Empire Chinese Restaurant & Karaoke — Restaurant in London

I placed an order to be delivered, which proved quite difficult after repeating the order all of 3 items. They called me back twice from the restaurant and then the driver called me. The delivery took getween 30-40 minutes. I live just under 1 mile away. I looked up the takeaway menu and totalled it to £21.20. I did query the total when the restaurant calked me back informing me it was £24.70. The lady on the phone said you need to check the takeaway menu, so I automatically thought it was my fault. After the food arrived I looked at the receipt £24.70. I decided to go back online and check, and there were two menus one Al a Carte and a takeaway menu so most people would think that the Al a Carte is for eating in the restaurant and the takeaway for delivery and takeaway. Watch out for this as I was charged from the Al a Carte menu. I found the food delivered was hot and good portions. The Singapore veggie noodles were very fiery but delicious, the crispy chilli beef was quite hot not very much sweetness, the chicken satay on sticks, the chicken was cooked well but tasted a bit spicy along with the satay sauce which I didn't like. The satay sauce was a little too runny for my liking. It all tasted the same...

A relatively new Chinese-cantonese restaurant to Romford, the owners informed us that they moved from China town Soho to open here. This is evident in the selection of food available. I have struggled to find a restaurant in the area that offers vegetables such as 'kai lan' which is a Chinese type of broccoli that has a spinach iron taste to it outside of central London. Yet it is available on the menu here. If you prefer the styles of food that is served in London Chinatown over the more westernized chinese food that you will find in an average Chinese or oriental takeaway in the area, then the Empire is worth a check in. Just be aware that at the time of writing they have a split opening times with a break between lunch and dinner sittings. For the location, while Victoria road is well placed next to the station, the restaurant is situated a fair distance towards the ring road so is easy to miss. There were a few car parking spaces directly outside, but unless you are lucky you will probably use the car park attached to lidl near the station if you...

First time ordering here tonight... as I checked the reviews I thought I give it try... I think the reviews are overrated as this is not the food quality I received today compare to what people have posted.

But I was disappointed, because the food was not fresh! Chil salt ribs - lacked flavour Lemon chicken- batter was too old and chewy chicken Satay beef - beef meat was so chewy you cant bite it to eat properly.. we asked for stir fried but got the them on skewers. Ho fun beef dry noodles - Ho fun was not fresh at all properly a week old noodles.. and again beef not fresh.

The worst beef ive ever had in chinese takeaway!

You get free spring rolls but you have to pay for delivery anyway.

Only decent dish was the plain noodles in beansprouts

So still on the hunt for a decent chinese takeaway...