Omg, excellent food... very large portions... very friendly and professional service.... one of the best Chinese restaurants I have been too... I will definitely be back and I highly recommend this establishment read more

Yee Peggy Emperor's Kitchen - Chinese Near Me - Brookfield, Wisconsin

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This is my favorite places - great Chinese food ands friendly staff! I love to come for the lunch buffet so I can have a variety of items. Do have an egg roll ! They are a hefty size and delicious! read more

First off I have to give credit to fellow yelper Rick R. for finding this place because it was not on my radar. I just got tired of the small crapy egg rolls that are found all over and I wanted an old school meaty good one. I threw out on yelp talk, where is the best egg roll in Milwaukee and Rick R. Suggested this place. He was spot on with his suggestion. This place is confusing at first to get to because it's in a micro mall on the second floor. You walk to the rear past the other stores to the stairs and walk up to them. Once in the place it looked clean and modern, not that cheesy Chinese over the top with all the stupid knick knacks. The buffet is a wooden boat with a dragons head on point, see the pictures. I was in Brookfield already so I went over for take out for dinner. While I was there I was going to get my two favorite Chinese items, the beef fried rice and an egg roll. I found it strange that at 4:15 the dining area was empty but the take out was booming. On my way home my car smelled amazing and I couldn't wait to try the food. The service was good with two women helping me while I was there. The woman at the front was on her second day and did a great job. The oriental woman was training her and making sure my order was ok. I experienced none of the issues that other yelpers reported. See the pictures. Rick R. Nailed it. This is the best egg roll I have had out side the Chicago area. I'm so glad to finally get a great egg roll. The out side was golden crispy with a generous amount of pork and shrimp with vegetables. The egg roll was very tasty and now my favorite around. The beef fried rice was very good with a good amount of beef in it. The sweet and sour sauce was very good and might be home made, I never eat the sweet and sour but today I did. I couldn't find any on line menu so I will post pictures for every one to look at, lack of an on line menu keeps me from going to some places. The large take out everyone talks about is gone and the signs are posted letting every one know. My portions were big enough and I can't complain. See the picture of the sign. Over all this was a great find and and I will be back for those great egg rolls. I will try more of the menu as time goes. Two thumbs up. read more

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When i eat at a chinese restaurants I always order the same thing Shrimp egg foo young and shrimp fried rice. I've ate a lot of it in my time. Yesterday 07/13/23 I ate at Emperor's Kitchen for the first time and guess what I ordered. Yes egg foo young and fried rice. I must say this was the best I ever had. The taste was out of this world. Whoever was cooking did a masterful job. 5 stars. read more

Love it, kind of menu I was looking for. Old school bomb Chinese food! I live in Racine but I'm driving to get this! Can't wait to go back soon. Staff is very friendly and personable, great people. Our server got everything right and she made sure we had everything we needed. Egg rolls are awesome! read more

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I thought I'd give this place a try as suggested by other reviews. While we didn't dine in (took To-Go) I cant say much about the service other than the lady who took our order was rude and impersonal. The restaurant was empty around dinner which I found odd, but the food itself was decent. I would have preferred the option to purchase different sizes (my entrées were large and about $12 each). Combined, our food was a whopping $50 which seemed like way too much. Also, my friend orders veggie fried rice which came with mushrooms? I'd never had it that way, and neither of us liked that. I imagine the food and experience would be better dining in, but was hoping for something a little less generic. read more

Yee Peggy Emperor's Kitchen - Chinese Near Me - Brookfield, Wisconsin

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I've been coming here since I was 4 years old and now that I'm grown I love bringing my own family there. Excellent service and the best Chinese food I've ever had. read more

Great awesome and inexpensive! Took a bunch of leftovers home. The owner was so attentive and the wait staff was super nice and professional! Highly recommend you check this place out! read more

Went for lunch and the food was very good except the egg foo young was very salty. Our waitress rushed us, packing our food up into doggie bags before we were ready. Also, when we questioned our bills (we had separate checks), the waitress told us that she added the tip onto the bill. If you're going to do that, you should note that on the menu or place it separately on the bill and not include it in each item listed on the check. This, to us, was a scam to get a double tip. read more

Haven't been here for years and it's now our new favorite!! We basically ordered half the menu (I won't list everything), but you won't go wrong with anything you order. Eggrolls... yum!! read more

Best Chinese food in Milwaukee and Waukesha counties. Great taste and decent prices. I am a Chinese food connoisseur.

I love love love Emperors Kitchen. For 15 years in my life this place was a solid 5 stars. They still put out great food but not as consistent as in past. Normally staff is super friendly. One older lady ( I think might be owner) is kind of rude. She called my fiancé a liar and then never apologized when she found out she was wrong. Just said " o.... I talked to employee x and he told me you are right." This was after embarrassing her in front of other customers. Did not sit well with us. One customer even came up to her after and said " I might never come back after seeing how rudely you were just treated. Anyways.... My go to foods are : 1) Chinese fried chicken 2) Fried dumplings 3) Fried wontons 4) Garlic chicken 5) Fried Rice Worth a try if you are in area. The lunch buffet is awesome. Just be aware of mean old lady. Haha read more

Wow was this great! I had been coming to the buffet for years but since the pandemic have not been. I have missed this place. Is it possible to improve? They do not have the buffet due to the pandemic so I ordered my favorites from the menu. The Pork Fried rice was amazing. The Singapore noodles I ordered chicken, and I can't describe how good they were. Was there chinese five spice? A little light curry? I don't know but it was amazing! Beautiful pieces of chicken, thin and well cooked. Great vegetables and so yummy. The Egg Rolls are fantastic. I can't wait to go back. So good. Do not miss. The best Chinese I have had in a really long time. read more

Ordered a crab rangoons, beef lo mein and general Taos chicken for a pick up order I asked for no sprout. The person on the phone could not understand me. After a minute of explaining what a sprout is I said nvm the way it comes if fine. Crab rangoons great Beef lo mein- beef was dry, not much flavor and yes it had sprouts in it. General Taos chicken- breading was soggy and not spicy at all. I would only order crab Rangoon's from here. read more

The food is very good and plentiful. We have been getting Take-Out for years (decades), and never had a bad meal. The food is VERY VERY GOOD. This week however we did DINE-IN for the first time. That is where you see the problems. The host, grabbed menus and pieces of flatware with his bare hands. The eating part of the flatware was cupped in his hands and pressed against the outside of the menus. Not very sanitary, as he had just been handling money at the register. Our table had food crumbs and what was probably a sauce of some kind on it. Men's room was pretty disgusting... missing tiles, the mirror has the "silver" missing around the edges.. and the lock in the stall has years of grime and dirt built up. Dirty sink, with different bulbs in light including "plug in" Air freshener...somehow adapted to plug into a light fixture. Sort of what you would expect at a 1965 Texaco station. It is one thing to have an older restroom... but lack of cleanliness is another thing, and greatly reflects on what the kitchen might look like. If this is what the public can see... what do the hidden parts look like? The old buffet in the middle of the room looks like the glass panels have not been cleaned since pre-Covid.. or a greasy towel was used. Carpet needs a good cleaning and the edging is broken where it transfers to Tile around the buffet area.. small trip hazard. One overworked waitress, assisted by a small boy... perhaps 10 years old. Observations of the child show that he has probably not been instructed in proper sanitary procedures. He was however wearing a mask, which was nice. Perhaps we will stick to Take-out in the future. read more

We have been eating here for years! We have more recently gone to take it only. The food is pretty good but the service has gone down hill a little. It seems like they are a bit under staffed for how busy they get on a Friday night. Also are big water drinkers and the water is aweful. When that being said we usually get lemons too help with taste but they never keep my glass full which is a huge pet peeve for me. In fact I tend to be pay of my tip based on my drink refills. Anyway I usually have spicy beef or chicken they are both really good. Sauce is perfect and cabbage is still crunchy. My husband loves sichuan chicken. The egg rolls area good and the hot mustard is really really good! read more

This fabulous family owned restaurant in Brookfield is a treasure to the area. For decades they've provided the best in Chinese food and the egg rolls are outstanding! We're back in the area visiting and just couldn't pass up the opportunity to enjoy several meals with them. As I said, the egg rolls alone would be enough to bring me back 1400 miles from Florida to eat here. Peggy is still as charming as she was when we lived here eight years ago. Be sure to get there before this gem is gone. read more

I really wanted to like this place better. In fact, I've been to Emperors Kitchen many times despite being disappointed because I wanted to like this place. I can't put my finger on why it doesn't work for me because it seems to have everything going for it: decent lunch buffet, good non-buffet menu choices served with large enough portions to have leftovers, everything reasonably priced, and okay service. And, takeout items are generally prepared quickly. With respect to the buffet, I like the limited options. I'd rather have a smaller buffet with the food well-prepared that an mega buffet where everything is blah. Except at the end of the lunch rush, Emperor's Kitchen keeps the buffet stocked so there's never a wait. Another plus is those items served with a sauce, either on the buffet or on the menu, are not drowning in it. I prefer sauce as a complement to the taste of the food and this place delivers on that. Unfortunately, that's where it gets disappointing. As a whole, the food itself seems oversalted to me. The first few bites are good enough so that the memory of them is probably what keeps me coming back. But after those first few bites, I find even those items prepared with less salt (sometimes as a special request) have me reaching for a water pitcher. I still want to like this place, but with so many other food options available in the area, it won't be high on my list of go-to places anymore. read more

Everything we ordered was so fresh and hot. Happy to return for my first non-take-out meal since covid. The staff members are obviously working tirelessly with staffing challenges that are effecting the industry, so the hot food was all the more impressive. read more

I was here today with some coworkers for lunch. It is inside a smallish mall on the second level. The decor is nice and they offer a lunch buffet. There were six in our group so they put two square tables together to accommodate us. But since it was in an aisle, we had to sit four in a row with the back of our chairs very close to a wall and two at the ends of the table. This was an impossible configuration to take advantage of the buffet so we all order off the menu. I ordered Kung Pao chicken. It was a large portion with a lot of chicken and a scant amount of peanuts. It was ok, and filled me up. I got to say there was not much pow in the pao. I would say on a spicey hot scale of 1-10 it was 0.5. read more

Best Cantonese I've had since moving to Wisconsin! Food was fresh and hot! Service was prompt and courteous. Highly recommend and... Already came back again! read more

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The food here is amazing. I drive past many other similar restaurants to go here. The owners are always very nice!

Always great food. They care about their customers and have been a part of the Brookfield Wisconsin community for a long time. Would highly recommend v read more

This place is hands down the best Chinese restaurant in town! Their egg rolls are amazing!! They have a hint of cinnamon or nutmeg in them making them unique. The sweet and sour red sauce makes them even better! We ordered the crab Rangoon, sesame chicken and the lo main. Each dish was better than the next. We eat here every time we visit. Can't wait to come back to enjoy it! read more

Yee Peggy Emperor's Kitchen - Egg roll - Chinese Near Me - Brookfield, Wisconsin

This place has the best Chinese food around! We drive from New Berlin to get take out. We love their General Tsao's chicken and their sweet sour chicken. I think their egg drop soup is awesome too. Don't forget the fortune cookies and almond cookies for dessert! They are also very quick and efficient when you pick up. Our order is always correct. read more

The lunch buffet is always great! Hot, fresh, and a nice selection. The entrees change daily which is nice. The regular menu is good too; however, I've noticed a change over the last few years. The chicken that comes with the Hong Sue or Sweet and Sour entrees used to be so good and now it's consistently tough. I recommend sticking to the non-fried chicken options. Beef and broccoli, egg foo young, and egg rolls are very good! read more

I was pleasantly surprised, by the delicious food and amazing service I received here. I was referred by a friend and came in with low expectations. I was BLOWN OUT OF THE WATER. This is my new favorite Chinese restaurant! I love it so so much! 10/10. read more

Restaurant needs a deep clean and remodel. Service was abrupt and the guy who seated us seemed irritated that we were there. Food was greasy & tough. Food clearly is pre-made in the back and not made to order. Lunch came out literally less than 5 minutes after we ordered. 'Chinese' tea is Lipton. read more

I wish I could give none. The owner was complaining loudly in front of customers about being busy before they were closed. You'd think that in the time when businesses aren't surviving and are closing all over the place that he would be grateful that people were coming in for carryout and waiting 30 minutes or better for a table. For my order, the shrimp egg foo yung was greasy, the fried rice was undercooked, crab ragoons and egg rolls were also greasy. Long time customer, even through Covid, the food and service was great. Now, I'm not sure if I'll return. read more

Not a good experience. We've never been here and we walked in assuming it was a buffet then we're confused when it wasn't. The man who greeted us was rude and had an attitude. All the food we had was bad and had an off taste. We received really bad service. They Basically just dropped the food and left. Never came back to check on how things were. The food was practically inedible. I am disappointed with my whole experience here. read more

This is literally my all-time favorite restaurant. I grew up eating this food and sadly no longer live in the area. I have been waiting literally 15 years to come back and get my fix and I'm happy to say I'll be coming back in 2 weeks for a visit. I literally spent $40 on a rental car to drive from Chicago (4 hours round trip) for the sole purpose of eating here. I am the biggest Emperor's Kitchen fanatic that will ever exist and I tell tales to my friends and colleagues from coast to coast about how no Chinese restaurant can come close to compare with their quality. You must be wondering... what on earth do I order that makes me such a fanatic? I will reveal my secrets below... Sesame Chicken - 100 out of 10. Literally the best sesame chicken in existence. I've been to over a hundred chinese restaurants and nothing comes close. Shrimp & Pork Egg Rolls - 10000000 out of 10. Emperor's Kitchen Egg Rolls are the Rolls Royce of the Rolls Royce of Egg Rolls. I literally compare every egg rolls I've ever eaten to Emperor's Kitchen Egg Rolls and I'm sad to say nothing has come even close to comparison. These (and the sesame chicken) are the sole reason why I'm such a fanatic. The hot mustard is great and the sweet & sour sauce is hands down the best sweet and sour sauce I've ever had anywhere. Pan-Fried Noodles - 10/10. Absolutely amazing. Greasy goodness! Hot & Sour Soup - 10/10. The best. Simply the best I've ever had. Spicy Chicken - 10/10. My favorite dish if you are trying not to eat fried meat. The hoisin sauce has the perfect balance. Beef with Hoisin Sauce - 10/10. A good alternative if you are not trying to eat chicken and prefer beef. I was partial to Spicy Chicken since I was the sole beef-eater in my family, but this dish uses the same sauce and tastes equally delicious. Almond Cookies - 10/10. The best almond cookies ever, hands down. Not sure why anyone would opt for the fortune cookies especially considering that that Almond cookies are more expensive when bought separately! To each their own, though, I guess. I remember my best friend used to love to dip his almond cookies in his water. Never understood that, but thought I'd share that insider secret in case anyone wanted to give it a try. Me, though, I like the pure, delicious, almondy flavor directly injected in and around my mouthal region. If you have room for dessert #2, grab a turtle sundae with chocolate frozen custard and extra pecans and fudge (and dare I say a giant cheeseburger?) from Kopp's in the same plaza. Just do it. You can have a giant cheeseburger for dessert. Trust me. Someone once told me you could and I read it online somewhere before too, I know I did. Jesus christ, my mouth is watering. I am going to eat so many of those egg rolls. Absolutely cannot wait to return to this absolute gem of a restaurant. Also, I'm very sad that they have done away with their quart-sized takeout boxes. I was very excited to take some sesame chicken and egg rolls to go, but looks like I'll have to purchase multiple small orders :( No big deal. They just lose 1 star because of that... so that brings them down to 999 stars out of 10. read more

Having been to a few other Chinese restaurants in the area, this was my favorite so far. The vegetable fried rice was flavorful and I thoroughly enjoyed it. However, as a side note, I took it for leftovers, and the flavor became a bit strange the next day. The Kung Pao Chicken was good and will definitely be reordered, but some of the other dishes lacked a bit in flavor. Otherwise, the service was great and fast. I was also happy to see that the place was clean and good about following COVID protocols. read more

Excellent, we have been here several times and have enjoyed it everytime. Remember to give yourself plenty of time for carryout, Christmas Eve was a 2 hour wait by 5:00 o'clock, that's why I placed my carryout order at 3:00. read more

I just waited an hour to get sesame chicken. All we hear is it's coming. When it finally arrived, it was cooler than the food that was sitting on our table for 25 minutes. The food has always been good but the service is failing fast. I'm tired of being told "we are busy" when people are getting their food before us and they were seated after us. Epic fail. read more

I've been going to Emperor's Kitchen in Brookfield since about 1998; and I love it. They always have great variety, food is hot, and egg rolls are great--only offered(I believe) on Friday's and Saturday's. I'd give them 4.5 stars because their egg drop isn't the best I've tasted, but their chicken and pork dishes are really good. If you want to eat a lot, and not pay much, Emperor's is great for Chinese dining--for their buffet's are concerned. I haven't eaten dinner there, but I've been told that it's very good as well. Plus, if you suggest it, they'll bring you hot tea in a Silver kettle--I like that! I hope that it was just a misfortune that some of these people have been getting bad food, makes it me wonder if hands have "exchanged" to someone else, but I will try them again, and renew my report if it has really changed. read more

Had the lunch buffet. Very limited choices and just about everything was fried. If you like American-style Chinese, you'll love this. If you're more adventurous like I am, meh. read more

Yee Peggy Emperor's Kitchen - Chinese Near Me - Brookfield, Wisconsin

Our regular place was closed because it was a Monday night so we tried here. My son liked his Orange Chicken and my wife's Sweet and Sour Chicken was just okay but the other entrees (Szechuan Shrimp, Beef with Garlic Sauce) were just not good. Even the crab rangoon was flavorless and tasted like the oil was dirty. The best thing I ate was the fortune cookie. read more

Pressed duck. Amazing. If you don't like Emperor's Kitchen I don't want to know you. read more

I absolutely love this place. This has long been a hotspot for my family. The buffet is my favorite, and they have a quick take-out service. Both are priced very well for the quality/quantity. Some may be turned off by the limited variety of the buffet (8-10 items), but they concentrate on quality here. Each day of the week has a different menu, and I seriously can't pick a favorite day. Their waitstaff is always friendly and I never see the bottom of my glass, whether it be iced tea or water. Take out from EK is great too, generous portions and quick service. Can't complain about the price, either. read more

The house special is excellent! I have been a fan of emperors kitchen for over 20 years. I like the one in Delafield better but this one is just as good just not as close to me. The service is always good and so is the food. I have tried many Chinese restaurants in this is by far the best. read more