Empress of China Restaurant

Wanted to share with my hubby my favorite place to eat when I lived in Flint. Arrived about 7:30 pm and were seated. Waiter was prompt with drinks and took our order. We started with sizzling rice soup for two. I removed the rice but the soup with shrimp «two» …pea pods and mushrooms was tasty. Next egg roll, filled mostly with cabbage was ok, nothing special. After about 20 minutes our entrées arrived. I was wondering what was taking so long. The waiter was doing his nighttime clean up, taking sauces off the tables ect… Hubby got General tso’s chicken. It was good. I got the shrimp, beef, and chicken with Chinese «greens» which was not green at all. The waiter said mushrooms, celery, waterchestnuts and bamboo slices is the «greens». My sauce was bland, I added some hot mustard for flavor. I’ll try the Sunday buffet next time so I can see what I’m getting.

The best Chinese in Flint. The beauty of this place is the consistently good food. Every time I’m back in Michigan, I eat here, and the food is just as good as it was before. The Hunan combination, scheschuan (sp?) combination, crab chess rangoons, the hot and sour soup all great. And the shrimp with lobster sauce is actually filled with delicious shrimp! Love this place!

I stopped in over the weekend and this is the best Chinese food in the area. Whether it’s take-​out or dine in you get consistently good food and plenty of it. The crab cheese is outstanding with the hot mustard. I’ve probably ate there 100 times in the past 15 or 20 years and not once have I been disappointed.

This is place is solid. Those dishes are worth every penny. I didn’t even want to go — one of my friends had to bribe me into it by paying for my meal after a long day that I just wanted to be over. THANK YOU, JAKE! The wait staff is great. They actually listen when you say, «I want this curry chicken to burn my face off.» It was suitably hot: D Their hot mustard is waaaaaay spicy, and cleared my sinuses admirably well. Yeah, I was sick. In fact, going to Empress of China was the only highlight of that day for me. Everyone in our group loved it to pieces. I’ll be back next time I’m in the area.

Best Chinese food in the area ! The lunch rice with the egg in it is amazing ! Sweet and sour chicken is so great ! Everything here is homemade ! I highly recommend it !

This restaurant used to be our go-​to for Chinese about 10 years ago. I’ve been back a couple of times is the past 5 years and it has just gone downhill to me. The food is just not good anymore. Sad. It used to be a 5 star place.

I love the food but the owner and some of the wait staff lack common friendliness. They are ahort and rude to guests, the atmosphere is good and the food is the best around. It would just be nice to be treated in a friendly mannor

Not sure what just happened, but I came here for dinner with two friends and we ordered 3 different dishes. One was a chicken dish, another was a shrimp dish, and the last was just a vegetarian dish. All 3 dishes came out one by one and each one was cooked the same, tasted the same, included all the same things in the dish, the same sauce, but different proteins. At first, the shrimp dish came out and we thought it tasted pretty decent. It was mixed with some pea pods, water chestnut, bamboo shoots. Next came the vegetarian dish. What did this dish have? Again, pea pods, water chestnut, bamboo shoots, but added broccoli and tofu. Lastly, the chicken dish. And again, with pea pods, water chestnut, bamboo shoots. The chicken was overly salty. The dish was all the same color since the sauce was all the same.
We ordered from the red menu, and it’s suppose to lean more towards real Chinese food, but it definitely was not. Maybe if we ordered the food from the Americanized menu, it wouldn’t have been that bad. The service was good though.
I have only been here one other time almost a year ago and ordered a Korean dish. It was the black bean noodles and thought it was excellent.

Hands down the best Chinese food in Flint! Be careful when trying this food, it’s deliciousness is an addiction within it’s self ;)

For the first time since I can remember, I could not eat even ¹⁄₃ of all my food from a Chinese takeout of sweet and sour chicken, white rice, and egg drop soup. I’ll give it two stars because the ordering on the phone, picking it up, and time was great. The food however, not so good. The chicken had a weird texture I couldn’t stand, it was also medium warm. Also, The egg drop soup had mushrooms, never heard of that! And not just a little I could scoop out. After a few bites it was near impossible to get a spoonful without a piece of mushroom in the mix. I wanted fried rice, but the wouldn’t let me upgrade and said it would be a new order. I bared the white rice, it was okay. As a whole the best part was the fortune cookie, and not worth $ 15. I wish it was as good as I had hoped for.

Pulling up into the parking lot I noticed a good deal of cars, which is always a pleasant sign that they’re doing something right.
But boy, how wrong I was…
Upon opening the doors the atmosphere
Was very gaudy and over-​the-​top for me. I had a sense that they were trying to hard to impress.
The service was nothing particularly special, she only filled my water glass up once and asked about our experience a single time.
And the worst part of it was the food!!! I had sweet and sour chicken, and it came out as cold or lukewarm at best! The chicken was overdone and dry. The thought they could douse it with gobs of sauce to cover he texture, but nothing short of a miracle could do that.
And the price was ridiculous !! 10.95 for a small portion of sweet and sour chicken and some tea??? No thanks.

Excellent food, friendly staff. As much as I do not enjoy living near Flint, I have to say that there are some hidden gems in the area. Empress is definitely one of them. I absolutely love their szechuan chicken dinner with white rice. It’s hard to stop eating it once you start. Gotta have some leftovers for the next day though! They have my favorite egg rolls and sauce. Yum! If we ever move out of the general area, this will be one if those places I would miss a lot. When I get a craving for their food, it will not go away until I go there. I love this place. If you love Chinese food, you can’t go wrong here. Best overall Chinese food in the area for sure. Too bad it’s located in such a shady area, but hey, that’s Flint for ya.

I don’t get all the hype about this place. My co-​workers rave about this place but I’ve never been impressed.
Service has always been good but anything other than crab rangoon and the cokes have been trumped by many other Chinese restaurants I’ve frequented. Food is bland and anything I’ve ordered as «spicy» is always a disappointment. Soup is disgusting.
An earlier reviewer mentioned ordering from the Korean menu, so maybe ill try that the next time I get conned into going here.

My husband and I were looking for a Chinese restaurant that was not a buffet and had a full bar. After going on line and reading other reviews for this restaurant we decided to try it. It was great! The food was wonderful and the service was exceptional! We will definitely go back.

Best chinese food in the area! The restaurant is calm and relaxing and the servers are all incredibly nice and helpful. Its a shame that the area around it has been steadily going downhill, but a trip to this restaurant is well worth the risk.

On my way back home from the outlet stores, I will stop by to have dinner before heading to Ann Arbor…
While I cannot comment on the Americanized Chinese Dish, next time you are there, ask for the Korean Menu and order from there… you won’t be sorry… the food on this menu is very different then on the regular menu. What should you order?
Couple of recommendations for first timers ordering from the Korean menu… Spicy & Tangy Chicken/​Shrimp, Sweet and Sour Beef or Pork — try these first and expand your dishes from there.
I come here and believe me, I don’t make it here often, but when I do, I order their Jjajangmyun (Black Bean Noodle), the best in MI! Along with this, I’ll order Spicy & Tangy Chicken, sweet and sour beef… they also have good Cchampong (Spicy Seafood Soup).

Based on the reviews, I expected some pretty good chinese food when I met a friend here for lunch. I was very disappointed. The hot and sour soup had chicken in it, even though it doesn’t say that it does on the menu and the waitress told me that it was meatless. The crab rangoons were actually pretty good, but I thought needed more filling to be dubbed «great.» My friend ordered an egg roll and said that it was good, and wound up just eating that after her entrée proved to be subpar. The beef and broccoli that my husband and my friend ordered was very, very bland and even dousing it in soy sauce didn’t help much. I ordered a spicy scallop dish which was swimming in sauce that wasn’t at all spicy. I was also disappointed with the very limited number of items on the menu that were meatless, but if you eat seafood there are a decent number of shrimp and scallop dishes.

I’ve been away from Flint for 10 years but my family frequented this place growing up. I returned last weekend and it was just like I remember it. Maybe even better.
5 stars for the soup, crab rangoon and Mongolian Chicken. Great service.
Block out the Vu and Nathan Jay’s…and all of Dort Highway for that matter… and enjoy a nice meal in the oasis.

This shining star on Dort highway is probably the best Chinese restaurant in Flint. The food quality and service is outstanding. Lunch prices are very affordable. The place is surprisingly nice inside. They have a huge back room for large groups. They do take reservations, but you don’t normally need one, especially for lunch.
Don’t let the bad location keep you away!

I grew up in Flint, went to college in Detroit, and now live in Chicago. There are a few things I find myself homesick for, and one of them is having a family dinner at Empress of China. Never have I had such wonderful sizzling rice soup, and the Mongolian beef is incredible.
This reminicing of yummy Chinese is making me want to come home to visit really soon!