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Yopo Cafe
Category: Restaurants Chinese Chinese [Edit]
1122 Homer StVancouver, BC V6B 2X6
Neighbourhoods: Downtown, Yaletown
(604) 609-9676
- Price Range:
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$
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Delivery:
- Yes
- Outdoor Seating:
- No
- Has TV:
- No
16 reviews for Yopo Cafe
16 reviews in English
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Review from Joe L.
Vancouver, BC
11/14/2011 8 Check-ins Here
Walking past this lone small Chinese restaurant in Yaletown (an area not known for authentic food establishments), one would wonder if there would be anything on the menu other than lemon chicken or sweet & sour pork.
Having just moved to the neighbourhood from Coal Harbour, craving for Chinese food on an evening of building furniture and unpacking and not wanting to drive to Congee Noodle House out of downtown, we gave it a try. I was very pleasantly surprised with the taste and the choices available on the menu.
I have tried beef chow fun, salt and pepper pork chop, and beef with scrambled egg on rice and they are all excellent. Prices are extremely reasonable. For example, beef chow fun at Yopo is cheaper than what I pay for take-out at Victoria in Royal Centre. Yopo has become our go-to take-out after a long day at work during the week. -
Review from Allen W.
Updated - 4/21/2012 4 Check-ins Here
We continue to order from here every few weeks. My partner is Chinese so we dine mostly in Richmond but this place is just a block from our condo, so we eat it on our lazy nights.
There are certain dishes that I like from here and others that I don't. Staff are friendly and service is good. Prices are OK for Yaletown. All of the dishes we order have always been consistent.
We've had good luck with all of the chow mein/noodle and fried rice dishes, spicy spareribs (small, but tasty), and the crispy fried tofu. The wonton soup is filling but Canadianized a bit (not as seafood-y as most Chinese places). I like that they vent the takeout boxes so your fried food doesn't steam itself into mush.
I avoid the eggrolls/samosas/general tso's/mapo tofu -- all of these seem to miss the mark.1 Previous Review: Show all »
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10/21/2011
Just moved into Yaletown and Yopo is just a block away. During our move, we ate there many many… Read more »
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Review from Taylor K.
11/14/2011
This isn't my my first choice when it comes to Chinese restaurant in downtown area but Yopo is the closest Chinese restaurant to my house.
Their combos are pretty good deal. And their wonton soup is pretty decent. I prefer shrimp wontons and they have beef wonton.
Their beef broccoli sauce is pretty good. I just wish they don't put in more beef in it.
We go there to eat purely out of convenience hence the 3 stars. The service is pretty fast if you are eating in or picking up. I've never gotten it delivered so I don't know what that's really like.
The food is decent but if I have more time, I would rather go to tsui hang village on granville. -
Review from El a.
Vancouver, BC
5/18/2011
Maybe it's because I live in a culturally rich neighborhood where good food is everywhere but this was by far the worst fast-Chinese food I've ever had!
Yes it was quick, yes the staff was friendly but damn was that flavor the worst ever. I can honestly say I'd rather lick wet nail polish then eat here again...pass thanks. -
Review from Mark D.
7/10/2011
I kept ordering from Yopo. I would think sooner or later it will get better. And, sure enough, every once in awhile, the food would be delivered quickly and would be hot and well prepared.
But, more often than not, the delivery would take well over an hour. The food would be bland. And there was always too much broccoli in their General's Chicken.
They did usually get the order right. It is unfortunate that there simple were no other Chinese restaurants in Yaletown.
Because Yopo is a crap shoot at best. And even, at its best, it's not that good. -
Review from Diana L.
Vancouver, BC
9/7/2011
I ordered for delivery plenty when I first moved here, drowned my homesickness in garlic spareribs and sweet and sour pork.
I've never eaten-in, either picked up or called for delivery so I've never had any of their lunch specials.
They are good! When I had a hankering for chinese food, this definitely did the trick. I had their number on speed dial. Too bad about the spotty reviews, but I think, especially in Yaletown, it's a quick, friendly, cheap place to grab reliable chinese. -
Review from Patricia L.
Vancouver, BC
2/3/2011
There is more than affordable authentic Chinese food in Yaletown and it's name is Yopo Cafe. Hooray! Everything on the menu is tasty for both lunches and dinners.
I love their Dan Dan noodles on a rainy day. At under $6 for a bowl of hot noodles on a cold day, you just can't go wrong.Listed in: I HEART Food!
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Review from Tim A.
Updated - 9/20/2010
I returned to Yopo Cafe today for a second try.
Unfortunately, it was not as good as the first time. I ordered the General Tso's Chicken. Everything about the dish was good except one thing. The sauce was a nice combo of sweet and sour. They included a good amount of fresh broccoli, lots of onions, and good steamed rice. What wasn't so good was that hiding inside the deep fried batter were small, very small pieces of chicken (and chicken skin?!) Unlike the first time, when I raved about the quality of the chicken pieces served, today they fell back down to "Just Another Chinese Fast Food Joint" serving only average quality chicken. I hope that they will read this and impress me once again with great quality meat in their dishes when I return. Thanks.1 Previous Review: Show all »
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2/14/2010 First to Review
Although this has a dine-in area, I'm rating this more as a "take-out" place. I ordered the chicken… Read more »
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Review from Ernie B.
Burnaby, BC
7/4/2010
Do yourself a favour and skip the lunch specials.
If you order off the menu, quite a lot of the food is pretty well done. The spicy salt spareribs are really quite awesome in particular.
one other thing to avoid are the wuntun. They don't use shrimp at all; just pork and water chestnuts which means that they aren't real wuntun. They do at least pack the noodle and soup seperately so that they don't turn to mush.
Also, try to call ahead. The place is tiny so all you really want to do is stop in to pay and pick up. I think they deliver in yaletown as well for dinner. -
Review from Ingrid D.
Vancouver, BC
7/30/2010
ok... it's time for me to start reviewing my yaletown lunch places :-)
I've been kind of avoiding it until now, but today I had a nice lunch, and I thought that it would be nice to talk about it!
Yopo is a tiny tiny little place... So be aware !!!
If, like me, you just want to get some take out for your lunch, it's waaay better to call in advance. This way, your order will be waiting for you, instead of you, waiting for your order in this very cramped space.
Lunch specials are not that great 9but still descent hey !), but everything else that I have tasted on their menu is very good.
And the price is really reasonable as well : today I had a Ma Po Tofu and rice for 7.25$... Can't really beat this in the area !
The portions are generous and the quality really good. So it's one of those places that I like to go at least once a week.
And I'm glad I found it, as it is not easy at all to find a descent chinese restaurant in the area !
So I would really recommend it.
Why a 4 ? Because it's so tiny that it's hard to manoeuvre inside ;-)) -
Review from Amy Y.
9/7/2010
I understand cheap and convenient Asian fast food comes with a price and the quality needs a different set of standard. With that said, I dont understand why they'd try to skimp on the sauce itself. We ordered take out and when we open up the boxes we were surprised to see a huge block of white rice with whatever we ordered on top- there was not enough sauce to even cover the rice which made the non-rice items look like garnishes instead of an actual dish that was suppose to go together.
I would understand skimping on expensive meat, or even vegetables but sauce? I dont think so. -
Review from steff c.
Vancouver, BC
12/8/2010
I used to have mad love for the ginger beef here.
They'd fry the beef crispy, toss in their amazing sauce, fry up a few onions and green peppers, tons of ginger, and, shazam, your gingery-beefy dreams would be fulfilled. (Rawr.)
But the recession hit.
And, suddenly they changed. After 9 years working in the neighbourhood, I found them skimping on sauces, putting more veggies, as much as 25% less meat, and then a smaller portion overall.
You want to raise your prices? Raise them. Don't dick me around and start serving me less and pretending nothing's changed.
This is par for the course for the kung pao and other dishes, too. Used to be a really solid joint, but ain't what it was.
Still? Pretty good. Just better if you don't have a frame of reference for who and what they were three years-and-longer ago. -
Review from Kimli W.
7/26/2010
Great food in a tiny place. Definitely call ahead and do take out; there's barely enough room to turn around in the joint. Great food though; and a favourite of mine when I worked in Yaletown. I've even taken a trip back to the neighbourhood to get my fix when I was nowhere in the area.
I especially enjoy the fact the the chicken they use is good quality, and not mostly skin and gross parts like most "fast food" Chinese places. Good variety on the menu, delicious flavours, and good pricing. For a city voted as having the best Chinese food outside of China, I've had some really bad luck trying to find good Chinese in Vancouver - Yopo is a definite exception to my bad luck, and I'd eat here all the time if I was at all close to Yaletown. -
Review from Miranda L.
Vancouver, BC
8/9/2010
In the middle of the night I call your name... Oh Yopo!
Three words: Spicy Salt Prawn.
For having so many Chinese restaurants it's hard to find a place so consistently good.
They only have a couple tables, so this is definitely a takeout place.
Enjoy!
(spicy salt prawn... spicy salt prawn.... spicy salt prawn) -
Review from Jason B.
12/21/2010
This place is a hidden little secret. Very good food, small but good. Menu is varied and staff is friendly. Highly recommended. Also, they deliver to the local area.
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Review from Kathy C.
9/7/2010
The food wasn't really that great, but it was cheap in a fairly pricey area, they delivered, and ... it was cheap?! We had a part of six, visiting Vancouver for about a week, staying in a rented condo. For convenience sake, we decided to order a delivery and tried a variety of dishes. None stood out as "good", but the tomato beef over rice was soooo sweet that I could only take a bite of it. The food was mediocre but it is a cheap, convenient location for a quick meal.
