Yi Palace

Excellent and authentic Chinese food. This isn’t your usual Chinese restaurant. They have real dishes and a menu only in Chinese. The food is excellent and the best in the Brandywine region!

This is supposed to be a Sichuan restaurant. The food is decent. But I was surprised it was not spicy as Sichuan food but it was still tasteful. The owners are nice as they would come around to greet the customers and ask about their food. The servers need a bit more customer service training — at least put up a smile and be more polite.

Even got its ups and downs, Yi Palace is still the most authentic Chinese food in Newark/​Wilmington area, has some really good dishes. But service needs to improve, sometimes waiter is rude and careless.

My mom takes me to this restaurant every time I come home on break. They’re super personable and know my family really well just because my parents used to go so often. Their dishes come out very quick and dinner is kinda pricey (although if you pay cash, they give you like 5% off I think) but the lunch specials are way cheaper ($ 8/​dish) and smaller portions and they give you free soup with it. For dinner, they give your oranges at the end.
My favorite dish is the chicken with hot dry peppers but if you can’t handle spicy, tell them to take away the peppers and the dish is still good just less spicy.
The owners are really sweet and the customer service is friendly. Favorite restaurant to come home to.

This is my favorite Szechuan restaurant of all time! The portions are generous and the food is always delicious! I’ve recommended this place to almost all of my friends (including the ones who don’t like Chinese food, and they LOVE it too) A must try if you like spicy food

I’m a regular at Yi Palace, which is different from other area Chinese restaurants. The food seems to be more «authentic» Chinese rather than «American» Chinese. I have tried a number of dishes, but my favorites are the HotPot Seafood and Fried Fish with Pickled Chilis, which is actually served in a broth — very spicy. The Hot & Sour soup is top notch.
As others have noted, the service can be spotty, ranging from OK to frustrating. But you are not going to get a better meal for miles around.

My family and I went here for dinner and we loved it! The food was great and the service was excellent. I am very picky about Chinese food, but this place is now my new favorite place. We’ll definitely go back!

This place is very disappointing. Went there for lunch recently and it was very unpleasant. The waiter/​waitress acted like we were imposing on them and we could not even get a glass of water from them. My friend had to get up and get it himself. The food was cold, however, there was no one to complain to… After they slammed the food on our table they disappeared in the back room. They were very discourteous and rude. We have no intentions on returning to this place. We actually went there last year and it was ok, Things have really deteriorated at this restaurant. Their attitudes towards their guests are horrific. I only wish we had left a lot earlier than we did. Never again
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The food is awesome and great service. First in class for Chinese food!

My first time here! The price is quite expensive. The food were good. We order fish with dry chili, Dan Dan noodle, string beans. Almost 50 $.

I never noticed this restaurant before since it’s on the side of the soon-​to-​be-​dead Concord Square mall that I usually don’t go to. When I was nearby and saw the listing in the Unilocal app though, I simply had to try it.
I have to admit that I’m actually not sure what qualifies as authentic when it comes to Chinese food. I’ve been to a number of restaurants that others have told me were authentic and those were all totally different. So unless I’ve actually been to the province where the food is supposedly from, I don’t have a baseline for comparison. However, what I can tell is Yi Palace does seem to make food with more taste than the average Chinese restaurant around here. I had the curry chicken this evening and it wasn’t at all like the watery yellow stuff from a Chinese takeout. Although it wasn’t that hot, it had flavorful spices.
The downside is prices at Yi are higher than average for Chinese restaurants. Whether getting better Chinese food is worth the markup is a matter of judgment. However, service is rather fast and polite and the dining area has a good ambiance.

Love spicy foods?! Then you have come at the right place. Lots of authentic Asian foods too! Prices are unbeatable.

Yi Palace has certainly been through some ups and downs over the years, but remains its position as the best Chinese restaurants in northern Delaware, partly due to the lack of compatible Chinese restaurants in the area… It is a restaurant, definitely not those all-​you can-​stuff-​yourself with junk buffet parlor or Egg Foo Young take-​out dungeon… so please… don’t walk in and expect you’re gonna get some top-​notch General Tsao’s Chicken. The restaurant serves decent close to authentic Sichuan style spicy Chinese dishes. If you’re in for some tasty spicy food, order some items from their new dish menu or simply tell the waiter your tolerance level towards spicy food and ask for recommendations… and the rest is for you to discover on your own…

After stumbling upon this place via a friend, I can attest to the authenticity of the cuisine offered. I have found the dishes ordered, scallion pancake, steamed fish, and spicy tofu to be delicious. I will surely be a frequent patron.

I had high expectation of this place, and assumed the low star rating was of course, due to people who weren’t accustomed to the authentic chinese dishes and were expecting the americanized kind. Boy was I wrong.
This place cooked literally the worst braised beef noodle soup (红烧牛肉面) ever! As I was eager to get my boyfriend to try authentic chinese food (instead of his regular, general tso or sesame chicken), I ordered what i thought was the single, most unf*ckable dish there is. And I guess l learn something new everyday.
It was bland and greasy, just the worst combination ever. It literally tasted worse than the hong shao niu rou mian you get from instant noodle, no kidding, because i couldn’t bring myself to eat it without dumping in tons of red chillies and soy sauce, and I live on a low-​sodium diet. I can do bland, I just can’t do greasy and bland, it’s just gross.
Ironically, the general tso’s was the best part of the meal. not awesome, but edible. and as we know with authentic szechuan restaurant, they always make their general tso’s a little more spicy than normal, which is good. Anyhow my boyfriend was gloating the whole meal about he knows the best chinese food. The noodle soup was so bad I was all over my bf’s general tso’s chicken. It was embarrassing.
2 stars for decent service and ambiance.
P. S. don’t order the blooming flower tea, it doesn’t even come in a glass teapot. What’s the point of a blooming flower tea if you can’t even see the flower?

More authentic than any other chinese restaurant in the area, Yi Palace definitely fits the bill when you want to try something new and not just go to another bland take out place. That being said, I have gone for some classic american chinese food options from here in the past (orange chicken, general Tso’s, various fried rice dishes), all of which have been a cut above. My favorite, however, is the lamb with cumin. While atomically spicy, it also has a complex flavor that satisfies my craving for decent chinese food while I’m home.
It is nice enough to sit in the restaurant as well, it isn’t just a take out place. The prices are a bit higher, but the quality matches.
One last note, don’t be fooled, this is not an asian fusion place like most of the other restaurants on the concord pike, and as a result wont have that resulting variety on the menu.

One of the first things we noticed about Yi Palace when we looked at the menu online was that the food seemed to be pretty expensive compared to other chinese restaurants. So, we hoped that the quality of the food would correspond with the high price… But, how wrong we were. We ordered Mongolian beef to go — it was $ 18 for a SMALL portion. And worse still, it was subpar and didn’t even taste like real Mongolian beef. When we went inside to pick it up, the waiter who greeted us was very cold and unfriendly — didn’t even smile. The gentleman who rung us up, though, was nicer (it seemed like he was the owner). They were kind enough to include a side order of rice, but forgot to include any chopsticks. And even the proverbial «cherry on top» was bad — the fortune cookie was very stale. Needless to say, we will not be returning.

Not sure what’s going on with Yi Palace lately but what used to be a tasty restaurant is now serving bland and unappetizing cuisine. Dishes like shredded ginger duck, curry chicken and spicy shrimp have zero pizzaz and very little flavor. We’ve given Yi Palace more than one chance, thinking perhaps we dined on a bad night, but the only consistency lately is how bland the food is.
We won’t be going back anymore. It’s just a waste of our money.

The food is actually pretty good. We shared soup and dumplings. The wife had shrimp and I combo fried rice. Neither of us had tea. The service was ok.
My wife was up all night. Could not sleep a wink. Me, I had very weird nightmares.
Our conclusion, this place uses lots of MSG! If it does not bother you, enjoy.

When you’re craving for some Sichuan food, go here if you’re in the area. It’s basically as authentic as you can get (this is coming from a Chinese person). Like the other reviews have said, go for the non-​Americanized items.
The service is not bad. It might not be the most personal service I’ve had at Chinese restaurants in DE, but then again, we’re family friends with owners of other places and don’t know the owners at Yi Palace. Make sure you’re clear of what you would like to order and point to stuff if you’re unsure.
The décor is not your stereotypical «Chinese», but it’s nice and clean the couple of times I’ve been there. Definitely going for a more modern feel here, which is a nice change of pace.
Anyway, the actual food is good. A more authentic Sichuan order might go like: the Fish + Pickled Veg soup, Beef in Hot Chili Oil, Pork Intestine Hot Pot, and some kind of non-​spicy vegetable. Mmmm … delicious.
This is a good place for a nice family meal, though I do see lots of people getting take out.