Yen Ching is one of Peoria’s oldest Chinese restaurants located in Tanglewood Center on University Street. I’ve been going there for Chinese dinners since the ’70s, but I don’t think I’ve ever had lunch there.

I decided to check this place out in the daytime and meet a friend there for lunch, so it’s off we go to Yen Ching for this week’s edition of Lunch At First Bite!

Here we are at Yen Ching Chinese Restaurant.

I think that it’s a toss up between Ming Shee and this place as to which is Peoria’s oldest Chinese Restaurant.

Let’s go in and let this luncheon adventure begin!

Here’s the foyer area with the host station, but there’s no one there, so we’ll just go through the fancy golden archway into the dining room and seat ourselves.

There’s plenty of spots, so I chose a booth in the back and settled in.

The friend I invited hasn’t shown up yet, but this will be her spot at the booth.

While I wait for her to show up, I’ll take a few photos in here.

We’ll go back through the golden archway to the foyer area.

This is the bar where no one sits, except I had dinner here one night back in 2015.

There used to be a Michelob sign up there between the Chinese couple, but it’s gone now.

That’s a little sad!

Okay, we’ll head on back to the booth now.

I’m getting a little sick of looking at this empty booth, I wish my friend would show up already!

We were supposed to meet here at 12:30 and it’s almost 1:00 now.

I tried calling her, but I must’ve put the number in wrong because some guy answered and it was a wrong number.

I’m really fucking sick of looking at this empty booth!

I’m starvin’ like you know who over here and I’m assuming she forgot about lunch, so I’m making an MBIP Executive decision and I’m moving on along without her.

From here on in, this is the first solo Lunch At First Bite!

They have a double-sided lunch menu with a large selection of items to choose from.

I’ve got iced tea and hot tea to drink from, kind of a liquid Chinese speedball.

I started lunch off with a cup of hot and sour soup and a luncheon portion of the Crab Rangoon.

I added some hot Chinese mustard to the Crab Rangoon and dug in.

The soup was nice and spicy and the Crab Rangoon were crispy on the outsice and filled with a creamy and rich crab mixture inside. Simply delicious!

I got the Sesame Chicken for the main course and it comes with broccoli and fried rice.

The chicken was plump and tender and had a sweet and spicy sauce that was so tasty!

This was a wonderful lunch and I had enough left over to finish off later for a light dinner.

I had a fortune cookie for dessert and for once, this fortune will come true in record time because…

It’s time for…

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THE SAME THREE FUCKING QUESTIONS!

Since my friend didn’t show up, I had to ask the empty booth the same three questions I ask every week. So here we go!

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1. Does ketchup belong on a hot dog?

Who the fuck cares? Why are you even talking to me?

Because my friend didn’t show up and I ask these same three questions every time we do this post.

That sounds like the stupidest fucking idea I’ve ever heard of!

Well it’s not, people enjoy this.

Yeah, right, like anyone even reads this stupid fucking blog of yours.

I have a big audience and they all get a kick out of this.

I really don’t give a flying fuck, if you have a big audience. It just shows that people are starving for anything to look at these days. This world is dumbing down and your stupid-ass blog is proof of that.

I don’t know why you’re giving me such attitude. You’re not related to The World’s Angriest Ice Machine by any chance are you?

I don’t even know what the fuck you’re talking about. Why don’t you take your fucking leftovers and get the fuck out of here. Can’t you see that lunchtime is over, asshole? Everyone else has left.

Okay, I’m getting out of here, but I just want to ask you one last question.

Holy fuck, you never quit. Alright, what’s the question assface and then get the fuck out of here!

Is your first name Frank?

Fuck you!

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Yen Ching

6934 N. University Street

Tanglwood Center

Peoria

309-692-9227

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