Lee Yuan Chinese Cuisine

The owner– an old Taiwanese female, is pretty rude and mean.
She canceled my online order without informing me in any attempt, when I waited hours long and called back, she simply explained that their driver hadn’t come in noon.
When I used credit card to pay my online order, with all taxed and tips paid, she called me back particularly for charging me an extra credit card service fee, which I have never ever heard elsewhere.
More ridiculously, when I ordered a 15 bucks meal, adding taxes and tips to 20 bucks paid, she called me back that I SHOULD pay more for the oil fee –because my home is 2 miles away from the restaurant, so I MUST (yes, not please, she called me to request) pay more!
What sucks!
NEVER RECOMMEND!!!

Good food. Very rude waitress (owner I think). Expensive for location and portion size.

Best Taiwanese cuisine in Boulder
Ask for the home made meatballs. Not sure it is on the menu
They also make some traditional bakery items.
All home made

rudest owner, ever!!! food has gone downhill and prices to the sky! Owner called me a liar about my order. Never again. No wonder she can’t keep employees outside of her immediate family. Stayed with them through lots of changes, and mediocre food is the name of Chinese food in Boulder, but cannot tolerate selfish, ignorant owner, who has no respect for her customers.

My sister and I went there for lunch. Because we were short on time, we opted for the buffet instead of ordering from the menu. Big mistake. (The biggest mistake was going there in the first place. You’ll see why.)
The food on the buffet was not hot. It was room temperature at best. Although we were there at 11:30 (shortly after they opened), the food looked as if had sat there for awhile. We really should have just walked out at that point. My sister had some chicken from the buffet that she said tasted old, and the stir fried green beans from the buffet were wrinkled and pretty nasty. The rest of the offerings were just as unappealing.
While we were eating, a small bug — either a gnat or fruit fly landed on a small plate that I had an appetizer on. Then, I noticed one on my lunch plate. I took my plate and showed it to the owner, and she claimed it was not a bug, it was part of the food. A tiny black thing that moves isn’t usually part of any dish I would order.
She told me her kitchen is very clean, the buffet is always very very hot, and she has never had a problem like this. Then, she said if there were any bugs, it was because people kept opening the door. She talked to the waiter and told him it wasn’t a bug, I was mistaken. She repeated this several times as we paid the check and left.
Fortunately, neither one of us got sick. Probably because we didn’t eat much. A $ 9.95 lunch buffet is pretty overpriced, especially since we left the majority of the nasty food behind. Who wants to eat after they find bugs on their plate?
Don’t go there, unless you work for the Health Department.

Went for the lunch buffet on a Saturday. Pretty scary. Female owner lived up to her reputation, and was quite rude. I have read form other posters that on Saturdays they have a special menu of Taiwanese foods. But the buffet was scary old, bland, greasy American-​Chinese food.

Rude employee (might have been the owner). Expensive and slow. $ 15 for a chicken chow mien that took 25 min to make. When I asked her why it takes so long she replied «we use don’t use can food. only fresh». I don’t know about you but I’m pretty sure I can make a stir fry in about 10 min if everything is prepped restaurant style. The lady that helped me was super stingy with the soy sauce and wanted to give only one packet for a meal that serves three people. She ended up charging me like $ 3 for some additional ones! My advice would be to avoid this place at all cost!

There food is ok, but there service is the worst, and I’m sick of it. These people are lazy. I have often called them to deliver me food… they are just around the corner from me. Today I called to have lunch delivered. I called at 1:50pm. I literally live less than 3 min away, but I’ve been sick today, so I wanted my soup delivered. On the website it says they deliver until 2:30pm however she would’t take my order even though it was 40 minutes until they closed. It doesn’t take long to deliver soup, she wasn’t having it tho, worst of all she didn’t even offer for me to pick it up. I guess this is a sign to just stop supporting this business. I told her I was a long time customer. I won’t be ordering from them any longer. They just lost my business.

Lee Yuan is a yummy, reasonably priced, and locally owned restaurant. Their lunch specials are a great deal and their survice always gets you in and out in a good amount of time. The only reason I didn’t give them 5 stars is because the take out always takes longer than they estimate. Overall, Lee Yuan in great!

Nope! Do not eat here! This use to be our favorite chinese food place ever! Our old roomate got my husband and I hooked on it for the past 4 years. We haven’t had it in a while and decided to enjoy our Friday night with chinese! My husband loves General Tso’s even though he’s not a fan of spicy. It was awful; sweet as can be and no flavor! The crab ragoon was 2 days old, dry and had nothing in it! Very very dissapointing Friday night! Ugh!

Just a big ol ‘nope’. Eggdrop had zero flavor. I’ve never had to add soy sauce to soup before to give it some semblance of flavor. Waiter/​hostess lady was extremely «edgy», borderline rude to people coming in and on the phone. General Tso Chicken also no flavor. Extremely bland. Actually tastes AND LOOKS like buffalo sauce’d wings. People in Boulder must like bland cause there is a steady To-​Go/​Pickup throughput. But to this South Texan, there’s no flavor in anything.

I’ve been going to this restaurant for a few years and enjoy their meals.
Lunch you can get in and out in about 20 minutes so service is fast.
Dinner can be good too.
I think their food is fresh and the staff is friendly.
Having said that, I can understand where people might rate this a little lower than my rating. Sometimes, less than 20% of the time, there can be inconsistencies, but if I speak up they rectify the issue.

Ordered hot and sour soup and general tso chicken. Soup was ⁴⁄₅ and general chicken was 2.5÷5; sauce was excessive and mildly flavored. Normally this dish should be cooked with garlic, red dried chili peppers which this dish had none. Sauce wasnt sticky as I should be. The restaurant has nice décor and clean on the inside.

One star is for the staff, each time I’ve come here they are very polite and hardworking. Another star for the food, as it is pretty tasty and decently priced. Last star for the staff again, they seem a little understaffed sometimes and they do everything to keep it going. That said, the past two times I’ve been told 20 minutes for pickup. First time it took 38 minutes. I am currently sitting in their restaurant at 7 pm, still waiting for a order I was told would be ready around 6:30.
Overall, not a bad place, nice place for a bite to eat if you want some Chinese fare and a sit down environment. Staff works hard and is always polite. Just wish they could be a little bit more accurate on the wait times.

I ordered take out. The food was okay at best. The lady at the front desk is a little rude. The rest of the staff is great!
I really think they should move the microwave out of the view of the dining room.
They also do not take Amex.

HOTBED FOR CREDIT CARD FRAUD
First, let me start with the Chicken Broccoli I got was awful. I’m pretty sure they thawed it in the microwave and forgot to put sauce on it. But terrible Chinese food comes along…
The MOST disturbing thing of my entire experience is that I’m going to have to cancel a credit card because of their online ordering system. A coworker and I tried to do the takeout ordering from their website, and when he tried to pick up the food, they told him the orders didn’t go through. He asked if we were charged for it, and the worker said «no, but never use the online ordering because people’s information has been stolen from that». GREAT!!! take down the online ordering if it doesn’t work, don’t walk your (now former) customers into a identity scam! They are probably the ones scamming the cards themselves as a nice little side business.
Not that I would go back because of the terrible food, but after the credit card experience, I’m just pissed at them.

Lee Yuans is the best, And I am from California. I have been to every Chinatown in the world, and this restaurant is by far the best, with the best food and service that knocked my socks off.
The food was so good, that it was like coming home and I’m not even Chinese.

Middle of the road prices… Middle of the road food (in most instances).
We used to live close by, and ordered from Lee Yuan … A half dozen times.
I think tat in the end what got to us was that it was hard to try new things and discover they weren’t as flavorful as the items they are clearly well liked for (see online menu, popular items are marked as such).
My two bits — order from here what they clearly do well. The rest, at your own risk — depending where you are coming from, you might find it amazing, or just Blah.
I will say this — when ordering the favorites, you are paying for their most costly dishes, and that means this place is not such a bargain anymore. The less popular menu items are certainly less expensive, and less well put together (ie Another case of you get what you pay for).
The egg rolls (not spring rolls) are good! Worth a trip there just for a dozen of them if you are in the mood!

Word of advice: come here on the weekend and try their homemade Taiwanese style street food. You’ll get the kind of specialty found in the famous Taiwan night markets such as the Oyster omelet, fish balls in seafood sauce, etc, and they’re all really good!
We chatted up with the owner’s wife who made some of the dishes, she used to be a pastry chef in Taiwan before moving to the US and we tried one of her Chocolate Cake Roll with Taro Fillings, it was very appeasing to our Chinese tastebuds!
We took a peek at the buffet station and saw foods you can pretty much get at Panda Express so we know we must stick to the plan of visiting only on the weekend! If you enjoy Zoe Ma Ma, you’ll like getting the kind of homemade street food offered at Lee Yuan!

This was one of the worst meals I’ve had in my life. My girlfriend got the sesame tofu. The texture of her tofu was mushy, and it tasted uncooked and flavorless. My kung pao tofu was slightly better, but the peanuts tasted like disgusting cocktail peanuts and the sauce was rather bland. Both of our entrees smelled like feet. Add on to this a group of old, loud honkeys laughing about their money as they discuss politics at an unreasonable volume.
So, if you’re old and like mild and bland food, this might be a good place for you. Otherwise, head somewhere else.