Empire East

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...I'll be ordering that salad for lunch on a regular basis now while at work

Their food is the best on Staten Island. Anyone who leaves a bad review obviously doesn't know good food.

Rice isn't that good and everything is much more expensive than other Chinese food places in the area

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

I'm reading the bad reviews. I'm 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 I've been 2 throughout the years n in other boroughs 2. Very disturbing, in fact. I just don't go back. Here r some of my experiences, none of them happened at Empire East. Enjoy: There's 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 I'm 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 won't 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. I've 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 it's gonna be "So long, baby."