Emperor Cuisine

Delivery was pretty fast — about 45 minutes. We ordered sesame chicken which was pretty good and my favorite thing of everything we ordered. The other things we had were wontons (they were tasteless), egg rolls (how do you get egg rolls wrong??), a beef noodle vegetable dish (it was okay, but it was so blah), and spare rib pieces (they were good but had bones in them). I wouldn’t order from this place again.

good service good food
love the beef and broccoli and pork fried rice spicy

This place is so nasty I really don’t know how they stay in business.
I’ve been here twice. The first time it was awful — like it wasn’t even real chicken or I don’t know what. The fried rice was really weird, like it was fried in tar. But I was hungry so I ate it all. Then it sat in my stomach like a log, and for a day I seriously felt sick.
Then about a year later I thought oh, maybe they just f’d up that one time I’ll try it again. So I got the General Tso plate again. Same scenario, and this is it. This place needs to be condemned.
I’d only recommend it to people I hate.

solid takeout chinese food option

Lots of variety and delicious food. I love the sushi they have especially the Dragon rolls. The fried rice and egg foo young were all very tasty as well. They have a very convenient location with lots of parking and the staff was very friendly. I definitely will be coming back to try more and will highly recommend this place to others.

I came in here sick today and I ordered my food for take out (originally) then when I came in last minute I changed it to dine in and they had no problem with providing with the upmost hospitality. Thank you for the good soup and making me feel better !!!

Quite frankly the worst Chinese food I’ve had in Chicago. Egg drop soup was water with egg whites. No color, no flavor, devoid of salt or any seasoning. Crab Rangoon had minimal filling and chewy, not crunchy fried wrapper. Shrimp Egg Foo Yung had a reasonable appearance, but zero flavor. Absolutely no seasoning anywhere to be found. Will not order from here again.

Horrible Pad Thai. The spring rolls had old shredded lettuce. There are enough places to choose from, skip this one.

This place is gross. Simple steamed chicken and broccoli was slimy. Instead of sauce they put the nasty water from the steaming process in a paper container. Friend got nauseous from her food. Most ended up in the garbage. We went here because it was close but definitely not worth it. They over charged me too but didn’t know how to refund so gave me extra crappy food. Woah this place is awful.
Pros: I suppose the rice tasted like rice

I ordered the jalapeño beef with beef fried rice dinner. It was spicy I’ll give them that. The rice was pretty bland, but the sauce from the beef and soy sauce fixed that. For $ 15 and some change it wasn’t bad since I only ate half I have lunch for tomorrow at work. They make you pay $ 2.00 extra to add beef to your rice and then $ 1.00 to have beef instead of chicken. That kind of sucks, but whatevs.

I never write reviews, but after getting delivery from here I felt compelled to warn others.
The sushi is miserable. It’s a ton of rice wrapped around fish (tuna in our case) that smells so strongly of spoiled seafood that it had to be pushed aside immediately. Next came the red curry, which only had a coloring to indicate what it was and surprisingly a fishy flavor that seems to dominate their dishes. This too got placed in the trash. The dumplings weren’t bad but a attempt to reheat them turned it into another fish meat roll wrapped in over cooked dough. The only reason this place got 2 stars is because the hot and sour soup wasn’t that bad and the delivery guy was super nice (grub hub).
My advice is to order elsewhere. It’s not worth the 1.5 hour wait or after flavors.

This place is our go-​to-​place for Chinese takeout. It’s not «authentic» Chinese and quite honestly you won’t find it unless you go to Chinatown or China.
I recommend their Kung Pao Chicken (hubby’s fave), Beef & Brocolli, Mongolian Beef, BBQ Pork Fried Rice, and many many more.
I’m Asian and I know my Asian food. Don’t listen to the haters lol.

This place is gross! I just moved to the Lakeview area and was on the lookout for a new Chinese restaurant. I received their menu in the mail and decided to try it.
I placed a delivery order and was surprised that it arrived so fast. When I opened it and tasted it, the food was completely disgusting. The crab Rangoon tasted and looked like it was filed with the fake yellow cheese instead of cream cheese, and there was no crab.
The sesame chicken was inedible, the sauce was not evenly distributed and when I bit into a piece of chicken it tasted like chicken fat.
I thought I could eat an egg roll and not go hungry, but it was just awful. I don’t know how you can mess up egg rolls.
Such a waste of money.
Will never order from here again.

I was sad that I couldn’t order from the Chinese menu using the Groupon, because that is what I really wanted, so I had to order sushi. Tried the Green Turtle and Dragon to go and ate it a couple hours later. Was still tasty and good for takeout sushi. The place itself is small and not that clean-​looking. But the service is friendly and quick, and when grabbing takeout, that’s what you need, I guess.

I got a Groupon worth $ 20 I wasn’t able to order anything I wanted, the Menu for groupon its very limited .
We order sushi it was okay, and something whew that i even had no idea of I was ordering.
Don’t waist your money if you going to get a Groupon. Not worth it

Stopped by to grab a quick lunch with my college since it was only blocks away. We got the basil chicken and cashew chicken. The basil chicken came with mixed veggies, didn’t skimp on the basils, but was drowned in gravy. The cashew chicken was a little bland and had a bit too much cashew. The lunch specials came with fried rice (huge portions!) and an egg roll. Overall it’s average; a typical Chinese fast food carryout joint. For about $ 6.50, the lunch special is quite a steal.

For cheap Asian food when on the go, it’s okay. Years ago I would stop by once in awhile for late night dim sum. At that time I thought it was decent for food however the place was kind of dirty and or sticky due to poor cleaning skills. Today I’m not as impressed.
Since time between visits they’ve changed up the dining room area and it appears to be cleaner than before. Dining tables and chairs are more modern and probably built by ownership or custom made. Food… food was, is, alright. If someone suggested that they prepared foods ahead of time, I would believe it. Some of their appetizers don’t strike me as; made fresh today. Fried from frozen seems to be just about right.
My last experience here was awful. I ordered some potstickers which weren’t made fresh, I kept wondering how long it had been sitting in the freezer. I also feel as though the egg roll served with meals is store bought or from a catering service. (It’s true that some Chinese restaurants will opt to purchase egg rolls in bulk from a catering service) I requested my meal to be made spicy. Not extra or die from spicy, just spicy. It was inedible. I wondered if the chef dumped a shit load of chili’s and oil straight into the dish. The entrée was orange chicken. Orange it was. The sauce had a goopey, gel like consistency that wasn’t at all appetizing. It contained fried all white meat that wasn’t at all tasty or interesting. Spent somewhere around fifteen dollars frivolously.
I know better now.
Details: No washroom, not even for customers of any dollar spend. Counter people are frugal with napkins and sauces. I once watched as a lady asked for more sweet and sour sauce and the counter guy replied, «I already gave you one». Indeed, he shared one with her for her ten dollar tab. The place isn’t a dump but…

This place was straight up bad. The only redeeming quality was that the food was ready when they said it would be. I decided on this place after I was totally in the mood for chinese and I also needed to run a few errands (jewel and office max). Much to my convenience, this place looked like it would be perfect, but I quickly found out it was not.
I settled on general tso’s chicken, and was almost immediately offended at what I was given for two reasons: it was really expensive and it was really bad. I understand that I did agree to the «large» portion, but 10+ bucks for ANYTHING at a chinese place seems pretty steep to me. Also, it tasted terrible. It was closer to soggy fried chicken than anything I’ve ever had and also called «General Tso’s chicken»
I feel like american chinese food has the certainty to always be at least edible and somewhat enjoyable. This is easily the worst chinese food I’ve ever had in my life, and for the first time ever, was unafforded the idea that chinese food is always «good»
Next time I’m in a similar situation, I will definitely settle on anything from the prepared food section at Jewel.

I had scallion pancake, eggrolls, and spicy tofu.
Scallion pancake had a hardly any scallion in it. skimpy!
Eggroll was a usual frozen stuff.
Spicy tofu was too spicy & not much flavor.

We have been ordering from EW for at least 15 years. Mostly, it’s your standard Chicago style Chinese fast food… nothing really outstanding but also consistently OK and FAST delivery.
Sad to say that lately things seemed to have changed. A couple of times our order resulted in chicken that was «odd»… not chicken breast but more chicken «parts». Not appetising at all. Stopped ordering for a while. Finally decided to give them another change. This time the chicken seemed OK, but the deliver sucked. The driver called me (as per my request) to let me know he was there… went to the door and noone. Looked out on the street, noone. Had to call him back. He had gone to a different street, one that only shared the first letter with my street’s address. OK, so english is not his first language… but it then took him another 20 minutes to find my house. And then, no apology. So… semi cold food, delivered late with no apology… and the food is only «OK».
Probably will be looking for another choice in the future. :(