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It is tradition to eat dim sum whenever one of my friends is in town from med school and we usually eat at Seafood World. I've noticed that we've never eaten anywhere BUT Seafood World for like the last four years and made a recommendation that we change up our tradition and dine here. I should have listened to my friends on yelp a while ago because I don't think I'll ever want to go back to Seafood World again unless I am vetoed by my group.
First, the sizes of the dim sum is much bigger than what we got at the other restaurants. The shu mai and har gow were plump, warm, juicy and delicious! Come to think of it, there's nothing I can really complain about when it came to our food. From the egg custard tart to the steamed buns, everything was really good and best of all CHEAP!
This place would be 5 stars if it wasn't for the service. Now, I understand what you're going to say, it's an Asian restaurant, what would I expect of the service... well, a lady rammed her cart into my friend's seat and just stared at my friend as if she was in the way. We are paying guests here! All in all, it was comical at the time and still pretty funny when I think about it but we felt ignored and rushed but the food was so good I didn't care.
A lot of non-Asian customers also which was surprising but probably a good indication that the food here is good. I'm hungry for dim sum again!!!
The dim sum here is pretty good considering it's on the edge of the parking lot.
After walking in around 12PM, there were already 4 carts rolling around the tables with pretty freshly cooked dim sum. They even had plenty of various fried plates (i.e. ham sui gok, lo bak go, etc.) that were just put on a cart from the kitchen! Service was pretty good!
Overall, if you're looking for a dim sum experience, this place is one to add to your list!
Great place, the rating is a bit more than a 4. They have a lot of different selections for dim sum and for lunch and dinner. What our group of four tried:
Beef with string bean - very tasty.
Chow fun with seafood - it didn't look like it was on the menu but one of the guests asked about it and the waiter and cook were happy to oblige. The wide noodles with seafood and vegetables did not disappoint.
Shrimp with walnut - very good
Clams with ginger - not bad
I always find that the food tastes good when I go here. I prefer lunch or dinner to the dim sum. Tea and water were refilled without having to ask, most of the dishes did not take long to arrive at our table.
Around this area there are a bunch of restaurants to try, Peking Restaurant is pretty good. Across the street is the Seafood Cove restaurant, which looked to be popular last night.
I don't know about you, but I have my fair share of Chinese food in my time. Maybe because I'm Asian. Or that's just self stereotyping.
I know some food can give you Foodgasm and some just give you gas. Seafood Paradise just gives me gas.
I gave Seafood Paradise one more shot before I check it off my looong list of re-tries. Well, I can honestly "X" it out from my list.
The place is typical Chinese restaurant style setting. Lots of red. Lots of chairs and lots tables. As many as the Fire Marshall would allow.
I ordered shrimp fried rice and a crispy duck. Simple right? I thought so. The waitress, she must get paid by commission.
"lubsta is good, you want it?"
"no, I'll have shrimp fried rice. And..."
"And Lubsta?"
"no, and a crispy duck"
"aha.. that it. Why don't you have lubsta. It's good. Special price?"
Lady, unless you want to split the bill with me, then no. (I didn't say that out loud)
The service was fast and the portion was generous but the food was horrible. How can you mess up shrimp fried rice? There was no taste. None what so ever. The duck was fried until it turned into jerky. There was no hint of duck left; just tough Indian jerky to gnaw away.
There were only 4 tables filled with customers including us, but we constantly had to ask for more tea and water.
Maybe she was pissed that I didn't order the lubsta? Maybe I was in the low-rent part of Paradise.
This place is awesome. They have most of the quintessential dim sum items like shu mai, har gow, chicken feet (if you're into that), a bunch of fried stuff, sesame balls, and you can always order off the menu if you're just not satisfied. Pineapple buns are awesome! Get there early and get them fresh!
Overall, great place if you live around the area. I'm not about to drive to LA or Rowland Heights for good dim sum, but Seafood Paradise definitely comes in as one of the best places in the area in my book.
OMG! DRINK CART LADY IS FUNNY AS HELL. Say HI to her next time you're there...she's super duper friendly.
The other reviews say it all. The pineapple buns are a requirement, but you have to get their early… Read more »
Dim sum.
There are a lot of imitators out there that harp they are the best. They copy the carts that carry the dim sum. They copy the silver tin cans that the dim sum are cooked in. They even copy look of the dim sum.
There can only be one.
Seafood Paradise is the one. It is the Matrix. It is the only godforsaken place in Little Saigon that makes the best dim sum. Also, their shrimp fried rice is bombay-o! The shrimps are so succulent and juicy and huge you'll need a shovel to pick up and drop it in your mouth.
Stop listening to me b/c I babble on like the neverending story... go here for yourself and delve into the magical moments of ecstasy that this place will provide for you. You must get the yellow dim sum, the white dim sum, the white wraps w/ shrimp sitting on top of soy sauce, and... whatever else your nose sniffs out.
Trust me. After one sitting at this place, you'll make this your traditional weekend food getaway. It's damn near religious.
WOW, talk about cramped! They really try to pack you in like sardines here! Dim Sum service was alright but the dim sum wasn't tasty. Each dish always seem to lack a particular taste. But let me just say, I was particularly disheartened by the loud rumblings of this place. You could hardly get a word in to people sitting across the table.
This place is lacking professionalism. My mom wanted to get Vinegar for our table so she asked one of the waitresses politely for one. The waitress had the audacity to then look at the table next to us, clap her hands quite loud and yell "HELLO! HELLO!" to the unsuspecting group next to us. "I NEED YOUR VINEGAR!" You could tell how stunned the people were at her abrupt attitude. It was embarrassing. Another incident happened with the waiter and waitress having an argument right next to us as he was picking up dishes from our table!
A lot of people like this place, zagat likes this place, but for the quality of food and price... I think not. I prefer Seafood World over this place for the fact that its a bit more open and organized and prices are about the same.
Dim sum. I like it.
NO, no, NO, no, NO!!!!
I don't care much about the service here, because there are other things beyond terrible!
Came here on a Sunday morning for DIM SUM a table for 15 right away because one of us knew a guy who worked here.
All I can say is that the dim sum was BAD. I don't understand why anyone would think this place is good. Maybe I was the last to show up so the food was cold or something, but still, we ordered more food after I arrived and it still wasn't good!
Then I ordered a coke and it took a while for it to come, so we asked again, but to someone else and they ended up bringing out two, so we kind of got a free one because the first guy already marked down only one order of coke. Cool, right? Free drink! We saved $2! Hooray!
Um, no. After a few sips of my coke, I realized there was a small piece of food stuck on the ice and wouldn't detach itself from the cube. I guess it froze along with the ice cube... This means that the piece of food couldn't be from me because trust me, I wasn't even eating much of the food to begin with. NASTY! Who knows where that bit of food came from! BLAH!
I think this is the second time I've been here before and I have to say that this is pretty good dim sum for being outside of the San Gabriel Valley and Chinatown L.A. I came here with my two college girlfriends a couple of weekends ago. My friend Mary comes here often since a lot of the waiting staff recognized her and said hi. We ordered several dishes and all were dim sum from the carts except for a dish of pea sprouts and Chinese broccoli. We had the usual har gow, shui mai, cheng fun, char sui bao, tripe, and a few other dumplings. All were pretty good. I don't think I saw my favorite, new mai gai (rice & meat wrapped & steamed in a grape leaf), they might have been out. For us 3 girls, we split the bill @ $20.00 a piece. This also included 3 boba/milk tea drinks and tip. Not bad for 3 people and we were all stuffed when we left. Service was pretty good too. Get there early because this place gets crowded. A sign of good food!
Fried itty bitty crispy fishy - The Heavens sings praises!
Busy as all get go- but like any Dim Sum Restaurant- you do need to elbow your way through now and then.
When seated you hear a thunderous roar of Viet? Chinese? English? Old men blowing their noses, etc - but through the thunder is a symphony of delicious fried goodies awaiting your palate!!
Must Try:
Delicious fried little fishy
Fried Squid
Fried Shrimp with Sugar Cane
(I know- I'm diggin the fried)
Steamed little green things that look like grass- subtle and sweet
Haw-Gao (?)
Shao-Mai
Slippery white thing with shrimp and soy sauce!
The Avocado Smoothie (Although that girl seems very elusive towards me)
And least we forget- the Holiest of all Holly....
SESAME BALLS!!! Oh sweet merciful smack - This is so good.
Well- try to go before the 11:30 mark... :)
ENJOY!!
This place used to be good. It seems to have gone down in taste over the past couple years. When my friends and I went around noon, the honey walnut shrimp did not taste like what it was supposed to be; instead, it was just fried up shrimp with very little sauce.
When my friend asked one of the male waiters for a glass of water, he simply said "Later." We also suspect that one of the waters he gave us came off of a nearby table that people had just sat and eaten at, with that particular glass that nobody drank (presumably). I will not be coming back.
I've tried a lot of other Chinese places for dim sum and this is hands down my favorite.
The food is good and hot. They have shrimp in those flour rolls with sweet sauce, but then they also offer it fried. Try that. It's awesome. Buon Cuon fried with Hoisin Sauce with Sesame Seed spring on top as dipping sauce. It's surprisingly delicious.
The best thing is, if you don't see what you want, ask one of the ladies, they're super nice and will bring you a dish of what you want. Awesome.
Dim Sum lovers, this is the place to be! I have had authentic Dim Sum in Hong Kong, China and Taiwan, and this is as close as it gets to quality and taste!
I highly recommend getting here early at about 9:30-10am so you can get a seat. This is the best spot in the OC, so it does get packed fast. The prices are very affordable. Small dishes are about $1.95, medium $2.95 and large $3.95. They have a good lunch menu with specials ranging from $5.95 - $7.95 specials including soup and rice.
I have tried their fresh water fish once and it was delicious. These items do get pricey, so make sure you check how much the price is per LB before ordering. The best part definitely has to be when they bring out the fish for you to inspect and you give them the OK to kill and filet it. They also have crab and lobster available as well.
The owners and employees are extremely friendly. I bring my parents here and they are on a first name basis. We havent had trouble getting tables here because its a huge restaurant and the waiters and bus boys are highly efficient. This is a well managed place by a Vietnamese owner. They were also featured in several OC food magazines as well and won a few Zagats.
*On a side note, I would love to try other Dim Sum spots around town as well! Please send me some recommendations if possible.
I've been coming to Seafood Paradise for years..since i was a little girl in elementary school and this place is still my fav spot for dim sum. I'd love to be here once a week chowing down on ha chon fun (shrimp rice noodles) and har gow (shrimp ball wrapped in clear rice type paper). My other must haves when I come here are shu mai, fried tofu with the sweet and sour sauce (just be sure you get a freshly fried and warm batch), chinese broccoli, the other green vegetable (they look like mini clovers) and occasionally we'll get the chicken feet. I love chicken feet, however, my other half does not... =( Buyer Beware: I know those fried shrimp balls with the crab leg poked in them look super good and tasty, which they are, however, they are $8! So essentially, you're paying $4 for each shrimp ball. It's good, but they have other fried shrimp things for much less.
About the waits, its hardest to get a seat when you have a group larger than 4-5 people and it's about 11-noon. By the way, sometimes these ladies are a bit pushy when asking you if you want something in their cart(in a nice way), but you just tell them politely that you do not want it, no matter how good they tell you it is...
I go there all the time for Dim Sum and a couple of weddings also. There are so many Dim Sum places in the OC area and i've been to most of them already. I like this place because there is never a wait for me...maybe that's because i don't go until noon or after. The Dim Sum here are good, but i don't like the dinner menu, just not impressed with it!
One thing i really hate is that the service is not consistent...it takes forever to ask someone to bring extra napkins, sauce or bill, etc etc. Sometimes they are so rude, it would help to smile once in a while but these people dont.
It also takes forever for to order the drinks...there is a girl in a cart with all the drinks and she is hard to get a hold of...i even asked the server if we can have 3 Orange Juice and she told me to just wait, she can easily go and get it but she didnt. The Orange Juice here is REALLY good...sweet and blended with ice...sooo yummie.
Overall good dim sum place, dont expect good service because most likely you won't get it and to make yourself feel better about the bad service get some Orange Juice...it'll make things better =)
+ i've eaten a lot of dim sum in the last decade or so, and this is good stuff. fast, hot, tasty, CHEAP, and you can be in and out in 20 minutes if you so please. i often make the trek here from the south bay to meet up with my family for lunch -- it's worth an hour drive!
I'd say this is a 3.5 star place more towards 4 because of the price for what you get.
I generally stick to the unfried stuff, except for those fried rice-ball things with the stuff inside, yum...however at times the food items are not consistently the same taste-wise. At times it seems like the fried balls were dunked in not-hot-enough oil therefore causing the food to soak up too much oil. yuck. But when it's fresh it's great.
The drinks are no good, go down the street if you need some coffee or thai tea.
The area itself is dangerous, duh what do you expect, it is little Saigon afterall, drive safely, they won't see you. The service is ok, when you're done just wave at the people in the vests, the black-white outfits, and they will figure out what you owe..I think it's pay at the cashier. Very cheap, usually for 2-3 I spend around 20-30.
Crowds pack in this cavernous palace for its delicious dim sum and fabulous Chinese seafood.
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yuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuum!!!
I've been coming to this place ever since my good friend introduced me to the wonderful world that is dimsum.
I would recommend coming in by 10am, that is when they have the most carts out. After maybe 1:30pm, it slows down and there aren't many carts out so beware.
The ladies are super nice and despite my pitiful "you know, shrimp?? wrapped in white??" they always understand~~!!! Sigh, God bless you ladies...you fill my stomach w/goodness and my heart w/joy.
With that said, I won't even begin to try and explain which dishes to get...haha, but i really love that shrimp wrapped in rice noodle dish w/the sweet sauce all over it...oh man!
It is also quite impressive when the lady comes by and calculates your bill in her head at the end of the meal. Craziness.
The cost HAS gone up in the past years, but what do you expect? I still love it here and can't wait to go back soon!
I was pleasantly surprised about the food here. I went here for a birthday party and there was also a private wedding going on right next to us. On top of that, normal guests who aren't part of either party! It was kinda weird I must say, but in the end, we're all eating the same food right?
So we didn't go there for dim sum. We went there for a regular dinner on a Saturday night. Order a grip of various items and each item ordered was cooked very well. It was plentiful, cheap, and tasted delicious.
Service was good too. I may not be able to communicate with them, but I don't care. The food was pretty damn good!
Oh and they allowed us to bring our own soda and alcohol for our party too! That's too cool!
Another spot where you'll see 4 generations sitting around a lazy Susan.
I love their congee because it has bits of the 'thousand yr. old eggs' and crunchy fried morsels topped with green onion. The other yummy dish is siu mai with a little chili paste and soy sauce. There is a dish for every taste bud here.
Good eats for the large and loud family groups.
Why only 4?...the restrooms are seriously gross, just don't go there.
i had this idea that the dim sum here was not that great, but i came back a couple weekends ago and it was fairly amazing. it is quite possible that the quality is inconsistent, but it is also possible that i have a really fickle attitude about dim sum and really have to be in the mood to enjoy it.
but the wait is never that bad compared with Empress Pavillion in downtown LA, and it really seems like they have the same stuff. a lot of your dim sum experience depends on you. you and your ability to not order a shit ton of stuff right off the bat, and to sometimes refrain from ordering the weirdest thing on the cart. i am bad at this, but you do not have to be.
so i was mistaken and this was not the first dim sum place i went to. now i need to locate this mystery dim sum place i went to because i need to go back.
went to seafood paradise 2 the other day pretty hungover and in need of a ton of food. within 1 minute of sitting down we were bombarded by carts and had 5 things on our plate.
calamari - not good, bland, even with lemon pepper sauce we were told to make.
short ribs - always good
shu mai - favorite
pork bun - never really my favorite
fried roll/bun thing with meat inside - came cold when im pretty sure it should have been hot
shrimp egg roll - was good but also served to us cold
hmm what else. i tried chicken feet. pretty gross id say. for whatever reason i thought they would be crispy and it turned out to be gelatinous and skinny (new adjective).
my hunt continue for that first place i went to. it was in a small strip mall/retail center, on the second level. downstairs was a crazy asian butcher shop with a ton of things hanging by the window. help!
Went today around 10:30 for dim sum. We were seated immediately. The carts decended upon us quickly. Everything was very good, hot and fresh. All of our favorites were served quickly. Asked for the little fried fishies on a cart & the lady ordered a fresh plate straight from the fryer since the others weren't as hot as they should have been. Excellent customer service. BBQ pork buns were large and fresh with good flavor. We will certainly return. Only odd thing was the incredibly slow drink cart which never once made it to our end of the restaurant. Oh well, not a major set back.
This place is ok. The dimsum selections are good. But the House Special Lobster across the street at Seafood Cove is so much better.
I dont like dimsum, but i tried it again just to see if i would change my mind about it.
NOPE i still dont like it.
This place got me and my bf SICK. The food was hella greesy and the wait is ridiculously long.
If you like vietnamese style chinese dimsum instead of the more authentic chinese dimsum then you might like this place, but i will never go back there.
It got me sick for 2 days and my bf barfed right when he got home. I would never ever go back! ick!
Came here yesterday, for dim sum. Don't remember much about the time there, except it was pretty good
Bro paid for everybody that was with us (about 15).
5 out of 5 stars because I didn't pay. Sucker...
My new hood, has so many food places just waiting to be reviewed that I'm excited for it. "Garbage Grove," not so much, but we'll see what this place has to offer as time passes. I came here with my current roommates, and new landlord:
Tim (not the Black Dragon), Vindicator, Jokalot, Sam The Popping Man, Sam's little brother Moses, and myself.
We were seated, and while discussing issues about our new place, I realized this is also a place that can hold big groups of parties. They're also open late as well, which Tim gave me the heads up. The food arrived, and everything was just as good as Hong Kong Palace. The reason this place gets the seal of approval is they make really good Honey Walnut Prawns...and I always gleam with joy after I devour it all. The service, nothing to complain about, just the usual "Asian Etiquette," if you catch my drift.
The bill came out pretty cheap, just like Hong Kong Palace, and we all left the place pretty satisfied. I look forward to coming back here, in hopes for round two the next time I'm craving for dim sum, especially after settling down here in a few weeks from now.
My peoples, they drive crazy!! There are so many ways to get into a car accident getting into and out of the plaza that houses this restaurant. It's also easy to miss Seafood Paradise, so just look for the Stater Bros.
We came around 1:30pm on a Sunday and there was a decent sized line. The BF approached the girl at the hostess stand to get a number when this dumb bitch standing about 2 feet away accuses us of cutting. LOL! OMG, really?! "We're trying to get on the wait list. Calm down."
Turned out she was trying to get a number as well. Ooops! Well, serves her right for just standing there and waiting for the staff to acknowledge her. It doesn't work like that at Vietnamese establishments. You need to be assertive and tell people what you want!
Anyway, the dim sum was just okay. As soon as we were seated [other Yelpers are right, they turn tables here very fast so even if there's a line, you will be seated very soon], 3 different carts swarmed our table. Very efficient, indeed. They have all the standard dim sum fares: tripe, chicken feet, bbq pork buns (my personal favorite), chu mai, egg custards, etc.
fast service, super friendly staff (my friend's are regulars), and food is on par..
however, the walnut shrimp was of the fast food variety, fail.
SEAFOOD PARADISE IS SERIOUSLY THE SHIT.
i can't understand a word whenever i eat there, but my pointer finger does all the ordering. the dim sum here is outstanding, but i was really unhappy with the actual food when choosing with the real menu. come on a sunday around 1130 and it's sooooooooo dank. smoke a blunt before you come and it's the best when you're faded and just like "oh shit i want that and that and that and that and that and that and that.."
it's cheap too, which leaves you more money to spend on your next bag of grass. seafood paradise for life!!
This place is my #1 spot for some awesome dimsum! The people are fairly friendly and although its a super packed house all the time we always manage to find a seat. The carts come around rather frequently although not fast enough for my eager dimsum hungry taste! but im abnormal when it comes with my dimsum patience! hahaha. I LOVE the tofu wrap, shu mai, bbq pork buns, and sometimes their fried taro is good but occasionally its to greasy. I know my friends love the chicken feet...gag. They also have REAL yummy fried rice!! All I can say is a nice piping hot teapot of tea, tofu wrap, the chili sauce, and i am one happy camper!!!!! yummmm
I do come here often for dim sum and I don't particularly like their dinners.
Kinda funny with the girl holding the ice cam vat drink in one of the pictures.This is actually the first time I seen her smile.We get some whack stories several times that it takes them 30mins to makes more cam vat if they're out.Brush off...you think!?!?!?
Anyways,the dim sum is decent for the OC and service good since we are all familiar faces here.If you don't see some dim sum dishes going around on the carts that you have in mind.Just asked your servers and they can go pick them up for you from inside the kitchen.
I like to show up right around 11am on the weekends to avoid the lunch wait.
Although this shopping center offer spacious parking...it's not always as easy finding a parking space on the weekends and during lunch rush hours.
I actually enjoy their dim sum a lot. I have been here on weekdays and that is definitely the best time. The weekends are busy and parking can be difficult. I also like taking the food to go. I like the dim sum with the pork and shrimp. I also like the rice dishes. They have a sticky rice in banana leaves and the fried rice with sausage. Both are yummy. The prices are okay but not that great. When they are busy, the wait and service can be horrible.
I was convinced by the photos uploaded here by other Yelpers to go to Seafood Paradise for dim sum. I wanted to introduce my parents to dim sum without having to drive all the way to the San Gabriel Valley. Unfortunately, the dim sum at Seafood Paradise #2 was not all that great, and I don't think I'd go again.
PROS: Friendly service, servers speak enough English to explain what does and does not have secret pork inside, and some of the basic items (e.g. shrimp wontons, red bean sesame ball things, and I guess the tea) were as expected.
CONS: The restaurant smelled even more like grease than the usual dim sum place. Everything else was over-fried, greasy, and just not all that tasty. The shrimp-and-green-onion dumplings, which I normally can eat a whole plate of, were not fresh. The skin came off and the shrimp was room temperature. The fried tofu leaked oil. Also, I didn't see any new or interesting dishes to make up for the only so-so familiar dishes.
My suggestion: If it's Seafood Paradise #2 or the SGV, go make the trek to the SGV.
LOL! I just went here last weekend and they had a "People love us on Yelp" sticker on their door! So here goes: I've experienced many a chinese/vietnamese restaurant up in westminster, but this is my fave place for dim sum (and dim sum only... its dinner isn't that great, seafood cove is better instead) ! It's great in the morning on weekends and the wait isn't that long either, and it's pretty clean compared with your average chinese restaurant. It actually smells like the food here, so yeah, this isn't exactly your 'see and be seen place' so don't waste your chi chi clothes here unless you want them smelling oily.
That said, the food is great! I usually get the same things: shu mai, chicken legs, shrimp pancakes, those taro things with crunchies all over them, fried shrimp wontons, and yeah. I haven't tried everything, some of it looks kinda weird, so I generally stick with my regulars. Drink tea with your food, it makes you feel better about all the greasy food you're eating! Don't be afraid to ask for another pot either, they'll be happy to get it for you. Oh, and place your empty tins and plates on the outside of the table, otherwise you'll have the men in vests reaching all in your table and spilling your water and tea and everything... not pleasant.
And the hugest plus: a great bargain! Each dish is like $2, so normally when I go with two or three other ppl we only spend $25-30 for all of us! soooo basically, go for the dim sum, it'll be crazy, loud, yummy and fun :]
I've been going to this spot since i could remember. Bomb seafood. Great dim sum.
After spectating the Japanese Classic Car Show in Long Beach in the morning, we decided to use our trip to the fullest and visit a nearby dim sum restaurant, Seafood Paradise.
We arrived shortly after opening and were happy to see the parking lot already filling up with cars. After being seated at one of the many rows of pink tablecloth tables, we had a chance to look around before the dim sum came a' rollin'. The inside of this joint is dark and feels claustrophobic because the sole source of light is artificial. Yup, no windows, folks. It's also a bit odd because they only have a few traditional dim sum steaming carts and the rest are either plastic or look like retired metal hospital carts that they roll around. Low budget, but hey, it's all about the food, not looks.
Getting to that, this has to be the least amount I've ever spent on dim sum for two people. Not because it was cheap(which it was) but because the selection was lame and the food was a melted oversteamed mess. Blech.
We only got har gow, siu mai, beef tripe, bean curd roll, and mushroom siu mai. The har gow had blisters forming on the thick white shells and was more or less a pile of flavorless mush. The mushroom siu mai and pork siu mai's wrappers were melted to the point that they were simply yellowish looking gunk on the sides. The beef tripe was passable, piled up in a mess of a bowl.
We clocked out at $21.55 for two and went skipping our happy butts out the door. Thank goodness we didn't drive all the way out here JUST for the food.
As my little cursor vacillated between 3 stars and 4 stars, I have to admit: the service at Seafood Paradise, while it's not beck-and-call Hotel Biltmore style, is still top notch when compared to other similar dim sum Sunday late morning joints. +3 for the food, +1 for the service :)
The food is basically what is to be expected from decent-to-excellent dim sum places. This time my brother and I brought the queen bee of dim sum herself, our mom, out with us, and she definitely stuffed herself silly, which is always a good sign.
Out of this world: cha siu bao, which was perfectly sized and had a great flavor to the bbq pork; fried calamari, which was fresh and crunchy and not tough at all; Chinese broccoli with a perfect amount of sauce; very hearty shumai where you could taste both the pork AND the shrimp in it; rice porridge, which was not too heavy and quite tasty; and (pleeease forgive me dim sum gods) shrimp ball wrapped in seaweed and fried -- excellent starter for us. OH! Also we added in sesame balls with bean paste inside AND the baked bean paste bun. BOTH WERE FANTASTIC!!!
Definitely not so spectacular: as fresh as the har gow we received was, it didn't taste like a thing to me; the sticky rice was disappointingly tasteless; pork spareribs were meaty but also lacking flavor; chicken feet were so-so, not overtly memorable; and we had fried shrimp dumplings that were very strange tasting and too large.
All in all, there are a TON of different dishes, both traditionally and non-traditionally dim sum, being offered in here. Everyone running around was quick to oblige us when we needed anything, and the price was definitely within reasonable dim sum range. With easy parking on the street (don't even try the lot... good luck) and a short 10 minute wait, you definitely can't go wrong with Seafood Paradise to satisfy your weekend dim sum craving!
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