Yau Bros. Great if You Don't Mind the Bullets

Yau Bros. Chinese Carryout is apparently a great place to eat, if you don't mind going into an establishment that has been the scene of a few murders in recent years.

In The City Paper's Cheap Eats feature, writer Van Smith praises the quantity and quality of the food at the eatery.

"...if you go to Yau Brothers Carry Out and order the three 'house'   specialties—lo mein, yat, and egg foo young—you’ll get two brown noodle dishes (light-brown lo mein, dark-brown yat) and one light-brown egg dish, and they’ll all be remarkably delicious," Smith writes.

But the review comes less than three months after in the carryout on Halloween night. Eventually, 17-year-old Markell Jones was arrested and allegedly after his parents recognized him from surveillance footage released to the media, city police said.

In November, Councilwoman Mary Pat Clarke and Del. Mary Washington sent a letter asking Police Commissioner Frederick Bealefeld to consider holding a , if the carryout's owners didn't improve safety conditions.

Surrounding communities also sent a list of improvements they want to see the owners make at the carryout to improve safety.

The review does take into account the carryout's troubled past, noting that eating there gave the writer and a companion some "street cred" for doing so.

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