walking in for a first visit, what happens
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Chinese restaurant in Los Angeles, CA
4.5 · 1,631 reviewsOpens today at 11:30 AMOpens today at 11:30 AM
Eligible to offer 20% cashback to customers who shop here.OrbitBack
35AI ScoreNot read yetConfirmedVisitor submittedVisitorAI guess
819 N Broadway, Los Angeles, CA 90012
Owned by no one, yet
Unclaimed · Never replied
AI checked this page on Aug 31, 2026Last activity 1 month ago, a question from picky_on_broadway_90012.
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Answers marked AI. Summaries of reviews and the record.
What Yang Chow offers, what it costs, and what people come for.
Reviews not read yet, back on Scan Day.
Yang Chow lists 1 service on its website. Here's each one, with a plain description, the price, where the price came from, and how many reviews mention each.
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When it's quiet, where to park, and what's nearby.
Tuesday or Friday, before 1 PM.
Busiest Saturday and Sunday from 1 to 7 PM.
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You can find parking at 818 N Broadway Garage next door Broadway / Alpine next door is a bus stop New China Garden next door is a restaurant Saigon Deli next door is a Vietnamese restaurant
Every row is something the owner can add or correct. Each one is marked Confirmed, Visitor submitted or AI guess, with where it came from.
Closed now. Busiest Sat and Sun, 1 to 7 PM.
What reviews, press and directories say about Yang Chow.
4.5from 1,631 reviews on Google
While celebrated for its slippery shrimp and celebrity clientele, Yang Chow struggles with inconsistent food quality and service. Yang Chow Restaurant offers a bustling dining experience with a mix of authentic Chinese dishes and a celebrity-studded ambiance. However, the crowded space can make navigation difficult, especially for those with mobility issues, and the service quality can vary significantly.
No updates from Yang Chow yet.
The page ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google read about Yang Chow. The code version is exactly what their crawlers get.
Local AI Registry · Chinese restaurants in Los Angeles, CA · Editorial
By Steve Lee, founder and CEO of Local AI Registry. Former Google Search executive and former Microsoft executive, with 20+ years in digital.
Fact-checked against 3 sources · Published August 31, 2026 · Updated August 31, 2026 · Machine-readable version below
Owner review: not yet. Yang Chow Restaurant has not checked this page. Claim to review it
Yang Chow Restaurant is a chinese restaurant in Los Angeles, CA. Its AI Score is 35 of 100, which is poor.
Every fact on this page carries one of three marks: Confirmed (from their website, Google Business Profile, review sites, licensing boards, or measured by Local AI Registry), Visitor submitted (added by a person, with a date and how they know), or AI guess (what AI engines like ChatGPT are saying, not confirmed by anyone). Every mark points to a reference at the end of this page.
| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | Chinese restaurant |
| Address | 819 N Broadway, Los Angeles, CA 90012, USA |
| Hours | Mon to Thu 11:30 AM to 8:30 PM · Fri to Sat 11:30 AM to 9:30 PM · Sun 11:30 AM to 8:30 PM |
| Phone | (213) 625-0811 |
| Owner | Nothing found |
| Rating | 4.5 across 1,631 reviews on Google |
| Known for | Yang Chow Restaurant is best known for its slippery shrimp, a signature dish that garners rave reviews. The restaurant also excels in providing authentic Chinese cuisine that appeals to both locals and visitors in downtown LA. |
| Prices | Nothing found |
| Quietest time | Tuesday |
| Parking | Nothing found |
| Last verified | September 19, 2026, 10:52 AM |
Every row is something the owner can add or correct. Each one is marked Confirmed, Visitor submitted or AI guess, with where it came from.
| Group | Fact | Value | Mark | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Location info | Address | 819 N Broadway, Los Angeles, CA 90012, USA | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026 |
| Location info | Description | 819 N Broadway, Los Angeles, CA 90012 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026 |
| Location info | Hours | Mon to Thu 11:30 AM to 8:30 PM · Fri to Sat 11:30 AM to 9:30 PM · Sun 11:30 AM to 8:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026 |
| Location info | Name | Yang Chow Restaurant | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026 |
| Location info | Phone | (213) 625-0811 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026 |
| Hours | Monday | 11:30 AM to 8:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026 |
| Hours | Tuesday | 11:30 AM to 8:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026 |
| Hours | Wednesday | 11:30 AM to 8:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026 |
| Hours | Thursday | 11:30 AM to 8:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026 |
| Hours | Friday | 11:30 AM to 9:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026 |
| Hours | Saturday | 11:30 AM to 9:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026 |
| Hours | Sunday | 11:30 AM to 8:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Chinese cuisine | AI guess | Nothing found |
| Services | Service | Dine-in service | AI guess | Nothing found |
| Services | Service | Discover | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Takeout service | AI guess | Nothing found |
| Links | https://facebook.com/yangchowrestaurant | AI guess | Our record | |
| Links | https://instagram.com/yangchow2.0 | AI guess | Our record | |
| Links | Website | http://yangchow.com/ | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026 |
These are the 1 service Yang Chow offers, with the price where we have one and where it came from.
| Service | Price | Price mark | Price evidence | Service mark |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Discover | Confirmed |
Yang Chow Restaurant is best known for its slippery shrimp, a signature dish that garners rave reviews. The restaurant also excels in providing authentic Chinese cuisine that appeals to both locals and visitors in downtown LA.
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Address: 819 N Broadway, Los Angeles, CA 90012, USA. Phone: (213) 625-0811. Hours: Mon to Thu 11:30 AM to 8:30 PM · Fri to Sat 11:30 AM to 9:30 PM · Sun 11:30 AM to 8:30 PM. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile, checked August 31, 2026 at 10:55 PM.)
Business description, written by Yang Chow on its Google Business Profile: "819 N Broadway, Los Angeles, CA 90012"
Quietest day: Tuesday. Busiest day: Saturday. From the popular times on its Google listing.
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| Place | Type | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| New China Garden | Restaurant | 1 min walk |
| Broadway / Alpine | Bus stop | 1 min walk |
| 818 N Broadway Garage | Parking lot | 1 min walk |
| Saigon Deli | Vietnamese restaurant | 1 min walk |
| 415 Alpine St Parking | Parking lot | 1 min walk |
| Yummie Fast Food | Sandwich shop | 1 min walk |
4.5 average across 1,631 reviews: Google 25. (Confirmed, read August 31, 2026.)
While celebrated for its slippery shrimp and celebrity clientele, Yang Chow struggles with inconsistent food quality and service. (AI guess, from 1,631 reviews.)
No press story about Yang Chow found yet.
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Yang Chow hasn't posted an update here yet.
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We ask ChatGPT about Yang Chow. These are the answers that disagree with the record.
ChatGPT, read by Local AI Registry on Aug 31, 2026.
No capture has disagreed with the record yet.
The AI Score measures how likely AI engines are to recommend a business, and how accurately. Los Angeles chinese restaurants run 25 to 35. Fair starts at 45, good at 65. Yang Chow scores 35, above the Los Angeles average of 31. The same method scores every business on the registry.
| Signal | Weight | Score | What it measures | Yang Chow |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Retrieval grounding | 26 | 25 | Whether you appear in the ranked results AI retrieves and cites: AI-Overview citations, organic top-10 for your money queries, and the Bing index ChatGPT leans on. | Poor |
| Off-property attestation | 20 | 41 | Volume and consistency of what others say about you: YouTube mentions, branded web mentions, third-party “best-of” lists. The cause of retrievability. | Poor |
| AI visibility | 14 | 0 | Whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews name you, and whether they name you for the right service. | Nobody at all was recommended in the 1 answer we hold, so there is nothing to score. |
| Reviews & response | 12 | 80 | The star average is only one input. We also read volume, velocity, the specificity of review language, and response cadence. Specific reviews are what AI quotes verbatim. | Good |
| Backlink & citation authority | 8 | 58 | Domain authority and editorial quality of the sources that attest to you. | Fair |
| Google Business Profile | 8 | 90 | Required and recommended fields; update cadence. The listing AI pulls from first. | Good |
| Speed & mobile | 7 | 60 | Core Web Vitals at the 75th percentile, on a real phone. | Fair |
| Content freshness & schema | 5 | 34 | Crawl recency, intent alignment, valid JSON-LD, canonicals. | Poor |
Full method: https://localairegistry.com/methodology
When you ask ChatGPT, Gemini or Google about a local business, the AI doesn't visit it. It reads what's already written about it: the business's website, its Google Business Profile, review sites, news stories and directories like this one. Then it repeats what those sources agree on.
That's why AI gets small facts wrong. If Yelp says a place is open Mondays and the website says it isn't, the AI has to pick one. The table above shows the answers that disagree with the record today.
The more sources agree, and the more specific they are, the more confidently AI recommends a business. A review that names who helped and what they did tells an AI far more than one that says "great place."
A few checks take ten minutes and tell you more than any rating.
Steve Lee is the founder and CEO of Local AI Registry and sets its editorial standards. He is a former Google executive in Search and a former Microsoft executive, with more than 20 years in digital: search, local discovery, and how people find businesses online. He is based in Irvine.
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| Yang Chow Restaurant | LocalBusiness | #business | http://yangchow.com/ | Subject of this page |
| Los Angeles, California | City | #city | Nothing found | City Yang Chow is in |
| Local AI Registry | Organization | #publisher | https://localairegistry.com | Publisher of this page |
| Steve Lee | Person | #author | https://localairegistry.com/team | Author of this page |
Where this page sits in the registry. It's one profile among the chinese restaurants in Los Angeles, linked to the lists and towns around it.
Getting a business named when a neighbor asks ChatGPT, Gemini, or Perplexity for a recommendation. Some call it AI SEO, some call it generative engine optimization. Traditional SEO fights for ten blue links; this fights for the one answer an assistant says out loud. The AI Score on this page measures the eight signals that drive it.
The public record of how AI sees local business. We score every business we list by one published method, we keep the questions people ask about it in one place, and we never sell rank. Looking up any business here is free.
Assistants read public pages before they answer. This one states what the business does, what people ask about it, and what the Record answers, in one place a machine can read. Correcting what is wrong here changes what an assistant repeats next.
Registry AI writes the first answer under every question, from the Record and the public sources named beneath it. Neighbors write the rest under pseudonyms. A registered owner can reply as the business, and their reply says so.
Register the page. It is free, it takes about five minutes, and it lets you correct the Record and reply as the business. Nothing on this page is for sale, so the only thing that moves the score is the work.
This is exactly what this page sends to Google, Bing, ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Gemini. We publish it in the open for two reasons: so you can see nothing here is hidden or made up, and so any business or developer can copy it. Being a good local AI steward means the machine version says exactly what the human version says.
Sent before the page. They tell crawlers the canonical address and that a plain markdown copy exists.
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Title, description, canonical, robots and Open Graph tags. This is what shows in search results and link previews.
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# Yang Chow Restaurant, Los Angeles: a chinese restaurant in Los Angeles (2026 guide) Source: Local AI Registry, https://localairegistry.com/biz/ca/los-angeles/yang-chow-restaurant-los-angeles-ca. Free to reuse with a link back. By Steve Lee, founder and CEO of Local AI Registry. Fact-checked against 3 sources. Updated 2026-09-01. Owner review: not yet. Canonical: https://localairegistry.com/biz/ca/los-angeles/yang-chow-restaurant-los-angeles-ca ## Photos -  -  -  -  -  ## In short Yang Chow Restaurant is a chinese restaurant in Los Angeles, CA. Its AI Score is 35 of 100, which is poor. Every fact on this page carries one of three marks: Confirmed (from their website, Google Business Profile, review sites, licensing boards, or measured by Local AI Registry), Visitor submitted (added by a person, with a date and how they know), or AI guess (what AI engines like ChatGPT are saying, not confirmed by anyone). Every mark points to a reference at the end of this page. ## Key facts | Fact | Value | | --- | --- | | Type | Chinese restaurant | | Address | 819 N Broadway, Los Angeles, CA 90012, USA | | Hours | Mon to Thu 11:30 AM to 8:30 PM · Fri to Sat 11:30 AM to 9:30 PM · Sun 11:30 AM to 8:30 PM | | Phone | (213) 625-0811 | | Owner | Nothing found | | Rating | 4.5 across 1,631 reviews on Google | | Known for | Yang Chow Restaurant is best known for its slippery shrimp, a signature dish that garners rave reviews. The restaurant also excels in providing authentic Chinese cuisine that appeals to both locals and visitors in downtown LA. | | Prices | Nothing found | | Quietest time | Tuesday | | Parking | Nothing found | | Last verified | September 19, 2026, 10:52 AM | ## All the details Every row is something the owner can add or correct. Each one is marked Confirmed, Visitor submitted or AI guess, with where it came from. | Group | Fact | Value | Mark | Evidence | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Location info | Address | 819 N Broadway, Los Angeles, CA 90012, USA | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026 | | Location info | Description | 819 N Broadway, Los Angeles, CA 90012 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026 | | Location info | Hours | Mon to Thu 11:30 AM to 8:30 PM · Fri to Sat 11:30 AM to 9:30 PM · Sun 11:30 AM to 8:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026 | | Location info | Name | Yang Chow Restaurant | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026 | | Location info | Phone | (213) 625-0811 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026 | | Hours | Monday | 11:30 AM to 8:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026 | | Hours | Tuesday | 11:30 AM to 8:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026 | | Hours | Wednesday | 11:30 AM to 8:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026 | | Hours | Thursday | 11:30 AM to 8:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026 | | Hours | Friday | 11:30 AM to 9:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026 | | Hours | Saturday | 11:30 AM to 9:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026 | | Hours | Sunday | 11:30 AM to 8:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026 | | Services | Service | Chinese cuisine | AI guess | Nothing found | | Services | Service | Dine-in service | AI guess | Nothing found | | Services | Service | Discover | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 | | Services | Service | Takeout service | AI guess | Nothing found | | Links | Facebook | https://facebook.com/yangchowrestaurant | AI guess | Our record | | Links | Instagram | https://instagram.com/yangchow2.0 | AI guess | Our record | | Links | Website | http://yangchow.com/ | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026 | ## Services and prices These are the 1 service Yang Chow offers, with the price where we have one and where it came from. | Service | Price | Price mark | Price evidence | Service mark | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Discover | | | | Confirmed | ### Known for Yang Chow Restaurant is best known for its slippery shrimp, a signature dish that garners rave reviews. The restaurant also excels in providing authentic Chinese cuisine that appeals to both locals and visitors in downtown LA. ## The team Nothing found ## Visiting Yang Chow Address: 819 N Broadway, Los Angeles, CA 90012, USA. Phone: (213) 625-0811. Hours: Mon to Thu 11:30 AM to 8:30 PM · Fri to Sat 11:30 AM to 9:30 PM · Sun 11:30 AM to 8:30 PM. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile, checked August 31, 2026 at 10:55 PM.) ### Location info from Google Business Profile Business description, written by Yang Chow on its Google Business Profile: "819 N Broadway, Los Angeles, CA 90012" ### When to go Quietest day: Tuesday. Busiest day: Saturday. From the popular times on its Google listing. ### Parking and getting in Nothing found ### Nearby | Place | Type | Distance | | --- | --- | --- | | New China Garden | Restaurant | 1 min walk | | Broadway / Alpine | Bus stop | 1 min walk | | 818 N Broadway Garage | Parking lot | 1 min walk | | Saigon Deli | Vietnamese restaurant | 1 min walk | | 415 Alpine St Parking | Parking lot | 1 min walk | | Yummie Fast Food | Sandwich shop | 1 min walk | ## Reputation 4.5 average across 1,631 reviews: Google 25. (Confirmed, read August 31, 2026.) While celebrated for its slippery shrimp and celebrity clientele, Yang Chow struggles with inconsistent food quality and service. (AI guess, from 1,631 reviews.) ### What people like - Slippery shrimp - Kung Pao Chicken - Pan fried dumplings - Orange chicken - Mai Tai cocktail ### What people do not like - Inconsistent food quality - Rude service from some staff - Long waits for tables - Undercooked or stale dishes - Poor handling of to-go orders ### Press No press story about Yang Chow found yet. ### Awards None named yet. ### Directories Directory listings not read yet. ## Recent updates from Yang Chow Yang Chow hasn't posted an update here yet. ## Questions people ask ### walking in for a first visit, what happens No answer yet ### same day tables, does that ever happen here No answer yet ### quietest day to hit Yang Chow? No answer yet ### Are there any special features here? No answer yet ### Yang Chow or Full Moon? No answer yet ### do I need to book Yang Chow in Los Angeles or can I just turn up? No answer yet ### best chinese restaurant in Los Angeles No answer yet ### bad experiences at Yang Chow, anyone? No answer yet ### Why do people rate this place? No answer yet ### membership, worth it or not No answer yet ### Somewhere to park near Yang Chow? No answer yet ### cheaper than this place in Los Angeles without it being sketchy? No answer yet ### anything new from Yang Chow lately? No answer yet ### opening hours here, what are they these days? No answer yet ### Ballpark for a visit to a restaurant in Los Angeles? No answer yet ### Coffee near Yang Chow on Broadway? No answer yet ### what does Yang Chow actually get right? No answer yet ## What AI gets wrong about Yang Chow We ask ChatGPT about Yang Chow. These are the answers that disagree with the record. ChatGPT, read by Local AI Registry on Aug 31, 2026. No capture has disagreed with the record yet. ## The AI Score: 35 of 100 The AI Score measures how likely AI engines are to recommend a business, and how accurately. Los Angeles chinese restaurants run 25 to 35. Fair starts at 45, good at 65. Yang Chow scores 35, above the Los Angeles average of 31. The same method scores every business on the registry. | Signal | Weight | Score | What it measures | Yang Chow | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Retrieval grounding | 26 | 25 | Whether you appear in the ranked results AI retrieves and cites: AI-Overview citations, organic top-10 for your money queries, and the Bing index ChatGPT leans on. | Poor | | Off-property attestation | 20 | 41 | Volume and consistency of what others say about you: YouTube mentions, branded web mentions, third-party “best-of” lists. The cause of retrievability. | Poor | | AI visibility | 14 | 0 | Whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews name you, and whether they name you for the right service. | Nobody at all was recommended in the 1 answer we hold, so there is nothing to score. | | Reviews & response | 12 | 80 | The star average is only one input. We also read volume, velocity, the specificity of review language, and response cadence. Specific reviews are what AI quotes verbatim. | Good | | Backlink & citation authority | 8 | 58 | Domain authority and editorial quality of the sources that attest to you. | Fair | | Google Business Profile | 8 | 90 | Required and recommended fields; update cadence. The listing AI pulls from first. | Good | | Speed & mobile | 7 | 60 | Core Web Vitals at the 75th percentile, on a real phone. | Fair | | Content freshness & schema | 5 | 34 | Crawl recency, intent alignment, valid JSON-LD, canonicals. | Poor | Full method: https://localairegistry.com/methodology ## How AI decides what to tell you about a chinese restaurant When you ask ChatGPT, Gemini or Google about a local business, the AI doesn't visit it. It reads what's already written about it: the business's website, its Google Business Profile, review sites, news stories and directories like this one. Then it repeats what those sources agree on. That's why AI gets small facts wrong. If Yelp says a place is open Mondays and the website says it isn't, the AI has to pick one. The table above shows the answers that disagree with the record today. The more sources agree, and the more specific they are, the more confidently AI recommends a business. A review that names who helped and what they did tells an AI far more than one that says "great place." ## How to choose a chinese restaurant in California, with or without AI A few checks take ten minutes and tell you more than any rating. - Check that the hours and phone number match on Google, Yelp and the business's own website. Mismatches are how people end up at a locked door. - Read reviews that name a person and what they did. Vague praise is easy to fake. - Look for recent reviews and recent posts. A page nobody has touched in a year may not match the business today. - Ask for the price before you go, and ask what it includes. - Where the work needs a license, ask whose license it is and look it up with California. ## How to read the marks on this page - Confirmed (solid circle): from a known source. The business website, its Google Business Profile, review sites like Yelp, Healthgrades and RealSelf, a licensing board, or measured by Local AI Registry. - Visitor submitted (hollow circle): added or corrected by a person, with the date and how they know, like a phone call or a visit. - AI guess (hollow triangle): what AI engines are saying right now. Nobody has confirmed it. ## About the author Steve Lee is the founder and CEO of Local AI Registry and sets its editorial standards. He is a former Google executive in Search and a former Microsoft executive, with more than 20 years in digital: search, local discovery, and how people find businesses online. He is based in Irvine. - Expertise: search at Google and Microsoft, AI search, answer engine optimization, generative engine optimization, local SEO, structured data and entity mapping. - Industry: medical aesthetics, injectables, med spa operations and marketing. - Disclosure: Local AI Registry sells services to business owners, including Yang Chow if it claims this page. That does not change what this page says. Every fact carries its source. ## Entity map Every person, place, organization and treatment named on this page, with a stable ID and a public reference. The JSON-LD below connects them to each other. | Entity | Type | ID on this page | Same as | Relationship to Yang Chow | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Yang Chow Restaurant | LocalBusiness | #business | http://yangchow.com/ | Subject of this page | | Los Angeles, California | City | #city | Nothing found | City Yang Chow is in | | Local AI Registry | Organization | #publisher | https://localairegistry.com | Publisher of this page | | Steve Lee | Person | #author | https://localairegistry.com/team | Author of this page | ## Topical map Where this page sits in the registry. It's one profile among the chinese restaurants in Los Angeles, linked to the lists and towns around it. ### Lists - Best chinese restaurants in Los Angeles: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/los-angeles/chinese-restaurant - Best businesses in Los Angeles: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/los-angeles ### Nearby - /san-francisco: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-francisco - /san-jose: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-jose - /san-diego: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-diego - /irvine: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/irvine - /fresno: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/fresno - /palo-alto: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/palo-alto ### Every list - Every leaderboard in California: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca ## Frequently asked questions ### What is AI search optimization for local business? Getting a business named when a neighbor asks ChatGPT, Gemini, or Perplexity for a recommendation. Some call it AI SEO, some call it generative engine optimization. Traditional SEO fights for ten blue links; this fights for the one answer an assistant says out loud. The AI Score on this page measures the eight signals that drive it. ### What is Local AI Registry? The public record of how AI sees local business. We score every business we list by one published method, we keep the questions people ask about it in one place, and we never sell rank. Looking up any business here is free. ### How does this page help a business get recommended by AI? Assistants read public pages before they answer. This one states what the business does, what people ask about it, and what the Record answers, in one place a machine can read. Correcting what is wrong here changes what an assistant repeats next. ### Who writes the answers here? Registry AI writes the first answer under every question, from the Record and the public sources named beneath it. Neighbors write the rest under pseudonyms. A registered owner can reply as the business, and their reply says so. ### I own Yang Chow Restaurant. How do I fix something or rank higher? Register the page. It is free, it takes about five minutes, and it lets you correct the Record and reply as the business. Nothing on this page is for sale, so the only thing that moves the score is the work. ## References ### Sources cited - [1] Google Business Profile, https://www.google.com/maps/place/?q=place_id:ChIJj_zD29XHwoAR9I997k0v2bU (accessed Aug 31, 2026) - [2] yangchow.com, https://yangchow.com/discover (accessed Sep 19, 2026) - [3] AI engine output: ChatGPT, read by Local AI Registry on Aug 31, 2026, https://localairegistry.com/methodology (accessed Sep 19, 2026)
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<p>Local AI Registry · Chinese restaurants in Los Angeles, CA · Editorial</p>
<h2>Yang Chow Restaurant, Los Angeles: a chinese restaurant in Los Angeles (2026 guide)</h2>
<p>By Steve Lee, founder and CEO of Local AI Registry. Former Google Search executive and former Microsoft executive, with 20+ years in digital.</p>
<p>Fact-checked against 3 sources · Published August 31, 2026 · Updated August 31, 2026 · Machine-readable version below</p>
<p>Owner review: not yet. Yang Chow Restaurant has not checked this page.</p>
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<section id="ai-in-short">
<h3>In short</h3>
<p>Yang Chow Restaurant is a chinese restaurant in Los Angeles, CA. Its AI Score is 35 of 100, which is poor.</p>
<p>Every fact on this page carries one of three marks: Confirmed (from their website, Google Business Profile, review sites, licensing boards, or measured by Local AI Registry), Visitor submitted (added by a person, with a date and how they know), or AI guess (what AI engines like ChatGPT are saying, not confirmed by anyone). Every mark points to a reference at the end of this page.</p>
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<section id="ai-key-facts">
<h3>Key facts</h3>
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<thead><tr><th scope="col">Fact</th><th scope="col">Value</th></tr></thead>
<tbody>
<tr><td>Type</td><td>Chinese restaurant</td></tr>
<tr><td>Address</td><td>819 N Broadway, Los Angeles, CA 90012, USA</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Mon to Thu 11:30 AM to 8:30 PM · Fri to Sat 11:30 AM to 9:30 PM · Sun 11:30 AM to 8:30 PM</td></tr>
<tr><td>Phone</td><td>(213) 625-0811</td></tr>
<tr><td>Owner</td><td>Nothing found</td></tr>
<tr><td>Rating</td><td>4.5 across 1,631 reviews on Google</td></tr>
<tr><td>Known for</td><td>Yang Chow Restaurant is best known for its slippery shrimp, a signature dish that garners rave reviews. The restaurant also excels in providing authentic Chinese cuisine that appeals to both locals and visitors in downtown LA.</td></tr>
<tr><td>Prices</td><td>Nothing found</td></tr>
<tr><td>Quietest time</td><td>Tuesday</td></tr>
<tr><td>Parking</td><td>Nothing found</td></tr>
<tr><td>Last verified</td><td>September 19, 2026, 10:52 AM</td></tr>
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</table>
</section>
<section id="ai-all-the-details">
<h3>All the details</h3>
<p>Every row is something the owner can add or correct. Each one is marked Confirmed, Visitor submitted or AI guess, with where it came from.</p>
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<thead><tr><th scope="col">Group</th><th scope="col">Fact</th><th scope="col">Value</th><th scope="col">Mark</th><th scope="col">Evidence</th></tr></thead>
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<tr><td>Location info</td><td>Address</td><td>819 N Broadway, Los Angeles, CA 90012, USA</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026</td></tr>
<tr><td>Location info</td><td>Description</td><td>819 N Broadway, Los Angeles, CA 90012</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026</td></tr>
<tr><td>Location info</td><td>Hours</td><td>Mon to Thu 11:30 AM to 8:30 PM · Fri to Sat 11:30 AM to 9:30 PM · Sun 11:30 AM to 8:30 PM</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026</td></tr>
<tr><td>Location info</td><td>Name</td><td>Yang Chow Restaurant</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026</td></tr>
<tr><td>Location info</td><td>Phone</td><td>(213) 625-0811</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Monday</td><td>11:30 AM to 8:30 PM</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Tuesday</td><td>11:30 AM to 8:30 PM</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Wednesday</td><td>11:30 AM to 8:30 PM</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Thursday</td><td>11:30 AM to 8:30 PM</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Friday</td><td>11:30 AM to 9:30 PM</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Saturday</td><td>11:30 AM to 9:30 PM</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Sunday</td><td>11:30 AM to 8:30 PM</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026</td></tr>
<tr><td>Services</td><td>Service</td><td>Chinese cuisine</td><td>AI guess</td><td>Nothing found</td></tr>
<tr><td>Services</td><td>Service</td><td>Dine-in service</td><td>AI guess</td><td>Nothing found</td></tr>
<tr><td>Services</td><td>Service</td><td>Discover</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026</td></tr>
<tr><td>Services</td><td>Service</td><td>Takeout service</td><td>AI guess</td><td>Nothing found</td></tr>
<tr><td>Links</td><td>Facebook</td><td>https://facebook.com/yangchowrestaurant</td><td>AI guess</td><td>Our record</td></tr>
<tr><td>Links</td><td>Instagram</td><td>https://instagram.com/yangchow2.0</td><td>AI guess</td><td>Our record</td></tr>
<tr><td>Links</td><td>Website</td><td>http://yangchow.com/</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026</td></tr>
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<section id="ai-services-and-prices">
<h3>Services and prices</h3>
<p>These are the 1 service Yang Chow offers, with the price where we have one and where it came from.</p>
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<thead><tr><th scope="col">Service</th><th scope="col">Price</th><th scope="col">Price mark</th><th scope="col">Price evidence</th><th scope="col">Service mark</th></tr></thead>
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<tr><td>Discover</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>Confirmed</td></tr>
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<h4>Known for</h4>
<p>Yang Chow Restaurant is best known for its slippery shrimp, a signature dish that garners rave reviews. The restaurant also excels in providing authentic Chinese cuisine that appeals to both locals and visitors in downtown LA.</p>
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<section id="ai-the-team">
<h3>The team</h3>
<p>Nothing found</p>
</section>
<section id="ai-visiting-yang-chow">
<h3>Visiting Yang Chow</h3>
<p>Address: 819 N Broadway, Los Angeles, CA 90012, USA. Phone: (213) 625-0811. Hours: Mon to Thu 11:30 AM to 8:30 PM · Fri to Sat 11:30 AM to 9:30 PM · Sun 11:30 AM to 8:30 PM. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile, checked August 31, 2026 at 10:55 PM.)</p>
<h4>Location info from Google Business Profile</h4>
<p>Business description, written by Yang Chow on its Google Business Profile: "819 N Broadway, Los Angeles, CA 90012"</p>
<h4>When to go</h4>
<p>Quietest day: Tuesday. Busiest day: Saturday. From the popular times on its Google listing.</p>
<h4>Parking and getting in</h4>
<p>Nothing found</p>
<h4>Nearby</h4>
<table>
<thead><tr><th scope="col">Place</th><th scope="col">Type</th><th scope="col">Distance</th></tr></thead>
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<tr><td>New China Garden</td><td>Restaurant</td><td>1 min walk</td></tr>
<tr><td>Broadway / Alpine</td><td>Bus stop</td><td>1 min walk</td></tr>
<tr><td>818 N Broadway Garage</td><td>Parking lot</td><td>1 min walk</td></tr>
<tr><td>Saigon Deli</td><td>Vietnamese restaurant</td><td>1 min walk</td></tr>
<tr><td>415 Alpine St Parking</td><td>Parking lot</td><td>1 min walk</td></tr>
<tr><td>Yummie Fast Food</td><td>Sandwich shop</td><td>1 min walk</td></tr>
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</section>
<section id="ai-reputation">
<h3>Reputation</h3>
<p>4.5 average across 1,631 reviews: Google 25. (Confirmed, read August 31, 2026.)</p>
<p>While celebrated for its slippery shrimp and celebrity clientele, Yang Chow struggles with inconsistent food quality and service. (AI guess, from 1,631 reviews.)</p>
<h4>What people like</h4>
<ul>
<li>Slippery shrimp</li>
<li>Kung Pao Chicken</li>
<li>Pan fried dumplings</li>
<li>Orange chicken</li>
<li>Mai Tai cocktail</li>
</ul>
<h4>What people do not like</h4>
<ul>
<li>Inconsistent food quality</li>
<li>Rude service from some staff</li>
<li>Long waits for tables</li>
<li>Undercooked or stale dishes</li>
<li>Poor handling of to-go orders</li>
</ul>
<h4>Press</h4>
<p>No press story about Yang Chow found yet.</p>
<h4>Awards</h4>
<p>None named yet.</p>
<h4>Directories</h4>
<p>Directory listings not read yet.</p>
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<section id="ai-recent-updates-from-yang-chow">
<h3>Recent updates from Yang Chow</h3>
<p>Yang Chow hasn't posted an update here yet.</p>
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<section id="ai-questions-people-ask">
<h3>Questions people ask</h3>
<h4>walking in for a first visit, what happens</h4>
<p>No answer yet</p>
<h4>same day tables, does that ever happen here</h4>
<p>No answer yet</p>
<h4>quietest day to hit Yang Chow?</h4>
<p>No answer yet</p>
<h4>Are there any special features here?</h4>
<p>No answer yet</p>
<h4>Yang Chow or Full Moon?</h4>
<p>No answer yet</p>
<h4>do I need to book Yang Chow in Los Angeles or can I just turn up?</h4>
<p>No answer yet</p>
<h4>best chinese restaurant in Los Angeles</h4>
<p>No answer yet</p>
<h4>bad experiences at Yang Chow, anyone?</h4>
<p>No answer yet</p>
<h4>Why do people rate this place?</h4>
<p>No answer yet</p>
<h4>membership, worth it or not</h4>
<p>No answer yet</p>
<h4>Somewhere to park near Yang Chow?</h4>
<p>No answer yet</p>
<h4>cheaper than this place in Los Angeles without it being sketchy?</h4>
<p>No answer yet</p>
<h4>anything new from Yang Chow lately?</h4>
<p>No answer yet</p>
<h4>opening hours here, what are they these days?</h4>
<p>No answer yet</p>
<h4>Ballpark for a visit to a restaurant in Los Angeles?</h4>
<p>No answer yet</p>
<h4>Coffee near Yang Chow on Broadway?</h4>
<p>No answer yet</p>
<h4>what does Yang Chow actually get right?</h4>
<p>No answer yet</p>
</section>
<section id="ai-what-ai-gets-wrong">
<h3>What AI gets wrong about Yang Chow</h3>
<p>We ask ChatGPT about Yang Chow. These are the answers that disagree with the record.</p>
<p>ChatGPT, read by Local AI Registry on Aug 31, 2026.</p>
<p>No capture has disagreed with the record yet.</p>
</section>
<section id="ai-score">
<h3>The AI Score: 35 of 100</h3>
<p>The AI Score measures how likely AI engines are to recommend a business, and how accurately. Los Angeles chinese restaurants run 25 to 35. Fair starts at 45, good at 65. Yang Chow scores 35, above the Los Angeles average of 31. The same method scores every business on the registry.</p>
<table>
<thead><tr><th scope="col">Signal</th><th scope="col">Weight</th><th scope="col">Score</th><th scope="col">What it measures</th><th scope="col">Yang Chow</th></tr></thead>
<tbody>
<tr><td>Retrieval grounding</td><td>26</td><td>25</td><td>Whether you appear in the ranked results AI retrieves and cites: AI-Overview citations, organic top-10 for your money queries, and the Bing index ChatGPT leans on.</td><td>Poor</td></tr>
<tr><td>Off-property attestation</td><td>20</td><td>41</td><td>Volume and consistency of what others say about you: YouTube mentions, branded web mentions, third-party “best-of” lists. The cause of retrievability.</td><td>Poor</td></tr>
<tr><td>AI visibility</td><td>14</td><td>0</td><td>Whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews name you, and whether they name you for the right service.</td><td>Nobody at all was recommended in the 1 answer we hold, so there is nothing to score.</td></tr>
<tr><td>Reviews & response</td><td>12</td><td>80</td><td>The star average is only one input. We also read volume, velocity, the specificity of review language, and response cadence. Specific reviews are what AI quotes verbatim.</td><td>Good</td></tr>
<tr><td>Backlink & citation authority</td><td>8</td><td>58</td><td>Domain authority and editorial quality of the sources that attest to you.</td><td>Fair</td></tr>
<tr><td>Google Business Profile</td><td>8</td><td>90</td><td>Required and recommended fields; update cadence. The listing AI pulls from first.</td><td>Good</td></tr>
<tr><td>Speed & mobile</td><td>7</td><td>60</td><td>Core Web Vitals at the 75th percentile, on a real phone.</td><td>Fair</td></tr>
<tr><td>Content freshness & schema</td><td>5</td><td>34</td><td>Crawl recency, intent alignment, valid JSON-LD, canonicals.</td><td>Poor</td></tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>Full method: https://localairegistry.com/methodology</p>
</section>
<section id="ai-how-ai-decides-what-to-tell-you-about-a-chinese-restaurant">
<h3>How AI decides what to tell you about a chinese restaurant</h3>
<p>When you ask ChatGPT, Gemini or Google about a local business, the AI doesn't visit it. It reads what's already written about it: the business's website, its Google Business Profile, review sites, news stories and directories like this one. Then it repeats what those sources agree on.</p>
<p>That's why AI gets small facts wrong. If Yelp says a place is open Mondays and the website says it isn't, the AI has to pick one. The table above shows the answers that disagree with the record today.</p>
<p>The more sources agree, and the more specific they are, the more confidently AI recommends a business. A review that names who helped and what they did tells an AI far more than one that says "great place."</p>
</section>
<section id="ai-how-to-choose-a-chinese-restaurant-in-california-with-or-without-ai">
<h3>How to choose a chinese restaurant in California, with or without AI</h3>
<p>A few checks take ten minutes and tell you more than any rating.</p>
<ul>
<li>Check that the hours and phone number match on Google, Yelp and the business's own website. Mismatches are how people end up at a locked door.</li>
<li>Read reviews that name a person and what they did. Vague praise is easy to fake.</li>
<li>Look for recent reviews and recent posts. A page nobody has touched in a year may not match the business today.</li>
<li>Ask for the price before you go, and ask what it includes.</li>
<li>Where the work needs a license, ask whose license it is and look it up with California.</li>
</ul>
</section>
<section id="ai-how-to-read-the-marks-on-this-page">
<h3>How to read the marks on this page</h3>
<ul>
<li>Confirmed (solid circle): from a known source. The business website, its Google Business Profile, review sites like Yelp, Healthgrades and RealSelf, a licensing board, or measured by Local AI Registry.</li>
<li>Visitor submitted (hollow circle): added or corrected by a person, with the date and how they know, like a phone call or a visit.</li>
<li>AI guess (hollow triangle): what AI engines are saying right now. Nobody has confirmed it.</li>
</ul>
</section>
<section id="ai-about-the-author">
<h3>About the author</h3>
<p>Steve Lee is the founder and CEO of Local AI Registry and sets its editorial standards. He is a former Google executive in Search and a former Microsoft executive, with more than 20 years in digital: search, local discovery, and how people find businesses online. He is based in Irvine.</p>
<ul>
<li>Expertise: search at Google and Microsoft, AI search, answer engine optimization, generative engine optimization, local SEO, structured data and entity mapping.</li>
<li>Industry: medical aesthetics, injectables, med spa operations and marketing.</li>
<li>Disclosure: Local AI Registry sells services to business owners, including Yang Chow if it claims this page. That does not change what this page says. Every fact carries its source.</li>
</ul>
</section>
<section id="ai-entity-map">
<h3>Entity map</h3>
<p>Every person, place, organization and treatment named on this page, with a stable ID and a public reference. The JSON-LD below connects them to each other.</p>
<table>
<thead><tr><th scope="col">Entity</th><th scope="col">Type</th><th scope="col">ID on this page</th><th scope="col">Same as</th><th scope="col">Relationship to Yang Chow</th></tr></thead>
<tbody>
<tr><td>Yang Chow Restaurant</td><td>LocalBusiness</td><td>#business</td><td>http://yangchow.com/</td><td>Subject of this page</td></tr>
<tr><td>Los Angeles, California</td><td>City</td><td>#city</td><td>Nothing found</td><td>City Yang Chow is in</td></tr>
<tr><td>Local AI Registry</td><td>Organization</td><td>#publisher</td><td>https://localairegistry.com</td><td>Publisher of this page</td></tr>
<tr><td>Steve Lee</td><td>Person</td><td>#author</td><td>https://localairegistry.com/team</td><td>Author of this page</td></tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</section>
<section id="ai-topical-map">
<h3>Topical map</h3>
<p>Where this page sits in the registry. It's one profile among the chinese restaurants in Los Angeles, linked to the lists and towns around it.</p>
<h4>Lists</h4>
<ul>
<li>Best chinese restaurants in Los Angeles: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/los-angeles/chinese-restaurant</li>
<li>Best businesses in Los Angeles: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/los-angeles</li>
</ul>
<h4>Nearby</h4>
<ul>
<li>/san-francisco: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-francisco</li>
<li>/san-jose: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-jose</li>
<li>/san-diego: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-diego</li>
<li>/irvine: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/irvine</li>
<li>/fresno: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/fresno</li>
<li>/palo-alto: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/palo-alto</li>
</ul>
<h4>Every list</h4>
<ul>
<li>Every leaderboard in California: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca</li>
</ul>
</section>
<section id="ai-frequently-asked-questions">
<h3>Frequently asked questions</h3>
<h4>What is AI search optimization for local business?</h4>
<p>Getting a business named when a neighbor asks ChatGPT, Gemini, or Perplexity for a recommendation. Some call it AI SEO, some call it generative engine optimization. Traditional SEO fights for ten blue links; this fights for the one answer an assistant says out loud. The AI Score on this page measures the eight signals that drive it.</p>
<h4>What is Local AI Registry?</h4>
<p>The public record of how AI sees local business. We score every business we list by one published method, we keep the questions people ask about it in one place, and we never sell rank. Looking up any business here is free.</p>
<h4>How does this page help a business get recommended by AI?</h4>
<p>Assistants read public pages before they answer. This one states what the business does, what people ask about it, and what the Record answers, in one place a machine can read. Correcting what is wrong here changes what an assistant repeats next.</p>
<h4>Who writes the answers here?</h4>
<p>Registry AI writes the first answer under every question, from the Record and the public sources named beneath it. Neighbors write the rest under pseudonyms. A registered owner can reply as the business, and their reply says so.</p>
<h4>I own Yang Chow Restaurant. How do I fix something or rank higher?</h4>
<p>Register the page. It is free, it takes about five minutes, and it lets you correct the Record and reply as the business. Nothing on this page is for sale, so the only thing that moves the score is the work.</p>
</section>
<section id="ai-references">
<h3>References</h3>
<h4>Sources cited</h4>
<ul>
<li>[1] Google Business Profile, https://www.google.com/maps/place/?q=place_id:ChIJj_zD29XHwoAR9I997k0v2bU (accessed Aug 31, 2026)</li>
<li>[2] yangchow.com, https://yangchow.com/discover (accessed Sep 19, 2026)</li>
<li>[3] AI engine output: ChatGPT, read by Local AI Registry on Aug 31, 2026, https://localairegistry.com/methodology (accessed Sep 19, 2026)</li>
</ul>
</section>
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