Yan’s Cuisine
83 Benevolent St, Providence, RI, 02906
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Address :
83 Benevolent St
Providence, RI, 02906 - Phone (401) 751-8888
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Opening Hours
- Mon :11:00 am - 11
Specialities
- Takes Reservations : No
Delivery : Yes
Take-out : Yes
Accepts Credit Cards : Yes
Bike Parking : Yes
Good for Kids : Yes
Good for Groups : Yes
Attire : Casual
Ambience : Casual
Noise Level : Quiet
Alcohol : No
Outdoor Seating : No
Wi-Fi : No
Has TV : Yes
Waiter Service : Yes
Caters : No
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Tao L.
Finally comes a Chinese restaurant that I like most than others. For some special dishes especially those traditional Chinese food, you should better have a try if you love Chinese food , rather than Chinese-American food. The price is worth the food, I've been there twice a week for last month, really love Yan's!
(5)Haomin W.
Said" fuck you" to its client, bad service. The boss of this restaurant doesn't have any patience with its customers. don't go or you will be fucked
(1)Steve W.
The service is bad. The dumplings had thick dough and were tasteless. I ordered rice and didn't get it but it was still on the check. The bok choy was bland. The best thing there was the fortune cookie.
(1)Damon S.
As a brown student, Yan's has been my regular lunch or dinner spot. I ate here at least once a day and the food and service was just what I needed most of the time. The restaurant is clean and quit unique. It has two stories as the first floor is more like a cafe environment and the second floor is more upscaled dinning settings. Their menu is quit large because they do both Americanized and traditional Chinese cuisine. It gets really busy at times especially during lunch time, I usually avoid their peak time because I once did wait for 40 minutes to get my food after placed my order with the waitress. I pretty much tried all their combo plates and rice platters as well as their noodle soups, nothing really disappointed me and 8 dollars and change could take care of everything! I'm eating here again and then will be heading home for the break. The owner told me they are working on several things to give Yan's a new look both on the restaurant and the menu when school starts again. I hope they do well during the summer and looking forward to see the change when I come back!
(5)Josh B.
I don't give one-star ratings unless the restaurant is truly terrible. That said, my dining experiences with Yan's Cuisine have been far from satisfactory. I typically order a lunch or dinner special: nothing fancy, just some classic American Chinese food. Typically General Tso's chicken or sesame chicken. The pork fried rice is fluffy and not overly salted, actually quite good, and their egg rolls are large and tasty. However, their chicken consistently disappoints me. Some of the most tasteless chicken I've ever tasted, even for low-scale chinese take-out places. The sauce is inconsistently applied so either the chicken is dry and chewy or overly sauced and too sweet. I've also had poor experiences with waiting time on food, often waiting long after it was supposed to be finished for small orders, both for take-out and dine in. My girlfriend once ordered a dumpling lunch special and waited at least 30 min before asking them where it was, they assured it was almost ready, then brought out some room temperature dumplings 5 minutes later. I suspect the food was just sitting on the counter in the kitchen and no one brought it out. However, the staff are polite, the restaurant is clean and attractive, and the prices are reasonable. The location is also great for living around Brown's campus, but the quality of the food has let me down too many times now. I will stick to ordering delivery from Goldstone or Khoo Kitchen.
(2)Bonnie H.
After waiting the hour I was told my order would take, I had no food nor contact from Yan's. I called GrubHub to check on the order. Their system reflected the order should have been delivered. Yan's wad contacted and reported the order was backed up because of the rain. I asked if they would recook the order and was given fluff about how difficult it would be and no promises could be made. Well, I hope Yan and his staff are hungry because I canceled the order. I would be willing to bet that Yan would expect his money of the good was delivered and not accept an excuse about rain preventing me from getting to the ATM. At least call the customers so the orders can be canceled
(1)Ziye W.
Great food at reasonable price! Especially recommend the spicy fish, tremendously delicious
(5)Tara D.
If you have read my reviews, you will notice how I complain about mediocre to down right nasty Americanized Chinese food in Rhode Island. I will welcome you now to one of the most authentic menus in Rhode Island. Note, if you still order scorpion bowls and general taos, then don't stray from those dishes... Try this Szechwan restaurant if you crave authentic Chinese... If this is a new experience for you, do not believe the reviews, ask the wait staff for ideas. Shu is an amazing ambassador to lead you down this wonderful food journey to properly experience traditional Szechuan cuisine. The dishes I love are salt and pepper calamari and shrimp, and the super spicy chicken with authentic dried whole chilies. The baby bok chow with fresh shiitake mushroom is amazing. The food is fresh and tasty. If you are looking for frozen rehydrated cheap food, do not come here. They do not recycle their food. Fresh and made to order. They do not disappoint.
(5)Andre V.
I've had good chonese food before and this is not good Chinese food. $11.50 for undercooked, tasteless veggies and no rice? You cannot be serious. The struggle is real at this place. Save your wallet and taste buds from the insult and go elsewhere.
(1)George B.
This is the best place in Providence to get authentic Chinese food as far as I know. It's very nice to have a place where close by I can get real ma po tofu. And their string beans with pork in black bean sauce is to die for. Their sautéed broccoli with garlic is also excellent. There are two downsides sometimes. One is that there seems to be one cook who is particularly lazy (though he or she doesn't seem to be there most of the time), not taking the time needed to make these dishes perfect. The other is that it can be a bit on the expensive side, but the portion sizes are pretty good. All in all, it's still my restaurant of choice, and probably my favorite one in Rhode Island right now. I miss the old Dragon 2000 that closed.
(5)Cathy Z.
As a student, I love this place. As a wannabe connoisseur of Chinese food, I'm a little disappointed. The portions are giant and the prices are great. There's a huge selection of combo plates for $6-7 at weekday lunch and $7-8 at dinner. These come with pork fried rice and either crab rangoon or an egg roll. The rice platters are a little worse of a value, but offer more interesting entree options like eggplant with garlic sauce or a fried chicken quarter. I had mapo tofu, and it was a little bland. There wasn't any ground pork on top, and the sauce was more starchy than chili-oily like I'm used to. The ingredients seemed fresh, though--there were lots of scallions mixed in, which added a nice crunch. Also, for a restaurant that I'm sure does a lot of takeout business, the inside is attractive and well maintained. I was hoping for even more authentic flavor, but I definitely want to come back and try more dishes.
(3)Dominic W.
I was hoping for better food than the previous restaurant here. I walk in and it seems pretty similar to the previous. The menu is revamped and prices a little lower. I was so hopeful that I finally had a good Chinese place in providence without going to cranston. Unfortunately I was let down again. We tried a lot of dishes - general tso, stir fried veggies, dumplings, sweet and sour chicken... The wrappers on the dumplings were so thick you could barely taste the stuffing. The batter in the sweet and sour chicken was also so thick and doughy I ended up cutting off all the outside. It just tasted so mealy! The atmosphere - jam packed and felt quite uncomfortable. I almost hit my head on a TV because our table was right under a TV set... Most combos come with a side and rice. Vegetable combos for some reason do not come with the side and any rice - why do they charge similar price to a meat dish for simple vegetables, yet not provide any rice to go with it?
(3)Andrew L.
Finally an authentic Chinese restaurant has come back to Providence. I went here a few days ago because I saw that it had recently opened and I was pleasantly surprised. The main draw here is definitely the good. The decor and service are both fine, but I was mainly after some good Chinese food. We had the Chengdu spicy dumplings, Chongqing style dry chili chicken and three pepper chicken. They were all very tasty and different than what one would expect to find at a typical Chinese-American restaurant. I can't wait to go back and try some of the other items on the menu. I definitely suggest you stop in if you're in the area and want some real Chinese food.
(5)Judy K.
Three Stars: Bad food, but still worth a second try. The restaurant was easy to find. It has a nice and clean decor, the menu selection is appealing, and the service was appreciable. The waiter explained that the restaurant had only been open for 3-weeks, & he didn't know much about the dishes. I didn't mind so much, & ordered according to what seemed appealing. My order included Chengdu Spicy Dumplings, Beef Stew Noodle Soup, and Beef Curry Rice platter. Dumplings were a huge disappointment. It was as if they had run out of filling, and thought a pea-sized clump was sufficient and appropriate to use (pic included). The noodle dish was boring as the beef was dry and difficult to chew. The noodles were still clumped together at the bottom of the bowl. The only redeeming dish was the Curry Beef with potatoes. Overall, while the food was not impressive, I would still give this restaurant second visit just because I am still hopeful and appreciate authentic Chinese food.
(3)Marty S.
This place is GREAT. I have no idea how authentic it is and depending on what you are looking for it might not be what you are looking for. But if you are looking for something GREAT - look no further. For just like 8 bucks you can get a combination meal that comes with rice and crab rangoons or spring rolls. They're effing amazing. I usually get the sweet and sour chicken, which comes with pineapple. I think some people might say they've got too much batter, but if you can free your mind from those sorts of expectations, you'll realize that it's DELICIOUS. I know this review sounds like I'm joking but I really love this place and have been a supporter since it opened. I will be back often.
(5)August G.
You know I would walk by this place every day on my way back from work and be like damn that entire restaurant is full of East Asian (most likely Chinese) people, I've also seen some of my Chinese colleagues speed past me to go in there. So I was like this place must be pretty good! One day I finally felt like ordering some Chinese delivery. I get on the phone and ask if they have gan chao nu he and jiao yan pai gu (not sure what these are in English but I think it might be chow fun and salt and pepper pork), they do that's awesome. My partner also wants the orange chicken dinner with lo mein and an egg roll. So you know, we did both things, Chinese Chinese food and Americanized Chinese food. (was kind of funny I was talking on the phone to the guy in Mandarin and when he repeated my order back to me it was also in Mandarin except for "orange chicken") It got here in about 30 minutes which is pretty good for delivery times. However the food was tragic. The salt and pepper pork was overly battered and the gan chao nu he was so bland. Both MuMu (now Gangnam Flavor I believe) and Golden Stone have way better salt and pepper pork, Golden Stone doesn't have gan chao nu he but that's alright. My partner said the orange chicken was ok but she's had better. At least the lo mein was good... Don't think I would order from here again. It was cheap which was nice but I think Golden Stone is just as cheap and tastes better. MuMu is even better than both of those but they're also more expensive so it's a tradeoff. Definitely not Yan's again though.
(2)Beatriz L.
The food is excellent, however, the food wasn't what I ordered. Nevertheless I was hungry and ate any way. The delivery guy was 25 minutes over then the expected time, which was 40 minutes. So 1 hr and 5 min later I got excellent food, but not what I ordered. I will order another time so they can redeem themselves.
(3)Sherman Y.
I have been eating at Yan's for no less than 50 times since they opened on September. Yes they are always busy, so I don't expect too much for service, but the service are still acceptable. As far as their food, I probably tried their entire menu, there was hit and miss here and there, but i will still give it a 5 star because otherwise I wouldn't come here to eat that often. I love their hot chili pepper chicken, beef noodle soup and the general chicken is the one of the best I've had. I guess they have more dim sum item now too because I once saw people eating sesame balls, shrimp dumpling and ribs in black bean sauce. They are not listed on their regular menu, you have to check with the staff I believe. I would suggest that they print out a dim sum menu so I can make up my mind without talk too much with the waiter.
(5)Jordan H.
I've only ever gotten takeout from here. Aside from the food being slightly greasy (which is expected, I guess) and the delivery can sometimes be a little slow, Yan's is perhaps the best for Asian food near the Thayer area. I always order the beef chow foon (thick rice noodles) from this place and it's really good when served piping hot. The only thing that I would say is that everytime I order it, the person answering never knows what it is (i'm assuming this is because chow foon is probably not on their menu)
(4)Jon N.
I'm torn on this review. Because on one hand the food was satisfactory for the most part, on the other had, the service was slow and inattentive. We started with the nime chow which were utterly bland and not at all satisfying. Still I'm glad we had them as it took a solid thirty minutes for the first of our dishes to come out. This was the three pepper chicken, and it was good. Spicy, but not terribly. However our string beans were still MIA so we asked about them and they showed up five minutes later. They weren't quite as dry as you might expect and we had the impression that the kitchen had completely spaced them out. Also, our waters went unfilled for some time, as did our teapot.The nail in the coffin for my two stars is that a table that came in fifteen minutes after we did was served before we were. I think they were understaffed that evening or something, and I'm disappointed that I didn't have the same experience as the other reviewers here. I may give them another go, but I think I'll keep my options open.
(2)Kelly L.
I walked in expecting standard mall-style Chinese food. "It couldn't be any worse than Shanghai," I mused. And I'm very, very, very pleased to say that it wasn't. Yan's Cuisine is relatively clean, and service is fair. The waiters and waitresses were attentive, filling up our glasses in a timely manner. My waitress for the night spoke with a particularly thick accent, which is an understandable but potential mode of miscommunication. Yan's serves both your typical Americanized pseudo-Chinese fare, as well as less standard dishes. My friend and I ordered two dishes: 1. Fried Chicken Quarter (5/5) - THIS WAS AMAZING. The portions were generous, and the chicken was perfectly moist and well-seasoned. I definitely recommend it. 2. Tomato Stewed Creamy Chicken with Brown Sauce (2/5) - This sounded very interesting, but was ultimately disappointing. The chicken comes out with bone, making it a little cumbersome to eat, personally. Though moist, both the chicken and the sauce lacked flavor. The best part of the dish was actually the potatoes and carrots that were stewed in the sauce. This dish was tolerable, but mediocre at best. My other 4 friends all ordered a "Combination" dish (a.k.a. cheaper Shanghai). A typical order consists of meat, an egg roll or crab rangoon, and pork fried rice. My friends all seemed relatively pleased with the food, the portions, and the relatively low prices. It is worth noting that lunch portions are a dollar cheaper than dinner portions. I definitely think that Yan's is worth a try if you're in the mood for Chinese food. There are probably a few hit-and-miss dishes in the menu, but I find that overall, Yan's Cuisine is probably better than other Chinese restaurants in the immediate area.
(4)Donovan L.
Tasty, fast, and inexpensive Chinese food within an easy walk from Brown University. The Pepper Beef had a good flavor and the pork fried rice was simple but delicious. I'm sure I'll be back!
(4)Melanie S.
Wow. Just awful. I got delivery so maybe they are better in person but...the dumplings were all dough, the pork was dry, greasy egg rolls. Never again. Still looking for a good Chinese place in Providence.
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