Several weeks ago I dined at the east side restaurant and fell in love with the won ton soup. The won tons were were filed with a fantastic seasoned ground pork, and the filling was tender, the broth rich. So while shopping on the west side last week, stopped in to get a bowl of the won soup to take home for dinner. The pork filling had no seasoning And the filling was rock hard. The barbecue pork slices were as tough a shoe leather and the broth had almost no flavor. After two tastes, I just dumped it down the garbage disposal. Obviously the chefs at the two locations cook quite independently. Unless desperate, I strongly recommend you avoid this west side location. read more

The food here is very good, and the staff always welcoming. Don't let the low rating keep you away. Before tonight, it had been close to a year since we'd last dined here. In the past my husband and I both agreed that everything was cooked and presented well enough, but completely lacked flavor. However, on a whim, my husband went there for lunch earlier this week and told me it was really good this time, as if maybe it was a different kitchen staff. So he suggested we go again tonight to see what I thought, and I'm happy to report that he was right. It all tasted as good as it looked, and it looked darn good! So good that I even forgot to take pictures because we dug in so fast! Everything had plenty of flavor and the portions were generous. I had the #11, which was General Tso's chicken, almond chicken, pork fried rice, and a spring roll. My husband had the #1, which was pork egg foo yung, chicken chow mein, sweet-and-sour pork, and pork fried rice. Both combos included soup, which tonight was creamy potato and chicken. We'd never had that before, but I hope to have it again! It was perfect on a cold winter evening. Honestly, every dish was delicious. The General Tso's in particular was excellent, but for sure I'd order either combo (or anything else!) again. The hostess deserves a mention as well, because she was friendly and efficient, setting the tone for the rest of the meal. This place definitely deserves better than the two stars it currently has, so if you haven't been in a while, give it another chance! You won't regret it. read more

I've ordered from this place a few times since I've lived here and each time I've been pleased with the service and friendliness when taking my order and the quality of the take out. Ordering Chinese food is one of the more challenging cuisines for those of us with a no choice membership to the ihateglutenclub. Ordering for Celiac allergy can always be complicated but at this place, they have been very helpful and do their best to make it straightforward. They are aware about gluten and usually offer me alternative sauces without soy or teriyaki. I've had the cashew chicken and the almond chicken both with a garlic sauce. Obviously it's not that great umami flavor I remember with delicious Chinese food sauces, but it's still a delicious way to eat some chicken n veggies. Overall it's a solid place for takeout that is familiar and aware of gluten allergies. Price is affordable and food has been flavorful. read more

I didn't receive anything correct or worth even $5. I have no idea what they gave me but none of it was identifiable or even seasoned. It all tasted like it was sitting on a buffet warmer for 5 hours and I got the scrapes of after looking at pictures on Yelp realized was supposed to be Cashew Chicken. I got celery, peas, some ground bits of mystery meat, carrots, it tasted more like a bland chicken pot pie filling next to dry fried rice. The sweet and sour pork was atrocious, dry pucks of fried bits not even tossed in sauce. My husband's orange chicken had orange slices that still had the peel on it. The cooks were extremely lazy and careless with our meal preparation. Panda express is cheaper and better quality. read more

Despite the mixed reviews, we decided to give Emperor's Palace a try and actually really enjoyed it. We placed an order for pickup and it was ready right on time. We got the combo meal with orange chicken, sweet & sour pork, a spring roll, and pork fried rice. The fried rice was nothing special, but the orange chicken was tangy (a nice vinegar taste too) and the pork was very yummy! Spring roll was crispy, but the inside was a little soggier than I'd prefer. The General Tso chicken was also great - flavorful sauce, lots of veggies, and good spice to it (ordered "medium" level). Overall, pretty good food and I am bummed we waited so long to try it! We will be back again. read more

Emperor's Palace Westside - Orange chicken, sweet & sour chicken, spring roll, and pork fried rice - Chinese Near Me - Olympia, Washington

I have been searching for decent Chinese food close by for awhile. This is not it. Flavorless Mongolian beef that took at least 20 minutes to get paid 75 cents for hot and sour soup not a very good recipe. My dining companion had the soup too and some version of Chowmein made with Chicken and curry. She thought it was ok. They need to consider new chef. read more

Lounge is decent but you have to be a regular to get good service. With a room full of five tables with regulars I don't think it would take 15-20 min to get a simple shot of vodka... no t to mention I always tip ten bucks to start.... I mind my own business and don't ask for much.... I gamble 100-200 bucks at a time and tipover30 percent. Avoid this bar if Nicole is bartending read more

My husband brought 2 B dinners last week. It was good. Would like to go in and dine too. Friendly helpful staff. The ambiance is pleasant. Not enough bbq pork, as it is my favorite but a good portion of food. read more

Ordered for take out cashew chicken rice bowl with pork fried rice and extra spicy and I got this bland garbage. I guess it will be another 10 years before I go there again. didn't disappoint though. yep they still suck. not only did I not get my fried rice there is absolutely no seasoning on it. I can boil a bunch of chicken, vegetables, and rice myself if thats what I wanted. Happy Freakin Valentines Lunch. read more

Emperor's Palace Westside - Cashew Chicken Rice Bowl. Bland Garbage! - Chinese Near Me - Olympia, Washington

Delivery driver delivered order to wrong apartment. The residents of that apartment called after they ate the food. Restaurant refused to acknowledge their error and refused to refund money. The apartment number was repeated twice. Terrible customer service. read more

The staff was very nice and service was fast. I'm sorry to say the food was substandard. My husband ordered a peanut chicken and noodle dish. It was too sweet and very noodles were over cooked. I'm sorry to write this because I want to support our local businesses. My food was okay but nothing to come back for. read more

We absolutely love this place! They have a gluten free menu and are always happy to accomodate our various requests. Lunch and dinner specials are incredibly cheap and could easily feed 2 people for each plate. Service can be hit or miss but the cleanliness and food quality always haa me coming back. read more

Emperor's Palace Westside - Almond chicken! The best in town I promise! - Chinese Near Me - Olympia, Washington

One of the most disturbing Chinese dishes I've ever received. I'm pregnant and was really craving some good Chinese food. I was so disappointed, and I asked could I have another dish. The lady said I can't get another dish, and I couldn't get a refund. After asking her several of times do they have a no refund policy written, and not by mouth. She stated if I give you a refund that means you can't come back. I told her that's fine with me. I mean what am I losing the food was disgusting. I just don't understand why they're telling me I can't get a refund when I just read a review that someone got a refund. Someone needs to teach that big girl at the front that customer service comes first, and that includes not lying to them. I hate to say this but at first I thought it was because of my skin tone. After looking at the other reviews I see she's just a disrespectful person. I DO NOT RECOMMEND THIS PLACE. Seriously wish I could go in there and teach them a thing or two my darn self. The people at the front should have on smiles, and be more helping. Your customer service is what make guest feel welcomed to come to your restaurant. Bad customer service equal bad business, and it makes the entire restaurant look bad as a whole. If I can't have good food can I at least get good customer service. I mean really. read more

Let me say that we aren't wild about any of the Asian restaurants in the surrounding area, but of all the places we've tried, this is the best we've found. Like most, there are some things they do very well, and others we're not wild about, but I believe that is more a matter of personal preference. read more

Very bad Fake Chinese food. But it has a bar in the back so go in have a beer and complain about how bad the food is:)

I'm not going to hide my feelings and let others know where I stand....by telling them the Emporer's Palace would make more sense if it were called the Emporer's Latrine. My boyfriend and I read the reviews before going here and did not have high expectations, however we somehow managed to be disappointed anyways. The grease was unreal and my boyfriend (who usually will scarf down anything that's put in front of him) couldn't even finish his dish. I hate to make bad reviews but some places deserve the low ratings. We will not be back. read more

Emperor's Palace Westside - Chinese Near Me - Olympia, Washington

We've eaten in the bar several times. We've never been disappointed. They have outdoor seating during lockdown with heaters and TV's to watch football. The waitstaff is fabulous, very personable and hard workers. We received excellent service, especially from Niki. Food was great, and drinks were awesome! We miss bingo on Saturdays!! read more

It's like the only Chinese restaurant in that half of Olympia, but I still avoid it as best I can. Too salty, too sweet, too greasy. We can do better, folks read more

The food was bland and tasteless. The gravy for the almond chicken was disgusting and basically cornstarch with some flavoring. There pad thai was terrible, fat noodles, the bean sprouts were withered and cooked to almost gone. Nothing else as a vegetable seen in the dish. I think it was the spicy peanut noodles dish verse the pad thai I ordered and on my receipt. Either way, I asked for 3 star heat out of the 4 they offer. LOL it had no heat. read more

I have held out for 4 years by not ordering food from here. Two days ago I paid $31 for some egg drop soup and crispy spicy beef. The beef was sickengly sweet and soggy and with the first bite i took, i felt something hard. Thinking it was a bone, i spit it out and it was a STAPLE. I immediately got nauseated and threw all my food away. Never again will i order food from here. read more

Today, Wednesday, June 18, 2020, Came up on their delivery driver on Blacklake Blvd out towards Black Lake. Their delivery driver was smoking up a storm in his vehicle with his face mask off. So I guess the food smelled like cig smoke and who knows if he spread the virus along as well by not wearing his face mask. read more

I have a renewed happiness for e EP! We were in the midst of a day full of adulting and needed food. Mongolian beef and general tso's chicken. Delicious. Just what we needed to feed us and finish our projects. We upgraded to pork fried rice. No regrets. Delivery was fast and friendly! This is our go to delivery. read more

What happened to our favorite restaurant? We we really disappointed last time, but decided to go again to see if service and food were better. The food was a little better, but the service bad. The bus girl really needs a course in customer service. Watch your reviews management or do you want to be another Oyster House? read more

I've seen it on my way home all the time but I never stopped. We ordered delivery and it was fast. We ordered teriyaki chicken and Mongolian beef with white rice and one egg roll. First of all the portions are huge you could feed a family of 4 with what we ordered, the teriyaki chicken was tender and flavorful and the Mongolian beef was so delicious with the onions not being overcooked, the egg roll was good but nothing to brag about. I recommend this specially for a lazy day at home when you don't feel like cooking. read more

Has this place improved ever since the time I ordered from here three years. Three years before that I tried it and it was just as bad. Olympia has shit for Chinese restaurants. Does anyone have any recommendations for a Chinese restaurant on par with what I enjoyed when I lived back east. read more

I feel horrible for the girls in the only photo for this business. Forever having their poor innocent faces associated with this dog food, sludge out of a can, restaurant. The food does not taste good. Almond chicken? No. How about weird looking dry chicken that is no longer white, covered in some packet made gravy and tasteless nuts. Please be safe to your body and just visit Panda Express before ever coming here. read more

This Emperor's Palace apparently has nothing to do with the top-notch restaurant of the same name in Bremerton, and therein lies the problem. To be fair, there are probably hundreds of restaurants called Emperor's Palace in America. I'd wager that roughly half of them are better than this one and half of them are worse. 50th percentile. It's OK to be just OK, I guess. Average Chinese food is still Chinese food, and it's better than bad Chinese food. This is your standard issue American Chinese restaurant with the Chinese zodiac placemats and a kid's menu with grilled cheese and fish 'n' chips. Oddly, upon being seated you are handed a small limited menu that notes that a "full menu" is available on request. The full menu notes that vegetarian/vegan and gluten-free menus are also available on request. Why not just hand all the customers a truly "full" menu? I'm OK with Americanized Chinese food, as I am OK with the ways Americans have adapted pizza and espresso, and I understand that sometimes it is necessary to adjust recipes to locally available ingredients and regional preferences, but this is just a touch too heavy a hand of Americanization. Too sweet, too greasy. Overcooked rice. A fortune cookie in a bag. (It is the kind with a rose though.) Good tea. Plates that are very much showing their age. I ordered Kung Pao Tofu, and every restaurant's interpretation of what Kung Pao is is a bit different, with peanuts being pretty much the only constant, and this interpretation, to its credit, involves baby corn and zucchinis along with the usual celery, (not enough) onions, and water chestnuts, as well as awkwardly out of place carrots that just seemed to be crashing the wrong party, and the texture of the tofu was good, but the sauce had more of a "sweet and sour" quality than I'd expect for a spicy umami dish like Kung Pao. The prices are a bit higher than some better restaurants but not outrageous. I wouldn't really recommend this particular place but I wouldn't say "run away" either. read more

Being from out of town with no transportation my food choices were limited. I had pizza last night so I figures Chinese tonight. I should of ordered another pizza. First the price. I'm from Chicago and I can get enough Chinese food from my favorite place to feed 2 for half what this place charged to feed one. The portions are very small, like one scoop of each. The rice had no noticeable chunks of pork like a true pork fried rice should. I'm not even sure that was chicken I was eating. The crispy spring roll was about the size of a finger. So for just under $20 ($13 for meal, another $2 for delivery charge, plus tax, plus a couple bucks for tip) I'm left feeling very disappointed and feeling like I got scammed. My recommendation is to look elsewhere for a bite. read more

If you like bland,greasy, and cold delivered Chinese food, that costs over $40.00 without tip, you might give them a try. We had the "B" dinner delivered and was the worst ever. Save your money and stomach , you feel better the next day . read more

Simply the worst Chinese food I have ever experienced. Worse than the kind of place you find in a mall food court. Worse than what you would expect to get if you asked a Scottish chef to prepare you a Chinese meal using only dog meat. I promise you this is not hyperbole, it really is THAT bad. We ordered delivery from Emperor's Palace this afternoon. Our four entrees and sides were delivered in a timely manner, but the product was the most disappointing waste of calories and dollars I've experienced in years. Ranging from insipid and unappetizing to downright disgusting, each and every dish was disappointing. Orange chicken was soaked (SOAKED) in grease, and served in a gloopy, brown mess of a sauce along with a peculiar mix of uncooked veggies and others which had been boiled so long they had lost the will to retain any recognizable structure. General Tso's Chicken was impossible to differentiate from Orange Chicken, and no less disgusting. Broccoli Beef was served in the same ubiquitous brown goo, with stringy meat accompanying gray broccoli. Egg rolls appear to have been poached in oil rather than fried. These were served with a bizarre neon sauce, sickeningly sweet, but otherwise without any distinguishing flavor characteristics. I am exceptionally tolerant of down-market Asian restaurants, and often find that you get a more authentic (and delicious) meal at a better price in establishments that appear a little bit sketchy. And I'll gladly accept less authentic Chinese food if it's well prepared. This is neither authentic nor well executed, and in fact represents the low point in all my years of enjoying Chinese cuisine. Save your time and money (and perhaps several years of your lifespan) by avoiding Emperor's Palace at all costs. read more

Terrible Food! Fried Rice had no pork or egg in it. Sweet and Sour Chicken had chicken that was blue in color, yuck! Mongolian Beef was gross no broccoli? Don't recommend you spend your money here looking for decent chinese food. read more

I'm new to Olympia and was having a major craving for Chinese a couple of nights ago. I was feeling lazy and didn't want to go out, and this place seems to be the only Chinese take-out that delivers in the area. I decided to ignore the bad reviews and give it a shot. Coming from Seattle, my expectations for Chinese in Olympia were already low, but wow, this place really knows how to lower the bar. My husband ordered fried rice and I got the chow mein: flavorless, soppy, insanely greasy (not in a good Chinese-greasy way), and beyond sparse in terms of the good stuff, i.e. shrimp in my case. Ordered a large and there were two pieces of shrimp in the container. Not being dramatic--there really were just two sad pieces of shrimp in the box. Boo! See photo for the box of sop I paid $30 for. Never again. read more

Emperor's Palace Westside - Mmm, MSG. :/ - Chinese Near Me - Olympia, Washington

I ordered the spicy beef teriyaki rice bowl. I just want to say "Where's the rice"! The beef was tender and juicy. Teriyaki sauce was good too. They served this bowl with slightly warm vegetables and a bowl of egg drop soup. It doesn't even say that it comes with these items, but maybe I missed it somewhere on the menu. It was very good though! My real complaint is that I ordered this to be 5 stars bc I love spicy food. You'd think they would use hot peppers of some sort but they used crushed red pepper flakes, which were old bc I kept getting a hard crunch which I thought damaged my molars. Throw this crap out please!! Buy fresh pepper flakes or use hot peppers! My final comment is I ordered an egg roll but never received it. The waitress was either new or was just busy conversing with the staff, which I obviously observed. Please add more than 2 table spoons of rice to the "rice bowls". My apologies but my photo's won't upload. read more

Horrible food and customer service. Received a $40 order of food that stunk and was completely inedible. I called the manager and was told that there was nothing she would do and that they would not allow me to get a refund or replacement and I could not speak to the GM or owner. After calling their other branch, I had to leave a message for the GM to call me the next day....still no offer of replacing the food. Next day the manager calls me and refused to refund my money and thought that offering me a $40 gift card was "good enough". I ended up reversing the charge on my CC because they refused to do anything than give me a gift card for less than the amount of the order....with no apology. STAY AWAY AT ALL COSTS read more

First Asian place we tried after moving to Olympia. We had it delivered and it was to us within 20 minutes. Which we thought was amazing. The taste was not to be desired. We had the house fried rice, which was good but we have had better. I think we will try some where else. Also overpfor the taste quality. read more

This place (or at least the food) sucks. It's sad that in Olympia this is the only local "Chinese" food place (sorry, "Palace") which delivers. Each time (months apart) I order, afterwards I say "never again." Then, months later, my resolve falters and I hope against hope that it's gotten better... but it hasn't. read more

If anybody ever told you this is a good place to eat at they lied , even their fortune cookie is bland ... the best thing there is the water . I ordered a spicy chicken teriyaki and it was so chewy and no where near spicy, i would eat panda express before i ever eat here again. Was so excited to have some chinese but this was the weakest most watered down chinese food ive ever had . Not trying to be cruel i would just really advise no one to ever come here if youve had AUTHENTIC chinese food ! The only reason they got 3 stars is because the water was good read more

Decided I really needed some almond chicken, so ordered from their website. Waited outside for curbside pickup. Took the food home and was seriously disappointed. Most of the Almost chicken was like leather inside the breading, some of the breading was so hard (overcooked) that I couldn't even stick my fork in it. The Pork fried rice that came with the dish tasted literally like it was a week old the only thing that was even fairly decent was the chow mein. How disappointing from this restaurant used to have very good fresh will cook the food I will never ever go again read more

Have eaten here several times, food is usually ok but can be hit and miss - what you may expect from this sort of restaurant. Guy at front desk is always pleasant as he was yesterday. Our waiter was snide, condescending, sarcastic, rude. Two adults and two kids, we spent $115. Spendy meal to be treated crappy by some brat having a bad night. read more

Chicken chow mein was DISGUSTING! Tasted like a FOREST and gave my friend a reaction. On the plus side it cleaned out his sinuses.