Garden certainly deserves 3 stars. 3 stars for taste, and 4 stars for convenience, efficiency and price. It’s pretty entertaining to watch the woman up front work the register during busy hours. She’s like some sort of super woman, answering the phone, taking down orders, while simultaneously packing up the delivery orders, dealing with the people picking up orders, trying to place orders and at the same time, working the register and screaming orders back to the kitchen. I’m not even sure how the cooks manage to keep up with everything, but the system that they have, weird as it may be seems to work!

Good food, especially hot n sour soup made w meat. Usually very quick

It’s good… It’ll get ya by. Friendly staff and they’re always quick about getting the food too you.
If you’re in the neighborhood. It’s the one you want!

Very good, fast and cheap food. The staff is loud (you’ll see) but friendly. One of my favorite OES lunch spots.

Yoan Ming is your down and dirty neighborhood takeout Chinese place. You know, the kind you go to if you’re in a pinch or sick of everything else but is never your first option. The kind that makes you feel slightly sick by the time you finish your meal (versus the hungry a half hour later feeling from other Chinese places) It’s also one of the few places in my neighborhood open until 11.
Consistency of food can range from okay to just plain gross, based on what you get, and when. As with many similar places a lot of the curries are made from the same basic recipe just mildly spiced differently or with different veggies, and are pretty tasteless. Things on the menu that are tolerable: General Tso’s Chicken (pretty standard mix of dark and white meat, deep fried with a couple pieces of broccoli on the side), Chicken and Broccoli (we’ve all seen it, pretty hard to screw up), their fried rice and lo mein, Chicken or Beef Teriyaki (but it’s a little salty), Spring rolls, As I’ve learned, it’s best to go in off-​peak hours since they may actually make your order fresh and not en masse food they make and have sitting around during busier times. But if you go during peak lunch, you get a free soup or soda with your food, so there’s that.
Servicewise, the middle-​aged Chinese woman yells at you for your order and then screams it to the cooks in the back, and I wouldn’t have it any other way. Thankfully, you have a full view of the kitchen behind the register so you know there’s nothing odd going on with your food. The space is pretty tiny and shabby, and there are a few seats in the front, but it’s primarily a takeout place. All said, Yoan Ming is tolerable in small, rare doses, and if you’re a sleep-​deprived grad student strapped for time (like yours truly), this does the job, albeit it does the job not too well.

If you’re eating at Yoan Ming Garden, you’re doing so out of necessity, not choice. It’s not a place that you choose to go; simply put, it’s open late, and it’s cheap. If you’re hungry, it will fill you up. But that’s about all it does.
The food is your typical bad Chinese that you can find in thousands of restaurants across the country; chances are, they get their ingredients and preparations from a central supplier. If you’ve eaten at one of these pseudo-​chains, you know what type of food to expect. Yoan Ming’s menu, however, promises much more than is available. On several occasions, I’ve tried to order items listed on the extensive take-​out menu, only to be told that they don’t make them. Instead, the focus at Yoan Ming seems to be fried chicken with french fries, which is what you see the majority of customers ordering. Maybe it’s good, but why is a Chinese restaurant specializing in fried chicken? For some reason, it makes more sense if they specialize in, you know, CHINESE FOOD. Their Chinese food is wildly variable in quality. Dishes come heartrendingly understocked with meat and laden with oil; the food is so greasy that you can actually see a standing layer of oil at the bottom of your dish. And for the MSG intolerant, let’s just say that walking by Yoan Ming should be enough to give you a headache.
The atmosphere is another contributor to my first one-​star review. The woman at the register has made an art of being unfriendly. The restaurant itself feels dirty — the walls are stained and covered in very optimistic pictures of Yoan Ming’s food. The tables are messy, and everything seems cluttered and unclean. I actually worry that eating here is a genuine health hazard — salmonella is a real possibility, and I wouldn’t be surprised if someone reported getting E. coli from the food. However, (shameless plug), if you do get sick, walk a block down the street to Mount Sinai for excellent care!
One star. Again, you eat here out of necessity, not choice. The food is greasy, uninspired, and routine, and the space itself is not conducive to anything but bacterial growth. If you’re getting Chinese for dinner, go somewhere else, but if you’re craving some hot and sour soup at 10:30 PM, you know who has your fix.

This place has decent Chinese food. Had the orange chicken once, and the curry chicken another time. The curry chicken was so weird, and was spiced oddly. The place is a hole in the wall, and the woman at the counter does indeed yell your order to the cooks behind her. This place is a good standby, especially with a $ 5.95 lunch special, but I’ve had far better Chinese food in NYC.

I went to high school a couple of blocks away from this place. Maybe that’s why I love it so much. I’ll start by saying, it is oily. Whatever you order, it’s oily. And you’re probably not gonna feel great after eating it. But man, is it good!
This place has the best hot and sour soup ever! I’ve yet to find any place that makes a hot and sour soup as flavorful as they make it here.
You can also get a styrofoam takeout container full of greasy, oily fries with watery ketchup for like $ 2. Yum!
I like the sweet and sour chicken as well. Their red dipping sauce is really flavorful, like their hot and sour soup.
And when you order something, the lady SCREAMS your order to the cooks in the back in Chinese. Somehow I feel like the loud scream translates into more flavor.
As far as Chinese takeout, this place is hands down my favorite.

If you ever have to be at Mt. Sinai or in that area of Central Park and are looking for lunch Yoan Ming Garden is a decent option for Chinese food.
Standard cuisine. You can eat your meal there or take it to go. Small sitting area.

Hey I ordered General Tso’s not General Montezuma’s!
I must agree with my fellow Unilocalers, not so good. Not the worst Chinese food I have ever eaten, but for NY City, it was bad. My meal was a lovely ballet of blazing hot out of the wok and ice cold salmonella breeding ground. 24 hours later and I am still not sick; feel like I dodged a digestive bullet. Where do Chinese restuarants get that weird chicken anyhow?
Sorry Yoan Ming, no stars for you.