Surprisingly awesome Chinese food near Yellowstone! Visiting Yellowstone for 5 days and staying just outside the West Gate, in a tiny town so small it boasts exactly one traffic light -- so you know you're in for an adventure. We weren't expecting to find good Chinese food in bear-and-bison country, but stumbled upon this gem of a restaurant, and wow -- plot twist! We ordered the ELK sizzling platter, because... when in Yellowstone, eat like an elk? Surprisingly tender, smoky, and flavorful -- definitely a local specialty worth trying. The Sichuan popcorn chicken? Legit spicy, crispy, and could easily sneak into a Sichuan restaurant in Flushing without raising suspicion. The stir-fried large intestine was well-prepped (read: clean!) and delicious -- if you know, you know. Even the shrimp lo mein was decent, although it played it a bit safe, like that one cousin who always orders sweet and sour chicken at dim sum. Would I call it New York or San Francisco Chinatown-level? Nah. But for the middle of Yellowstone? Solid 90/100 -- and that's including bonus points for sheer surprise and elk swagger. read more

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The food is very authentic! I didn't expect to have such good Chinese food at Yellowstone! As someone from China, I was impressed by the Sichuan cuisine they offered. The location is not at the center of the west Yellowstone, but parking is easy here compared to parking at the other restaurants in the center. The place is very spacious. It's good for big groups! I strongly recommend this place if you are in the Chinese food mood. read more

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Since moving to western Montana a few years ago, I've tried and failed to find authentic Chinese food. Even Spokane, WA, which isn't in the state but is the next closest larger city, has just an okay Sichuan restaurant. This place though - in West Yellowstone of all places - is the real deal. They have clearly gone to the trouble to import a professionally trained head chef from China, the equivalent of a French restaurant employing someone who actually attended culinary school. As for the dishes pictured: The dry fried string beans were as good as I've had anywhere, California and Chengdu included. The tofu bean curd stir fried with shredded pork included Western celery which isn't my personal preference, but aromatics tend to vary with this dish anyway. The water boiled fish, one of my favorite dishes, was an interesting take -- lots of minced garlic, not super spicy, although the overall flavor profile and velvety protein texture was correct. Next time I will ask for it extra spicy. P.S. They also have a sister restaurant of the same name in Jackson, WY, which I believe is open year round. The West Yellowstone location is summer only with a soft opening in May. Minor downsides: no Chinese fresh greens available, and yes, it's pricey for the "real" Chinese dishes on the menu. Expect to pay 2x for Chengdu fried chicken vs General Tso's chicken. But if you live in an ethnic food desert with big city taste buds, or just really like eating Chinese food on vacation like my parents, it's worth it. read more

China Fun Restaurant - Chinese Near Me - West Yellowstone, Montana

I live in West Yellowstone for 6 months each year and am always looking for good food. Sadly, this place will not be one of those places I visit - to force a mandatory tip on all orders is ridiculous and downright unethical in my opinion. Pay your employees a fair wage and raise your prices if that is the reasoning behind a 20% flat tax that goes to the owners. If their food is that good, the 20% add fee to the cost of the food items should not be an issue. And, if the service is even borderline mediocre, most folks would tip on the mere fact it's a gateway town and most employees are not locals. Until their mandatory tip / tax gets removed, I will travel elsewhere for authentic Asian cuisine... read more

很好吃，味道不错，菜量很大很实惠，正常15%tip include，他们都是seasonal的师傅，每年工作几个月在这里，可以理解 The food is very tasty and flavorful, and the portions are large and very affordable. A standard 15% tip is included. The chefs are all seasonal workers who work here for a few months each year, which is understandable. read more

China Fun Restaurant - Chinese Near Me - West Yellowstone, Montana

Super authentic Chinese food in the West Yellowstone town. The owner is very nice and friendly. The service is excellent! We ordered Sichuan style boiled beef, mapo tofu, and seaweed egg drop soup. The food came out literally within five-ten minutes! It's so delicious that we had to come back for another meal. If you're looking for authentic Chinese food, we highly recommend you try out this amazing restaurant. read more

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F*^%*!G GOOD!!!! it can be pretty difficult to find good consistent food in the small town of West Yellowstone. In person experience, there's a lot of fluctuation with quality because the remote location is hard! And a lot of people who work here are seasonal. So when it comes to food, don't have the most promising stuff... But I have to say China has the best Chinese food in town. I was craving good, hot Chinese vegetables and lo mein and that is exactly what I got. This place has consistent reviews because there is awesome. Their restaurant is clean and food is consistently good and authentic. If you want Chinese food after the park come to thumb. It is the very first restaurant that you see when you enter the town! This place is great read more

China Fun Restaurant - Fried green beans - Chinese Near Me - West Yellowstone, Montana

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The inside of the restaurant is dingy but the food is good! We were surprised by the dry sautéed spicy string beans and the potato / pork belly dry pot. Honestly those dishes rivals what we can get at home in Seattle. The beef lo mein was just ok. Some of the dishes are quite pricy but I get it, it's Yellowstone. read more

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Was looking for Chinese food near Yellowstone and decided to give this place a try. There was plenty of seating. Staff felt nice. Good if you have large parties. Other than that, the food is ok. We did notice the food was a bit salty for us. Some dishes we ok, but some dishes felt like I needed to eat a lot of rice to balance the salt. I don't know if I would suggest going to this place for Chinese food. Might have been better to go to a burger restaurant. read more

China Fun Restaurant - Chinese Near Me - West Yellowstone, Montana

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Delicious! Better than expected! This place beats some of the Chinese restaurants I've been to in the Washington DC area. This place serves authentic Chinese food! I would say the chef/cook here is REALLY good at putting the flavors together. Make sure to order the authentic entrees and do family-style ordering if you can. The authentic dishes are flavorful and super delicious! I definitely see this place as a popular place Chinese people would go to. The restaurant does not look too fancy ... a little hole in the wall but clean and spacious. The prices are better than the restaurants around it. The service was good (standard Asian restaurant service :)), the staff stopped by to refill drinks and such. They do automatically charge a tip, which was nice for our staff to remind us when we were paying. We would recommend this place and would come again! Great food! Great service! Reasonable prices compared to the other American restaurants here! We ordered ... -Spicy Chicken - This was deliciously super spicy, order only if you can handle tongue numbing spicy. We couldn't stop eating this! So good! -Stirfry Cabbage - Cooked very well. Perfect amount of garlic and not spicy for our toddler. We all loved it! -Lomein - This was okay, mainly ordered for the kids. I consider this a more Americanized dish but my toddler did love it so much that she had three servings! read more

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Honestly not sure why there are so many bad reviews. I thought the food was great. It's authentic Chinese. So if ur looking for Panda Express probably better going somewhere else. But thought the service and food and seating were all great. read more

If you're looking for Chinese food in the West Yellowstone area, this place is a major disappointment. The food quality is below average and just as expensive as any other restaurant here. If you're looking for authentic food, go back home. I'd eat Panda Express over this. The interior of the building was not really what we were expecting. It's very spacious and a bit dingy, but that's not really an issue. I went to Yellowstone with my family, and we are all Chinese. The servers told us in Mandarin to quickly eat our food because people from returning from tours would be coming soon. It felt like they were rushing us. The other interactions with them were similarly cold. Also, The kettle on our table wasn't full of tea, but water. It just seemed like cutting corners. We ordered the clay pot chicken, mapo tofu, and beef broth stew with radish. All the food was lacking in size. The beef broth seemed especially thin, like it was more water than flavor. The mapo tofu sauce seemed to be a similar quality to store bought sauce. Because you can just buy tofu at the store for cheap, you're pretty much just paying for a 20 dollar sauce, and it did not deliver. read more

China Fun Restaurant - Clay pot chicken - Chinese Near Me - West Yellowstone, Montana

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Elk dish is very delicious and has a distinct Chinese flavor! It's mixed with onions and mushrooms. Reminds me of softer beef. Wish it came with rice though. Rice costs extra. read more

Ate here with my family after a day in Yellowstone and the grizzly reserve. We ordered spicy fish, green beans and kung pao chicken and all were delicious. Very tasty authentic Chinese food. read more

Arrived at the restaurant tonight (Thursday evening) around 9:20 PM and asked if we could still dine since they closed at 10 PM. We were told we could order take out. We accepted and ordered egg drop soup and a pork egg roll to go and paid. The waiter returned and said they no longer served soup and the person in our party who ordered soup was in the restroom. We told the waiter we would need to ask her when she comes out. He said to hurry and went to talk to the host in Mandarin Chinese. He was cursing and talking BS about us which was highly inappropriate. He didn't know we could understand. We asked for a refund and left. We called the red lotus who said they were still accepting dine in (this was past 9:30 at this point) and they closed at 10 pm as well. Skip this rude establishment! read more

No service at all. But the owner insist on fixed 20% tips which is crazy. 听我的别来吃 你会后悔的。 read more

Nice little place kind of off the main roads. Not many patrons so I thought hmmm... but it was awesome ! Ordered Kug Pao, Lo mein, broccoli beef and rice . Everything was fresh and tasty. A little pricey but just about everything in Yellowstone is also. Really quick service too, only 10 min wait. read more

I was worried about finding decent Chinese food during my trip since the reviews of the several Chinese restaurants in West Yellowstone are generally mediocre. However, my takeout experience here was solid. I am glad this options exists out here. I just got a lo-mein for myself, but if I had a Asian family and wanted to order dishes and rice for a larger party I would not hesitate to come here over the other Chinese options in town. read more

The food was fabulous/ we had Happy Family dish with all different proteins and vegetables I like doctor hot food and ordered medium heat and it was just right. Service was good. Value was good considering we got 2 dinners out of it. The ambiance needs improvement. Noisy, beeping noises all night and the walls and floors need cleaning. read more

Shady practices ! They to trick customers into leaving 2 tips! They have a mandatory tip listed as a line item on your receipt, then when you go to pay the only total listed is total including the mandatory tip plus a box to leave a tip. This tip isn't labeled as an additional tip or anything. If you write a tip in on the receipt it will be an extra tip because they already charged a mandatory tip on the receipt. Shame on them for trying to trick tourists! Food was food though, yes, a bit salty like some other reviewers said, but had good flavor. Prices are high and they charge for rice too. Service was virtually non existent, the waiter only came to the table twice, once to take the order and once to give us the bill. You would think with a deceptive mandatory tip you might get at least a little service. Guess not. read more

Amazing food, fast service, nice background music. Server was sweet and gave complimentary egg drop soup for my family of five. Will come again when we can!!! read more

Compared to other Chinese restaurants in the area that have a greater number of reviews, China Fun Restaurant is better in terms of cheaper price and flavorful food. I travelled with my mom and Chinese aunties who have strong preference for Chinese food for almost every meal, and they all agreed this place fit their palette a lot better than the other nearby Chinese restaurants. The service was also much more friendlier as our waiter was very accommodating to my aunts' requests (filling their tumblers with hot water, making the food less spicy, and providing the ginger scallion soy sauce for one of our dishes). We went around 8pm on a Tuesday so there wasn't many other customers around, so the wait time for the food was pretty quick. The interior itself isn't much to look at but that's not something we put great importance in. Also, speaking for myself, since I'm aware parties of 6 or more have the gratuity included in the final bill, I did not have any issues with the bill/tipping. I understand other customers who don't have this knowledge might run into an issue but the waiters will confirm if asked. read more

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I first became concerned when I saw how absolutely filthy the tabletop soy sauce and salt Shaker were. It looked like they haven't been cleaned for years. My wife found the tofu dish so distasteful, she left all but the bite she took. Egg roll, hot&sour soup and pot stickers were good, but my Mongolian Beef tasted a little off. 2 hours later, I was sick. I now need to throw away what I took home. Never going back. read more

Food was delicious and very fresh. I did not like the fact that I had to ask for hot tea five times to get any and they only gave us one small bowl of rice for 3 people. read more

My husband and I are only here for a week and I had a craving for Chinese (he got pizza elsewhere- which was actually good) I got sautéed three delight and because their entrees don't come with rice, I also ordered shrimp fried rice. Let me preface this by saying- if food is good, I'm not concerned with the price That being said, what Chinese places charges $23 and doesn't at least include steamed rice?! And then additionally charge $17 for some shrimp fried rice. It's not like the portions were any larger than any other Chinese restaurant I've tried.... Ever The entree had no flavor, the beef had a weird aftertaste - not fresh and like they coated with too much cornstarch or flour before sautéing and the rice was overcooked; it was just a container of mush. If you live here and this is your favorite, I'm sorry If you don't.... And you're craving Chinese.... Just wait until you get home and go to your fave place Guaranteed it would be better And probably cheaper. How sad I should have known when I was walking in and the entire walkway to the door was littered with cigarettes and just unkept. read more

Food was salty, most expensive chinese restaurant I have been to, they charge extra for white rice, as other reviews mentioned, a tip is added and and have another tip section on top with pre tip amounts, Shady practice. Would not recommend, read more

This place does not deserve the stars it has. I'm pretty sure it's because they are in a tourist town and the visitors may not have tasted decent chinese food. All the dishes aside from the dumplings were a struggle to consume and far from authentic. Also add on top of that the owner had an extremely cold and indifferent attitude. At one point he lost patience when taking our order (we were reconsidered one of the items) and had a younger worker serve us instead as he went to another table. Just skip this place, unless you really REALLY want "chinese" food. read more

China Fun Restaurant - taken mid-meal. dumplings, family style tofu, kungpao chicken, fried rice. - Chinese Near Me - West Yellowstone, Montana

They included a 15% tip automatically, for the worst service. The waiter wears sweat pants. The only people who wear sweat pants and a hoody to work, are people who don't give a rat. He can barely get away with speaking English. The worst part is the food was so bad!! The cooks pretty much went crazy for soy sauce. Those who can, do. Those who can't, work at China Fun. read more

We were looking for a great Chinese restaurant and this one was highly recommended. The food is wonderful and the portions are very big. We could only eat half. Plenty for the next day. Service was very fast. Just on the north edge of town. A must try. read more

Quite possibly the best meal we had in West Yellowstone in all our trips here. Food was fast and flavorful. This hidden gem is definitely worth finding just outside of the downtown area. read more

All dishes were too Salty, tip was included for a group of 3. Poor representation of Chinese food, advise against it read more

China Fun Restaurant - All dishes were too Salty, tip was included for a group of 3. Poor representation of Chinese food, advise against it - Chinese Near Me - West Yellowstone, Montana

Amazing Chinese Food Service same Chinese style Orange chicken, noodles and fried Rice best Flavor i eat read more

Food was really good! Better than red lotus. It's a no frills place but authentic food and service was quick. Overall very satisfied.

One of best Chinese food I've ever had. Green beans were delicious. Spicy crispy fish fillets were delicious as well. Mongolian beef was great too. read more

The service and the food was great! I will be back next time I'm in West Yellowstone.

Authentic Chinese food, tasty. I ordered two times, didn't let me down. I'll introduce it to my friends.