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Empire

4.0 (24 reviews)
Closed 11:00 am - 10:00 pm
Updated 2 months ago

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Beef?
Keith M.

This review is accurate, but won't align with the overall rating. My fiancé and I have eaten at Chinese restaurants from San Francisco to NYC and have a handle on what good service and food look like. I was attempting to locate this restaurant for the first time having read the stellar reviews. It was dusk and they hadn't turned on their fascia sign making the storefront difficult to locate. After making a u-turn on a busy highway, I successfully located the business after taking a second run at it. After entering I stood at the counter looking at the top of a male employee's head who was engaged on his personal cell phone. After 30 seconds of standing idle a female employee in the kitchen asked "are you picking up an order?", which resulted in the male employee engaging me. I stated that I was picking up an online order and mentioned to him that I had difficulty finding the restaurant as a result of the sign not being lit. He reached over and flicked the switch for the sign. I described what I was picking up and he was able to locate the bag of food we'd ordered. I was uncertain as to whether the order had been paid for when placed and the male counter employee said "I think it's paid", which he can see in their system, but was willing to consider an additional payment, suggesting I call my fiancé to determine if it had been paid for; this raises ethical concerns. He also stated that had the order been phoned in we would've saved 30%. Good to know, but we won't be returning. Now for the food quality. My fiancé had ordered a beef based meal, beef with mixed vegetables, however neither of us could identify it as beef, chicken or pork. The texture of the meat was unfamiliar to us. I ordered General Tso's Chicken, which consisted of tiny strips of chicken so heavily breaded that the chicken flavor wasn't present. We ate about a quarter of both platters and threw the rest away. Disappointed beyond words and a total waste of time and money. We won't be back.

This is NOT beef! Eeew!
Gretchen K.

I ordered Beef with Garlic Sauce. This was strangely not beef, was pale, had no texture (was mush) or flavor. Gross! The General Tso's Chicken was 80% dough, and the chicken was dry and stringy. Gross again! We won't be back.

Sesame chicken w/pork fried rice
Amado V.

This is the best Chinese food in Rt 40 & Glasgow, good food, good service and good ambiance

Kung Pao
Melanie R.

I am so glad that I stumbled on this restaurant- it is amazing. The ingredients are fresh the dish is full of vegetables and very tender chicken. Great egg rolls too!

Near Walgreens in 19702.

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1 year ago

Food is always hot and fresh. Place always looks clean. Service is fast and on time. Would recommend anytime

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3 years ago

My go to for Chinese food. The Singapore Chow Mein Fun is by far the tastiest; delicious, flavorful and generous portion size.

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5 years ago

New place... from New York City... they give Newark better Chinese food. Egg rolls are great.

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5 years ago

Good prices, quality food, big portions, friendly driver and delivery. Will be ordering again!

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CHEF TAN

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I've been wanting to try this restaurant for a while as I had read reviews saying food was…read moreauthentic. I came in very hungry and ordered the following: wontons in chili oil, Dan Dan noodles, Sichuan spicy tofu. I've had all these dishes at other restaurants before and make the first 2 routinely at home. 1. Dan Dan noodles: portion was huge. It was topped with a creamy very garlicky sauce, including rough chopped fresh garlic ( warmed through but still had some crunch/bite to it). OMG so delicious. Not meat forward (if there was even any meat, I think it was maybe finely sliced fungus instead, it worked perfectly in any case). 2. Wontons in chili oil: I was expecting a bit more flavor to the sauce, instead it was literally just chili oil and seemed kind of diluted and bland even. I added some pieces of garlic from my Dan Dan noodles and let that sit with some dark soy sauce the waitress brought and that did the trick. 3. Sichuan spicy tofu, recommended by the host: came with chicken, fish or beef, I chose chicken. This was massive and I have leftovers I'm looking forward to eating later. Very flavorful with silky tofu. I didn't really enjoy the texture of the chicken though and would have preferred it minced or lower chicken:tofu ratio or with pork. It looks like they have a smaller mapo tofu dish in a different part of the menu without the added meat and I might try that next time. The wild part was the intensity of the Szechuan peppercorn. I routinely crush it freshly at home and eat dishes containing it when out but have never experienced such an intense tingling effect. It felt like my lips and tongue were vibrating and then my water tasted like it had lemon juice squeezed in it. Not sure if it is a different kind than the red one I have at home, or if it is just THAT fresh, but wow. All in all, very enjoyable meal and service. I will for sure be back for the Dan Dan noodles but not if planning to socialize much after given how intensely garlicky they were. Looking forward to trying other dishes on the menu! A suggestion for the menu: I really like the large glossy pictures of each item but it ends up being a lot of pages to turn back and forth through to make a selection, so it would be nice to include just a plain typed list to glance at as well, like a table of contents.

Chef Tan is one of the better Chinese places in the Newark area. I really don't think authenticity…read morematters a great deal, but Chef Tan is about a 7.5 on a 1-10 point scale measuring authenticity (with Golden Wok Mushu Pork being a one and Richmond Vancouver Chinese stores being a ten), though obviously some dishes are more or less than others The place is relatively spacious, and you can totally have a large party come here. It's also regularly open on typical US holidays, such as Christmas or Thanksgiving, so if you need somewhere to go when everything else is closed, you can really rely on this place. Some things that I think are pretty good here: the vegetable options (though somewhat expensive), the kung pao chicken, the eggplant, the lamb options (including the sliced version, as well as the cumin one where you can add lamb as your option).

Empire - chinese - Updated May 2026

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