Yans Express in York

As someone else mentioned, we've also been eating here from time to time for several years and always found the food good. Last time quality had gone down a bit, but this time, a lot. To begin with, the rice we were given was basmati - the long grain Indian rice - instead of the customary short grain sticky Chinese rice. All of the food was heavily seasoned with Chinese five spice, a taste which is still lingering with me several hours later, and not in a pleasant way. My chop suey should have been loaded with a variety of vegetables but instead was almost entirely beans sprouts with a few limp bits looking like spring onion offcuts, plus about three little sticks of Julienne carrot. Very little in the way of onion, mushroom, peppers, carrots or anything else they could have used. The charsiu pork was quite tough and difficult to chew. My husband's sweet and sour chicken had carrot and onion bits that were virtually raw. I like vegetables still crunchy but those had probably only been cooked for about 30 seconds. There was really not a lot of chicken and what there was involved a lot of little bits of batter which probably did not contain any chicken inside. The chicken itself almost seemed as though it had been pre-cooked and then heated up again as it seemed a bit tired and dry. My husband's fried rice was unrecognizable as such. I'm sure we could have done better with a couple of packets of rice and a frozen meal from a supermarket. We won't be eating here again. There's no point in having a five star hygiene rating if you serve food that's inedible.

Salt and pepper chicken and the udon is immaculate fast, tasty and incredible. The food came hot and the delivery driver was also nice.

Honestly the worst Chinese takeaway I've ever had salt and pepper box I got men to have prawns ribs and chicken.. no prawns ribs battered for some strange reason..will never go again

Disgraceful personal hygiene. Disgusted that the people handling my food would have black filthy hands and nails and their clothes extremely visibly dirty. Shocking you serve food like that. The managers and kitchen staff are just as bad, shows their poor standard of cleanliness.

We have used Yans for many years and have NEVER had a bad meal so we were looking forward to our meal tonight.....from opening the cartons we knew it was different the rib sauce was watery and vinegary the sweet and sour prawns small with thick goey batter the char sui fry rice meat was inedible and the prawn crackers worse than we've bought in Tesco We did ring to ask if it was a different chef and did get a sorry but no explanation of why the meal was so bad

Pleasant staff, good speedy service, excellent food, varied menu (including vegetarian), reasonably priced (CASH ONLY), good sized portions, tastes great. We were VERY impressed with everything about Yan’s Express. Will definitely use them again. They deliver, or easy parking outside 😊👍.

We will not go anywhere else for chinese. The food tastes amazing always comes hot and the portions are big. Cannot praise them enough. Best chinese round york.

Lovely chinese. Very friendly service. Fast delivery. So consistently good, never had a bad experience. They always remember you and their delivery times are always quick. Just lovely !

Cheap fast good quality hot food. Great little takeaway with friendly staff. Dose what it says on the tin.

Nice Chinese food. Everything was cooked well and very tasty. Reasonable prices and pleasant staff. Well worth a try.

Although not MY first choice takeaway, they are a close second :-) Lovely food and great for collection on way home from the pub! lol Friendly helpful staff, for those of us who don't always know the dishes!

Always use Yans I just ring up to order then collect 10 minutes later .Great food and excellent service

Nice enough take away, reasonable price, the salt and pepper take away is my fave. Will definitely use again.

As a family we have been using yans for about two years and have never had a bad meal. Always good service great delivery and very friendly.

Awful food, the flavour didn't remotely come close to the description. The Cantonese style dish tasted like bad gravy and the satay dish was like garlic water! The chicken texture was enough to put us off meat for a while! Never again!