Plant Power Lunch Set

An absolute delight dining at Empress. This was a 3 course lunch set. Excellent way to taste the highlights of the vegan options at Empress. Well curated and amazing flavours. My favourite was the appetiser platter (first photo). Will definitely be back. Was there to celebrate a friend’s birthday and they gave a complimentary dessert that was vegan as well! Swipe to the last photo to see the description of the menu.

enjoyed being able to try a variety of empress’ plant-based dishes and it was pretty good value for what we got. my fave was the sweet and sour ‘pork’ and the dimsum.

mains: oMg okay part of the set meal and damn this was so good. the sweet and sour meat balls were a little bit too sweet for my liking though, but the meatballs were tender and had a very nice bite to it, plus i liked how the outsides were cronchy hehe. also appreciated the tiny lychee!! the black pepper impossible meat balls WERE AMAZING like holy shit it tasted so much like a legit meat ball? and a really good meat ball too. my sister was amazed HAHA and the black pepper sauce was really flavourful too, with a strong black pepper fragrance. also had youtiao and potato inside i think? kinda weird pairing but i didn’t mind it. my favourite would be the crispy battered tofu with wood-eared fungus omg,,,,,, the batter on the outside was so crunchy and the tofu was so flakey, and had a tinge of the flavour of the sea~ mum and sister also really liked this! the beansprouts and black fungus that came with it was a bit lackluster though but eh the tofu was so good, i’ll order this on its own if i came back hehe

appetizer platter: first choice on the plant powered set meal for $38/person!! omg okay this was quite good!! I really liked the crispy eggplant with the floss like the eggplants were so SOFT and felt like i was eating a fluffy bread? kinda weird HAHA but it wasnt too oily and the soy floss was really nice too :D the broccolini was quite disappointing tho bc it came cold and was just kinda meh. the mushroom and corn dumpling was pretty enjoyable, the skin was really nice and chewy, but tbh the fillings weren’t super memorable. the sichuan meat dumpling was good!!!!!! reminded me of har gow with the chewy filling :D the skin was also so and silky mmm really nice!

I liked some things only in the plate and shared it my mom n bro.