Come here when I crave for my howetown food. Try the crossing-bridge rice noodles if you are a foreigner, it's not spicy. Otherwise challenge any spicy dishes, they are equally great.Yelp doesn't support Chinese characters.. Anyways, Xiao Guo Mi Xian is not authentic, they still cook it in the big pot, if you know what I mean. T_T

sichuan style food is my favorite kind of chinese food, and yunnan garden is my favorite place to get it. everything in here is delicious and I seriously have not tried anything from the menu that was not superbly cooked.

Authentic Szechwan cuisine. DELICIOUS SPICY food. As long as the food taste good, I don't really care about customer service.

My family and I came here today and I had to update my previous review. I have to admit, the food is good but the customer service here is horrible. Also, they have a shady way of calculating tax so I would be on the lookout for that the next time you go.Since we were not really hungry, my family of four ordered their #1 (which I would recommend), a sautéed eel dish, and a 3-item combo appetizer dish. Everything was good until we got an eel soup dish instead of the sautéed eel dish we had ordered. We told her waitress and she took it back to the kitchen. A couple minutes later, she came back with the same eel soup we saw earlier. We told her, again, that they got our order wrong and we wanted the sautéed eel dish. What happened next was absurd and, by far, the worst customer service I have ever experienced. The waitress came back and told us that she thought we had ordered the eel soup dish and was pretty stubborn about it. She kept saying that that was what she heard and we should have checked with her prior. I'm sorry but I thought it was her responsibility to get our orders right. She then told us that they had already made the soup dish and because we did not want it, they had to make another dish. We told her, again, that she must have misheard because we clearly said that we wanted the sautéed eel dish. We eventually got our sautéed eel dish and thought that we had seen the last of that waitress until she came by again. She asked us if we still wanted the soup dish since they have already made it. We had made it clear, several times, that we did not want the eel soup and wanted the sautéed eel dish. She then asked if we wanted to order another item because we did not order enough. By then, we were definitely not pleased with how rude and disrespectful this waitress was. After that, she did not bother stopping by our table for the rest of the meal. She even ignored us when we tried to get the check.TIP: CHECK HOW MUCH THEY TAX YOU.When we got our check today, they mysteriously added a 20% tax on our order. I thought tax was supposed to be 8.75% in this area and NOT 20%. They have a SHADY way of doing business. I would check just in case because they could easily add it in without you even noticing because they just add it to the total. We just paid it off because we did not want to deal with the horrible waitress again, tipped and left. We tipped out of courtesy but she did not deserve a cent of it. The lack of customer service for the latter half as well as the extremely rude waitress definitely did not deserve any tip at all. Oh yeah, she also glared at us on the way out - completely unprofessional. I would avoid the waitress with the glasses and poofed up hair at all cost.After this horrible experience, I'm a little hesitant about coming back. Their food is good but their staff is completely unprofessional and rude.Food: 4But, -1 for rude waitress, -1 for horrible experience, -1 for OVERTAXATION.

do not come here..the cumin lamb has more vegetables and peppers than anything else...the water stewed beef is like completely boiled with spice oilno customer servicelady seemed like she was more into the chinese newspaper than serving us

Food is Ok, but with deteriorating quality.Service is quite bad.Don't go during busy dinner hours unless you know how to get the attention of the waitresses. My impression is that they basically ignore additional people if all tables are already filled.

Note: This is a review for their house special noodles. It's a little bit of what they are known for, and it's not to say the rest of their food isn't good.. but I just came here specifically to try this.I have to say that I came away a fan. Was a bit skeptical at first looking at some of the pictures because it looked like a whole a lot of noodles and not much else. The interesting thing about what they do here is that they bring out everything separately and put the bowl together there for you. Think of how when you go to a pho restaurant and you get the plate of basil, lime, jalapenos, etc. Now picture all the meats (poached chicken, sliced pork, veggies, etc) at the bottom of a bowl, then they toss in a plate of noodles (really nice smooth texture to them), and then pour hot broth all over the top. I actually really like that since it keeps your broth from being boiling hot.As for taste; the noodles' texture is impeccable, the broth is like mom's best chicken noodle soup, and the meat was tasty as well. I could potentially do with a bit more meat, but that's just the meathead side of me talking. Would love to come back here and try some of their lamb dishes, but as for their noodle soup... great for a soupy kind of day!

Recommend this place especially if you love spicy food! I really like their appetizers- seaweed, celery & tofu, pig ear, spicy beef, chicken feet, etc. I also lovelovelove the House Special Noodle. Although it's plain, if you add the spicy sauce, it is sooo good. Their noodles also have a special texture to it... yum! I've also had the spicy frog, beef, and fish. Everything I've ordered here has been great.

Cold appetizers galore! Right smack around the main entrance of the restaurant, there's a display case full of all the most yummy and freshest cold appetizers you can think of... and some you can't. That's why it's great to give as much of them a try with the 3 item combo appetizer dish... where you select 3 items from the display... and it's only just a little over $4! You can either bring it back to your table (if you're dining in) or ask for it to go.My fav dish at this restaurant? It's the cold chicken drenched in their "special spicy sauce" (#49, $8.95). The "special spicy sauce" is actually chili oil, peppercorn and chili flakes... which could be quite intimidating when you look at it. However, if you can get pass that, the dish itself isn't that spicy at all. In fact, there's almost a sweet taste to it. It goes perfect with rice. In fact, the cold appetizers goes perfect with rice too! I SWEAR I don't usually don't eat much rice, but I can SERIOUSLY eat 2 or 3 bowls of the rice at this place! Crazy~ I KNOW! Hahaha...Parking is available in the back lot and on the street. Credit cards are accepted.

Yunnan Garden, you are my problem but i'm not complaining. I love you. I've been coming here for the past year. Same thing every time. Cold dish combo (3 items) - $5. House special noodle soup (no meat) - $5. Money left over to hit up Al's down the street - priceless.If you like spicy food, you have to hit this up. I'm sure their other dishes are good too but i'm happy with my reg. Its simple, quick and it never disappoints.

Came here 30 minutes before closing on a week day with my boyfriend. They did rush us politely though.We ordered several small dishes & the Yun Chuan Guo Chao Mian. I've never had Yun Chuan Guo Chao Mian before so I was pleasantly surprised by the light broth and deliciously al-dente noodles. It's like pho minus the blatant amount of MSG.For the small dishes, everything was just alright. The seaweed was nicely seasoned though! My absolute favorite is their liang fen. It looks like a pan of thicker, opaque, round glass noodles. They season it right there with some soy sauce & chili. Really light but flavorful. I could probably eat this all day!

My best favor!!!The environment is good, but the price is cheap. And the food is the best!!!!!!!!!!!Especially to recommend is the cold sidish!I'm Chinese and love spicy food. This restaruant is really the best.OK, and in menu they say ok to delivery but actually no service like that.

Yunnan Gardens's menu is heavy on beef, chicken, lamb, goat, and pork. It's a haven for Carnivores so leave your Vegetarian and Pescatarian friends at home to complain all by themselves. About every dish that I tried had an 7-alarm rating on the Richter scale of spicy heat. Unfortunately, I was dining with a group of diners so I couldn't tell the manager that I wanted a "mind blowing" 10 to 12-Richter scaled spicy heat instead.Among the other dishes to try at Yunnan Garden is the #31 Cubed Goat in Hot Pot and a stir fried #39 Chungking Fried Chicken Cubes with Hot Pepper is wok tossed with dried red chili flakes. This dish would be the perfect accompaniment with a cold beer and a football game.All of the menu specialties were either stews or stir frys. I also fancied the #98 Lamb with Cumin, which was out of this world. I would not have guessed that it was a lamb dish if no one told me that it was. Another one of my favorite dishes was the #49 Fat Pork Slices with Garlic (pictured above); a dish of boiled pork belly (thinly sliced like bacon), fresh garlic, and drowned in red chili sauce that would frighten any vampires back into hibernation or hex you on Valentine's Day. The spicy heat did not over power the tender pork belly, but the fresh garlic did. It was a happy marriage.

Eh, Over-rated!I love Szechuan food, so when my hubby suggested this place, I was really excited to try it out. We ordered House Special Rice Noodle Soup, Fried chicken cubes in spicy sauce (forget the exact name, but it's one of the house specialties), and Shredded pork with green peppers.First, we got the Shredded pork with green peppers. This literally came out within 3 minutes of us ordering it. It was so fast to the point where one must question the freshness of the dish (was it pre-made??). Anyway, we love this dish (it's pork stir fried with thinly cut green and red peppers in yummy sauce), so we were really excited to eat it. Meh. It was just OK... Pork was too fatty and the sauce wasn't very good. 3 stars. Chung King on San Gabriel Blvd makes it SO much better.Next, we got the Fried chicken cubes in spicy sauce (I'm not sure if sauce is the right word, it's not a saucy dish. It's basically fried chicken stir fried with a whole bunch of dried red peppers and other spices). Again, this was just OK... 2.5 stars. When we ordered it, we didn't realize we have had the exact same dish at Chung King before, but once we had a bite of it, we remembered having the same dish, a better version of it. Yunnan Garden's was in-your-face spicy, and had no other flavor. I love spicy food, but I like flavorful spicy dishes. This was just spicy and lacked complexity. I also think Chung King uses better quality chicken.At this point, we were starting to think that they have forgotten our noodle soup, but the other two dishes were so disappointing that we didn't even want to try the noodle. So we got the check and sure enough there was the noodle on it, but told the waitress we never got it. She was really nice and apologetic about it. I think the servers here understand basic English and they are nicer than some of the other places in SGV.So all in all, 3 stars. Maybe we didn't get the right dish, but with so many other choices in the area, we won't be going back.