Golden Empress Garden - Philadelphia

Always good food. Very cheap too!!! My top Chinese food place to be honest in south philly. the General Tsos chicken is very good too!!

Worst Chinese food Ive ever had in my life. I ordered sesame chicken, fried rice, spring rolls, vegetable mei fun and crab ragoons. Chicken was soggy, and a questionable black/brown color on the inside and everything else was either super oily or had zero flavor. I threw everything in the trash.

So, I decided that today was a Chinese food day but South Street has gone downhill and the majority of restaurants on the street have gone out of business or limited the quantity and usually the quality of their food. Golden Empress Garden has decided tobecome a take out only restaurant even though the residents of South Street, around 7th Street, are desperately in need of asitdown Chinese restaurant in this area. Golden Empress doesn't care. They don't have to. They did allow me to sit and eat buteverything was served in take out containers at the table which is a disappointment in itself. I've realized that you can'treally depend on Golden Empress anymore. One month it's great food and the next month it's bad. Maybe they keep changing chefs.Today was a mix of both. The wonton soup was ok , but the broth was basically tasteless. The spring roll was horrible. Verysmall with a gooey meatless center. The hard noodles were stale. The pork fried rice was surprisingly good with a lot of porkand decent amount of flavor, except that it was better the last time I had it a couple of weeks ago. The hunan chickenactually contained a lot of real chicken. Not that rubbery stuff you usually get pretending to be real chicken at many Chineserestaurants these days. The only problem was that it didn't taste like hunan sauce and I had to add salt and plum sauce to makeit taste more authentic. All in all, it was a mediocre experience and I don't think I'll be back for awhile. Especially sinceit's sad to sit at a take out only restaurant.

My go-to for Chinese American food. I always pick up my takeout and it is always fresh and delicious! It?s also not too greasy, and there is a good volume of food.

Friendly family businesses that always go out of their way to ensure that they have the best local Chinese food for an affordable price. also they will personally supply the food to their door if they want.