Emperor's Choice — Restaurant in Chicago

Our experience here was phenomenal - we were promptly seated and waiters were always available. We tried their salt and pepper chicken, sweet and sour pork, and their shitake mushroom with peapod sprout. The chicken was alright and was seasoned well, the sweet and sour pork had too much sauce to it. However, the real star of the show was the mushroom and peapod sprout. This is easily one of the best Chinese vegetable dish we've had in a long time - the sprout and mushroom was cooked perfectly and the sauce was great without over using oil. The sprout had a satisfying texture to it and the mushroom had all the flavor of the sauce when you bite into it. This is honestly as good if not better than how my mom does it, and she's an amazing cook that runs her own restaurant. Absolute 10/10, this one dish alone tells me that this restaurant puts attention and care on specific dishes. Will come back to try more.

Update: We came back and tried a few other dishes, like the Honey walnut Shrimp, their Sichuan spicy chicken, their Cantonese style fried noodle dish, and their duck. Duck was decent, shrimp and chicken was underwhelming. Their Cantonese fried noodles were AMAZING however. Its staggering how the quality of their dishes vary so much, its like there are different cooks in the kitchen. The noodle was nice and crispy and the stir fry on it was cooked very well and was sauced very appropriately.

tldr try the peapod sprout and mushroom dish as well as their Cantonese fried...

My husband and I came about 3 weeks ago. We haven't had good Chinese food in a long while. When I looked it up through google, it said that it was a "chinese restaurant," and the food is good. When we went inside, they greeted us, and it wasn't that much of a wait time. One of the things I didn't like is that they sat us by the bathroom. When we got the menu. They didn't have traditional chinese food. My husband and I look at each other and we're having our doubts that this was a so-called chinese restaurant. We decided to still give them a shot. My husband ordered his traditional pork fried Rice. He wanted hot sauce when they brought the hot sauce. It was not the way the Chinese hot sauce looked. It looks more like thai hotsauce. When the food came to us. It did not look appealing. What a waste of money down the drain. The fried rice did not taste like fried rice. The sauce that they cooked it with was not soy sauce at all. The food that I order it looks pale and slimy. I also asked them for brown rice. Since I have lupus. I can not eat white grain. Right away when they brought my rice, it was not brown rice. It was white rice with some soy sauce or some sauce to make it look like brown sauce. What a disappointment. Then, they had the nerve to charge for a tip. Please... smfh Don't call yourself a Chinese restaurant. If you don't sell chinese food. Just say that you're a thai restaurant. We'll never...

I took my elderly brother here for takeout, and the experience was extremely disappointing. The person who took our order barely spoke to us, rushed through the process, and when we asked about beverage options, he just pointed instead of answering. His demeanor was cold and rude. However, when a white group walked in right after us, his behavior changed completely. He greeted them warmly, spoke clearly, showed them to their seats, and even smiled. I observed this same polite treatment with every other white customer who came in after. When I pointed out the difference in how we were being treated, his response was to ask if we wanted to sit, which felt dismissive rather than sincere. When our food was finally ready, he handed it to us with a flat, dry “here, thank you, goodbye.” I will never return to this establishment. The only reason I did not request a refund was because my brother was hungry and needed to take his medication. No one should be made to feel unwelcome or treated differently because of...