Yes :-) Dianne's review (Aug 14th 2008)

Best Chinese ever eaten; no combo plates but traditional entree platter feeding 3—plenty of take home boxes available. Husband and I order 2 or 3 entres specifically for home meals the next few days. Lemon chicken is thigh meat and orange chicken is white meat, both sinfully delicious.

Yes :-) A-Gar's review (Oct 29th 2008)

King Yen has the best Chinese food in Spokane. Period.

I grew up in Taiwan, and my mission in life is to find the closest thing to real Chinese in any town I live in. King Yen does it. If your idea of Chinese is P.F. Chang’s, Panda Express, or the Cathay Inn, you may not like King Yen. But I doubt it.

Decor is basic to American standards, but quite close to what you might find in a Taiwanese or Chinese restaurant. The food is fabulous, and the portions are large. Ever Christmas Eve my family dines here, and seven dishes feed all fourteen of us, with leftovers to spare. I’ve never had a disappointing dish here. Try the spicy squid, you’ll thank me.

Overall, one of Spokane’s little known treasures.

No :-( Retired Chef's review (Nov 7th 2008)

Spokane is Chinese challenged; it makes mediocre food like PF changes and even not-so-good food life Panda Express seems to be okay food. So about every three or four months we build up enough courage to try another ‘Chinese’ restaurant in Spokane. We mentally build ourselves up for a good experience, we WANT to find someplace, anyplace that serves something that we can say is good.

So how did King Yen fare, well we renamed it King Yuck and that says it all. We had one meat dish (beef) that was inexplicably made with flap meat. Flap meat does not do well being cooked under high heat, it tends to tighten the fibers, make it curl and become tough and this is what we had, curly strips of tough leathery meat dripping in a over abundance of oil.

Second dish was noodle dish but better renamed an oil dish. I had never in my whole life seen so much oil used on any one dish. It was inedible.

I don’t think I need to mention the rather sparse ambience, unclean seats, tables, bathrooms or anything else that turned this dining experience into another dreadful outing.

One last comment we brought home the food to see if our scavenger children would eat it—no luck they even the starving teenagers passed it by.