Empire Plaza

We wanted to test this chinese restaurant in the middle of Helsinki for a late dinner.
The interior of the restaurant is very charming and modern. I really liked it. It’s not like the most chinese restaurants in the city. The service was good and the waiters spoke also Finnish, which was a good plus. Naturally they mastered english too, as we heard them talking to foreigners at the next table.
The food however was a bit disappointed. We chose dumplings to starters which were ok. The real starters were not appealing to us, so we ordered these from the main menu. Main course was very plain (and they messed our sauce order), the food didn’t have much character. When ordering «very hot/​spicy» I would expect to get spicy. My food was pretty mild.
So all in all, nice interior and good service, but the food was too plain for my liking. I could perhaps go and test it again with some other items from the menu, but there are other chinese restaurants in the city too…