Empire East
| Address: | 2740 Hylan Blvd, Staten Island, NY 10306, USA |
| Phone: | +1 718-987-1111 |
| Site: | empireeast.nyc |
| Rating: | 3.4 |
| Working: | 11AM–10PM 11AM–10PM 11AM–10PM 11AM–10PM 11AM–11PM 11AM–11PM 12–10PM |
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Blanchette Fotopoulos
Im reading the bad reviews. Im surprised. This place is wonderful, the food is awesome. But the bad reviews about the behavior of certain staff sounds believable. It is common behavior among the Asian restaurants that Ive been 2 throughout the years n in other boroughs 2. Very disturbing, in fact. I just dont go back. Here r some of my experiences, none of them happened at Empire East. Enjoy: Theres a baby roach in my glass of ice. I discreetly hand the glass back 2 the lady, pointing 2 the frozen roach. She scoops out the roach with her finger n wipes the inside of the glass where the roach was n gives me the glass of ice back. Or the little boy licking all the salt shakers at the customer tables while Mama is cooking n Im waiting 4 my order. Or another customer begging 4 2 xtra pks of sweet n sour sauce n not getting it. Or the waiter that insisted that I pay 4 my meal in advance when the lady at the nxt table could not find her wallet after she ate most of her food n got thrown out like a sack of feces. I could go on. What I learned from all this is that anything is possible in these wonderful restaurants but if it happens 2 me once, it wont happen twice. So, Empire East, bware. Because the last time I was there u let a bag lady sleep at one of your tables. She was snoring on ur table, her 3 or 4 huge dirty bags were on ur table n the surrounding benches. N another lady was selling bootleg CDs. I xspect this at the train station, not in ur restaurant. Ive had it in the back of my mind 2 check 4 sleeping bag ladies n annoying people selling things from old dirty bags b4 ordering from u again. I love u but its gonna be "So long, baby."
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Michael Thomapson
I have been eating at Empire East all my life today is the last day I ever order from them, yes inside their restaurant is clean and the service can be nice today I ordered a sesame chicken meal while I was pouring it into my dish there was 2 pieces of long black hair my hair is brown so it could not be mine. I was do disgusted and grossed out I called them up to let them know not that I want any more food from them but that is gross the people who cook the food wear hats, hats are not enough because the side of their hair is still exposed they need NETS this is the last time I eat from their in my life and probably the last time I eat at any Chinese food place on staten island because they were the most cleanest to me not anymore this is a first time thing but I dont care and their the most expensive on the island the most expensive for what so i can have hair in my food no thanks keep your disgusting food
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A Private User
The food is excellent. The delivery service is horrible. Correction, there is one particular driver who drives a white car, maybe a older Honda accord. One day I ordered and had exactly the food balance on my ATM card. When he delivered the food he insulted me and told me for not giving a tip and explained how expensive the gas was. If I am not mistaken the menu says free delivery. A tip is a gratuity, not a requirement for delivery. I honestly didnt have it. But I gave an extra $2.00 because he embarrassed me. The second time I ordered I asked him to walk up a flight of stairs, I was alone with my 3 babies, he told me he can not come up because I didnt tip him last time??? This time I was going to tip but decided not to because of the bold rudeness. Dont forget to tip people or you might get cursed out in Chinese the way I did.
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Maggie Fiasconaro
This place is super clean , and they recently remodeled the interior which had already been pretty nice...it looks even better now. They also added a lot new twists to the menu, expanding to Thai and Vietnamese food as well as traditional Chinese fare. I actually order the basil beef and mango shrimp SALAD (yes, salad, from a Chinese restaurant) both were excellent...Ill be ordering that salad for lunch on a regular basis now while at work
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A Private User
Search far and wide, you wont find better chinese. Their fried rice, lo mein...dont even get me started on the sesame chicken- amazing! They serve thai now too. Awesome service, their business is booming cause its the best in town. Ill forever be a customer to this place, if you love chinese this is the place for you. If I could give it more than 5 stars I would.
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Teresa Viggiani
I order consistently either from work or home and never had a problem. The food is the best I ever had, especially their Thai food. I order from the Richmond Avenue restaurant and I come all the way from Annadale to pick it up. It is worth the trip and the food is steaming hot always
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Jessica espinosa
La mejor Mango salad que he probado.. Para mi la mejor comida China en Staten Island.
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Benjamin Morris
So decided to give this place a second try, again the service is terrible. 3 girls are gossiping between each other while my fiance and I wait to be noticed. Note* we are the only ones here
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Danila Parfiyanovich
There bullshit they call food gave me FOOD POSINING 2 TIMES the first time I thought it was something else but the second I was sure it was them do not go there
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Phil Colins
i have had Chinese food all over Staten island. this is about the worse. had chicken lo mein ad fried rice. both were tasteless waste of $20.
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Carol Serrano
Food is tasteless and overpriced. Will never waste my money in there again. Tried them several times with different dishes - not good.
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A Private User
Just ate there today, ordered veg fried rice and some spring rolls! Good food great service! Definitely somewhere to go back to!
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come learn with Chloe
Disgusting GROSS GROSS GROSS! i found a ROACH in my food mid way through my meal! The food wasnt even good ....DO NOT EAT HERE!
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Michal Miara
Rice isnt that good and everything is much more expensive than other Chinese food places in the area
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Daniel Ambroso
Dont get what all the hate is about. Been ordering from here over 10 years and never disappointed.
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Tino Singh
This a hybrid Asian food, mix of everything. I personally enjoy their green curry with fried tofu!
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Robert Balzarini
Mostly get this delivered food is good just make sure you have the coupons it get very expensive
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Eric Juback
Horrible service delivered to wrong address 2 hours later then said could not deliver food
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naim gjenahaj
Such bad vibes and always very cold to customers last time i go there
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Tom
An okay place. Expensive for maybe a little more portion. Overrated.
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MasterRezen
Super clean love the food from this place
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A Private User
best Chinese mid island.
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A Private User
Food is rather bland
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Margaret capuana
Favorite Thai
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Kunal Kohli
bon appetite
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Maksim Zinovkin
food is great
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A Private User
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