As of September 21 2020 we have re-opened in our new location at 203 Lester St in Waterloo, Ontario (Linden Square)!
We are once again available for delivery with Skip The Dishes and Fantuan.
If I could have one last meal it would be the spicy chicken and mandu! Natalia, Google Review
I was blown away. Amazing food. Everything was 10/10. Dayna, Google Review
Double-fried, hand-cut boneless chicken, served with two deep-fried mandu, red cabbage with spicy mayo, and your choice of spicy cucumber salad or pickled radish.
A sweet and spicy sauce made with hot pepper paste, garlic, soy sauce, and hot pepper powder.
A ginger-garlic creamy sauce made with mayo, butter, soy sauce, and brown sugar.
A sweet glaze made with butter and honey, and topped with roasted almonds.
Double-fried for double-deliciousness, these boneless bites are free of sauce but big on taste.
Double-fried for double-deliciousness, these boneless bites are free of sauce but big on taste.
Bao are soft and fluffy steamed buns.
Double-fried boneless chicken in our sweet and spicy Yang Yum Red sauce, with a fried egg and fresh cucumber.
Savory marinated beef with our ginger-garlic sauce and a fried egg, topped with fresh shredded cucumber and green onions.
Double-fried boneless chicken in our honey butter glaze, topped with roasted almonds and green onion.
Fried tofu in our sweet and spicy Yang Yum Red sauce, with a fried egg and fresh shredded cucumber.
Dosirak is a Korean lunch box that includes a main entree, a fried egg on rice, tofu soup, red cabbage with spicy mayo dressing, japchae noodles, radish kimchi, and cucumber salad.
Fried chicken in our sweet and spicy Yang Yum Red sauce.
Savory beef marinated in soy sauce, garlic, and onions.
Five deep-fried vegetable dumplings with spicy mayo sauce.
Diced tofu fried in our gochujang-based Yang Yum Red sauce.
Bibimbap features mixed vegetables (cucumber, carrots, red cabbage, peppers, enoki mushrooms), a fried egg on rice and your choice of bulgogi or fried tofu.
Mixed vegetables and a fried egg with marinated beef.
Mixed vegetables and a fried egg with tofu fried in our Yang Yum Red sauce.
Rice cakes and fish cakes served in a spicy gochujang sauce.
Kimbap are Korean rice rolls.
Korean seaweed rice roll with carrot, cucumber, pickled radish, egg, and crab.
Korean seaweed rice roll with carrot, cucumber, pickled radish, egg, and marinated beef.
Korean seaweed rice roll with carrot, cucumber, red and yellow peppers, pickled radish, and egg.
Eight deep-fried vegetable dumplings with your choice of sauce.
A side of sticky rice. No surprises here.
Dried tofu soup.
A side of spicy cucumber salad.
Very delicious braised potatoes.
A side of pickled radish.
A side of sauce - Yang Yum Red, Yang Yum White, Spicy Mayo, or Soy sauce.
As a big fan of Korean food: This place is SO good. Carol L, Google Review
Really good food and very friendly service. Highly recommend. Craig, Google Review
The chicken was perfectly fried (wonderfully crispy and the meat was tender). matsiepan, Google Review
Bulgogi rice is my favorite, have it almost every week :) Xiyan, Google Review
Can’t wait to try all of the items this restaurant offers now and in the future!Nana, Google Review
My go-to place in town when I crave Korean cuisined fried chicken. Junghwa, Google Review
Yang Yum brings to Waterloo, Ontario the deliciously secret Korean recipes of owner and chief cook, the mysterious 정연.
The name Yang Yum was conceived over the course of a long night of plotting, scheming, and spiced rum. A slight variation of the typical spelling Yangnyum or Yangnyeom, the word refers to a variety of seasoned fried chicken - our version Yang Yum is meant to sound even more yummy. Although we offer a variety of Korean dishes - Yang Yum Korean Fried Chicken is our passion and our specialty.
Our beginnings were humble - we opened in May 2018 as a takeout and delivery food counter in the Waterloo Central Supermarket. In 2019 we expanded our space there, adding a counter where our customers could eat as well as some new items to our menu. In May 2020, like many businesses, we succumbed to the impact of COVID-19 and decided to close Yang Yum and leave the supermarket.
During the summer of 2020 we discovered the location at Linden Square, and although we weren't sure if it was a wise idea to re-open so quickly, we decided to proceed with a bigger and better Yang Yum!
Chief Cook and Owner/Director
Jungyun (Adela) was born in Seoul, Korea and attended Sejong University, majoring in arts. She relocated to Canada in 2015 and enrolled in a Hotel and Restaurant Management program at Conestoga College. In 2018, after graduating, Jungyun realized her dream of starting her own restaurant, by opening Yang Yum.
Responsible for all of Yang Yum's onsite operations, Jungyun is especially excited to introduce Kitchener-Waterloo to the well-known Korean chicken and kimbap recipes that she enjoyed and grew up with in Seoul.
Official Yang Yum Taster and Owner/Director
In addition to his responsibilities as official taster, Jeremy (젤어미) also handles graphic design, web design, Yang Yum's meagre social media presence, delivery partnerships, and the like.
Jeremy attended the University of Waterloo and subsequently settled in the area, largely by accident. Outside of Yang Yum, Jeremy has acheived a modest amount of obscurity working at a local software company.
He can often be found on the GO Train to Toronto, dreaming of delicious 갈비.
Yang Yum is a registered corporation of Ontario as 2629214 Ontario Inc.
