Yip’s

Closed down Friday lost lease

Cheap, fast and nasty good Chinese food! You can not beat the price. I had the garlic chicken and finished my portion. But like all Chinese food, I wanted more in an hour.

Very dirty place, feel like its hasn’t been cleaned in ages.
For the lunch special, the rice is so hard and obviously left over from day before.
The season chicken felt hard and taste like leftover as well.
The price is dirt cheap but you also get dirt.
The worst place I’ve been to in downtown.

This place is not fancy at all but not bad — reasonably priced, buffet style lunch. Good for take out if you can’t get a table here. Most of the food choices are somewhat greasy, though many are tasty. Sauteed spinach and bok choy are probably the only tasty and healthy choices. But what I come here for is the hot & sour soup — I am somewhat of a connoisseur and this is well above average (many places over-​sweeten their hot & sour soup). If you’re looking for a quick and reasonably good (but no overwhelming) Chinese lunch in this area, this is a pretty good option. They currently have a B rating from the NY health department — for any of you who are very picky about that.

Tasty food! Good selection.
Clean.
Cheap.

Used to eat here when I used to work in the downtown financial district. Good, fast, Chinese food, but I suspect that getting lunch from Yip’s too often is what started my cholesterol problem (LOL). I miss Yip’s…

Yip’s is what it is — inexpensive and consistent Chinese buffet. That said, they have a good turnover, so the food is fresh and changed often. And while there are plenty of fried food favorites, the steamed baby bok choy is awesome, as is the steamed chicken with broccoli.

You can’t beat this place with a stick. Many many choices to choose from the buffet table. In the back you can order authentic Chinatown dishes from the kitchen.
For five bucks you can have a burger and drink or you can have real food here. This will be my goto place from now on.

it’s close to where I work and it’s cheap but this is the greasiest chinese per-​pound food i’ve ever had.
I miss having chinese food so sometimes I come here for lunch when I know i’m not having chinese for dinner.
I really liked their stir fried beef ho fun the first time i went and was actually kinda surprised at how closely it resembled the real thing… cause typically these fast food chinese joints serve «fake» chinese food (i do not mean imitation crab or fake soy sauce… it just means it’s catered towards ‘westerners’)… i was simply surprised that it tasted good.
If you, unfortunately, work in fidi and you crave chinese food and you’d like to check this place out, i suggest you come a little earlier. The food is more fresh when you’re there at 12-​ish, by the time it’s one, it’s colder, and oilier (than ever).

Just to clarify. There is Yip’s and Ho Yip. Do not get confused. Yip’s is a stripped down version of the original. A lot less variety and less business. Nevertheless, Yip’s offers cheap lunch options. If you go to the back, there’s $ 5 selections. To the side, there’s a self serve section based on weight. It’s basically what you expect. Plain old cheap and greasy chinese lunch spot.

Came here for lunch today based on Menupages reviews, which I’ve realized are wack. Greasy Americanized Chinese food, which sounds like a good thing to some, but too bad it has no flavor! I’m eating chicken and broccoli that has no taste to the sauce, and beef chow mein that tastes mostly of oil. Ugh never again.

shrimp balls!

I never got the buffet here, but I did order from the back counter a few times. The good was fine, typical lunch specials available. Not much room if you want to eat there though. Expect to sit with people you don’t know in tables that are crammed into the corner.

Honestly, the worst chinese food I have ever had in NYC. In fact probably the worst chinese food I’ve had anywhere… and I’ve had chinese food in Nowhere, TX (that was pretty terrible too).
Listen to reviewer PC W… only eat here if you really hate yourself or you really want to hate yourself.

If you like yourself in the slightest, don’t eat here.

THE GOOD
Their garlic shrimp is decent, the Fried Rice doesn’t cost extra.
THE BAD
It’s a chain, everything besides the garlic shrimp and broccoli is overcooked here.
THE UGLY
$ 5.75 for an entrée — that’s +$ 1 more than the one on 18 Beaver, plus a lot less food, $ 5.95/lb for buffet before 2pm, $ 4.95/lb after 2pm.
Total came out to $ 5.75 after everything

One whole long wall of this place is the Chinese buffet. They keep the food in certain groups (fried stuff, vegetables, meats alone, meats with vegetables, noodles, rice, and soup). The cost is about $ 5.99 a pound, and after you’ve selected your food of choice, you take it to the front of the restaurant, have it weighed and then you pay. It is super fast and the cashiers are extremely to the point.
I can’t vouch for like 95% of the food here. As is common with most Chinese food buffets, this place is serving up a lot of meat centered dishes. I sampled the following: vegetable fried rice, vegetable lo mein, sauteed spinach, and garlic string beans. The food positively glistens here. This means, of course, that it is heavily coated with oil– lots and lots of oil.
Honestly, I expect my Americanized Chinese food to be greasy; it’s what I like in this cuisine. I really enjoyed my $ 3 meal, and it’s right near work, so I can’t complain. It’s just one more mediocre eating establishment in the culinary wasteland that is the Financial District.