In addition to an extensive menu of Chinese / American dishes, this restaurant serves a surprising variety of sushi items as well. The front room is decorated in a traditional American Chinese restaurant style. You should walk through to the back room, where there are some tables, a sushi bar, and the sushi chef. On a hot summer evening, spouse and I had water, a pot of tea, seaweed salad, a nice rainbow toll, and a special roll with three types of tobiko. The fish was fresh and tasty, the seaweed salad tasted great. The sushi rice could have had a touch more mirin (Japanese rice vinegar), but was fine. The menu is quite interesting, with fun misspellings throughout. Squid is "squit"; sashimi is "sasami"; General Tso's Chicken is "Generd Chicke". The hunt for others is a pleasant diversion while waiting for our food. Price, including tip, for above was $56, not bad at all. read more

A Perfect Post-Adventure Feast! We stopped here after a long trip to Dinosaur National Monument and it hit the spot. The warm Asian dishes were fresh, delicious, and served in generous portions. The waitstaff is incredibly sweet and warm-hearted. A great local gem in Vernal! read more

The food was great and the portions large for the price we paid. Both the sesame tofu and Kung Pao were flavorful and very fresh tasting. We also had an order of veggie rolls that were nice and crisp and full of flavor. The service was great and the place was very clean. The only drawback was they don't do substitutes. I wanted sweet and sour tofu. I was offered to get the sesame chicken without the sesame sauce and would have been given sweet and sour sauce on the side. As good as that sounds it isn't the same as sweet and sour tofu with the pineapple and onions with it. But overall still a very positive experience. read more

Jade Lion - Sesame tofu - Chinese Near Me - Vernal, Utah

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I tried the sushi and other dishes. I think it's one of the best sushi I've had to eat 10/10 the other dishes are good but not as good as sushi. The only problem was that I waited more than 45 minutes for them to serve me and the restaurant was empty. Then I came back and ordered 3 rolls of sushi, it was the same I waited 50 minutes sitting and when I stopped to go pay the bill my food arrived terrible to wait so much very bad experience just for that.. the incredible sushis read more

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I'm just going to give you the honest truth. Going to Jade. Lion is like going to every other casual Chinese food restaurant. You're better off getting drive-through. Initially we went into the restaurant, and we got a table. Like most Chinese restaurants, the menu is huge. They also have a huge sushi menu. It took the server a few minutes to realize what we actually wanted to order, and we had to keep correcting her. So service is not 100%. I got my entrée, which was a curry beef, and I would probably say the beef to vegetable ratio was 5%. The plate was pretty much covered with onions and uncooked carrots. Also, the sauce was very greedy, and you could taste of curry on the beef as if they just sprinkled it on at the last second. I also got a spicy eel, sushi, roll, and nearly every rule was missing the email, it had the avocado, but the eel was missing. I had hoped that they would not mess up the easiest thing of everything, the Thai tea, but yes, they messed that up as well. If you're looking for Chinese food in Vernal, Utah, Jade lion is not the place I would recommend. There are a few other Chinese places, that may have better service, and understands the purpose of ingredients. Most likely, I will not return. read more

Jade Lion - Beef Curry - Chinese Near Me - Vernal, Utah

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It's one of my favorite places in town to eat. Great food at a great price. I recommend to all my friends and eat there whenever I can. Great and friendly service. All the employees are so kind! Great sushi too!!! read more

I wish they were at least nice or new how to cook good food :( . One or the other please but not both. If you love fried rice, just leave. Yea lease save urself the trouble. read more

Jade Lion - Chicken and broccoli. I Won't be going back. - Chinese Near Me - Vernal, Utah

We give the flavor of our meal 3.5 stars. The service is is prompt, however the owners/servers are SO RUDE! I've eaten here multiple times and the server experience is always the same. Other customers were commenting on the rude service as well. read more

Great sushi for a small town in Eastern Utah. I will be back in the next three weeks

When my husband and I travel we make a list of places that we will frequent when we are in town. So far from our trips out to Vernal we have two restaurants on the list. This is one of them. Very good Chinese food. Liked the appetizers, soup and Entrees. read more

The meal was ok at best. When it came to the bill it was way over priced. The menu for sushi was incorrect it said 2 rolls for 10.95. They didn't specify it was a lunch special. I was charged full price for both rolls. I asked the waitress about it and she said it was lunch. I challenged it cause it didn't mention there was a 3pm cutoff time. So I paid the bill cause they were unwilling to change it. While I was leaving the waitress was changing the menus. What a waste. read more

I wish zero stars was an option on here. Zero ambience, unless you like to listen to the women servers screaming at their children the whole time you are eating. They got our soup order wrong 2 times. We kept the second wrong soup because we didn't want to make the screaming women mad at us. Ordered beef and green peppers. The sauce tasted like watered down canned tomato sauce. It came with about 3 tablespoons of steamed rice so we had to ask for more rice. After we were only half way through eating, one of the server women came over several times to check if we were done yet, even though they weren't busy. We were literally the only customers in there. The whole dining experience felt hurried and uncomfortable, the food was mediocre and the servers were rude. read more

Family-run restaurant with CRAZY good sushi, oh my! They have Chinese food too but the Japanese food is so oishī we just haven't been able to order anything else! And even though we've eaten there a few times, we don't have any photos because we just dive right in. Arigatou Jade Lion, see you soon! read more

Good food! Best Chinese food I've had for a long time! Higher prices, but you get a lot of food! Higher prices are to be expected right now also, due to the cost of everything being up. read more

Okay, first of all one star is too much. We ordered the entree option for 2, we ordered the beef pan noodles, the noodles weren't cooked and couldn't be chewed or even cut with a fork. So rubbery. I ordered the orange chicken, first of all didnt taste like chicken, wasn't fresh, freezer burned maybe? We waved our waitress down and she couldn't care less and assured us everything was fresh, didn't offer us anything else or a discount or anything. Worst chinese food I have ever eaten. DO NOT EAT HERE! SO SO BAD. read more

Full disclosure, I am from New England, used to good Chinese in Boston, New York and CT. This was as far from good as you can get. Egg rolls had no meat in them, which makes them spring rolls, not egg rolls but they were mushy and oily to boot. Won ton soup usually has strips of pork in it but there was just 2 mushy won tons with a tiny little bit of mixture in it. No pork strip, not even sure there was meat in the won tons. The fried rice was not at all flavorful and had a few bits of what appeared to be Spam. Cream cheese filled won tons were sweet, which is a first for me. The beef and mushrooms was the most flavorful thing we ate and it was cooked thoroughly but not overcooked. If this is the best Chinese food this area has to offer, I feel sorry for the locals. Overall, it was bland, overcooked, mushy and very little to no meat in things that are supposed to have meat in them. read more

We eat here all the time. The sushi is very good, and we have enjoyed everything we have ever tried. They also do a nice job accommodating large groups. read more

We were seated fast. Food was delicious! It was colorful and fresh. I like the way my food was sizzling on the hot plate. The general chicken with white meat is so good. I love how the portions are big enough that I can have leftovers which I love. This is one of my favorite places to eat. They have take out too. Yenni was our waitress and she was delightful. read more

Jade Lion - Sizzling meat. Yum. - Chinese Near Me - Vernal, Utah

This is my absolute favorite restaurant in Vernal! I've lived all over the country, and this is excellent Chinese and Japanese food. I was so worried when I moved here that there would be no sushi, but Jade Lion put my mind to rest. Not only do they have sushi, they have delicious sushi! I absolutely love this place, and the family that runs it is so nice!! read more

Great place to eat! Food is good! Only thing is it's super cold inside and it makes you not want to stay very long!

I believe Vernal only has two Chinese restaurant options. Jade Lion was recommended by some locals as the best Asian food in town. The food was ok and the staff were friendly. The restaurant is in a small town multipurpose building, so don't expect any real atmosphere. read more

By FAR the best Chinese food in town, the prices are fair and the service is amazing. I even called once for To-go and couldn't pick up until 10 mins after they closed and they said it would be fine and they will still full my order and wait for me!! The flavor is far superior to the 2 other Chinese places in town we have tried. Soup, fried rice, and other sides are great. The limited entrees we've had were amazing! Been a dozen times and will continue to go! read more

Delicious food. Nice presentation. Piping hot, cook to order. I had the Singapore rice noodle combination with added steamed veggies. Staff is super. They are kind and attentive. My soft drink was refreshed several times without asking. Clean atmosphere with plenty of seating. 11/8/17 Came back to Vernal and stopped by Jade Lion again. Glad I did. I ordered custom spicy beef chow fun with steamed veggies. It was very good and flavorful. The staff are so kind and attentive. I echo my previous review. See you on the next trip. read more

The Jade Lion started serving sushi a few weeks ago-mid July, 2018-and it is REALLY good. I'm a pretty forgiving eater, will eat most of what's in front of me, and good service forgives a lot of sins. That being said, I'm a bit of a sushi snob, and Jade Lion doesn't disappoint. I've only seen one sushi chef, and he's a young asian man, but he is very talented. The menu isn't as deep as I would like, and a lot of rolls are listed on the menu that aren't available. But there are enough good rolls to satisfy most, I think. The rest of the menu is your typical Chinese fare-good, but not outstanding. I certainly hope the word gets out, because it is very, very, good-particularly by small town standards. The wait staff is also very friendly. If I could give it 4-1/2 stars I would, but I make it a point not to award 5 stars, because there's always room for improvement! read more

They have friendly staff and good food. It definitely was a pleasant experience. The restaurant definitely could use a little TLC

I love the food here! It's nice flavorful and filling! I've never been disappointed in the times I've come. Besides how great the food has always been, the service has always been superb! The waitresses are always quick attentive and so incredibly kind. If you like Chinese food, you will love Jade Lion. read more

Food is good but they need to get the HVAC system looked at. It's so cold inside that I recommend getting take-out and going somewhere comfortable. Been there several times and even the wait staff are wearing winter coats. I'm sure their business suffers from not having a comfortable dining room. read more

Love this restaurant! Really good soups and entrees! The staff is friendly and attentive. My go to place to get my noodle fix.

Nope not good. I ordered the beef and snow peas. The whole thing tasted like something was rotten. Couldn't eat it. The fried rice had zero flavor. Maybe the cooks were on strike and some local high school cooking students were filling in. Those are not Chinese flavors or textures. Unfortunately I ordered take out and couldn't return it or ask for a refund. Just visiting Vernal for the night. Will not be back for this spot. Sorry read more

Soooooo good I am in love with the service and the food. I came for lunch an the waitress ran to sit us and made shore drinks were full they didn't linger but was there when you needed anything. Love this place an will b back soon to try something new read more