Not that appealing from the outside to be honest, but don't let that put you off, asThe New Emporer…read moreCourt is renowned for its wonderful Chinese cuisine (The Restaurant is also extensively used as a take away by nearby residents who can phone and collect their order from the take away menu or by ordering from the al la carte menu) It specialises in the three most famous provincial cuisines: Peking, Szechuan and Canton and each cuisine is superbly cooked. The Peking dishes are light, elegant and delicately seasoned. The Szechuan dishes are perfectly hot and spicy, but still remain that distinct aromatic flavour. The interior is fairly basically, but still retains a sense of character, the service is warm and friendly and the prices are quite reasonable. An all round decent restaurant.

My friend just brought us takeaway from here. Wow…read more Best chicken satay I've had in a LONG time. Nicely spicy, but not too much. Thick creamy sauce, almost just like they just used peanut butter. HUGE portion of noodles. I've put half of it in the fridge for tomorrow lunch. We chose what we wanted from the menu on the website. Turns out that we ordered off the main menu not the takeaway menu. But they didn't mind. So have a look at both menus if you are doing takeaway!

We headed off to Lyndhurst on a spur-of-the-moment whim for an overnight stay at the weekend -…read morehungry after a long walk in the beautiful New Forest, we took a gamble after looking at their menu as we passed by and made a reservation for that evening. The restaurant was very busy when we walked in, a few minutes early: we were invited to take a seat while our table was made ready, which gave us a moment to look at the delicious Szechuan menu again. We were shown to a lovely table in the middle of the restaurant, up close to the wall so we didn't have people brushing past continuously, bang on our reservation time! We selected a random bottle of wine from the menu (an Italian rose) which was very nice. We elected to start with wan-tun soup and grilled dumplings, which came out piping hot and absolutely delicious. The grilled dumplings were so moorish that we could happily have tucked into another plateful! We chose crispy beef with sweet-piquant sauce and panfried squid in blackbean sauce as our mains, accompanied by steamed rice and Yung Chow fried rice (containing meat and prawns). There was a nice lull in between our starters and main dishes being served which gave us time to enjoy our wine and savour the flavours from the starters more fully. The main courses were exceptional - not only in terms of quality, but also quantity! Lovely tender strips of beef were served in a delicate sweet-peppery sauce which was the perfect companion to the Yung Chow fried rice; my partner was very pleased with his panfried squid (again, plentiful quantity) and found the blackbean sauce quite fiery, although still very tasty and not offputting at all. We found the service to be very swift and courteous - the only things we could possibly find fault with was (a) after the first pouring of wine we were left to do it ourselves (not that we minded!), (b) we left the restaurant without being bid farewell, and (c) critically - the smokers stood outside the front door of the restaurant and as it was a fairly warm evening, the door was left wide open and the smoke blew in constantly. Not nice if you are a non-smoker! The food was exceptional; I think this definitely comes into our top 3 Chinese restaurants in the UK. We will definitely return again to the Imperial China next time we are visiting the area - well worth a visit, in our opinion.

We go to this restaurant frequently because the food is great and reasonably priced but mainly…read morebecause the service is exceptional. It is situated in the main street of Lyndhurst opposite the road leading to Cadnam. It is a short walk from the public car park. They serve Chinese and Szechwan food. There is a vast choice on the menu, and the staff will help with selections. The service is quick and efficient I think that they have all been highly trained and it shows. They also do a take away menu which seems to be popular but we haven't tried it yet.

For northern Chinese food, this is truly a wondrous find: On the two occasions that I had dinner…read morehere, I can tell that the chef is the real deal. In Oxford, no less! Incidentally, the Chinese ideograms for the restaurant's name actually mean "Flaming/Burning Wine," which might not be the only thing on fire, if you get my drift... My dining companion and I tried a total of five dishes over the two occasions we came here for dinner. Some were dishes that were a little off the beaten path, what with the current mania in society for "healthy foods" and all, but sometimes, you've got to live a little and relish that incomparable taste of fat that makes a dish so iconic otherwise you won't ever know what you're missing! And of all of them, I wasn't disappointed in any, which is testimony to the chef's skill. It also doesn't hurt that the owners, Shuman and Teresa are very genial hosts and bring extra warmth to the already cozy atmosphere of dark colours in a very classic Chinese setting. In the appetizer category was the Mouth Watering Chicken which was a poached chicken that was covered in a sauce of fiery chili peppers with peanuts sprinkled over it. It certainly lived up to its name. This is definitely not a dish for those with wimpy tastebuds because they're likely to have them seared off as with a blowtorch. However, for those who can handle it, it'll provide a nice "glow" in both your faces and stomachs to start the meal off. The initial foray into the forbidden began with the Shanghai Sweet Soy Braised Belly Pork dish which we had with plain white rice (in the old and traditional days, only animals were fed brown rice or unthreshed rice). With its generous cuts of fat-laced pork belly covered in a thick sweet soy sauce and with the white rice to "cut" its artery-clogging richness somewhat, I was in Seventh Heaven. This was food from my childhood when the "fat is bad" mantra just didn't exist. It was oh-so-good and brought back memories of times past and of home in Singapore. We ordered the Mapo Tofu with its classic chili and meat sauce as a sort of counterbalance. It was another dish that didn't disappoint. The ground pork swimming in that beautiful spicy sauce mixed in with the usual bowl of rice just hit the right spots where it counted. The spiciness wasn't as intense as I've had at some other restaurants and this is a good thing because it's so hard to taste something when your tongue feels like it's been run over by a lidocaine steamroller! Not to mention that drooling because your lips don't work any more is so unbecoming... On another visit, we decided to just "go gangbusters" and ordered the Shanghai Sweet Soy Pork Hock which just made my day. It was one entire pork hock that had been stewed in the traditional sweet thick soy sauce which infused the entire hock rather than just its surface. Now, the tree-hugging health nuts will probably be turning up their noses in disgust but, as I said, you haven't had true Chinese food until you've tried the richer dishes at least once (and risk your doctor going apoplectic on your next visit)! Okay, it's not something to have daily or even weekly but once in a while, to quote Gordon Gekko in "Wall Street": "Greed is good!" And amen to that. Now we come to Tofu in Crabmeat Sauce: The silky tofu cooked with the divine crabmeat made for an incomparable taste sensation that also sent shivers up my spine. Singaporeans can summarize this feeling in one word, "Shiok!" In other restaurants that I've had this dish, they skimped on the crabmeat and/or even used low-quality crabmeat, which detracted from the overall taste. But not here. At Sojo, they use a well picked-through, high quality backfin crabmeat (this is one dish where jumbo lump crabmeat would not have worked) so that you don't end up with crab shell or cartilage in your teeth nor is there a fishy flavor. Despite its reddish colouring, it has no chilli of any sort in it whatsoever, so rejoice all ye who have wimpy tastebuds or sensitive gastrointestinal systems! This is a restaurant that I am dying to return to so that I can wander through its menu searching for another "hit" of nirvanic bliss on each visit. Since I happen to live on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, I'm sure that Sir Richard Branson will be more than happy to have me add to his already bulging coffers and perhaps Virgin Galactic. Assuming his pilots park their cars on time for a change and we don't miss our departure slot again: Nothing is quite so ludicrous as hearing your flight is delayed because your pilot is looking for a parking spot for his car...it was like being stuck in an episode of Mr. Bean!

Very good chinese food in oxford.the restaurant is packed.needs to reserve if you are in big group…read more We ordered mostly spicy food.would recommend the spicy shredded pork and spicy fish in chilli oil.spicy prawns was a bit salty otherwise it would have been good.spicy fried chicken was ok.

It says it has been there since 1985 like all the restaurants and other places in the city of Bath…read more. The food was ok at the best customer service without a smile but prompt , charge money (2.95 UK gbp) for chili oil , though it was on the menu I checked after I order . May be we are spoiled here in the US because we get it all the time without charges . Will I go there again if I go to Bath again nah no way even if I am craving Chinese food like I was when I went there . There is a Thai place not far from there . Being a tourist place I guess they don't care much for the customers.

This is a skip…read more Often in the UK, you can find more traditional westernized "Chinese" that's quite good given the influence of the former colonies. Given some reviews and comments about this place on Trip Advisor and Google, I came in expecting it to be at least decent. The food was mediocre at best but the service was curt, inconsistent, and rushed. The place looked old and tired. For a 40 year surviving restaurant with table clothes, etc... I expected more. It was so blah, I didn't even take photos after the spring rolls which tasted burned from other old oil or over frying. Skip and keep looking elsewhere for food with orientalist influence if in Bath.

I should say this is the best Chinese restaurant I ever been to in UK. Food is exactly the same as…read morethat in Main Land of China, and it's a very modern styled place with traditional Chinese stuffs . Another good thing is you can go with your friends, and have a Karaoke party there. Believe it or not, it's awesome.

Been here before and revisited a yr later. Not really delicious, but not much choices in Bristol I…read morethink. Big enough place for party, that's an advantage. As long as ppl are happy, no body cares too much about food.

We found this place and were very happy. Apparently there are not a lot of Chinese restaurants open…read moreon a Sunday in Southampton. The sign said open, so we walked in and asked if they did take away and they did. The interior is very nice and the prices acceptable. For a hot and sour soup I paid £2.80 and for the fortune rice special £6. There was only one person and she was part of the staff. Seemed a pretty empty place. But having said this, we went there at 16.00 what can be considered too early for dinner. We waited for some time for our order and I asked for a glass of water. I would have throught that this is offered straight away plus maybe some prawn crackers as we might have looked hungry :-). Overall the food was ok. I was struggling with the soup a bit when my toung started burning. Very spicy indeed and recommendable for the ones that love spicy. Would I eat it again? I guess so. Yes. The rice was tasty too, served with a lots of vegetables. I also asked for some soya sauce and got a wee cup. That was nice. I was not so convinced with the spare ribs. Bit too chewy for my taste. The Chinese chicken wings were soft enough, however the chicken bones were quite bridle and broke in half easily. Not sure this is a good thing. Anyway, overall, it seems a pretty ok place where you can enjoy a nice tasty Chinese menu for a lunch price of £6.95. The interior looks very cozy and the prices acceptable. Would I get another Chinese takeaway from there? Yes, maybe.

What I ordered for take away: 1. Sweet and sour chicken…read more 2. Fried rice 3. Spring rolls What I received: 1. Sweet and sour chicken with random pieces of shrimp that were unidentifiable until biting into them because they were also breaded. Good thing I only hate shrimp and don't have an allergy. 2. Boiled rice 3. Ribs?! I don't eat red meat. At all. That's 0/3 parts of my order correct. I can't even assess the quality of the food since I don't eat shrimp nor red meat. Also a .50 debit charge. And for some reason the owner's baby was just casually chilling there in the restaurant.

As a Californian Chinese person who grew up on hot pot, the opening of the brand new Hotpot Spot…read morewas like a godsend. We made a booking, walked in, and when the hostess asked me if I had any questions, I proudly puffed out my chest and said "no". Because. I. Freaking. Love. Hot Pot. If you've never had hotpot before and you're looking to experience more aspects of Chinese cuisine, please don't be put off but the idea of needing to cook your own food. It is one of the best dining experiences EVER. HOW IT WORKS: STEP 1: Walk in, and request your broth. I recommend Szechuan spicy which actually isn't that spicy and you can pump up the heat if you so desired. For those in your group who are a bit more afraid of spice, you can get half-and-half where the broth is split between soothing vegetable or spicy. But please do try the spicy, as you can adjust the level between 1-5. STEP 2: Order your fresh ingredients to put into the broth. Get PLENTY of meat, I recommend lamb and beef. Cut ribbon thin so it cooks within seconds and soaks up the heavenly broth. For noodles, the knife-shaved noodles are great. STEP 3: Make a dipping sauce. You can experiment with what you like. I highly recommend trying traditional Chinese BBQ (Sha Cha) sauce. This is the bit that might put off newcomers, though I'm sure any employee there would be happy to design a sauce for you. STEP 4: Put ingredients into the broth step-by-step. You don't need to be a professional chef to do this, just a general idea of how long it takes ingredients to cook. For example, put potatoes in at the start to let it stew. Because the meat is cut so thin, I don't even leave it in there as it will take literally seconds to cook to perfection. STEP 5: Enjoy! --- Hot pot is one of the most wonderful dining experiences ever. Not just for the food, but the community of it where your group is just around a big pot of delicious soup. Oh, and the best part, drink the soup at the end after it's had all of the lovely flavours from your ingredients infused!

This restaurant used to have the most authentic sichuan food of Oxford - they've let themselves…read moreslip a bit recently. Although most classic dishes are still good - if you go with a Chinese. Service here is efficient but no smile/friendly chats. All workers here are like programmed machines. They do automatically add 12.5% service charge on the final bill but without stating them on each dish, so if you are hosting a party here and to split the bill, you have to take this into consideration. Must-order dish include: black fungus starter, fish soup with pickled vegetable, hotpot pork intestine. Give the dishes with weird-sounding names a try!

My friends visited this place again and the service is bad as usual. The cashier/boss is such a…read morepain in the *** and the food is really bad. Go to Sojo coz their food is much better.

They Do Lovely Food. Their Meal Deal For £4.80 Which Consists of Chips. Egg Fried Rice, 4 Chicken…read moreBalls and a choice of Sauces is a Bargain. It's delicious. And What A Quick Service I Phoned Through At 5pm Opening Time To Have The Above Meal Delivered Which brought the Total Cost To £5.85 It Arrived Just Before 5.20pm and it was piping hot. I Highly Recommend This Chinese Takeaway. Even With Delivery It's Still A Bargain.