Embassy Kitchen

Service: It was not busy at the time we visited but the service was slow. We ordered our dim sum and they came back like 10 minutes later with our order list with a time stamp a minute ago. And they've missed an order I checked off. Also, we asked for a glass of ice like 3 times and they brought ice water instead of ice. Dim Sum: I could tell it was prepared in house (and not frozen like most other dim sum restaurants) and I didn't get the MSG after taste. That said, if you like your dim sum salty, you should not come here. The dim sum isn't bad but it's not the best in town either. The dishes were good but not great. Their Siu Mai was huge and tasty but the sesame bun with stuffed egg yolk was not fresh (the bun tasted like leftovers). Price: We've ordered 8 dishes between the two of us and cost about $30 per person. So it is on the pricey side. Most dishes are 6-7 bucks each. We haven't tried their stir fry dishes here yet. If it's anything like the embassy kitchen on San Gabriel Blvd, it should be very good.

The only AYCE Chinese restaurant that's not a buffet in the San Gabriel Valley. This restaurant is the Alhambra branch of the San Gabriel Embassy Kitchen. This has the same food as the SG one except it offers an all AYCE menu. The All You Can Eat ( AYCE) menu is quite extensive. It has dim sum, although limited, regular Chinese dishes from chicken, seafood to beef as well as vegetables. You can only order 6 dishes at a time and order more when finish the food. It’s hard to choose as we wanted to order everything. We ended up sampling a couple of dishes from each category. To start, we tried the dim sum first. We had char Siu bun, shrimp dumpling, and siu mai. They were all good just like the regular menu in the San Gabriel restaurant. All dim sums came out steamily hot. Then we ordered the Peking duck with bun. They were delicious. The buns were very soft. We also got the famous mushroom beef and the walnut shrimp. Both dishes were delectable and the beef was so tasty and tender. I highly recommend this dish. However, the sweet and sour fish was a bit stale. The fish filets were hard to bite on. The Thai chicken wing is another dish to avoid. We thought the wings were fried but they were steamed and mixed with Thai chili sauce. The result was not an appetizing dish. Overall, for $23.99 it’s a good value for the money. We will come back to sample more food.

Love the idea of another ayce Chinese restaurant, especially where they cook it to order...for the most part. Some of the dishes came out less than warm and unfortunately, most dishes were at best, pedestrian. We got a out 11 dishes so I thought we got a fair sample size. I do like that the portions are made to the size of the party ie: there 2 of us and we got 2 pieces of pork belly while other dishes fed about 3 people. Meanwhile we noticed the party of 3 got larger portions. The best dishes were the beef and mushroom, the napa cabbage and broccoli with oyster sauce.

An amazing place to bring kids or a large group of people. An all you can eat option where you can sample different classical Chinese dishes. The best part is that the portion are small so if you didn't like the food not much is wasted and if you enjoyed the dish you can just order it again. The food is amazing and is always piping hot since it is cooked when ordered. A totally different feels and vibe compared to other Chinese restaurants I've been too. Food tastes good too! This is not just a place for a quick bite but a place to enjoy and explore the food there with new experiences. I do recommend the xiao long bao you can really taste the craftsmanship and its has the best soup dumplings I've had in la that's a bargain for what you pay for. Def would come again 10/10

I was hungry and saw All-you-can-eat Dim Sum for dinner, so my stomache was more intrigued than my mind. I was by myself so couldn't try much! Nobody was here when I came to try the food. I ordered 2 items at 7:39 pm. 3 people stood around talking, but food came at 7:49, so little slow but improved as I continued to dine and more people came in. Service was excellent and attentive overall. Seafood was fresh. Despite less patrons, most of their seafood I ordered tasted fresh, which is a good thing. Dim sum rating 3/5. Some were good (sui mai) some (ha gao) weren't so good but ok. But that black bao (steamed egg yolk bun) was soooo good! Dinner entrees rating 3/5. I didn't take a pic of everything I tried. Free lemon ice tea or green tea! Ambiance was nice. I would like to come back and try more dishes.

The menu is your order form: it is a list of main course dishes, dim sum items and dessert. Main course items include a variety of food. In this restaurant, you can enjoy Hong Kong style fried rice and fried noodle dishes, Shanghai style or Sichuan style vegetable, meat and fish dishes in addition to a limited selection of dim sum items. They offer two options to enjoy their food. You pay either one price All You Can Eat with regular service (not in buffet style) or pay regular price per item from the menu with service. AYCE: up to 6 or 7 items per round of service. The main course dishes are served in 1/4 portion or even less of a regular dish so that you can sampling a variety of food. The dessert and soup items are served in personal portion in a tiny plate or a small bowl. At the third round of service, the portion served is obviously reduced. Regular price of each item is listed on the menu-order form: $6 per dim sum item, $10-$16 per vegetable or cold dish item, $18-$26 per main course item. Peking duck is $30/half. Service: opens daily at 11am. we came on weekend at 10:45am and there were at least 4 parties of customer waiting at the door. There is an outdoor dining area in addition to the regular in door dining hall. At 11:40, all the tables in the dining hall are filled. Since most of the customers are order AYCE, the friendly waiters and waitresses are super busy in taking initial and further rounds of orders, serving orders from the kitchen, removing emptied plates (their tables are cafe size), or refilling the teapots (small teapots). The customers must waive hands to draw their attention. They are trying their best to feed these AYCEers. Pros: AYCE allows you to try a variety of food in small portion, 6-7 items per round. The kitchen is fast if tou order popular items. The wait time is minimal. A parking structure is behind the building. Cons: this is a fusion restaurant. The dim sum selection is very limited. Egg Tarts, Sticky Rice Chicken Dumpling, Steamed Rice Rolls, and Radish/Lobark Cake are not found on the menu. Overall, the food quality is so so. I have a feeling that some popular main course dishes and the fried rice dishes are prepared in bulk and in advance to serve. They reheat the food to serve. The peking duck served with COLD taco-shaped buns. The corn soup is watery: it was a teaspoonful of corn kernel floating in egg flower soup.

This location opened one week ago and is from the same ownership as the Embassy Kitchen on San Gabriel. Food is hot and dishes are generous in size. The flavor I found to be authentic and flavorful.

AYCE dim sum and Chinese Canton cuisine. With half the portion could try out different varieties dishes as much as you could. Total eighty something item for your choice that one could find some he liked.