Yin LI Chinese Restaurant

The food was an amazing, with a mix of Panda Express-ish food and triditional Chinese food. The service was great with polite staff, I was even greeted at the door. The atmosphere was ok. It looked like any other Chinese restaurant. The food was pretty cheap too.

Horrible. We came here before going to the Aladdin musical at the Capitol Theatre. It was one of the few restaurants in Chinatown that we could get into. Terribly overpriced. Extremely slow service and dim sims that were still frozen inside served to us and at least two other tables. There was a wooden peg on our plate. They obviously use them in the kitchen for whatever reason and forgot to remove it before serving. I was just about to take a mouthful of food and the waiter reached over the top of me to grab the peg I had placed in the middle of the table. The owner lady was yelling orders in Chinese at the wait staff in the middle of the restaurant. And then there were the dead fish floating amongst the barely live fish in the tank that the 'fresh fish' are plucked from prior to cooking. Avoid this restaurant at all costs. Wish there was a zero star rating as 1 star is being generous.

I felt like I was not wanted in this restaurant. It was expensive and the food was at best average. It was very obvious that the Asian people present were placed in a different light to the rest of the diners. At our table (six diners) we all agreed we had made a mistake selecting this restaurant to eat. To top it off we were advised by a Chinese Australian diner that we were charged more for our meal than the Chinese diners as we left the restaurant. She explained the different colour menus were for Chinese and then anyone else and were different in price. We were all disgusted.

The owner of the restaurant belittle his customer as you couldn't believe. He charged us more than we ordered, when I questioned about it, he said :if you can't afford to eat outside, don't even bother coming to our restaurant! How dare you, it's called fraud! You charged us more than we ordered. Worst Chinese restaurant in Sydney. Pls share my post, I don't want any of my friends being treated as dirt!

It was Chinese new year opening night... So yes it was a really crowded day. I got my first warning when I comfortably got a table for 8. We really didn't have a choice as we were starved and just had to have some food. After placing the order, I read the Google maps reviews and saw a barrage of 1 stars. There.. My second warning. But it was a bit late as we had ordered the food already. I mean at that point I was ok with medicore food as well cos we were that starved. In 15 mins or so.. came two prawn dumpling sets which pretty much vaporised with the amount of hungry people around the table. Well, no luck for the veggos. Then the real waiting started. A good 30 mins after that there is still no sign of any food. Once someone got a wrong dish to our table looked around confusingly and left. What a tease. When we went asking... The waiter said he is new and he only know to bring the food to the table but didn't know when it will be ready. After some more waiting came the mediocre food that we expecting. But a special mention goes out to the so called BBQ Barramundi. I guess it was an anorexic barramundi that they hand-picked for our dish, which by they way was a total rip off for 50 dollars. The lesson learnt is that it's never too late to up and leave if you see these many negative reviews on Google maps.

I agree that the time we visited the restaurant would be busiest time of the year. I came here for Chinese New year opening Night 2018 with a small group of friends. The staff took the orders and did not notify us that it will take around 40-45 minutes for our items to get delivered. As starters, they got two sets of prawn dumpling but all the other food items were served to us really late. Also, it looked like the waiters were confused with the food order and kept on getting wrong items to the table till the final orders were delivered. My review for this restaurant is bad customer service, poor time management, overpriced food items, and not keeping the customers informed before hand.

A$40–60

A$20–40

Absolute rubbish service and they were loud and disregarding the atmosphere of the restaurant, the food was extremely overpriced for low quality food that did not taste fresh

The Hot u0026 Sour soup was thickened beef stock with shredded bamboo shoot and sliced mushroom. It was neither hot nor sour. The salt and pepper squid was very good (that gets 2*) but the Kung Po chicken had dried chillies with no flavour or heat and whole green peppercorns which ruined the palate if you bit on one. The prices were ridiculous, the wine especially so. The best bit though was watching one of the staff/management/family spitting into the rubbish bins on prominent display in the restaurant. Appalling place, best avoided.