East Imperial

Arthur and the owner Aunty Chen are very friendly. They make you feel like home. Apart from the dishes from the menu, you can also call and tell them what you like and order customised private dishes. Service is definitely 5 star. The restaurant is nice and quiet which is good for friends gathers and chat. Definitely first preference Chinese restaurant for our family.

It all started so well...we showed up without a reservation but the host said we could have a table if we could be out in 1 hr 15 min. Given that most yum cha places are very quick, we saw no problem. 90 min later we had had 5 of the 7 dishes ordered (for context, in a typical yum cha joint that would take about 15 min). We gave up and left. Really disappointing service. I do understand that COVID has created legitimate staffing issues, but the solution is to book fewer customers rather than to provide exceptionally poor service. It's a pity because the food we did get was quite good.

Not an exaggeration to say this is by far the worst yum cha spot I've ever been to. Coming from a Chinese dude. Siew mai tasted like it was frozen, skin broke off super easily, costco dumplings tasted better. We were served tea which was tea bags stuffed into a tea pot. No self respecting Chinese restaurant would do this. We asked for reccomendations and they reccomended Peking duck wraps which cost 4 dollars a wrap. The wraps didn't even contain any duck skin......anybody who has had Peking duck knows the wrap is meant to contain skin not duck meat. Overall horrible food, expensive, would not reccomend. You might as well buy supermarket dumplings and brew your own tea bags at home for one-sixth the price.