It is my first time here. Only place I know of that makes spicy fried rice like this. Trust me, I'm asian. I have been to a lot of places. Big egg rolls are good, and not many places use shrimp for them either. read more

Emperor's Kitchen - Combination Szechuan fried rice and order of egg rolls - Chinese Near Me - Elmhurst, Illinois

Service is not friendly. The young lady that takes your order is consistently unfriendly. This use to be our go to place, no more.

Rude rude!! we called to a place to go order and the lady on the phone was unprofessional and rude. You can't eat inside and there's nothing spectacular about the atmosphere inside there. The veggie eggroll was not very good. It tasted greasy, burnt and a little chalky. The fried rice was fine. Nothing spectacular about it. The crab Rangoon very salty, dry, but too much cream. I would recommend trying to find another place. read more

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Supremely mediocre Chinese food. I tried the chef's special Emperor's Chicken. Although the sauce was decent, the chicken was way over-battered. I wish it came with a greater variety of vegetables as well. My fruitless search for great Chinese food in the Chicago suburbs goes on... read more

Emperor's Kitchen - the front of the restaurant - Chinese Near Me - Elmhurst, Illinois

Emperor's Kitchen has been my family's favorite Chinese spot for at least 25 years! No one makes egg foo young like they do! They're also fast - never takes longer than 15 minutes from calling in an order to picking it up. Lastly, they've been able to accommodate my mother's sesame allergy, which is incredibly rare for a Chinese restaurant. The only downside is that they ran out of their almond cookies last time! read more

0 for 2 tonight. Mongolian beef was bad. The beef was very chewy/grissley. Secondly, they need to cut the pieces smaller because I big old hunk of chewy beef is not pleasant and easy to eat. Sweet and sour chicken yuk. Strips of chicken were hard, oily, and/or overcooked. The Emperor has fallen! read more

Order regularly from Emperor's - food is always reliably good. For a takeout only joint, the service is quick. Going there to order and wait is not a good use of your time. Use the phone. Favorite meal is the shrimp kow with crab rangoon. read more

We did not end up, ordering food from here. The lady cannot understand what I was saying, not because of a poor connection, but just because she did not understand what I was asking for. She got frustrated and hung up. If she was at least polite I would not have bothered rating the restaurant. This is not a review on the quality of the food as I have not had food from here in many years. I guess it will continue to be many years. read more

The Crab Rangoons thats all I have to say!! They are surprisingly decent on prices and pretty fast. I did recently discover the Veggie lo mien and literally thats a meal on its own. Great place but its pick up only. read more

Coming here to review them solely for their egg rolls. They are quite literally the best egg rolls I have ever had. The shrimp or veggie ones are equally good. They may use tahini in the mixture? That's my guess as they have a very delightful and unique nuttiness, sort of like peanut butter. I've never eaten anything else from here but anytime I'm in town, I will go wildly out of my way to get an order of egg rolls. 10/10 would recommend stopping for some egg rolls. They are DELICIOUS. read more

Eat here if you want to speed run your bowel movements. This place was not good. Chicken was slimy and nasty, I got the hunan chicken and it was completely different than how it was advertised. You get a lot of food for the price, but you're better off buying literal garbage. More worth your money than this place. read more

Emperors Kitchen needs to bring Eddie back. I came in to order food and waited 10 mins and still nobody took my order. Ended up walking my out!!! read more

Eddie the owner is so funny. Love his friendliness and how he talks to the customers. It makes the establishment great. We ordered the crab Rangoon which is huge. It is NOT full of just cheese. He has the crab with some good stuff. Not too cheesy either. This location is next door to Oberweis ice cream. read more

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Their jumbo egg roll is no joke. It's huge. I sent a selfie pic with it to a friend and he thought it was a sweet potato. I was wondering why it cost more than $2 for one. Taste-wise, everything was all over the place. The hot and sour soup, how I measure a good take out place, had good ingredients in it, but was really gloopy. Way too much corn starch. Also, it wasn't really sour so I added my own vinegar. The Three Delicacies (chicken, shrimp and beef) was decent. The meat in the bbq pork with bok choy was delicious. Tender and fatty. The bok choy, on the other hand, had a few pieces that tasted spoiled. And the giant sweet potato of a egg roll was stuffed with vegetables but reeeeeally salty. Overall, just a typical chinese take out place that I didn't really care for but I'll probably end up eating it all the time because it's near my apartment. read more

Emperor's Kitchen - Chinese bbq pork with bok choy, and 3 delicacies, big ass hot and sour, and a egg roll the size of...a really big egg roll - Chinese Near Me - Elmhurst, Illinois

We have ordered from Emperors Kitchen many times throughout the years. The chicken was always tender and the food always tasted fresh. We ordered this weekend and the food was horrible. Sesame chicken had a different sauce and the chicken quality was bad. The orange chicken also had a different sauce, and the chicken was dry. Even the rice was bad. The rice had more of a minute made texture, not your typical sticky rice. read more

Cheap and tasty. Hot and fresh. Not gourmet but lunch specials are reasonable Lots of food weight for the $$. read more

Ate here last night before visiting Elmhurst Hospital. I too like Lily's review was shocked at the size of their egg roll. These are by far my favorite egg rolls. If you like them, there is a sit down chinese restaurant called "New Star" on North Ave in Elmwood park that has them as well to dine in. Food was good! We ordered when we got there and the food only took about 5 minutes for them to prepare. It was extremely fast and delish! I had the Chicken War Mein and my boyfriend had the Cashew Chicken. I'd recommend his Cashew Chicken before my Chicken War Mein for flavor but both get two thumbs up! read more

Been coming here for almost 20 years & still the best crab cheese wontons ever! They are generously packed full of crab & cheese. I live outta state now but it's so good that I try to stop by when I do visit Chicago. Love their shrimp toast & combo fried rice as well. Super friendly & consistently fast service. read more

Ordered sweat and sour chicken. The chicken was old. No tomato's. Fried rice so bland. Egg roll you could smell the oil. Just not good food. Ended up throwing it away. Never again. read more

I have been ordering from this place for over 20 years. It is the only place close to the area for that reason I order from them. The food is so overpriced. I save the menus every trip. I date the menus, the prices are raised at least twice a year. The food is just ok. I spend $60 or $70 every trip to feed the family and never would think to give me a free cookie. Today is the last time, meal prices again raised 10% or more and the food was terrible. No flavor, the beef kow had carrots and beef that's it. The chicken was terribly dry. 50% of what I paid for was not eaten and thrown away. Don't waste your money, there has to be another Chinese carryout close by. read more

This used to be our absolute favorite Chinese take out food. However, in the past year the food has definitely gone down hill. The fried rice in particular has consistently been very mushy- it's nothing like the FRIED rice I have come to know and love. The service, however, is consistently great! It's pricier than the average Chinese take out, but it used to be worth it. I started going to the Thai place across the road (York rd). I think they are closed every Monday. btw - this place is ONLY take out (no delivery and no dine-in) read more

16 years ago we moved from Elmhurst to another suburb and have yet to find Chinese that can compare to Emperor's Kitchen. A week ago we were in the neighborhood and picked up at Emperor's. Still so so delicious!! Seriously the best egg rolls, barbecue pork appetizer, crab Rangoon, combo fried rice and orange chicken! We were so happy with the service, the safety in place and of course the food! Bravo! We missed you, Emperor's Kitchen! read more

I used to LOVE this place and would make it a point to stop by if I was in the area ... but how things have changed. Last night I just placed a take-out @ $40 in food, now the food was mostly delicious. The eggroll (which is what set them apart from other Chinese restaurants) was flavorless, bland and and just mush - not what I remembered from previous experiences there, I was really looking forward to those but was let down. On the other hand, The Egg Foo young, wor mein were very good, as was the Egg Drop soup ... BUT the real kicker from this order was the sauces, you know the generic little sweet/sour, soy & hot mustard packs that they throw in the bag? ... well, the out of 7 or so hot mustards, all but 1 was rancid - the packs were 'puffed up' and smelled of rotten eggs when opened. The same with a couple of the sweet/sours that were opened. Ended up tossing the lot of them out. I wonder how old these things were that they were giving out to customers. read more

We ate here for the first time and could not believe how amazing the food was. I can honestly say it was the best Chinese food we have ever had. The staff was amazing as well. Going to be one of our frequent spots! read more

Beyond impressed with this place and excited it's a less than 5 minute drive from home. Not to mention, food is ready SUPER fast and the staff is friendly. Had been driving all the way to Villa Park to China House and never again! The pan fried potstickers are so good we've ordered them 3 times in a week (don't judge us). The BBQ pork fried rice does not disappoint, nor do the sesame or cashew chicken. A little bummed by the egg rolls, they are bitter. I can't tell if it's the cabbage or what, but they are not for me. The potstickers more than make up for them, so we order them instead and everyone's happy. Worth trying right away. If you're feeling extra indulgent - place your order, walk next door to Oberweis and order ice cream, by the time they finish prepping and checking you out there, your food will be ready for pickup. #win read more

Best Chinese restaurant ever. The best egg foo young in town. They treat you like family. So glad their back.

I'm from the city where there is fresher food and better choices. To me, its all about the crab rangoon...theirs is gross. Onion like taste and I believe imitation crab. Just wasn't good. It was heavy tasting. The chicken broccoli was heavy with some kind of weird milky sauce. UGH! The sesame chicken was too heavy in the sauce. I'll drive all the way to Hinsdale for something fresher...disappointing. Both entrees I tried but thought the food was very unsophisticated and heavy and the only thing that was okay with the fried rice. read more

We all (3) had the Four Seasons, EXCELLENT! Egg Rolls were HUGE and so nice and hot. The food was very good with all the different meats, the BBQ pork was very tasty, the chicken and beef were so tender and a variety of mixed Chinese veggies. Oh, we loved the Shrimp Fried Rice. Just the egg roll and shrimp fried rice is a meal all by itself! read more

I don't want to jump the gun and say that this is the best Chinese restaurant in Elmhurst, only because there are two that I haven't tried yet. However, this ranks as some of the best Chinese food I've ever eaten. I've been ordering from here since the place opened - many many years ago. The funny thing is that Eddie, the owner, almost always says, "15 minutes." But, I've timed it and it's usually 7 min. If you order, make sure you're already in the car on the way there. My order, "Hunan beef, no oil, extra spicy." As of this writing there are ninety-six restaurants in Elmhurst. I plan on eating at, and reviewing, every one. Follow me on Yelp! read more

I have been coming here since I was a kid. It's a nostalgic reminder of my childhood and really great chinese food. Everyone is kind, they never mess up my order, and the food is very good. I'd eat here daily if possible read more

Ordered crab Rangoon, three delicacy, chicken pea pods, fried rice and chicken noodle soup. All were fantastic. We may have found our new local chinese take out. Extra bonus for the easy to order and deliver through grub hub. One note I think you have to ask for soy sauce dipping sauce and fortune cookies on grub hub. Other than that I'd say order away read more

Good simple take out food. Fresh and tasty. Enjoyed the fried , egg drop soup and the dual delight.

We have been in Elmhurst for 15 years, this was our go to place, last two orders were lacking in flavor. It seems since the the older guy left (original owner ?) the food has gone downhill... I guess we are on the hunt again for a new restaurant.... read more

Still solid entrees and unbelievable crab rangoon, but they changed their egg rolls -- so sad. not a fan of the new ones.

I'm not a big fan of Chinese food but if I am in the mood this is the place I go in my area. It's clean, friendly, and the food is decent compared to the other divey Chinese takeout's in the area that don't look clean. It's not greasy like other places. Before, they didn't take credit cards but now they do. They close pretty early too. read more

Closed on Mondays. Carry out only. Wide selection, low prices, good quality Chinese. I've tried a dozen dishes and while some were definately better than others, all in all they use fresh ingredients and all dishes are at least decent. I've settled on the pork fine cut chop suey as being my favorite, but also really like the szechuan fried rice, which comes with more vege's than 'normal' fried rice and some hot pepper to give it a little kick. Only knock on the place is that the white rice is always a little more gooey than I prefer. But that's minor. Food is quick at lunch, never more than 15 min, and usually only 10 min. Nice carryout. read more

Outstanding! Every time I'm in town I try to stop at Emperors Kitchen. I've tried quite a few things and they're all excellent. Plus the prices are good. read more

Relatives have raved about this place for years but based on recent reviews it appears things have changed. We recently moved to Elmhurst and this was one of the first places we tried and unfortunately we were disappointed. We had egg rolls, crab rangoon and bbq pork fried rice. Our overall impression was - bland. All three had very little flavor. Nothing bad but nothing worth trying again. Time to try other Cantonese/Mandarin/Szechuan restaurants in the area. Also, a previous review compared these egg rolls to the egg rolls at New Star (which we love!). No way. The only thing they have in common is size. These were mostly cabbage and undercooked. read more

This the the worst food I have ever eaten, 50.00$ went in the garbage. I ordered egg rolls, lo mein, pot stickers, and fried noodles for dipping in duck sauce. No salt, the lo mein was made with capalini spaghetti instead of Chinese noodles, it had no sauce on it and way to many peppers, the egg rolls were raw (the wrap was sticky and gooey), the pot stickers were ok but the dipping sauce was way to sweet. The meal was horrible. Also, this food got me so sick for 2 days. Never ever again. Tell the chef he should at least add some salt to his dishes to add to the flavor but they need to much help to try and fix .... they should just shut the doors! One star....only cause I had to read more

We ordered carry out one time and we threw the food away. The food is absolutely disgusting and expensive. I have never been back and never will. How does this place stay in business? I see the reviews extolling the virtues of this dump , and I am in disbelief. read more