Reviews here seem pretty split, so here's a balanced perspective. My family has been coming to Asian Imperial for about four years. Before moving to Lunenburg we lived in Groton where we had an excellent Chinese restaurant 2 towns over. so when we moved here we tried basically every Chinese place in Fitchburg, Leominster, and Lunenburg looking for something comparable. Out of all of them, Asian Imperial is the best option locally, but it's definitely not the best Chinese food overall. The place has two sides to it: the bar and the restaurant. The bar is excellent. Large U-shaped granite bar, good high-top seating, friendly bartenders, and strong drinks. Honestly 9 out of 10 times we come here it's for the bar, not a full dinner. Crab rangoons and lighter bar food are solid. The bar experience is easily 10/10. The main food menu is more average. It's definitely better than the typical shopping-plaza Chinese takeout nearby (over-fried chicken, dark greasy fried rice, etc.), but the food itself is generally pretty bland and not very memorable. It's decent, sometimes good, sometimes just okay. For context, my family eats Chinese food almost every weekend and we've tried a huge number of places across Eastern MA and Southern NH. I also try to judge restaurants by the whole experience (atmosphere, staff, drinks, cleanliness) not just one dish. My family owns a restaurant so I try to judge restaurants by the whole experience not just one dish. Taking everything into account, 3/5 feels fair. Clean restaurant, good staff, great bar, and decent food. Around this area, that actually stands out. If you want excellent Chinese food and are willing to drive, go to Lilac Blossom in Nashua, NH (11/10). But locally, Asian Imperial is the best option we've found. read more

Eh. I found it to be extremely underwhelming. I ordered shrimp and broccoli. The brown sauce was lacking in flavor and it was very bland...almost flavorless. The portion itself had a generous portion of shrimp. I wouldn't order again. read more

Asian Imperial - Shrimp and broccoli - Chinese Near Me - Lunenburg, Massachusetts

Excellent food and service. Returned after several years and were most pleased. Enjoyed Mango Chicken and Sauteed Chicken with Mixed Veggies, the later prepared as requested with low salt and sauce on the side. Our server, Bella R., was most competent, helpful and pleasant. We're looking forward to returning in the near future. read more

Friday night after 7:30. not too busy at the bar. This place used to be 5 star but of late is sinking fast 1. Luke warm dumplings, now constantly 2 Can you please have the bartender add a lime to your Mai Tais? 3 Tonight bartender couldn't even bother to had out a fortune cookie with the bill read more

I am tell you what! Second Job ever had was working in a Chinese Rest. I ate the food a lot. It took decades for this place to arrive, and it is so excellent, the best place I have found in New England, it is always dependable on order taking to the food to delivery, has never messed up an order and the food is the BEST! If you are local or coming from out of town this is the place to get your food, so satisfying and just perfect. A must try. Honestly. Just saying. Andrea M. read more

I've been a few times to Asian imperial and as someone that is not a huge fan of Asian food I thought it was great. Clean restaurant , good service , and yummy food . I tried to vegetable fried rice and sweet potato sushi , and broccoli in garlic sauce and it was great , didn't make me feel gross afterwards . I believe the foods reasonably priced for the quality and quantity you're getting . 4/5 would go again read more

I haven't been to this restaurant in a number of years. But everything was absolutely amazing. The server was tremendous as well as the food. Excellent sushi. It is a bit old and dreary inside, but it's extremely affordable compared to other Asian restaurants in the area. Definitely will put it on my go again list. read more

Chicken fingers very good. Brown rice nice option to get. Egg foo young very good. Meal says comes with 2 wings but came with 2 half wings plus they were very small. Very disappointing. Other places does whole wings read more

The best! So delicious! Great fresh hot food, always served by an attentive, friendly staff. Has always been a great experience when dining at Asian Imperial. Where they will make it as you like it, everything from sushi to all the popular Asian cuisine dishes. Delicious Mai Ti's and all other served drinks to quench your palate. Enjoy!! read more

I ordered takeout on a Friday night for the first time. I ordered sweet and sour chicken with white rice. I got 4 cold chicken tenders with a big bowl of thick pink substance. This is not sweet and sour chicken from any Asian restaraunt I have ever went to. When I called and told them my meal was not what I wanted she told me that she would not replace it. I asked to speak to a manager and she told me there was no manager on duty. On a Friday night. RIGHT.... Never again. read more

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Old salad with brown pieces. Got a spicy tuna roll that looked and tasted like it was made yesterday. read more

Asian Imperial - Brown house salad - Chinese Near Me - Lunenburg, Massachusetts

Their food is excellent and the bartenders/waitresses are phenomenal. I can't see why anybody would give it a bad review unless they were having a bad day. This is my favorite restaurant ever. read more

The last few times i have been here the fish isn't very fresh and it is chewy, not choice cuts of fish as sushi should be. I hope they will take more care in the preparation of their sushi because in years prior it was great. I am happy overall with their warm food- and service is good. read more

Asian Imperial - Tuna roll - Chinese Near Me - Lunenburg, Massachusetts

We ordered multiple dishes from this restaurant, and every single one was a disappointment. The beef and vegetables was so bad they almost made me sick--the meat tasted rotten. The chicken fingers were mushy with no flavor at all. Even the plain brown rice smelled and tasted like chemicals. The beef in the lo mein had the same rotten taste. We threw everything in the trash. This was an awful experience, and we will never order from here again. read more

Servers are great and the food is great, not too expensive. Quick and easy lunch and dinner (fast service). I love coming and sitting at the bar with my husband. Bar is smaller and cozy but can talk to everyone from the bar. read more

Asian Imperial used to be very good. It's gone seriously downhill. They used to make fried rice fresh, now it's made in the morning and is dried out and stale. They used to have little bottles of soy sauce on the table, now they don't. Even worse, when you get take out, there's no sauce! It's very disappointing. (Oh! And don't order the crab Rangoon. They've quit putting anything inside but a blob of cream cheese.) read more

Really good food! Some of the best Japanese and Chinese dishes around. Highly recommend!

Always good food when we come here. We typically do takeout which is just as good, there drinks are also very good

Love this place! They always get the order right and the sushi is always made with fresh ingredients.

Noisy, so-so service, we felt rushed. I'll stick with "Chopsticks" over in Leominster, thank you! This place was a disappointment! read more

Let's start with the food. Overall, pretty dang good. Salt & Pepper Wings and S&P Shrimp are not to be missed. The Crab Rangoons lack crab. The white rice is great, the fried rice is a little heavy. The mixed dinks are nuclear and totally recommended. The service is regularly very good and attentive. The music playing is an abomination. Bro country. Terrible. Mid tempo garbage music. I know that doesn't mean much to the average consumer but holy hell. Am I eating middling barbecue or sushi. I *BEG* of you to make different choices. It's a slog getting thorugh a meal listening to garbage songs about trucks and fishing and failed relationships. What. Are. We. Doing. Whoever picked this aural aesthetic should walk into traffic with a blindfold. read more

Best place for sushi in this area! They also have very good Chinese food too. This is my favorite restaurant and satisfies my cravings every time. For sushi, I love the shrimp tempera maki - called crazy maki. I also love the eel, avocado, cream cheese cucumber roll- fashion maki. My go to sashimi is the salmon on a bed of rice. The fish is super fresh. My go to dishes for dinner are the beef chowfoon flat fat rice noodles. My husband loves the beef lomein. My dad and basically everyone loves the house fried rice with the white rice, the lighter version. The appetizer plate is good if you are BU fry and have kids and or a big group with you. Definitely recommend this restaurant to all sushi lovers and Chinese food lovers! read more

Asian Imperial - Beef lomein - Chinese Near Me - Lunenburg, Massachusetts

Worst Poke Bowl I have ever had - Market Basket has a better Poke Bowl - very disappointed. We typically don't get food from Asian Imperial, we did it based on a suggestion from a Chinese family is friends with the owners. Again, very disappointed. Will not order again. read more

Service was decent, beef is questionable. Didn't stay for the ambiance. Anyways please stop making these EGGS ROLLS. Absolutely disgusting and that apple sauce you substituted for the sweet and sour sauce instead. Please discontinue them. read more

Asian Imperial - The filling of the egg roll? What is that?! - Chinese Near Me - Lunenburg, Massachusetts

Let me first start off by saying there is an amazing amount of day drinkers there when we got there at 2:30 PM on a Saturday. I was actually surprised that almost every single table was filled, and almost every single patron had a drink. But, I digress. The food? Better than average American Chinese food. The place was clean, they were busy as all get out with sushi running back-and-forth, and our waitress? Amazing. She was pretty funny and held her around. She was fast to get the food out. I'll be it it didn't come out all at once, and just a great waitress. We got way too much food. Chicken fingers A Poopoo platter and some other tidbits. We had ordered fried rice which never came, and wasn't on the bill, which quite honestly was OK because we couldn't have fit any more food into our bellies. I have to be honest though, it must've been just a little bit too greasy for me. I had an upset stomach later on in the day, but that's OK. The food was good enough that I would come back. If I was in that area. If you're looking for Chinese food in the Lunenburg Leominster Fitchburg area? Go here read more

Food is less than desirable. Several times we have spent $$$ for take out. We had to throw it out! Gave it one too many chances ... our bad read more

I'm not big on Asian food, but a buddy of mine convinced me to give this place a go, and I'm glad I did. We shared a formidable spread of chicken fingers, beef teriyaki, crab rangoons, boneless ribs, spicy green beans, chicken fried rice and scallion pancakes. I'd never had crab rangoons before and was surprised by how much I liked them. The place is clean and well run. You definitely won't leave hungry. Recommended! read more

Asian Imperial - Not too shabby! - Chinese Near Me - Lunenburg, Massachusetts

Found staples in our rice and vegetable dish. I called the manager of Asian Imperial and she starts raising her voice stating that it's not her problem but the co packer that makes the food. Did not apologize. Very insensitive. Never will we order from Asian Imperial again!!!!!!! read more

Asian Imperial - Choked on a staple found in our food! - Chinese Near Me - Lunenburg, Massachusetts

Always delicious! Great service, it is always consistent service and consistentfood every time. read more

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Love the Chinese food and drinks! Always greeted at the door right away! The services are always super friendly! read more

Asian Imperial - Great Chinese & drinks! - Chinese Near Me - Lunenburg, Massachusetts

Got take out of some sushi and Chinese from Asian imperial in Lunenberg. Heard of this place and drove by it last few years ago hike living in Townsend, but this is the first time eating their food. ... Delicious! Short answer go or order take out. I can't imagine the take out being better than in the restaurant. Amazingly fresh yummy spicy tuna and pallet cleansing yet exquisite avocado sushi with fresh ginger and yummy wasabi. How many places can you get the yummy staples of Chinese American food with decadent Japanese sushi?? Wonderful mix. Wonderful Peking dumplings with the right flavor and texture. Yummy ginger soy sauce for the dumping with the right amount flavor and spicy beyond just soy sauce. Also amazing general gaus beef(yes beef!!) that is soft, flavorful, and a little decadence with just enough crispity crunchity. Sometimes you grow up eating food from a local restaurant that becomes a staple in your family house hold for the rare take out nightS then later in life you can't find it as food. The general gaus beef from Asian imperial has a little more crunch and lot more yummy flavor and more complex yummy texture than my local panda wok. And better yet, Asian imperial still has my favorite of flavor south east Asia food, Peking Duck. The yummy hoisin sauce and duck texture with fresh green onion and soft, even tasty ... oh how I missed spicy tuna and Peking duck!! Wonderful tease and satisfaction deliver to all my senses, but most of all my taste buds and sinuses. In addition they dealt with my anaflactic shellfish allergies excellently and made me feel competable about it. read more

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Great food and drinks! Mai Tais are delicious and the general gaos amazing! Definitely worth it!

The food was straight up just not good. I got the salt & pepper chicken with a spice level of 3 and I swear a newborn could've eaten it without breaking a sweat. It was drenched in a fluorescent orange oil, and along with the chicken came three pieces of raw broccoli and a maraschino cherry (why???!) My dad got the Hunan style beef which was also terrible. Both dishes lacked depth and a flavor worth coming back for. The service was alright. read more

Stopped in with the boys today. They tried the sushi, I had the wings and beef teriyaki both were tasty and delicious. The boys said their sushi was the only they ever had. Our waitresses was fast, accommodating and a huge hockey fan!! She also replaced my sons drink without us asking, big points. You won't find a better place for Chinese and sushi around, we love this place! read more

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Have eaten here before, but this rating reflected on the take out order for lunch. Fried rice was really dark and actually BURNT, smelt it and tasted it, threw it out. The general gao chicken had not heat, no broccoli, nor mushrooms and actually may have been confused with sweet n sour chicken, not a great experience for a restaurant that keeps going up $1 per item in costs. I'll move on, better chinese around! read more

Best Asian / sushi around . Have not had one bad thing here . Always on point and on time .

Seems like you guys DELETED my review so I guess I have to post it AGAIN! So disappointed that you guys are DELETING reviews to keep the four stars. The food is sub par at best. The pad thai is super fishy, with too much fish sauce making it disgusting. The general tao's chicken is always soggy. The lo mein is always undercooked. The service is always slow, and the server Gabby always seems to have an attitude when we are sat with her. We have given up going in at this point and have decided to get take out, but usually its soggy as well. Hard for local's to go in there and not see someone that's from the Lunenburg high school. Making it hard for some residents to wanna frequent that place, especially with some of those alumi or students having bullied many children in the area. I wouldn't be writing such a long review if you hadn't DELETED my last one in order to keep your "high" four star rating. I wonder how many other reviews you have taken down Kim? read more

I have been eating here for at least 5 years, and I have always been able to recommend it as an excellent place for hot food and sushi, until now. At my recent visit, I ordered sushi rolls, as usual. Most of them were really good, as they have been every other time I've been here. However, two consecutive bites out of one of the rolls had fish bones in them. Unlike cooked fish, sushi should never have bones. Naturally, I wanted to let the manager know right away so they could correct this quality issue. The fish bones in my sushi is not why I'm giving a negative review. What happened next is why they are getting one star. The first attempt to get the manager resulted in the server coming back saying "they think it's just tempura and they aren't going to do anything". What?! So here I am now, picking through my partially chewed spat-out pieces of sushi in my napkin, to find the bones as proof. I eventually found one, and another server promptly came over with a napkin and took it back to the kitchen. Finally the manager came out and proceeded to explain to me...get this...that fish have bones and they must have missed a few. Thank you, Captain Obvious. Finally he instructed the server to take that one roll off my bill. I understand restaurants are struggling with finding good help, and I would be forgiving of the mistake in the food preparation, if it weren't for the blatant disregard of the issue by the manager. I was always told from working in restaurants and other customer-service jobs that the correct answer is "I'm so sorry ma'am, I will fix it right away". The fact that my complaint was entirely ignored the first time and I had to prove it made the whole situation embarrassing and insulting. read more

My go to place when in Northern Worcester County. Dan Chans is forever gone, Chop Stick has been horrible for 40 years, and the Slut-a-whore...I mean Singapore has gone no place but south for years. Asian Imperial is THE place to go to for classic Massachusetts "Chinese" food. Whatever I order it exceeds expectations. Not Boston Chinatown Chinese food, but damn good. read more

Well it was 10 minutes before we ordered our drinks amd thats when i waved down the bartender or that nay have never happened. Had to wave him down again to order food. Basically the service sucked.....and im not overly critical. Got a couole rolls of sushi and a veggie lo mein. The lo mein was really good. The sushi is alright. Its weird that almost every specialty roll has cream cheese in it. So many rolls with mango or banana. Not 1 specialty roll with eel.....weird. Oh, got the uni with quail egg. Just to try that out for shits and giggles and i wouldnt recommend that. I dont put that on the place, just wasnt for me. I probably wouldnt go back here as there are so many other sushi places that are better. read more