Lin’s Restaurant

When we want Chinese food in Tillamook, this is the place. Big portions, and always delicious. Staff isn’t super friendly, but that’s the only slight downside.

Delicious food great prices amazing portions we found this place in Tillamook and we love it always leave beyond satisfied and their egg flower shop is amazing

Nothing wrong about this place, I don’t expect more from a regular Chinese restaurant. My vegetarian dish was tasty, with good vegetables, and they serve good quantity of food. I appreciated the free ice cream and the fortune cookie they gave as a dessert.

I have yet to eat a bad meal here. The food is flavorful, the portions are perfect, the price is right, and the service is awesome. Jason, the owner, always remembers his customers and treats them with respect. I will always go here when I crave Chinese, which is pretty often!

Very good family food. Owners also have local egg/​chicken farm. Hot sour and egg drop soups are well above average. Pot stickers are chicken and dough/​bread only; good, but plain. Plenty of mushrooms and other fresh ingredients in all dishes. For Tillamook it’s a hit and we’ll come back.

I’ve eaten here twice and was pleased the first time I ordered a special request and it was prepared well. Both times the food was reasonably fresh and well-​seasoned, but the tea is awful! I have never tasted tea so bad, and I drink tea every day. Nice touch at the end of the meal, they bring a tiny scoop of ice cream (very likely Tillamook) that is just the right amount. It’s sad that this is the best Chinese food in Tillamook, but also sad that one cannot expect something better in a small town.

I stopped in with some colleagues from work for dinner in early August. The wait staff acted like they were upset we came in at 7 p.m. It took only about 5 minutes to get someone to our table and take the order. NO COMPLMENTARY TEA!
One of our party asked for tea, it never came. We had to ask another waitress and finally got some.
The food was marginal at best. No «thank yous» from the staff or management.
We’ll never go back.

Huge portions served with affordable prices. The meal is 5 stars. My wife and I visit the area once a year and we have to eat at Lins when we are in town. You won’t be disappointed.

Like other posts have noted here, there are two types of Chinese food. There’s the more authentic style, and the breaded fried Americanized style. This is definatly American style. Now, for the style that it is, its prety good. The egg roll was good and ours were not greasy. The generals chicken was also great, but not very spicy like most places I’ve had it. I loved the shrimp (fried), crab wontons, and egg drop soup. The chow mein was just okay, and the pot stickers were just odd. They were huge, fried, and fell apart easily. The atmosphere is clean, but very simple. I do like that they had a pick your own choices plate. Althought it could have had a few more options. This is not PF Chang’s. If you like fried, old school Americanized Chinese food, you will probably find a few things here that you really enjoy.

We stop here as often as possible and always enjoy the food as well as the service. Sometimes we make excuses to drive to the coast just for Chinese food at Lin’s Restaurant. We haven’t found a Chinese restaurant in Portland that compares to Lin’s for the quality of food, with beautiful presentation on the plate, friendliness of service. They give us generous portions at a fair price of tasty chow. Broccoli beef is delicious, as well as Mongolian beef, chicken almond chow mien, lo mien, bar-​b-​que pork. We enjoy the selection of combination plate choices for dinner. Sorry to see the older one star reviews bring the rating down to three star average for Lin’s. We don’t understand the poor reviews as we have always had satisfying meals here.

Sat in the bar, it was pretty dirty and run down. They had some old rusty chicken in-​front of a tv that was misplaced and just looked like a junk pile, among other things stored on that table were empty glass bottles in crates. It was kinda weird.
My wife and I were attended to quickly in the bar, our food came out pretty quick and was pretty good. The portions were huge. The crab puffs were also good. The service disappeared when a group of 6 locals came in though. We got offered a refill after she brought out to-​go boxes.
3-​stars overall, the food was 3.5 star, waitress was 3-​star, atmosphere was a 2-​star.

I just had a really good meal. We entered at 845 on a Sunday night & expected rushed & inattentive service. Quite the contrary was true. Nice food & service from the egg flower soup through to the entrees.

always great food on the coast

Solid Chinese food, large portions and good prices. Really enjoyed the kung-​pao chicken.

The food was typical Americanized Chinese, but the staff was AMAZING! We arrived at 9:40pm, 10 minutes after their posted closing time and they still let us sit down and order. They didn’t rush us out and were really nice. If you want great service, I recommend this place!

Only reason for this rating was they were open at 9 pm when everywhere was closed on a Sunday.
The food was barely edible. Considering how hungry I was at the time, this may have been a bit generous.

Really, really bad (Americanized) Chinese food. The egg rolls were soaked with oil, so much that they were leaking it. The hot and sour soup was neither and tasted nothing like any other hot and sour soup I’ve had. The service was not good. When I asked if I could get a dish with tofu, i.e., I wanted no meat, he said I could get it with tofu, but the tofu comes with shrimp. I explained I didn’t want shrimp, but just tofu with the dish, and he said the tofu could come with shrimp or chicken, but not by itself. I didn’t stick around for an explanation.
As an aside, and in the interests of full disclosure, there are a LOT of people in Tillamook that love Lin’s. I have no idea why. None. It is not good by any stretch of the imagination. I kept on trying to think of a reason how I could give it two stars, but came up with nothing.
Also, the owner of Lin’s bought Fei Ying’s (another Chinese place in Tillamook), and I’ve heard it’s just as bad or worse there now than Lin’s.
Your best bet for Chinese in Tillamook is The Chinese Garden (on North Main/​101).