Yang’s Chinese Cuisine

My family and I are beyond upset. Never have we ever been to a restaurant that had such bad customer service. We were treated poorly and with disrespect. My family and I came to dinner. We placed our order only to realize that after 45 minutes to an hour, our food had not come. We had hungry and tired kids. We realized everyone around us were being served and no one paid attention to us. We tried to get the staffs attention but they kept ignoring us and when we finally got their attention, they came over, looked at the order we placed and walked off. We finally realized that because we didn’t order the fancier meals so they didn’t care about our order. They smile and show great attitude to those who have big orders. All about the $$$$! The most upsetting part was they didn’t even bother placing the order… it was not placed. We just wanted a nice dinner with the kids and to try their food cause we are looking for a nice restaurant for the baby’s 100^th day. People who came after us got served before us. The manager turned his back on us which we found to be really rude and was quite shocked that someone would treat their customers in such a way. That’s okay! Definitely not coming back!

Unorganized. Host is useless in managing customers waiting. Told us that there was a table ready and gave it to others. Come here if you have lots of time to wait around. Not good if you’re here on your lunch hour.

Service has dropped.
Made a reservation for 12noon for 5ppl and still had to wait 20 min to get a table. What’s the point of having a reservation? Then they twice forgot to bring us our water and tea… and this was already after our food had arrived. The standard with dimsum places is to have your hot beverages served right after you sit down, so we were not impressed when they forgot twice.
Not in a rush to visit again.

So apparently Yang’s had an old location, but this review is for the new location (Hwy 7/​Leslie) and the dim sum here is off the chain! It’s definitely a hidden treasure amongst some heavyweights like Ballroom and Dragonboat, but I can assure you, it’s very legit!
I was not disappointed with any of the items we ordered. From unique items like shrimp and foie gras dumplings, to perfectly braised tripe and tendon, I haven’t been to a dim sum place in a while that left me this satisfied. Make sure to get the egg yolk filled steam buns too for dessert!
The space itself was well decorated and chic, with a couple private rooms/​dividers for more intimate gatherings.
Would like to come back and try the seafood special dinners they hold once in a while.

The first time I went to this place was when they first opened .the dimsum was good .it was quite expensive because it costed us over 100 for four people. The service was good and food was good. It was 4 star.
Today I went there again… They had 3 tables ahead of us and I figured that it should be okay. Since I was waiting, I bought a newspaper .(there is a story about it :)
While we were waiting, we observed that one of the patrons who was waiting was very anxious and she kept checking the waiting list. We sort of found it odd but figured she must be very hungry.
After 30 minutes of waiting and saw that the captains and hostess kept sneaking the newly arrived guests in, and leaving us waiting, I realized why that woman was upset.
I do understand that there is a preferred guests system in most places, but at least do it more discretely. Golden abalone does it, Skyview cuisine does etc… but at least they place the waiting clients and preferred clients in an alternate order.
I heard the captains just brought 4 tables in front of us (these patrons talked loud enough that I could hear them). The poor hostess was left explaining to a few of us irate clients.
I finally gave up and told them that we are leaving.
Notice to the owner: you may keep all our favorite mainland clients, but once they leave Canada, us locals will not be visiting you. There are better restaurants with better service.
About the newspaper: I found out that the newspaper was from November 28 but they kept in their shelf so that you will pay for garbage. What does it tell you about this place? They are poorly run and they just want to make a fast buck! Even small restaurants cleaned up their papers
Imagine what their washroom or cleanliness in the restaurant …
little Things tell you a lot about a restaurant…

The restaurant is good, seems like their Chef is a really dedicated person who spends its time experimenting new stuff for its customers.
Overall rating:
Place: Pretty simple Chinese Restaurant, the decoration could be better but it’s a secondary thing for me.
Service: Very friendly Staff, the chef knows my family and came out often explaining what he did, how he cooked the dishes, and so.
Food: We tried all the specials regarding with Sea Food. All type of cooking methods and favours about Lobster and King Crabs. Some were good some were ok.
Final Comments:
This place worth to go for groups, is like those typical Chinese restaurants where you will enjoy chatting and family reunions. The food is not bad at all and you will have a good experience for sure.

Came here for dinner with family on a quiet Tuesday night.
Food — taste and quality ok. I would say comparable to most of the well known Chinese restaurants out there. Portion size is relatively smaller. We ordered a 8 ppl meal and had to order 2 more dishes for 9 ppl and some of us still left feeling hungry. I was pretty surprised by how small the dishes were given my experience with places such as Skyview and O Mei
Service — not so good. The place was relatively quiet and well staffed (about 6 — 7 staff serving just 5 tables). However, they all seem to be blind. It’s one of those situations where you are at your seat waving your hand in big motion and the staff seems to look through you when they walk past you. When you do get their attention, they will come over and literally throw plates and food down on your table. When I was looking at the menu to order, the one lady staff kept on standing behind me pressuring me to order the most expensive meal out there, even though I already politely asked her a few times to give me some time to look through the menu.
Price — everything requires extra cost. Omg… I can’t remember the last time I heard a staff say this to me as many times as I did here. Changing the type of veggie = $ 8 extra, changing the cooking method of lobster = $ 8 extra, blah blah blah blah, paying with credit card on a set meal of $ 598 is 5% extra… wow! The last time I heard, the interchange fee for credit card payment is not 5%. They tried to up-​sell me by saying they didn’t have any 6lb lobsters available and I had to pay more. I insisted that I would not pay more and finally they gave me a 6lb one. At the end, they had the guts to over charge me $ 80 or something I didn’t even order. Talk about cash hungry owners and staff!
Overall, I’m confident I will not be coming back again and wouldn’t recommend this place to my friends. Ps: for some odd reason, there were so many Mosquitos and flies flying around all the time during dinner. I actually for a few mosquito bites on my body.

I think this restaurant wants to be what O Mei, Fishman Lobster Clubhouse Restaurant, and Fishman Wharf are. They have a lot of special seafood set menus (think Alaskan king crabs, giant lobsters, abalone, oysters, etc.)
Dinner here is pretty expensive, but the food’s not bad.
The pork belly in the pork belly and preserved vegetables has the right ratio of meat to fat. It’s not too fatty and not too meaty. The meat parts are still tender. I also appreciate that the pork belly is cut into bite sized chunks. There’s also plenty of preserved vegetables for mixing into my rice. Yum.
The stewed bitter melon and fish belly had a fairly standard ratio of bitter melon to fish. The bitter melon was a tad strong for me (duh. Bitter melon), but the dish was still quite good.
The green chili peppers and pork neck slices had more green chili peppers than I’d have liked. More pork neck slices are always appreciated. Some of the green chili peppers were not spicy. Some of them were quite spicy. Care to try your luck?
I heard dessert was pretty good, but I didn’t try it. Service was also quite good.
These three dishes plus rice came to $ 74 something before tax. Thankfully, I had a $ 75 gift card.

Came here for dim sum on a Thursday morning with relatives. We didn’t need reservations (but probably wise to do so on weekends) and because it was before 11am, we were able to get the early bird specials $ 3 for S/​M/​L dim sum.
Ordered
Steamed dumpling with pea sprouts leaves & king mushrooms — this was my fav! Almost had the entire one myself…
Steamed glutinous rice with dried scallops wrapped w/​lotus leaves — great
Steamed chicken feet w/​supreme sauce — didn’t eat it but looked good
Steamed shrimp dumplings — great
Deep fried taro spring roll — great
Pan fried bun w/​beef tenderloin in abalone sauce — can’t comment didn’t eat it
Congee w/​dried oyster — loved this
The food came out very fast and it was excellent. My fav was probably the congee with the oyster & the steamed pea sprouts. We all had a great time at lunch. We were always taken care of and I believe all tables were as well. The manager Ben also stopped by our table and we got a 10% off card for future visits.
I’m definitely coming back. Good food and service! No problems finding parking.
The décor isn’t tacky. I mean there is still gold… but at least it’s not covered in the ugly red we normally see at Chinese restaurants. I could see people having a wedding reception or even a 100 days baby banquet here. Enough for 20 tables.

Extremely expensive, but decent place for sea food. Service is one of the most complicated among all other Chinese resturant. Plate change every 15 – 20 mins.
Do not feel bad to stop the server if he tries to take away your plate with a major lobster piece still in there. Haha.

Came here a few time for early bird dim sum (the price has went up from $ 3 to $ 3.10), which, while not awe inspiring, still decent and nicely made. The food arrives hot and quick, so the table is filled with yummy dim sum!

Came here two times for dim sums. To be honest, the dim sum is not wow but definitely good enough for when I am craving for dim sum. The food quality is pretty even. The service is so far way acceptable to me.
They have early bird $ 3 each for S/​M/​L dim sum. Some other places do offer better deal of their early bird, but those places would always be crazily packed with long waiting time. The Crown Prince Fine Dining is my favorite dim sum place but I will choose to come here if I don’t want to wait in line and struggle in parking.

Belated review for a UYE at this location. Perhaps I have become a dim sum snob but even with the early bird pricing ($ 3/​dish) I only found the dishes A-​OK. I didn’t really find a dish that I can definitely say is above and beyond any other dim sum place which is slightly disappointing from a restaurant that poises itself as a more high end dim sum restaurant. One sort-​of stand out was the durian pastry because they were really generous and used a real piece of durian, but I wasn’t too impressed with the pastry that surrounded it and found it slightly disappointing. As a result when I contrast it to other high end dim sum places like Skyview or Spring Villa, to me the quality and uniqueness of menu items pale in comparison.
Some positives though is definitely the ample parking. This is one of the few dim sum places where you don’t have to get a number and wait for 20 min to get a seat, or circle the parking lot five times to get a parking spot in the middle of nowhere.
In essence, if you hate crowds, aren’t too picky or spoiled about your dim sum, and you’re willing to wake up early for that early bird special (or you’re just ballin’ and don’t care about paying that much) then this might be the place for you.

Staple in food — no good!
So for early dim sum on the weekend, this place has a special where you can get any S, M, or L dim sum dish for the same price of an S, which is $ 3 I believe. For a table of 4 guests, we ordered 8 dishes and this was enough. We were satisfied but not super full. It’s a very good deal.
Ha gao — steamed shrimp dumplings. When my cousin bit into hers, she discovered a tiny staple in it. Disgusting, how could that get in there? Also a major health hazard as it could have punctured her mouth or tongue. We brought it to the attention of the captain and he offered to replace it. He claimed that it was a staple that was used to secure the bamboo steamers. If you take a look at some photos, the staple is thinner and smaller than those…
The siu mai was okay, nothing special. The taro spring rolls were quite bad. I did not even finish my piece. The skin was very hard. The taro puffs were quite good. The portuguese pies were so so, not as good as the other ones I’ve had at dim sum here. The rice rolls were okay, and the dumplings with pea tips were pretty good.
For the price, I can’t complain. The food was meh to average. As for the staple, I don’t think so. We won’t be back.

This place is way better than its 2.5 rating (SERIOUSLY?!). Great dim sum, nice atmosphere, good service. The con is that it’s in the middle of nowhere, I’m pretty sure this area used to be a field when I was in HS circa 2002.
Their har gow with vegetables (they have two types) is better than the plain har gows. The plain ones are still good, I just enjoy the extra veggies & flavor of the mixed shrimp & veggies. Everything that had shrimp was delicious. Large & fresh shrimp in wonderfully made
Their durian puffs are amazing. In fact, all of their pastries are amazing (kudos to their dim sum pastry chef!).
I’m not sure about other reviews complaining about service. My mom is pretty demanding in Chinese restaurants and Yang’s staff and managers dealt with her in a way that made her happy. She is not easy to please and very vocal if she is not happy.
We came pretty much at opening time on Saturday morning for dim sum and there were a fair number of open tables, but it quickly became packed. My aunt told me this place opened up pretty recently and here’s to them sticking around until my next visit home! I would highly recommend this place for dim sum if you have a car.

We made reservations for dim sum and the restaurant did not bother to write down our name so it was almost as if we did not make reservations. We waited for a while and eventually our group was the last one to get seated.
Overall the aesthetics of the food was nice, however there was not much taste to the food. It seemed like they forgot to add salt to a lot of the food we ordered. It’s safe to say my family would be okay if we never went there again.

The Dim Sum at Yang’s Chinese Cuisine excites me in a way that is unnatural for Dim Sum to excite a healthy man of my age and «maturity.» Unilocal GTA Chinese cuisine aficionados Jen K and Wayne C introduced a group of us to the magic that is their $ 3/​item (any size) weekday special (which you must take advantage of before 11AM).
And take advantage we most certainly did!
At first I wasn’t too sure about this place, it’s basically a really nice looking banquet hall packed with circle tables with one wall lined with tanks for the live crabs and lobsters. It’s located in what I think used to be part of Le Parc Banquet hall located just south of Hwy 7 and Leslie in the Markham portion of Thornhill. Le Parc still remains to the right, but Yang’s is attached, so be on the look out for both of their signs.
Agreeing with my Singaporean brother from another mother (David L), the standout dishes were DEFINITELY the Har Gow, Sui Mai and the Steamed Chicken Feet with Supreme Sauce — Ya I eat chicken feet, they’re gnarly (in a good way).
There were so many dishes that I wish I could remember all the names for BUT, the one constant between all dishes was that the quality was unmatched. Portions of shrimp were abundant, the size of dumplings were easily double many others I’ve had and even small things like the quality of the flaky pastry used to make several baked items were bakery quality. I noticed this right away.
The bad reviews for this place revolve around their pricy dinner options which can run between $ 50−80/person, but this isn’t an issue if you’ve got the extra scratch to spare. In terms of Dim Sum, this was easily a top 3 I’ve ever had in my honest opinion!
Dim Sum Special is CASH ONLY (I was unprepared).
Eatcrest Out!

Came here for a UYE organized by Jennifer K together with a bunch of Unilocalers.
Who can say no to Dim Sum specials!
We tried quite a large selection of dishes as you can see from my pics…
The stand out dish was the har gow (Shrimp dumplings) which was spectacularly large with pretty large shrimp in them.
Larger than most places that I have been to.
There was not one bad dish amongst the 3 dozen of so we had.
Let’s just say it is definitely worth the drive from Mississauga!

~Are you ready Kids? I said are you ready?
Who lives in a Pineapple under the Sea?
NOT SpongeBob SquarePants, I’m sorry Kids…
He doesn’t exist !
–shock– O_​o
That’s not Mr. Krabs or Larry the Lobster either.
That’s Dinner !
–tear– (T_​T)
Now that we past the Lobby Aquarium…
— Early Bird (11:00 am $ 3.00/item) Dim Sum
Shrimp, in Shrimp Dumplings
Shrimp, in Shrimp Rice Roll
Shrimp, in Steamed Shui Mai
Shrimp, in Bean Curd Roll ?
Small, Medium, Large Shrimps of all sizes
As good as it gets in this neighbourhood
Dumpling skins were also a surprise factor
Even the sauce in Bean Curd Roll was saucy
Spacious seating, classy open atmosphere
I’m sure the Kids will get over SpongeBob after having Dim Sum.
–happy– \(^_^)/

4.5 star
This review is based on Early Bird dim sum special before 11 am $ 3 for S/​M/​L at this newest Chinese restaurant in Richmond Hill.
Yang’s Chinese Cuisine used to be Yang’s Izakaya. The change over is definitely for the better, much better. The interior’s decoration is just impressive: high ceiling and everything so plushy!
The dim sum we ordered were all well prepared with care. Some of them has a much delicate flavour with no MSG.
順峰蝦餃皇 (L) Steamed House Special Shrimp Dumplings
蟹子蝦燒賣 (L) Steamed Shiu Mai with Minced Shrimp and Roe
潮洲粉菓 (M) Steamed Dumpling in Chiu Chow Style
酱王蒸鳳爪 (M)Steamed Chicken Feet with Supreme Sauce
瑤柱蒸節瓜條 (L) Stuffed Melon Ring with Dried Scallop
准山鮮菌札 (L) Steamed Yam Roll with Mushroom
豆苗鮮蝦腸 (L) Steamed Rice Roll with Shrimp
雷沙糯米糍 (L) Black Sesame Glutnious Rice Balls
大馬榴蓮酥 (L) Malaysian Durian Pastry — this is so good with «Real» durian!
Service here is extraordinary good. Everyone so polite and I never need to wave down anyone for service! Someone even came over and changed my dirty plates!
For dinner, the menu is mainly made up of fresh seafood set of crab, lobster and seafood. A little pricier than other similar restaurant: Omei or Fisherman but maybe worth the extra $ for a more upscale experience.
Cash or Debit only for the the time being as they are in the process of setting up their credit card payment system.
And for sure I will have to wake up early for some more Early Bird Special!