Was seated quickly with reservations and the restaurant quickly got busy for dim sum. Due to big tables ordering large quantities of food, service was slow and food took a while. The food was more than decent so at least worth the wait. Was very stuffy when we arrived but mid way it felt like they turned on the air con. Well lit restaurant, very loud with customers during dim sum. read more

Royal Seafood - Ling cod - Seafood Near Me - Richmond, British Columbia

Royal Seafood is a neighborhood restaurant located in the Garden City strip mall. It's my first time trying this resto for dinner and am surprised it's not bad at all. Although it doesn't have the finesse of 4-star restos, it is not quite 3-stars too. How about 3.5? Will definitely add this to my list of Chinese restaurants for casual dinners but not quite yet for banquet reservations. read more

Update after 2 yrs. After the Covid-19 re-opening, I have been back to Royal Seafood for dim sum lunch several times, and find that their Dim Sum quality and service has improved, some items are especially outstanding: Fried Tofu with Shrimp Puree, Steamed Rice Rolls with Minced Beef filling, Siu Mai Dumplings, also their Fried Noodle dishes are also recommended! read more

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Please check out the photo captions with all the food and the receipt information. 20% discount was supposed to be until 11:00am, but ate at this restaurant after 12:00pm and the head manager surprisingly gave us 10%! On the table, there was a promotional advertisement if going to this restaurant often. Translating Chinese to English, purchase a $300 or $500 gift card, the restaurant would offer a $20.00 savings. Grub: Prawn Dumpling The usual. Got to have EVERY TIME for Dim Sum. REPEAT PLEASE Pork & Shrimp Shiu Mai The usual. Got to have EVERY TIME for Dim Sum. REPEAT PLEASE Steamed Beef Ball This is a classic dish of beef balls. An old-fashioned dish REPEAT on my list. Beef Tendon I like eating dish once a whole. They say the tendons help our own tendons. Sticky Rice with Lotus After eating the dice beef noodle, I realized we over order. Just ordering the beef noodle, there's no no need for more carbs. The Sticky rice is very good and smooth texture that gives a nice taste on the tongue. Bean Curd with Fish Paste This rice roll with fish paste inside is my first time ordering. If you like fish paste in middle of things, you will like this one. Veggie with Tofu Skin This has goji berries in soup. This is a nice balanced healthy dish. I recommend this as a REPEAT. Dice Beef Noodle Wow! These dish is quite big. And has a nice display. Please refer to the photo and caption for identification. Tasty and fulfilling! I recommend this dish at least once. If going with a big group, then a REPEAT on the list. Mini Egg Tarts I LOVE egg tarts. I found these quite small. Honestly I would go somewhere else for egg tarts. Thirst: Tea Apparently it's becoming more common for restaurants to charge for tea, in this case $4.50. I recommend this restaurant if looking for quality and convenience. read more

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Royal Seafood restaurant is located on Garden City and Blundell Road in Richmond. It's causal and neighborhood Chinese restaurant. We came here for lunch with my friend who is a regular customer here. She ordered all the dishes and I just ate and enjoyed. Chicken feet - It didn't look and taste good. Lobster with grass noodles - It presented beautifully and taste ok but slightly at salty side. Stir fried radish cakes - It's pretty dried and MSG taste. Chicken - It's looked weird and taste bland. Stir fried sticky rice - It was good but not great. Overall, the portion generous and reasonable price. But, the quality quite below average. read more

Went for a Sunday Dim Sum. It was really good. The place was packed. Service was quick, the food was good, and the menu had lots on it!

I came with family and some family friends at around 10:30am on a Sunday and was surprised to see that it wasn't as packed as some other dim sum places may be. FOOD: We ordered a variety of the classics (like Siu Mai, Hai Gow, Churn Fun etc) and I will have to say that the food was mediocre. The Hai Gow skin wasn't as elastic as some other Hai Gows and the shrimp inside (although sizable) wasn't very flavorful in my opinion. Curry octopus was okay too, but it was a bit tough to chew on. Overall, felt like the dishes were just okay. Nothing too special but still edible! And the price is reasonable. ENVIRONMENT: They decoration is really nice. It's quite clean and there's plenty of space. Overall, I'm not sure this would be a go to place for dim sum for me. It's not bad, but it's also not a place I would be raving about if you know what I mean. read more

There are lots of different dim sum restaurants across town but we like to try different places - which explains how we wound up at Royal Seafood Restaurant in Richmond. It's located on the 2nd floor of the Garden City Shopping Centre mini mall located at the corner of Blundell and Garden City Road. When we arrived on an early Sunday morning, there were plenty of tables available but they did fill later on (still not a huge line-up tho'). Most items that we tried on this visit were $7.45 (except for the dessert dish that turned out to be $4.35). The first dish to arrive was the Spicy Beef Tripe. The honeycomb tripe was fairly tender but we didn't notice the spiciness until afterwards when the chili sauce hits the back of your throat. Next was the steamed Shrimp and Pea Tips dumplings which is a nice departure from the regular har gow. I found that the Beef Rice Rolls were a bit basic but satisfying. For dessert, we ordered the Mango Pudding - which was a fairly firm incarnation. The presentation could use a bit of an upgrade from the 4 blocks of pudding that we received (a very utilitarian display). The last dish to arrive at our table was the Baked BBQ Pork Buns with a pineapple crust topping. These came out freshly baked and had a soft and warm bbq pork filling. The cute turtle shape didn't detract me from eating it. Overall, most of the dim sum dishes here were pretty good so we decided to return for a visit in late September to try more of their dim sum dishes. The Deep Fried Shrimp Spring Rolls (L) came out hot and had a nice crispy bite to them. As if we didn't need more fried foods, we ordered the Deep-Fried Silver Thread Buns. I felt like these came out a bit dense and not as light and airy as it should be on the inside. Next were the Chicken Feet in Spicy Sauce (M). Followed by the Coconut Osmanthus Pudding (S). I really like how this came out (a bit more decorative appeal compared to their mango pudding). Actually, I really liked this - especially mixing the flavours together in one bite. But we weren't done yet... We also ordered the Special Rice Roll with Fish Paste and Bean Curd. It's funny because I've only just started noticing this rice roll dish being served at more dim sum places recently. While the fish paste filling in the middle was quite nice, I thought the bean curd wrap that encased it wasn't crispy enough. Lastly, we finished things off with an order of Steamed Beef Balls. These were a bit basic and lacking in flavour. read more

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It's my first time to Royal Seafood Restaurant for lunch. My friend who lives in Richmond brought us here. Business is on the second floor, ambiance clean and bright, vast dining hall. At 11 am on Saturday, this place is packed solid with diners of families and friends for dim sum rendezvous. We ordered the traditional classics such as har-gow, siu-mai, beef meatball, dry scallop and shrimp dumpling and turnip cake. We added two steamed rice rolls, i.e. one with shrimp filling, and one with bean curd and fish paste filling. Plus a side dish Fried Tofu with minced Egg yolk toping. All dishes were cooked to order. First items to arrive were the (Cheong-fun) rice rolls, the Bean curd-fish paste roll was exceptionally inviting, with layers of flavors, the rice wrap itself was thin, silky and smooth, skillfully done. The shrimp roll is average plus. Soon the rest of the dim-sum dishes followed, every item were of good quality with the beef meatball exceeding expectations, nice texture , nicely seasoned with the fregance of dried orange peel which is normally ignored by lots of chefs. Side dish of fried tofu was mediocre, nothing exceptional. Whole meal was very relaxing and enjoyable, with attentive service and quality food, also price is reasonable. I will definitely recommend this restaurant and look forward to visit this business again on our return trips! read more

Food Quality: 1/5 - Inedible Service: 1/5 - Dismissive and at times rude Ambience: 3/5 - Festive.. in the Chinese sense if you could call it that. It's Sunday morning, which naturally means Dim Sum time for the typical Chinese person living in Richmond. Vic and I venture off to the nearest dim sum hang out, Royal Seafood Restaurant 粤海山庄 in Blundell Plaza in Richmond. We've been here once in the past but the experience was utterly unmemorable, so we decided to refresh our memories. This second experience was unforgettable. Fried egg tofu, as we know it, should be gently fried on the outside but silky smooth on the inside, a gift from the heavens. This egg tofu was scorched from the fires of Mordor. The texture of the outside layer is so rough that you'd think you're eating fried chicken. As for the Chinese donut in rice roll, the pictures say it all. After eating away the end pieces, we revealed the hollow rock-hard inner pieces that were literally inedible. They were also fried to a crisp brittle colour of brown, which alludes to the level of chaffing that the top of my mouth suffered as I chomped down. It still hurts as f. At this point, we waved down a waitress, who promptly responded curtly in Cantonese "What do you want?" We explained that the Chinese donut rice roll was inedible and she proceeded to explain that "this is how it is meant to be". We insisted that this is an unacceptable standard of service and after some grumbling, the waitress gave us a 10% off our bill. As for the others: Chrysanthemum and goji berry jello: very low on the flavour. It tasted like slightly sweetened gelatinous goo. Golden seafood shrimp dumpling with "con" (corn?): Not good.. The taste of green onion in the dumplings were over powering. Generally you would not find green onion in steamed shrimp dumplings. Shrimp and pea tip dumpling: This was the only saving grace of the meal. The dumpling skin was the right elasticity and the shrimp tasted fresh and bouncy. At $2 a piece, I would've expected as much. The damage was done and our lesson is learned. We wouldn't be coming back. Full review on my blog: http://darnhonestopinions.blogspot.ca/2017/02/royal-seafood-restaurant-never-again.html read more

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I came here for dim sum on the weekend. It's less busy compared to other restaurants. There's no line ups but I made a reso just in case and was seated immediately. We chose to sit in the private room instead of main area for privacy. This didn't really jeopardize being serviced on a regular. Our tea pot was refilled and our food came out in a timely manner. Only complaint was that they forgot my hot sauce and when the food arrived, it was room temperature warm and not steaming hot. Overall food was pretty decent and price seems to match other places. You do have to pay for $1.50/pp for tea. Seems like the norm now. One thing I'd avoid is the pandan coconut jelly. It was way too stiff and you can't taste the coconut flavour. It barely tasted like pandan. read more

Food is great! Should definitely try the custard buns and xiao long baos. Service was mediocre though, when they poured hot water they almost tried to give my phone a hot bath. Food was pretty much ready to eat as it was brought out (hot but not as hot as expected). Environment was decent. read more

*Disclaimer: I'm white. This is important in the Dim Sum world bc 99.9% of patrons are Cantonese and their opinion of this place is respectably of more value. I have married into a Chinese family and have been going to a variety of Dim Sum restaurants for the past 7 years so I have some,albeit limited, street cred. Ambiance: Actually quite clean and new for a Dim Sum restaurant. Typical Dim Sum experience: loud, crowded, 99% Asian patrons. Missing the Dim Sum carts though. Food: Excellent Dim Sum for the price. All the typical Dim Sum favorites are on the menu. My family says the Har Kow is excellent. Price: You can't beat $2.88 a dish! Service: Typical Dim Sum routine of flagging down waiters although the service here is a bit more friendly than I'm used too. Overalls: A great, clean Dim Sum with an excellent price point. read more

Royal Seafood - Dining room (and my father-in-law) - Seafood Near Me - Richmond, British Columbia

4 stars for ambience, decor & parking. It's considered out in the boonies for Richmond, away from the DT core. Surprisingly, quite busy. But didn't wait more than 5 min to get a seat. Typical, crammed tight. Indeed a gorgeous restaurant by today's standards, wedding banquet material. For the dim sum, just above average, nothing to knock your feet off but good value. Ordered the usual as per pics. 3 private rooms, one of which prob fits 12 easily with a few sofas to rest around. Good service. Located in big plaza, Blundell/Garden City. Accept cards. Possible repeat. read more

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Phone is 604-273-9911 The number on yelp is wrong. Feel sorry for the guy keep getting the call. read more

The service here is soooooo slow! Otherwise I would of given them a better rating. The food is ok. I was expecting to be better because everyone keep telling me the dimsum here in Richmond is better. read more

Our family ventured into this restaurant for dim sum on Sunday. It's been quite a while since the last visit & we were pleasantly surprised at the service. The renovations (completed a couple of years) made the place very bright. Food was good- only one thing we ordered didn't get delivered. For 5 people the bill came to $90+. There is a choice of tea - Jasmine goes great with everything. Service was good- very efficient - an empty dish was quickly taken away as soon as the dish was finished. Recommend going back here again. read more

Royal Seafood - Chicken feet & pork innards - Seafood Near Me - Richmond, British Columbia

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The Dim Sum of this restaurant was not bad, I think it was better than the medium level. We ordered some Dim Sum made by shrimps, they were fresh. The waitress was friendly and smiling all the time! Have a 10% off of Dim Sum with a VIP card. Have a 20% off before 11am. $17/person. read more

Royal Seafood - Seafood Near Me - Richmond, British Columbia

I had my banquet wedding reception here yesterday. I must say the service was exceptional! I got my refills when I wanted. The dishes served promptly and according to schedule. My guests were very happy with the service as well, they got their drinks at the bar when they asked for it, and overall great service. They hire top waiters and waitresses I've seen before at top restaurants. The layout of the restaurant was perfect! very spacious, enough to fit all my guests. Very good lighting and Audio Visual. They have hard wood so I was able to have a dance floor with my own custom playlist! The place was so nice I didn't even had to do bring or setup my own decor. Food was top notch. I was able to modify my set menu to what I wanted. Every dish that came out was extremely delicious and unique. My guests told me how they loved the food so much. I would highly recommend this place to others for their wedding reception. read more

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Dim sum for $2.88!! This place is partially hidden on the second level, located in the Garden City Shopping Center. The decor here is a little outdated, even keeping the furniture from the previous tenant, which must have vacated at least 5 years ago. Upside: this is a large restaurant, so there are lots of tables. A wide open space that has a dance floor in the center, as well as a small stage. (For dinner and dance parties that happen at night.) The dancing is geared towards the older clientele though- it's the cha cha, tango, and such; no top 40's here. To the food: all sizes of dim sum here is $2.88. Like many dim sum restaurants now, there are no carts being pushed around, you just have a form and fill out what you want. Quality of food is good, and they have quite a selection. My favourite is the satay beef tendon! A variety of congee, stone pot rice, and your typical fried noodles and rice are available. They also have 'special' dishes-recommendations include the salt & pepper deep fried squid, and the deep fried tofu. However, they do sell out of certain items sometimes, so always have a backup plan in case some of your selections are sold out. Service is usually good. I must admit, this place does not have the best atmosphere, but for the price and the selection, this has become a usual lunch spot for us! read more

We hosted a tiny banquet here. Both the food and service are exceptional. The restaurant is away from the downtown core, but it is worth the extra 5 min drive. Let's not forget there's ample parking spots, and you don't have to pay. There's also an elevator for seniors and kids. Have not yet try the dim-sum. read more

Royal Seafood - Lobster + Crab Combo! - Seafood Near Me - Richmond, British Columbia

Came for dinner and got the squab and lobster dinner combo for 4 people. The lobster and sticky rice dish was pretty tasty. The squab was over cooked and the skin was dry rather than crisp. The meat was really tough to chew. Wouldn't recommend it if you're with seniors or children. Eggplant and beef was a mixed bag, the eggplant was very good but the beef was extremely salty. Service was amazing, the food comes in generous portions but the flavor is a hit or miss. read more

Went to dinner with my mom, girl friend, sister and brother in-law. Me, my girl friend and mom arrive first. We are seated in a nearly empty restaurant with only 2 other tables. I figured service would be alright. We get seated and my girl friend asks the waiter for 2 glasses of water which is quickly forgotten about after they bring the tea. We had to ask again for 2 glasses of water. My sister and brother in-law have not arrived yet and so we figured we'll order first and have them start cooking it when they arrived. So my mom orders 4 dishes and the waiter comes back and says the dishes will be ready in 10 minutes as the chef prepares them. We told the the waiter, the other guests have not arrived yet and are not sure when they will be here. Could you please hold cooking until the rest of the people arrive? We have had many restaurants that have had no issues with this request. He came back with a snarky remark saying that we should have told him that in the first place and that the chef has already started. Luckily, the remaining two members just arrived. We got our dishes and the plates were big but the amount of food was small. The garnish was larger than the food at times. The food was mostly bland and wasn't anything special. The only really tasty dish was a fifth chicken dish we ordered. We were pretty much all finished with a few pieces of food left on a dish here and there. We couldn't finish it all and as I asked the waiter to doggy baggy it, the guy pushing for us to finish it off the plate, it's only a few pieces. That's rude if you ask me. I'm full and have not reason to eat more than my fill. After they've cleared the table we receive the standard desert and we had to again wait for a long period of time before we had to usher a waiter to get the bill. Given the rudeness of the waiter and water not being brought I decided to give them 5% as tip. I also love it when the waiter is watching me like a hawk as I'm entering in my pin, like really is that what you call customer service? I entered only 5% tip onto the bill and the waitress gave me my receipt. As our group was leaving the table one of the waiters comes by with the bill in hand and talks with my girl friend asking for more tip or if I made a mistake in the tip amount...can you believe that!? You have the balls to come and ask for more tip thinking that I made a mistake? If the waiter had come to me, I would have demanded the 5% back. I don't see why any customer should be bullied or guilted into paying more tip than what the customer thinks is right. The only saving grace for the waiter was the fact that my sister and mother added more to the tip - which I disagreed with but it was their money. I would recommend staying away from places like these who think that they deserve something for nothing. read more

Ingredients used do make a big difference on the quality of dim sum dishes and I was quite impressed that the chicken feet used were the larger sized/more expensive variety and the shrimp in their Har Gow were equally large and fresh. The Hor Fun we ordered was perfectly wok fried with "Wok Mei" aplenty. Quite disappointed though that there were so many dishes not available/one of their dim sum chefs didn't make it to work on the Monday we were there. $72 for 5 of us having our fill is a pretty good deal these days! read more

We came here for dinner and was sorely disappointed. Not only were some of the dishes quite small, but their service was abhorrent. They charged us extra for lettuce, despite only giving us 4 pieces of lettuce for a table of 10. What a scam, 太离谱了. The only positive was the comfortable seating... Since it was so empty. read more

NEVER EAT HERE!!! ESPECIALLY VEGETARIANS!!!! THEY WILL LIE!!!! We walked up the stairs to the restaurant. There were no people, but it was still early so we weren't that concerned with the lack of patronage. We were seated and brought some tea, which was okay. We looked around and found it to look dirty. My husband wanted to leave, but I thought that was rude so we stayed. I then ordered some green beans. I stated clearly that I was a vegan and asked if it had any meat or fish sauce and I was told, "no only soya sauce." The dish arrived with some strange looking brown, "stuff" on it. It looked meat like to me so I didn't eat it right away. I called a waitress over to ask her if it had meat on it and she stated, "meat yes." I said I clearly ordered no meat dish and I told her I am a strict vegan. She called the manager over and he stated, "no meat, only bean curd." I was feeling uncomfortable, and I should have gone with my gut, but I proceeded to put the food into my mouth. I had about 5 bites, and it was so gross and nasty fish like, I couldn't believe it wasn't some kind of creature I was eating. I require reading glasses to see close up so I could not see well, but I picked up a piece of the nasty brown "stuff," and upon very close inspection I could see a prawn/shrimp type thing. I peeled something off of it and it was clearly a shrimp of some kind. I was SOOOO grossed out! I immediately went to the waitress to show her. I was clearly VERY upset. The manager took off so he wouldn't have to deal with me. The poor waitress was very nice. It was the manager who made a mistake and then LIED about the dish having meat or fish. It was terrible food. The manager is a liar who does not care about people. STAY AWAY!!!!!VERY DIRTY TOO!!!!! read more

This restaurant advertised about a new chef they hired from Shuntak, China. 10 of us went at 6:00pm one Sunday to try the entrees from the menu. We were about the first or second table at the restaurant. We ordered about 7-9 entrees. The first 4-5 entrees came quite quickly, then it stopped. At least half an hour later another dish came. We kept asking them why but they could not give us a reason or any apologies. 2 hours later we were told the kitchen was not able to make one of the dishes due to too much work. Seriously...2 hours later!! We were so frustrated by then and decided to leave. We will NOT ever come back again!! read more

Surprisingly good for the cheap price! Came here on a dealfind coupon which gave us a huge lobster and five dishes including fish, delicious chicken, vegetable, sweet and sour pork and dessert. Rice included as well. Extremely good deal and to our surprise they gave us very fresh lobster and huge portion of efu noodles that we couldn't even finish (and we eat like pigs)! Service was not great as they seemed a bit inexperienced but the ambience very clean and organized. Everything was completely newly renovated and it was not noisy at all. Will definitely be back. read more

Plenty of parking in the complex. Food is tasteless than average Dim Sum restaurants in Richmond. Tables are too crowded and make uncomfortable seated. It was also weird that few tables were set up at the den of evaluator entrance. Anyway, the worst thing for our first try is we felt being pushed on the bill by their supervisor to leave as soon as our dim sum are finished. Agreed with Kwan below, it seems a habit of their waitress to stare at customers paying the bills. read more

We received a coupon for 10 percent off. When we went to pay we were told it was only on certain items. This was not stated on the coupon. We were not impressed. read more

Went for an anniversary dinner with 10 courses. Very disappointed. Not only did they serve things that were not ordered. They did not provide the Lemon chicken, deep fried prawns, the spring rolls or beef with broccoli. Gave us deep fried tofu, fried noodles with squid and corn soup. Yuk. Said the items we wanted were on the take out menu. I'm not sure why that should make a difference if you are willing to pay to get what you want. Plus they were conducting a dance lesson. I think the people being instructed were hard of hearing because the dance instructor sure was shouting loudly. Not at all a place I would go to again. read more