This is the best and affordable place to eat Asian food in Columbus, NE.The food is cooked right in front of you and the cooks are always very flexible if you want to modify the dish, within reason. For example I asked for the absolutely hottest dish they could create. More than once.They tried, but it wasn't tears in my eyes hot. I still added my ghost pepper hot sauce and it was wonderful.Very friendly, accommodating, prices are right, food is hot and fresh. Try it, you won't regret it.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Chris Rutten
Very good value for cost.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 5
Service: 4
Recommended dishes: Orange Chicken, Beef Lo Mein, Pepper Beef, Crab Rangoon, Almond Chicken with One Other Item, Chicken Fried Rice, Egg Roll
Jan Cuba
Everytime I get an order to go the food is amazing and when I'm there they are busy cleaning!
Miki Trejo
I ordered fries rice with shrimp and it was good portion but flavor was far away to rice and so does shrimp. Tastes like nothing. Sorry but this the only place I won't back
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 2
AMY ZAREK
Food is delicious!! The prices are better than reasonable. Take the chance you'll love their food!!!!
BEST experience ALWAYS!!! I’ve eaten here for years and will never stop! I’ve been to a Michelin rated restaurant and I appreciate Empire Express more. Enlighten yourself with the Peanut Butter chicken; pro tip, add spice and bamboo ;)
Janet Saporito
Fried wontons had no filling. Beef lo mein was 75% raw broccoli, celery and cabbage. Very dry tough beef and linguine. Prepared in a watery sweet sauce.
Best place in Columbus for chinese without a doubt. always good service and tastes amazing. barely and wait for your food.
M V R
I ordered the princess chicken with snow peas to go. I was there with a friend and we both got our orders to go. I asked for mine spicy and I ordered sticky rice. When we got to my apartment and started to eat we were watching TV so I wasn't really paying attention to (looking at) my food I just started eating. First of all they gave me fried rice and the entree was not spicy at all, in fact it was flavorless. As I continued eating I noticed that everything had the texture of mush, I couldn't tell there was chicken in the dish. I made a point of getting several pieces of chicken in the next bite this time I really noticed how mushy the chicken was, I spit it out and went into the kitchen to get a good look at what I was eating. THE CHICKEN WAS PINK AND MOSTLY RAW! Even the pieces that looked cooked had no texture whatsoever just like eating baby food. I threw the whole mess away I was so grossed out about the chicken. It wasn't long (a few hours) and I had my answer, I had food poisoning worse than the time I had it from bad seafood. I was terribly sick for the next 12 hours and couldn't eat anything else for almost two days. Everyone had always told me I needed to try this place because it was so good. When I finally did it was the worst Chinese food I have ever eaten and in my life I've had lots of Chinese food from many many restaurants all over the country. I will never go back to this place!
Michele Hahn
My husband and I are thrilled to have found an Asian restaurant similar to the one we loved before we moved here! The food and atmosphere are top notch.
Angel Shadow
Probably pretty good food, but I ordered Chicken and fried rice and I recieved Mushrooms Beef and Fried rice. I am allergic to mushrooms so this annoyed me. The establishment refused to do anything to make it better. No refund, no remakes, no nothing besides saying it was my fault. If I could give less than a 1 star review I would. Customer experience at McDonald's is better than here.
Rochelle Vargus
I ordered the Kung Pao chicken and when I got my food it was very different than any other kung pao chicken I've ever had. That's fine I'm open to new things but honestly it was very weird looking. I went to take a bite and noticed that my chicken was slimy and basically raw. I'm not the kind of person to send food back but this was clearly not cooked and honestly really gross. I asked for either something different or if he could "overcook" the chicken and pointed out to him that it was clearly undercooked. He was really nice about it but when I got my replacement kung pao chicken it was even more undercooked than the first time and absolutely not edible because I'm not going to put myself in a position to get sick because someone else doesn't know how to cook chicken properly. I wish I would have taken pictures of it but I will never ever eat there ever again if that's what they're doing out in the open what are they doing that we can't see?
There chowmain was watery and had like no noodles in
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 2
Service: 1
Very quick good food great consistency all way!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Orange Chicken, Crab Rangoon 6, Chicken Fried Rice, Egg Roll
Food was good, cooked perfectly and wasnt long to wait.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Peanut Butter Chicken, Beef with Vegetables, Crab Rangoon 6
This is the best and affordable place to eat Asian food in Columbus, NE.The food is cooked right in front of you and the cooks are always very flexible if you want to modify the dish, within reason. For example I asked for the absolutely hottest dish they could create. More than once.They tried, but it wasn't tears in my eyes hot. I still added my ghost pepper hot sauce and it was wonderful.Very friendly, accommodating, prices are right, food is hot and fresh. Try it, you won't regret it.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Very good value for cost.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 5
Service: 4
Recommended dishes: Orange Chicken, Beef Lo Mein, Pepper Beef, Crab Rangoon, Almond Chicken with One Other Item, Chicken Fried Rice, Egg Roll
Everytime I get an order to go the food is amazing and when I'm there they are busy cleaning!
I ordered fries rice with shrimp and it was good portion but flavor was far away to rice and so does shrimp. Tastes like nothing. Sorry but this the only place I won't back
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 2
Food is delicious!! The prices are better than reasonable. Take the chance you'll love their food!!!!
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Crab Rangoon, Chicken Fried Rice
BEST experience ALWAYS!!! I’ve eaten here for years and will never stop! I’ve been to a Michelin rated restaurant and I appreciate Empire Express more. Enlighten yourself with the Peanut Butter chicken; pro tip, add spice and bamboo ;)
Fried wontons had no filling. Beef lo mein was 75% raw broccoli, celery and cabbage. Very dry tough beef and linguine. Prepared in a watery sweet sauce.
Restaurantji Recommends
Best place in Columbus for chinese without a doubt. always good service and tastes amazing. barely and wait for your food.
I ordered the princess chicken with snow peas to go. I was there with a friend and we both got our orders to go. I asked for mine spicy and I ordered sticky rice. When we got to my apartment and started to eat we were watching TV so I wasn't really paying attention to (looking at) my food I just started eating. First of all they gave me fried rice and the entree was not spicy at all, in fact it was flavorless. As I continued eating I noticed that everything had the texture of mush, I couldn't tell there was chicken in the dish. I made a point of getting several pieces of chicken in the next bite this time I really noticed how mushy the chicken was, I spit it out and went into the kitchen to get a good look at what I was eating. THE CHICKEN WAS PINK AND MOSTLY RAW! Even the pieces that looked cooked had no texture whatsoever just like eating baby food. I threw the whole mess away I was so grossed out about the chicken. It wasn't long (a few hours) and I had my answer, I had food poisoning worse than the time I had it from bad seafood. I was terribly sick for the next 12 hours and couldn't eat anything else for almost two days. Everyone had always told me I needed to try this place because it was so good. When I finally did it was the worst Chinese food I have ever eaten and in my life I've had lots of Chinese food from many many restaurants all over the country. I will never go back to this place!
My husband and I are thrilled to have found an Asian restaurant similar to the one we loved before we moved here! The food and atmosphere are top notch.
Probably pretty good food, but I ordered Chicken and fried rice and I recieved Mushrooms Beef and Fried rice. I am allergic to mushrooms so this annoyed me. The establishment refused to do anything to make it better. No refund, no remakes, no nothing besides saying it was my fault. If I could give less than a 1 star review I would. Customer experience at McDonald's is better than here.
I ordered the Kung Pao chicken and when I got my food it was very different than any other kung pao chicken I've ever had. That's fine I'm open to new things but honestly it was very weird looking. I went to take a bite and noticed that my chicken was slimy and basically raw. I'm not the kind of person to send food back but this was clearly not cooked and honestly really gross. I asked for either something different or if he could "overcook" the chicken and pointed out to him that it was clearly undercooked. He was really nice about it but when I got my replacement kung pao chicken it was even more undercooked than the first time and absolutely not edible because I'm not going to put myself in a position to get sick because someone else doesn't know how to cook chicken properly. I wish I would have taken pictures of it but I will never ever eat there ever again if that's what they're doing out in the open what are they doing that we can't see?