Sea Empress Seafood

The food is pretty good! We ordered a few of the dumplings, one meal off the lunch menu, and a chow fun dish. I recommend the Fried taro and the pork shu mai as those were our favorites. The sweet and sour pork was also good, the beef chow fun with gravy was a bit plain but still good.

For the Gardena area, still a reliably tasty dim sum restaurant. Half the restaurant cordoned off during covid, so only the left side is open for dim sum. Still a dozen tables of diners here for lunch today.
Ordering is off a menu rather than from carts. Over 20 dishes to pick from and are delivered in decent time.
Everything tasty and good to very good. Eg. Shrimp har gaw very good, radish cake good vs the best dim sum I've tasted.
We ordered enough for 4 at $68 worth of dim sum, enough left over for takeout and a 2nd meal, so you can easily eat under $35 for 2 without leftovers.

This is the best dim sum in Gardena. They have the carts on the weekends and a lot of room. Their main dining hall is old fashion, clean, and roomy.

Not sure how to describe how, this was one of my Fave Dim sum place. And because of that. I will withhold any negatives.
Food is just OK. Years ago &, High School
It was much better.... Bur, I still go from. Time to time. Which must mean something 🤔
Go check it out for yourself & see.
I will come back & read your comments

Great dim sum and great service! Although I miss the ladies pushing carts full of steamers, the food and service are still wonderful.

My favorite dim sum place. We usually go on the weekends. The selection is really good. Most of the food is hot. If it’s warm, we usually ask them to heat it back up without any problems.

Very excellent and reasonably priced Chinese food. Our table tried ten or so dishes, and everything was on point.

Always great for dimsum. Ginger tripe, chicken feet, and bird nest dumpling soup are exceptional.

This restaurant was a beautiful surprise and I wish it was located near me. As an immigrant from Hong Kong, I can tell you that it is one of the premier Cantonese restaurant I've ever experienced. My meals were not pricey, and all of the flavors were well balanced. The vegetables were fresh. I have eaten there two nights in a row and tomorrow will be the last evening before I return home. Dining there has been such a relief after very long days. It is quiet, clean, bright, and comfortable. I have nothing but praise for them.

It's always great service and a tasty treat! Especially the bean cured veggie or not.

Authentic dim sum and Cantonese cuisine with an affordable price

The assorted dim sum is great. The service is fast and friendly and the warm dumplings are tasty. Dim sum is only served in the early part of the day otherwise I’d come for dinner.

If you're into Dim Sum, Sea Empress will not disappoint you. We've had the best in Chinatown (when it was better), Monterey Park, San Francisco and overall, Sea Empress is up there with the best as they are consistent with their quality. It's not the best Dim Sum we've had, but we would say top 5 and they've been around and maintain their quality. The other dishes are quite good as we've hosted many larger parties.

In our opinion, the key to our food reviews is the quality of their food. If you expect superb service from "dim sum" spots, you'll be disappointed most of the time as it's "okay" service in general. We don't sweat the small stuff and focus on the food itself, not the service (as waiters come and go). We would expect superb service from Michelin star rated or $$$$ priced restaurants.

We went there for dinner and the food was served piping hot. If you like authentic Cantonese cuisine, it's worth giving their dinner menu a try.

The foods are quite Delicious and their staff is excellent.

Comprehensive menu, uniformly delicious; friendly and efficient staff. We've eaten here twice recently and it's been good both times.

A little empty but I find that we a lot of Chinese food places
People take them to go. The food was the best and comes out fresh and fast. I love it so much ❤

whoever wrote the review that you have to be Chinese to get good service, must have come on an "off day". I have been eating here for years. The service is always good. During the dim sum time, you might need to be a bit aggressive to get the attention of the women with the carts. Most do not speak English so maybe they gravitate to Chinese because they can understand. If you do not see what you want on the carts you usually just ask a server and they will go to the kitchen to get it for you if it is offered that day. Its amazing how much you can order and then the bill is 1/2 of what you might expect.

Nice to go to lunch and the food is ready. I do not eat there in the evening. I only come for dim sum. You can order out also if you know what you want.

Best Dim Sum in the South Bay!!! I know there are a couple other places but the quality/flavor at sea empress is so much better. I've had dim sum in a couple other cities like Monterey Park, Alhambra area where there are Chinese people and dim sum is more popular and sea empress pretty much falls right into place as being a top contender with any of these other places from out of the area. They have a lot of choices for dumplings and other things to try such as duck, charsui pork, currently I'm stuck on "Crispy Pork". It looks like thick dried out pieces of bacon. Actually though they are juicy pieces of pork belly with a crispy top.....SO GOOD!!! Especially when it's hot and fresh! Come early on weekends because this place gets packed and it's not uncommon to wait between 5 - 45minutes to get seated. The restaurant is pretty big so people come and go pretty quickly. Can never go wrong with Dim Sum!!!

If you don't like a rather loud restaurant, you won't like this one. But the. Dim Sum was fantastic.