Emperor's Palace Chinese Cuisine — Restaurant in Edmonton

Good Chinese food even offering Alaskan King crab.

Watercress soup was really good way to start your meal. Clear broth and palette cleanse to wet your appetite.

Peach and shrimp was good. The shrimp was deep fried which has crispy texture and sweetness from mayonnaise based sauce.

Alaskan king crab was really good which consist of three dishes but I do not know the name. But one is steamed with garlic and served on huge bed of noodles. You can toast the garlic and moist crab meat. Second plate is crab knuckles with hot peppers which give the dish a bit of a kick. Last crab dish is Portuguese style rice and seafood baked with a little bit of cheese. The rice was good perfectly good with seafood.

Tomatoe with pork is good. Nice hint of sweetness and sour from tomatoe sauce with the pork chop.

XO seafood bird nest is good too. Though the potatoe nest feels like it was deep fried in old oil but the rest of the dish was good. Big pieces of shrimp, squid and scallops with celery. They were cooked perfectly.

Service is good as waiter and waitress were attentive and friendly. They refill your tea pots without being asked.

Feb 3, 2023

A couple of dishes of note that I liked was lobster cooked in Chinese sausage and peppers with French fries, lamb chop with cumin, duck with sweet sauce, and scallop with rice noodles.

Lobster battered with eggs and stir fried with Chinese sausages, dried shrimp and chili is really good. This dish had French fries which was weird and odd as this restaurant rarely serves French fries as we thought noodles would be served. The lobster dish has perfect amount of spice and flavour. Fries was fried perfectly as it had crispy texture.

Lamb chop is good as you taste the cumin and various herbs used in this dish.

The duck with sweet sauce. I do not know the name of this dish. But the presentation of the dish reminds me of those big banquet set meals that serves cold dish. Anyways the duck was moist but when you spoon some sweet and sour dip... it further enhances the dish.

Scallop with rice noodles was really good. Scalloped steam perfectly and does not have fishy or old taste nor smell. The rice noodles goes well with the scallop with garlic and soy sauce. Perfect amount of salt...

One of the worst customer service I have ever recieved at a resturant. I have heard some good things about this place and the place we usually go to eat dimsum is always super busy, so we thought maybe we should give this place a try and see how it is. Firstly the location is in probably one of the most sketchy places in the city with very dangerous street parking. Entering the building it seems very dirty and the doors seem to be broken and old. The prices are higher then better dim sum places in the city. It is very big inside but the atmosphere seems very old. They seem to focus their attention towards the asian niche and are somewhat very racist towards others. We went at a very slow time where there wasn't many customers but they had a very large staff presence. They not once checked up on us once we ordered and got our food. They gave us a second menu where nothing matched the paper menu and had maybe an 1/8 of the items on there. We ended up ordering the wrong sticky rice. When told the lady ran to the back and grabbed the paper and then started pointing at the chinese text showing what we ordered. When we ordered we asked for sticky rice. At that point instead of replacing it she was going to charge us extra to order the correct thing. So I just brushed it off and said well you can take this rice dish away because we won't eat it. Nonetheless we still got charged for it which I already could care less as our experience was already going downhill. When time came to pay i paid partial cash and the rest on debit. Our total was $46, the lady was charging us 30% tip on the debit without permission, we did not want to give tip due to us not feeling like they didn't deserve the tip as we did not get optimal service. She made us feel obligated to tip and instantly changed her mood and got very rude and kept saying we are supposed to tip. We told her we didn't get tippable service. I highly recommend you go elsewhere as the staff are very stingy here and just horrible customer service with mediocre food. 0/5 if I could genuinely...

At Emperor’s Palace in Edmonton, there’s something magical about a proper family-style feast. The steamed chicken (白切鸡) is pure tradition on a plate: tender, juicy meat with a silky golden skin, served with that gingery scallion sauce that’s low-key addicting. It’s simple but so nostalgic, like the centerpiece at a banquet that no one skips. Then, there’s the vibrant plate of braised greens topped with mushrooms and glass noodles—healthy-ish and packed with that savory, umami-rich sauce. It’s the kind of dish that makes you feel like you’ve been eating way too little vegetables lately.

The meal only gets better with a steaming bowl of fish maw soup, thick and hearty with tender morsels of seafood swimming in a flavorful broth. It’s cozy and comforting—definitely a soup-for-the-soul situation. And for a change in texture, the walnut shrimp absolutely steals the show. Crunchy fried shrimp bathed in creamy, sweet mayo, paired with juicy canned peaches—it’s weirdly genius and works way too well. Trust me, this dish disappears fast when you’re at the table.

When you combine it all—simple classics like the steamed chicken, indulgent dishes like the walnut shrimp, and hearty greens or soups—you realize Emperor’s Palace nails the art of balance. It’s the kind of spot that makes you slow down, share good food with people who matter, and leave feeling full in all...