Sea Empress Seafood Rest

I didn't work closely with this vendor..someone else in the family doing the planning did. This vendor was highly recommended/required by the hotel because of the strict requirements for outside caterers to the venue.

The groom and I did was the tasting and on the day of ate up to course 4. Tasting did not go so well. The food was not offensive, it was just bland.

On the day of, the first 3 courses were what we expected - bland. Then wow..the 4 course was good. Unfortunately groom and I didn't have time to eat after that so weren't not really sure what happened. We didn't get a lot of compliments about the food..so I'm thinking it was probably pretty mediocre. Our wedding planner told us they had another couple who had just done their rehearsal dinner at the restaurant itself and that were very happy with the food. It just went to confirm our suspicion that this restaurant is inconsistent.

This is basically one of two Chinese restaurants/caterers in the LA/OC area that does Chinese banquets at offsite locations and that is fully licensed. So most venues including hotels will let them use their kitchens. The other, is in OC and more pricey.

If we had to do it again and still had the Chinese banquet requirement, I would have just done it in a Chinese restaurant.