Yen Du - Stockton

We were a party of 9. Celebrating my 70th birthday my son 45th and my granddaughter 14th. I have resided in Stockton for 20 yrs and I have never heard of this restaurant...I am in this area 3 times a week. Well my daughter who resides in Berkeley found this place on Yelps??? My 2 daughters my son 4 of 5 grandchildren and my spouse met for the family monthly breakfast or lunch. We loved this restaurant the food was delicious. The chow men was different..it was good but the noodles were like a rubber bands. I grew up with chow mein with lots of veggies... bean sprouts celery bok choy and just vegetables. It was good I'm so glad we came this restaurant. We will order the house chicken next visit. The restaurant was clean with great service. We had reservations and we received a friendly welcome...great staff. The egg rolls were my favorite great and the sweet and sour chicken blew my mind with the rice. I was in heaven...no complaints..5 stars for restaurants.

I ordered Mongolian steak this was yummy tender and delicious, and kung pao chicken the fat was not rendered, so I would eat a bite and I would have a big hunk of fat. I don’t know if if they boiled the chicken and then just wok stirred, but it was not good. And then I ordered the sweet and sour pork and the pork taste off. I didn’t eat any of it. I had three people at my house and we all tasted it and threw it away after a couple of chews, the meat was deep fried so the meat had to be bad so I would not order that from them again. We also ordered the combination fried rice and that was actually good so if you’re gonna go there, I would do the combination fried rice and the Mongolian beef, but after that I would steer clear. 2 of the 5 things i ordered were good.

Best places in town they treat you like family and the food is great 10 stars

Truly, one of Stockton's finest. The service is excellent, and the food is always on point. Get the pot stickers and the house fried rice.

UPDATE 7/6/24: After a hot day cleaning out the garage, we wanted a hearty meal, so I suggested Yen Du Chinese restaurant, with cooking style from the Szechuan region. My sister, brother in law and nephews haven't been here before and I wanted them to try the food because we had a great experience during our first visit (review below . Arrived at an odd hour, about 3:00pm, and there was plenty of available seating. The gentleman who seated us was the same person who took our order. He apologized when taking our order because they were short handed that day. We didn't mid at all. The guy was working really hard to wait on 4 to 5 different tables doing everything from taking the orders, bussing the tables, and checking up on everyone. He was amazing! He said he's normally one of the cooks, but today he had to work out on the floor. I can't say how much we appreciated his service help. We ordered the sizzling soup , vegatable chow mein noodles , salt pepper fish (Our favorite! , Mongolian Beef, Mushroom Greens, crab Rangoon (I think