Comments on: At Lunch Now: Cheap Chinese Craving Takes Me to Yips

By: Photo of the Day: Baby vs. Chinese Food : Easy Idiot - get better knowledge

Photo of the Day: Baby vs. Chinese Food : Easy Idiot - get better knowledge — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 02:22:11 +0000

[...] That’s no ordinary baby eying a bowl of Chinese steam-table food; that’s Harry, the progeny of Mr. Midtown Lunch, Zach Brooks. Zach clearly has no problem having lunch with his kid—if only he could find a fancy baby-friendly restaurant to eat at instead of Yips. [...]

By: Adam

Adam — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 18:52:16 +0000

I think that Chinese food place in the Rockefeller Center Concourse might have closed. I agree, it was one of the absolute worst Chinese places I’ve ever been to. Every time I went there, I swore not to go back!
Also, I think the “Fast Food Chinese” on 47th Street off 5th might have also closed.

By: Spam

Spam — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:24:54 +0000

You can not resist a Yips craving. It’s kind of odd because Yips cravings are rare, but they are the strongest kind.

By: Mamacita

Mamacita — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 21:46:49 +0000

I have to defend Zach here on the love for the general Tso’s chicken or sesame/orange chicken. All so so good! damn I want some now!!

By: Larry

Larry — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 21:33:32 +0000

Wow, almost ran into you today Zach. I walked by Yips, almost went in, but instead went to the Halal cart (53rd & 6th)

By: win

win — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 21:14:56 +0000

For me Yips is very hit or miss. The last time I went around 2:45pm and the garlic shrimp was so bad I vowed to never return (rice was god awful and 6 pieces of shrimp for $6!).

I’d rather call ahead and get the general tso’s (white meat) from China Gourmet on 8th ave: you get 50% more food and it is delicious!

By: AL@1PP

AL@1PP — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 18:54:45 +0000

what about LunchBox? it’s steam tables, you get more for less!

By: Susan

Susan — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 18:41:27 +0000

Sun Yip is not all buffet/by the pound. The counter in the back has steam table, including general tso’s and daily specials and chinatown options as well.

By: Danny

Danny — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 18:24:35 +0000

Yips is good for what it is. I like it quite a bit actually. They’re one of the cleaner looking steam tables out there. Definitely leans on the side of American-Chinese food as opposed to Chinese food. But I love that stuff. Cheap too.

By: DocChuck

DocChuck — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 18:16:26 +0000

@RB — I thought that, but didn’t know how to put it since DocChuck is carefully ‘moderated’ on the New Yawk City blogs.

But, your comment was brilliant! ROFLMAO!