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    Ying's Kitchen

    4.9 (15 reviews)
    Closed • 11:00 am - 2:00 pm, 4:30 PM - 8:00 PM

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    Kayla P.

    my brother goes to college in this area and has always mentioned this restaurant to me. we're southeast asian, and it's pretty rare to find a good authentic lao/thai restaurant in iowa. we didn't get to sit inside and eat, but we ordered for to go and the quality was great! we got the pad kee mao (drunken noodle) and pad see ew, tom yum soup, chicken wings, larb, and pad woon sen. + thai tea :) the noodles were 7/10, we got them super spicy and it met our standards. the tom yum soup here was 8/10, though it did taste like the vietnamese soup "canh chua" but still very yummy! the asian female server that was working was super sweet to me and my family and provided amazing service. i took pics of the menu bc ive seen that no one has posted updated ones so i hope this helps! i would've taken pictures of the food but we ate it too fast! as a southeast asian myself i 10/10 recommend this to anyone looking for thai/lao food around here!

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    Karen D.

    Love Yings Kitchen! Their crab rangoon is amazing. Had that last night. Also had some hot and crispy potstickers and a an iced green tea that was wonderful and sweet! I'll be ordering that again. The atmosphere is very nice and homey. Very comfortable, and not freezing cold like so many restaurants in the summer. The server was very fast and efficient.

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    Good food, good service. Solid Thai food unexpectedly found in small town Iowa. I recommend trying them out.

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    4.2(135 reviews)
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    It may not look great from the outside but the food was excellent. We had the pumpkin curry which…read morewas SO good, and another curry with green beans and kefir lime leaves. Also delicious. Friendly, hard working people- seems to be a family business. Happy to support this great find.

    We pulled into Sioux City overnight on a Tesla road trip specifically to try Diamond Thai. We had…read moreread about the fried tofu with their "secret" sweet peanut sauce and other vegan options. High hopes. What we got was a nearly empty dining room and service that never caught up to a two-top. When we walked in, one couple was finishing and soon left. After that we were the only people in a room that could easily hold 30. It took a while for a man (we assumed the owner) to bring menus, then several more minutes for water. Eventually a woman with very limited English came to the table. We worked through questions as best we could and ordered the fried tofu appetizer plus two vegetable entrees: drunken noodles and Pad Khing. Rice on the vegetable plate was $3 extra -- odd when you expect rice with a veggie meal. The tofu arrived with a generic sweet-and-sour sauce. No peanut flavor at all. My wife had to go to the counter to ask about the advertised peanut sauce. The response was a handful of crushed peanuts to sprinkle on the sweet-and-sour. That is not a "secret sweet peanut sauce." That is a workaround after the fact. The entrees were edible, nothing more. The drunken noodles had a few vegetables tossed in like an afterthought. The Pad Khing was fine once you paid extra for rice. Nobody checked on the table the whole meal. The man stayed in a back room with a young child. The woman who was serving us ate her own dinner behind the counter. When we finished, no check came. I walked up while she was scraping her plate into the trash, paid with Apple Pay, left a modest tip we didn't feel was earned, and walked out. Food: okay. Service: absent. The peanut-sauce bait-and-switch was the real disappointment. We left wondering how a place this empty, with this kind of attention, sits at 4+ stars. I'd hate to see what happens if ten people walked in at once. We won't be back.

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