Emperor Garden

We had great dinner in the restaurant, the waitress was very nice, the dishes looks delicious and taste delicious too, we will come again soon

Vin Vin Hines

First off we were planning on another place, but when they fell through we shifted gears and let me tell you we were VERY happy with the shift. The menu was extensive and everything was fresh and made to order. We all wished there was a little more descriptions on the drinks and potentially some of the food as it is traditional and we were not aware of everything in it. That said, EVERYTHING we tried was delicious and we have been talking about it with everyone since we came. We loved the family style setup and the environment was really nice, loved the look and feel of the place. We will definitely be back to give an extended review. If you are looking for a "hidden" gem and want some authentic and fresh Chinese food, then look no further. Tell em Vin Vin sent you, I'm tryna see something! Enjoy and use those chopsticks!!

Steven Schwartz

Excellent Chinese food in a pleasant environment. Right across from the Regal theaters , it’s a good spot to grab some food or a drink before or after a film . Has a full bar with craft beers on tap. Staff is attentive and welcoming. My favorite is the fresh steamed dumplings.

Linda Zheng

The food here is legit. Kind of like banquet style food. I’m Chinese American and I went here with my mainland Chinese mom and she said the food was pretty good (that’s a big compliment coming from her). Get the lobster if you can afford it. Worth the price.

Everest to UpstateNY

Very satisfied with the authentic Sichuan dishes. The spice levels were something we really enjoyed. The dry hotpot was a good amount for the price. The service was also fantastic. Alcoholic options were on the higher price side so we avoided. Vibe was great and the restaurant is beautiful.

A. K.

The manager, Kevin, and Emperor Gardens amazing staff went above and beyond for my family. We were a party of eight celebrating a birthday, and Kevin gave us our own private seating area and accommodated us in every way. The staff was very attentive to all of our requests and needs! The food! I can’t say enough great things about the food we had! Highly recommend the sliced beef with scallions and the lobster dishes! This restaurant is the closest you can get to NYC/Flushing Queens traditional Chinese cooking! We also had many dumplings from the traditional steamed/fried pork and veggie options - and chicken with mixed vegetables, plain noodles for the kids, and orange chicken with broccoli. The portions to the food are bountiful! You definitely get your moneys worth. Come hungry! Be sure to get the delicious Chinese sweet wine with the flower pedals in it! It tasted like candy. Thank you again to the staff and Kevin for making our celebrations memorable and happy!

Canavar Vasfi

Big portions and great food. French fries are okay.

noah Gianna

The taste is excellent, and the service is great，Especially, the barbecue is really great

Emmanuel Vélez Brito

Not surw why people have been providing less than 4 stars in the reviews and leaving positive feedback. Overall really nice food with authentic good flavor. One of the best chilli oils I have tried in asian restaurants. Beef lou mein was delicious and dumplings are also good!

Andy Britton

The food is absolutely delicious. The atmosphere is beautiful, and the waitresses are lovely, and the service is slow but worth the wait. It all feels like I'm actually in a Chinese restaurant directly in China

Jenny

We loved the authentic Chinese cuisine and the polite service! The interior matches the theme perfectly.

My daughter and I stopped in here for lunch. The service was attentive and friendly. We both really enjoyed the food. We would definitely recommend.

Pamela Skaarup

My daughter and I stopped in here for lunch. The service was attentive and friendly. We both really enjoyed the food. We would definitely recommend.

We were very pleasantly surprised with how good the food is at Emperors Garden, given its location inside Crossgates Mall. The first thing that’s important to understand is that this is fairly authentic Chinese food. While they do have a Chinese American Takeout section on their menu (we didn’t order from it), most of the dishes are traditional Chinese cuisine. This means that some dishes have bones and pieces of chili or whole spices that aren’t intended to be eaten. If you aren’t familiar with traditional Chinese cuisine, and if you aren’t adventurous, then maybe stick to the Chinese American section. We ordered pan fried pork dumplings, dry fried squid, mala peanut crispy chicken, and seasoned green bamboo. The pork dumplings were fine, they seemed like they were frozen/commercially made, but everything else was spectacular and well prepared. As other reviews mentioned, the service is a major issue here. Everyone we dealt with was friendly, but nothing seemed to flow smoothly. The food never comes out all at once in a Chinese restaurant, but usually it comes out with enough pacing that the dishes are all enjoyed together. In this case our first entree dish arrived before our rice and our vegetable dish arrived so far after our entrees that we were already done with the meal. All this said, the restaurant is newly opened and hopefully this is just a growing pain and gets resolved as they develop better routines and train staff. It won’t deter us from going back. A final note to management- the menu situation is unnecessarily confusing. The tablets aren’t great and took more work than a paper menu (our server struggled to get them set up and then mine crashed while I was browsing the menu). The organization by cuisine is also inconvenient, most other Chinese restaurants organize by categories like pork, vegetables, rice, noodles, etc. It’s much easier for the diner to plan a balanced meal when you can look at the vegetable section to find a vegetable, rather than have to flip between the different cuisine sections looking for vegetables. Just something to consider 🙂

I was shocked that the menu did not contain more single portion options. I had soup that should have been for a service of 4. The king crab was on the menu for over $500 !!! No other option. It's a beautiful restaurant and the food was delicious but I was the only customer. If they reconsider the menu and possibly create an all you can eat buffet or salad bar they would do a lot better to attract customers.

Robert Handel

We were very pleasantly surprised with how good the food is at Emperors Garden, given its location inside Crossgates Mall. The first thing that’s important to understand is that this is fairly authentic Chinese food. While they do have a Chinese American Takeout section on their menu (we didn’t order from it), most of the dishes are traditional Chinese cuisine. This means that some dishes have bones and pieces of chili or whole spices that aren’t intended to be eaten. If you aren’t familiar with traditional Chinese cuisine, and if you aren’t adventurous, then maybe stick to the Chinese American section. We ordered pan fried pork dumplings, dry fried squid, mala peanut crispy chicken, and seasoned green bamboo. The pork dumplings were fine, they seemed like they were frozen/commercially made, but everything else was spectacular and well prepared. As other reviews mentioned, the service is a major issue here. Everyone we dealt with was friendly, but nothing seemed to flow smoothly. The food never comes out all at once in a Chinese restaurant, but usually it comes out with enough pacing that the dishes are all enjoyed together. In this case our first entree dish arrived before our rice and our vegetable dish arrived so far after our entrees that we were already done with the meal. All this said, the restaurant is newly opened and hopefully this is just a growing pain and gets resolved as they develop better routines and train staff. It won’t deter us from going back. A final note to management- the menu situation is unnecessarily confusing. The tablets aren’t great and took more work than a paper menu (our server struggled to get them set up and then mine crashed while I was browsing the menu). The organization by cuisine is also inconvenient, most other Chinese restaurants organize by categories like pork, vegetables, rice, noodles, etc. It’s much easier for the diner to plan a balanced meal when you can look at the vegetable section to find a vegetable, rather than have to flip between the different cuisine sections looking for vegetables. Just something to consider 🙂

Colleen Alison Onley-McLean

I was shocked that the menu did not contain more single portion options. I had soup that should have been for a service of 4. The king crab was on the menu for over $500 !!! No other option. It's a beautiful restaurant and the food was delicious but I was the only customer. If they reconsider the menu and possibly create an all you can eat buffet or salad bar they would do a lot better to attract customers.

Utterly thrilled to (finally) find a good Chinese restaurant serving authentic dishes in the capital region. Pros: -Pea shoots were perfectly cooked (and I haven’t found these anywhere else around here - they’re so good) - Steamed sea bass was super fresh in a delicious sauce, beautifully plated. (I couldn’t believe I was in a mall eating that nice of a dish). - homemade chili oil Cons: - soup dumplings were freshly made but not that flavorful (or soup filled) and small. Still solid though. - hot and sour soup had good flavor but seemed like they watered it down. Tons of interesting looking dishes on this menu, I’m definitely going back.

I thought the food was excellent good portions, it was mid week lunch time not busy at all. The only complaint I had was the music at first it was a nice relaxing background something you would expect at authentic Chinese restaurant, but then a song very offensive and explicit came on. I was there with my daughter I had to get up and request the skip over the song which they did. emperor garden of you read the reviews I would stick to the more authentic Chinese music just my opinion. I will definitely go again good and prices were great.

Ben Bigelow

Utterly thrilled to (finally) find a good Chinese restaurant serving authentic dishes in the capital region. Pros: -Pea shoots were perfectly cooked (and I haven’t found these anywhere else around here - they’re so good) - Steamed sea bass was super fresh in a delicious sauce, beautifully plated. (I couldn’t believe I was in a mall eating that nice of a dish). - homemade chili oil Cons: - soup dumplings were freshly made but not that flavorful (or soup filled) and small. Still solid though. - hot and sour soup had good flavor but seemed like they watered it down. Tons of interesting looking dishes on this menu, I’m definitely going back.

Will

I thought the food was excellent good portions, it was mid week lunch time not busy at all. The only complaint I had was the music at first it was a nice relaxing background something you would expect at authentic Chinese restaurant, but then a song very offensive and explicit came on. I was there with my daughter I had to get up and request the skip over the song which they did. emperor garden of you read the reviews I would stick to the more authentic Chinese music just my opinion. I will definitely go again good and prices were great.

Audrey Yetto

This was my first experience here and wow it was so good. The staff was so nice and helpful. Food was delicious hot and you get a lot for the money. It was served family style. I will say. I was not expecting 1 dish at a time to come out but it was a great experience. Definitely worth a try. I loved the pork fried rice. It was so fluffy and hot. Beef and broccoli was very good along with the General Tso’ chicken. But those pork fried dumplings were so so good.

Decent place overall, I'm glad we tried it. Almost everything is family style which I understand is common practice for this type of cuisine but it does make dining a little difficult if you have differing tastebuds than your companions. I appreciated the "American Chinese Food" section of the menu, they know how to captivate all audiences. Our server was nice and accommodating. It wasn't too busy as it was St. Patrick's day so we were one of the few tables but regardless the food came out very quickly and we didn't want for anything all night nor did we ever feel rushed even though we were there until closing.

Annie

Decent place overall, I'm glad we tried it. Almost everything is family style which I understand is common practice for this type of cuisine but it does make dining a little difficult if you have differing tastebuds than your companions. I appreciated the "American Chinese Food" section of the menu, they know how to captivate all audiences. Our server was nice and accommodating. It wasn't too busy as it was St. Patrick's day so we were one of the few tables but regardless the food came out very quickly and we didn't want for anything all night nor did we ever feel rushed even though we were there until closing.

Food is ok but service is horrible. All the meals came out at different times. One was so long that we actually cancelled it. If it's going to take a long time that's fine, but let us know so we can order something else. I wound up getting my daughter pizza after (it was her meal we canceled and she was starving). Waitress took a long time to come over to take our order. When she finally did she walked away mid order to go answer the phone and didn't come back for another 10-15 min. Never had that happen in a restaurant.

Michael Schaefer

Food is ok but service is horrible. All the meals came out at different times. One was so long that we actually cancelled it. If it's going to take a long time that's fine, but let us know so we can order something else. I wound up getting my daughter pizza after (it was her meal we canceled and she was starving). Waitress took a long time to come over to take our order. When she finally did she walked away mid order to go answer the phone and didn't come back for another 10-15 min. Never had that happen in a restaurant.

Quite literally the worst Chinese food I've ever had. I was apprehensive when my husband's food came out 3 minutes after he ordered, but it smelled spicy (he got Kung pao shrimp). My son and I got general Tso's chicken and it was just battered chicken chunks tossed in sweet and sour sauce with some dried chili's. The broccoli was ice cold. My husband's had no spice to it, but I could tell they used Frank's red hot sauce in it. Lo Mein for the table tasted good, but had stringy pieces of chicken, or chicken fat or skin throughout and was too off putting to finish. The prices didn't justify the food at all. I don't recommend them and won't be back.

Absolutely the worst most flavorless Chinese food we’ve ever had, and extremely overpriced, probably because it’s in a mall with high rent. We were going to leave when we walked in for lunch as there was absolutely no one else in the place, we’re talking total ghost town. But someone we know recommended the fried rice and we were hungry so we stayed. We are big fans of wonton soup, and theirs was so salty and unappealing, with no sesame flavor whatsoever, that we couldn’t even finish it. Sidenote: they delivered the soup without spoons, and we had to flag the waiter down to ask for them, which sent him into a tailspin and a lengthy search, which is bizarre. The beef with broccoli was OK, but not worth the nearly $20 price tag. And the spring rolls were bland and not generously stuffed. Hot tea was served in a beer glass and our waiter did not speak much English, though he was polite. The fried rice, the reason we decided to try the restaurant in the first place was good, but definitely not worth the nearly $20 price tag, and they were very stingy on the pork - tiny shards of it and very sparsely populated. Come to think of it, so are the vegetables. I just don’t recommend this place.

Elizabeth Groff-Boyko

Quite literally the worst Chinese food I've ever had. I was apprehensive when my husband's food came out 3 minutes after he ordered, but it smelled spicy (he got Kung pao shrimp). My son and I got general Tso's chicken and it was just battered chicken chunks tossed in sweet and sour sauce with some dried chili's. The broccoli was ice cold. My husband's had no spice to it, but I could tell they used Frank's red hot sauce in it. Lo Mein for the table tasted good, but had stringy pieces of chicken, or chicken fat or skin throughout and was too off putting to finish. The prices didn't justify the food at all. I don't recommend them and won't be back.

Francine Kaye

Absolutely the worst most flavorless Chinese food we’ve ever had, and extremely overpriced, probably because it’s in a mall with high rent. We were going to leave when we walked in for lunch as there was absolutely no one else in the place, we’re talking total ghost town. But someone we know recommended the fried rice and we were hungry so we stayed. We are big fans of wonton soup, and theirs was so salty and unappealing, with no sesame flavor whatsoever, that we couldn’t even finish it. Sidenote: they delivered the soup without spoons, and we had to flag the waiter down to ask for them, which sent him into a tailspin and a lengthy search, which is bizarre. The beef with broccoli was OK, but not worth the nearly $20 price tag. And the spring rolls were bland and not generously stuffed. Hot tea was served in a beer glass and our waiter did not speak much English, though he was polite. The fried rice, the reason we decided to try the restaurant in the first place was good, but definitely not worth the nearly $20 price tag, and they were very stingy on the pork - tiny shards of it and very sparsely populated. Come to think of it, so are the vegetables. I just don’t recommend this place.