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| - Ever since I moved to the East Valley a few months ago, (heck, really, ever since I moved to The Valley 5 years ago), I've been looking for a good Chinese restaurant with fresh-tasting food and a more authentic feel (to me, authentic is as simple as using traditional Chinese vegetables like bok choy instead of zucchini)!
I believe I've found such a really good Chinese restaurant in Yao's. And not only must the food be good...other restaurants got rave reviews on the food...but so too, the service. Because good food can be soured by poor service. Typical in some of these "authentic" Chinese restaurants: non-communative waitstaff or those who don't care. Yao's was different...right from the friendly greeting when we entered to the cheerful waitress who stopped by every so often to check on us (granted, it was only late afternoon on a Sunday).
But the food was very good, too. Following the lead of other Yelpers, I ordered the egg roll. It was indeed nice and crispy, not greasy on the outside, containing slightly crunchy, flavorful veggies and other ingredients inside. It definitely tasted like they made it, not the common freezer-to-fryer ones found elsewhere.
The won ton soup in a cup was a small serving, mostly broth with a little shredded cabbage and stuffed wontons at the bottom. Very light, not substantial, really just enough to warm you up a bit and move to the next course.
The moo shoo shrimp was good: all pancakes with contents were pre-wrapped by the kitchen, with hoison sauce on the side. They stayed moist that way without crumbling or getting too soggy--just perfect. Veggies were flavorful, as was the flavoring inside. Shrimps were reasonable size, plump and tasty.
I definitely will be back again.
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