My husband, toddler and I went to Spice Spring for the first time last night (a Wednesday night). The interior is incredible! There are stunning ceiling tiles, artwork, lots of gold, and chandeliers. My baby especially loved the chandeliers. The entire area was very clean as well. There is ample seating, as well as dim sum tables available. The menu is extensive, covering very traditional authentic dishes as well as your recognizable American-Chinese staples. There are even some Thai dishes on the menu! Also to note-the staff members were very friendly with our toddler, and one of the cooks even came out to give her her own fortune cookies! We were very impressed with the dishes we ordered, two entrees and a dessert dish. The portions are served family style, you're meant to share them with whomever you are dining with. We had enough for leftovers for the next day! The dessert dish was not too sweet, and was deliciously savory. My husband's dish (Sichuan style dry pot diced chicken) was served in a bowl heated by a flame underneath-very cool! The chicken was incredible, it was perfectly seasoned and the rest of the dish contained dry red chilies, potato chunks, and sliced garlic. Absolutely amazing! I ordered the Singapore Noodles. I am very particular about my Singapore Noodles-a number of places where I've had this dish will make them with a watery, thin curry sauce and sometimes with thicker noodles (they should be thin noodles). I've had Singapore noodles across three countries, two continents, and multiple states, and the one by Spice Spring is almost exactly like my favorite restaurant in New York where I ordered it for years. Spice Spring makes it my preferred way-it was cooked nice and dry with the curry spice perfectly covering the noodles, not a sauce (watery or otherwise) covering the noodles. The chicken was delicious, and they listened to my request for no shrimp as well. The dessert dish was a sweet rice cake with brown sugar and soybean powder. This has an addictive savory taste with a lot of depth, and the rice cakes were deliciously chewy. We even had a few of those left over to take home! We are already talking about what dishes we might order on our next visit, since we will absolutely be visiting again very soon! Definitely recommend! UPDATE We had to go back again in less than a week! This time we ordered two different dishes and also two kinds of tea. The waitress recommended her favorite, the chrysanthemum, and we also ordered jasmine. Both were great, and went well with our dinner. This visit we ordered the Red-Braised Pork Meatballs (I've seen this called elsewhere Red Braised Lionshead Meatballs), Spicy Dry Pot Cabbage, and the Plain Chang Fun from the dim sum menu. Everything was fantastic! We agreed that going forward, we must always order the Spicy Dry Pot Cabbage to share when we go for dinner-it was that good! The staff were again very friendly, and they visited with our toddler a few times and gave her her own fortune cookie again. Our girl already seems to love Spice Spring! We can't wait to go back and explore more of the menu again. read more

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Fantastic food! Admittedly I was leery at first given how extensive the menu is with not only a ton of Szechuan Chinese dishes but also Vietnamese and Japanese entrees and some Westernized Chinese like cashew chicken and sesame beef. I was blown away! Black pepper beef- huge dinner portion. Very flavorful beef and sauce. Crispy sesame shrimp - the best sesame type dish I've ever had, no joke. HUGE like legitimately jumbo shrimp breaded (no dry hard crispy crap here!) and in a perfectly flavored sauce that wasn't artificial tasting or overly sweet. Spicy squid strips - lots of flavor. Greasy chili oil goodness. Pork belly w quail eggs - tons of big fatty pork belly chunks with hard boiled quail eggs. Unique to me and a great cholesterol booster (ha!) read more

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Tried it out the new restaurant in the old Emperor's Palace location on Rockwell. Monday at 5 PM. We were the only folks in the restaurant, but I'm not sure if that's because it's a random Monday at 5 PM or it's a new restaurant. The venue/facility is really cool school lots of gingerbready detail details. Server was a little aloof and snarky, maybe a cultural thing, just had a feeling that she didn't want us there or she didn't want to be there We tried a couple dim sum items; the black phoenix bun was probably by far the best. Black Phoenix Bun Safted Egg, Milk, Condense Milk, Coconut Milk，Butter. Puffy black pastry, nice and soft with lava interior that was sweet and savory at the same time, but man it was hot. This is by far the favorite thing we had today We had some soup dumplings, not nearly as good as LJ shanghai. But we also had some stirfry beef with chili pepper, and it came out with green peppers that were not nearly as spicy as the red chili peppers in the picture. The lo mein, the vegetable lo mein was really really good and the size of the portions were huge, homemade egg roll was fantastic. Coke was flat, and the only available iced tea was really sugared up. So kind of hit and miss I don't wanna hurt him since we're early. The second review give them a four star based on the black Phoenix bun by itself may give these guys six months and try again. read more

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One of my favorite new Chinese restaurants. Don't be scared by prior bad reviews - this place has legit authentic Asian food. Order off the menu and you won't regret it. We got the dry fried pork liver (so flavorful, just the right amount of spice), the candied eggplant and taro (it's dessert but vegetables), and sautéed Chinese lettuce (perfectly blanched). Portion sizes were big. The servers were so nice. Definitely check this place out! read more

Fantastic space with lots of gold inlay to make the room pop. The space was mostly empty for a late weeknight but we were seated quickly and our food was prepared fresh and hot. Dim sum and cashew chicken were our orders. We had a vegetarian dumpling as well as some shrimp with rice noodle and chicken shu mai. We will be back for sure to try some new items that looked amazing. read more

Spice Spring Restaurant - Cashew chicken and assorted dim sum - Dim Sum Near Me - Cleveland, Ohio

This place used to be Emperor's Palace. The new management kept the same concept of serving dim sum and the interior decors. There are no carts being pushed around, but rather, you'd order the dim sum from the menu. There's also regular dishes from their other menu. The tables next to us ordered off the regular menu and everything looked amazing. We came to try the dim sum and only ordered from their dim sum menu. The dim sum selections are limited, but unique. There's a few items that you cannot find at LiWah or Boloong. We really liked the black truffle shrimp dumpling, crab pork meat soup dumpling, and pork and shrimp siu mai. Even though the menu claimed to be "crab pork meat soup dumpling", I didn't taste or see any crab meat in the soup dumpling. The roast duck spring rolls are good. It's pretty much roasted duck with green onions rolled up and deep fried. We didn't really care of the beef tripe and plain chang fun. The beef tripe was well seasoned but not cooked through. It was still very tough and rubbery when you chew. The plain chang fun was the worst of all the items we ordered. The texture was super chewy, more like they had more tapioca than rice flour in the batch. It was so chewy that I almost choke trying to swallow it. We won't be ordering it again. The service was extremely slow! There were only 3 workers when we dined: the hostess, the bus lady, and the server (whom appeared to be the owner). We initally thought the bus lady was the server and wanted to place our order through her. But she then spoke in broken English that she cannot take orders. We had to wave the hostess down to place an order. It took 15-20 minutes for the first 3 items to come out, then another 10 minutes for 2 more. We then place another order with 3 items and it took the same time, super slow and long in the world of "dim sum". I don't recommend on dining here unless you're willing to wait. It's too expensive. For a table of 5, you can easily spend over $100 on dim sum. By the way, do not order hot tea! They charged us $2.95/person for hot tea and it tasted very weird. The receipt read "chrysanthemum tea" but there was no flower in the tea pot. It had a chemical taste to it and super orangey looking. read more

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A welcome addition to the Cleveland Asiatown area. The inside was nicely decorated, and being newly opened, not crowded on a Friday lunch hour. We ordered dim sum from the menu and they were made to order and excellent. The main menu which we studied but did not order from, was divided into authentic Szechuan style (first half), and Chinese American (second half of menu). There was also a section for Thai food at the very end. This restaurant seems to aim at being higher end, like Lao Szechuan in Pinecrest but without the high prices. We plan to return to try the dinner menu soon. read more

Spice Spring Restaurant - Shrimp chang fun, Ginger chicken dumplings, HK style watercress wontons - Dim Sum Near Me - Cleveland, Ohio

Price for alcohol is way overpriced. Some dim sum is worth it like the pork shrimp sui mai and black buns. Having plain Cheng fung is weird and not worth the price tag. Pork belly was good. Duck was too much. Overall not bang for your buck and not sure I'd return read more

I love dim sum, and was excited to see the menu for Spice Spring. We were in Cleveland for a conference, and several of us made a reservation and found this gem of a restaurant just a short uber ride from where we were staying. While the environment may seem a bit shabby, the food is excellent, especially the lotus rice and the pork dumplings--as good or better than those I've had in London and New York. The place was empty when we got there, but by the time we left, it was filling up. For anyone with a taste for dim sum, go to Spice Spring! read more

Just had dinner there. I had the shrimp fried rice and asked for more vegetables. I received boiled unseasoned rice with a few pieces of broccoli, mushrooms onions and shrimp. with no flavor or seasoning. Worst I have ever had outside of a nursing home. The waitress had the personality of a box of kleenex. Too many good Asian restaurants in Cleveland to bother with this one. read more