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Quick Review of Yee's Restaurant (1131 Grant)

Yee's Restaurant, or 文仔記 in Chinese, is a BBQ meat vendor in addition to being a "tea restaurant" with a pretty extensive menu of most Hong Kong style entrees. The portions are pretty generous, and of decent quality. I haven't compared it against Kim Po (which is at corner of Powell and Broadway, another restaurant I'll post a review later). 

Went in for lunch today, and ordered a pretty simple dish: cha-siu pork and loose eggs over rice 叉燒滑蛋飯 (Number 73 on the menu). It's not bad. You get PLENTY of rice. The eggs are a bit too loose to my liking, and the cha-siu is quite salty instead of flavorful, but there is a lot of the meat. So maybe 3.5 out of 5. 

Their menu is online, but the version on their website is old, and prices have risen quite a bit. It was $7.00, it's now $12.00.  In the terms and conditions, it's clear the website was NOT affiliated with the restaurant itself... Huh? 

Still, not a bad place to eat, in a "greasy spoon cafe" sorta vibe. 

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Kasey is a professional tour guide and amateur historian who specialized in Chinatown History and Tours. You will often find him guiding groups sampling delicious food and learning interesting historical tidbits about Chinatown most weekends.