Sea Empress Seafood

We were on the way to Los Angeles and looking for a breakfast place. I found Sea Empress Seafood Restaurant perfectly on our way. We decided to have our dim sum fix there. We waited at the parking lot for a few minutes and got our table as soon as they opened. The restaurant looks a little dated. But who cares! We want to have our dim sum breakfast. The dim sum is pretty good. They're hot and fresh. We got what we wanted and were back on the road in less than 45 minutes.

We were pleasantly surprised at how delicious and fresh our dim sum was. We've had long-time favorite restaurants as go to places for dim sum nearby, but no longer. We will definitely be returning to Sea Empress Seafood Restaurant. We have returned several times now and have been pleasantly surprised by the subtle menu changes. Each time there are new additions to the menu.

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.

Traditional dim sum restaurant. Lots of variety. Servers pushing carts just keep coming even when we have so many on the table. I wish they offer a sign on each table to show if you want more dim sums so that we can pace ourselves and get fresh ones when ready.

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.

Great place to enjoy lunch/brunch on Sunday... they have a variety of Chinese dishes brought to you courtesy of the attentive waitresses who go around the dining room offering you the delicious delicacies... enjoy it my dear friends

This was my first time here. Photos as of February 2023. Day visited : Saturday Time: Around 11am Do the servers understand English? yes. Majority do, AFAIK. I grew up eating dim sum with family quite often but have moved not so long ago so it was nice to be able to find a place nearby that wasn't overpriced like Din Tai Fung. Place was a classic restaurant with a large room and many tables. Hot pot of tea (Jasmine) was flowing and quick to come out. Carts were moving around in aisles and warm coming out. A prime example of a regular dim sum place. Food was good and fast to be served. No complaints. Service was quick (more or less). There were many servers walking around being busy so sometimes it's a little hard to catch if I wanted something specific if I couldn't find it on the carts or couldn't it didn't come by after a while. There were a few times where the carts never crossed our table even though I saw it not too far off a few tables down but I couldn'tflag them to come by but it wasnt a big deal. Menu in photos was actually not all the food available on the carts. There were MANY different things not listed. But be careful because there were some items (mainly the ones that do not look like small portions/pieces) that will be priced higher than most items($10+) It gets VERY crowded VERY fast after 11am with large groups of friends and family. Best time to come is right after opening and before 11:30am on a weekend day. Will I come again? Yep :) Hope this review and photos help you out. Enjoy !

If you are looking for a decent Chinese food near Torrance or Redondo Beach, Sea Empress is definitely a good one to try. Dim Sum is not available after 2.30pm though.