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Yang Chow Restaurant

Location: 6443 Topanga Canyon Blvd (Cross Street: Victory Boulevard)
Woodland Hills, CA 91303-2621

Phone Number: (818) 347-2610

To make a long story short: No gas money to go to Chinatown? This is the next best thing.

Whenever I drive around LA I sit there and completely cringe at gas prices. $3-fucking 15 for one gallon of the shitty stuff?! No wonder we haven’t been able to do a proper update! We can’t even afford to gas up our cars let alone get something to eat!

A couple of Sundays ago since I haven’t seen my bestfriend Pat in a while, we decided to have a day together of impulse shopping and since we find the food at the Topanga Plaza completely overrated, we decided to go to Yang Chow a block away from the mall.

The place is pretty big and very bright; white walls, pastel colored chairs and tablecloth, etc. But the first thing that caught my attention was the walls covered with Zagat awards and autographs of B List celebs (which is still always cool to me).

What to Order: Two words: Slippery Shrimp

Flash fried butterflied shrimp coated in flour and then covered with a sweet sauce. Garlicky, slightly crunchy, always reliable and always comes hot and fresh to the table. I can’t help but put the first piece in my mouth and then spit it out, burn my tongue and then re-put it in my mouth and eat it. They’re not skimpy with the seafood either. You really get what you pay for.

I also got their 3 Flavor Chow Mein, and unlike other Chinese restaurants, their noodles are thick and crispy instead of skinny and decorated with vegetables, crab, beef and chicken. The sauce isn’t too salty or shalacked in soy sauced, it’s perfect.

My friend Patrick got their Beef with Oyster Sauce and honestly it was your run of the mill beef with brown sauce dish-nothing really special. If anything it actually tasted bland to me but maybe it would be better if I had it the next time.

Service: 8 out of 10. Their service really is attentive. Guys always coming by and refilling your drinks and if you’re a camel like Patrick and I that’s definitely a plus