Royal Seafood Restaurant
“Royal Seafood makes their noodles very thin, so it's not overwhelming; something a lot of other dimsum joints fail at.”
“cart ladies aren't as aggressive covering the entire ground.”
“They bring out red bean soup(sweet) for dessert and some freshly sliced oranges.”
Royal Seafood Restaurant
Takes Reservations: Yes
Take-out: Yes
Accepts Credit Cards: Yes
Bike Parking: Yes
Good for Kids: Yes
Good for Groups: Yes
Has TV: Yes
Waiter Service: Yes
Caters: Yes
PokéStop Nearby: Yes
Price range.
$$ Price range $11-30
8 reviews
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Dim sum is just ok. We normally frequent this place for dinner. They also have dinner specials which we always take advantage of.
It's pretty decent Chinese food. I have a huge family and we love going to Chinatown to celebrate birthdays. Usually, when we go out to eat, we're about 15 people. That's a lot for a restaurant to accommodate. We're usually split into 2 tables, but this restaurant was able to seat us all in one table. It was a bit packed of course, but nothing too bad.
We ordered about 6-7 dishes to share. My favorite has to be the fried whole fish. It was cooked perfectly. The whole chicken is pretty good too, but not the best I've had. The eggplant and the fried tofu is good as well. The service was pretty good for how packed the place was. The waiters were very attentive and always made sure we had a pot full of tea to go around. We also brought a cake with us that they happily stored in the back. They helped us cut the cake and serve it as well, which was very nice.
Overall, had a great dining experience here and will be back again!
Came here on a Sunday with a couple of friends. When I arrived at 11:45, i was told that there is a wait of 20-30 mins.
It took me a while to find the person that gives you your number. When I did, she was standing behind the booth against the poll. She had her back to the front door which was unheard of– but hey whatever works.
The Dimsum was just mediocre and I don't think I would be heading back anytime soon.
My friends and I were seated on the stage and the food carts don't even come near. So I had to get up and get a lot of the food that I wanted.
This is my go-to place for dimsum, and coming from Hong Kong I hope I hold some credibility when I say that this place actually does dimsum quite well! It's always crowded on the weekend, but the wait is relatively shorter compared to other places like Jing Fong or Golden Unicorn. Space itself is a bit crowded, but the good thing is there's always a cart around the corner and you never have to wait too long to get the options you want!
Came here on a Sunday during prime dim sum hour! You can't get a reservation during this time, but considering the popular hour, the wait wasn't too bad — less than an hour. Luckily, we came ahead of the rest of our party, so we were almost all there by the time we were seated, and they fit all 13 of us on one table.
The food was solid — all the classics, and all well made. I've come here for dinner before, which has always been delicious, so I expected good dim sum as well, and they did not disappoint. They still have rotating carts, which I like, and the turn around is not bad.
It is always risky trying a new place without any research, but we were looking for an adventure and went old school and just walked up Mott St. and looked in several windows and landed on Royal Seafood. It is a typical busy and bustling Chinatown restaurant. We walked in and it was crowded and full of energy! We grabbed a table and ordered away. We got the shrimp dumplings to start – very good! The salt and pepper shrimp came with small chunks of eggplant both of which were very lightly battered and deep fried and dusted with with fried garlic, jalapeno and red hot peppers. It was really tasty! Also, the kung pao chicken and the snow pea leaves with garlic were both great! Highly recommend this place!
Dinner here was so-so. Not the best Cantonese restaurant I've been to, but I thought it was okay. I know my dad would have complained the chef didn't have the right touch. The restaurant is huge and seems like a place where people hold a lot of weddings. In fact, my friend says people do hold a lot of weddings here on the weekends.
Rundown of the food:
Sable Fish with Eel Sauce on a Sizzling Plate (鐵板燒汁桂花魚) – This was the best dish hands down!!! I wish we scrapped the other dishes we ordered and just ordered one of these per person. I would pay $20.99 to have this whole dish to myself. The fish had an amazing soft, fatty texture. I never had eel sauce on fish before, but this really complemented it.
Crispy Chicken with Garlic (蒜香脆皮雞) – Second favorite dish. My parents never order this because it just seems so over ordered and boring, but the crispy chicken dish was pretty good here. I think what made it better was the tasty garlic soy sauce that soaked the chicken.
Fish Fillet with Bean Curd Stick and Tofu (枝竹豆腐班腩煲) – This is usually my favorite thing to order at Cantonese restaurants, but their version of this dish was a disappointment. The casserole was flavorless and tasted like oil. At least there were decently large pieces of fish.
House Special T-Bone Steak (本樓煎士的) – Ordered this for one of the non-Asians in our group because he needed a beef dish. Delicious sauce, but super fatty meat. I ate most of the broccoli that came with this dish instead of the overly fatty pieces of steak.
Snow Pea Leaves in Broth (上湯炒豆苗) – We wanted the Sauteed Snow Pea Leaves w/ Garlic, but I think we accidentally ordered this instead. Definitely order the Sauteed version over this. The snow pea leaves were kind of soggy. There's also ground pork in this, so definitely not a vegetarian dish. I like that they put mustard leaves in it though.
Waiters here are kind of racist. We came with two non-Asians in our group. Because of that at the end of the meal they gave us fortune cookies and orange slices instead of the dessert soup. We asked the waiter what's up with that and he said "foreigners don't like this stuff." Uh-huh….right. We were adamant about getting the dessert soup like the other tables so eventually he did bring it out. I guess he was half right. One of the non-Asians in our group didn't like the soup, but the other non-Asian drank 3 bowls of it.
The place seems like it's cash only. The waiter told us the credit card machine is broken. He's probably lying. Once you get the check you bring it to the counter near the front entrance. Service is sub-par, but was expecting that. I would definitely come back just for that fish with eel sauce dish alone.
Next time someone asks me what I want to eat I am not going to answer, "I'm not really that hungry, you pick".
Of all the dim sum places in the city I don't understand why my dining companion chose this one. We came in fairly close to closing and he was nursing a hangover that had persisted well into the evening. The moment we walked in I could not understand his logic, and he seemed to instantly regret his decision.
The place is BRIGHT. Glaringly bright. So you can see every stain on the fabric of the chairs, every missing light bulb, every chip on the walls. Why is there fabric on the chairs anyway? My skin started crawling with thoughts of bedbugs that had toughed it out since the 70's. The place is a hole in the wall despite being a banquet hall, which is fine, but have some self respect and dim those damn lights sum.
It is also loud even when it's not particularly full. On a Wednesday night most of the giant round tables are empty (there are no small tables, our party of 2 was sat at a table for 5). I don't know how such a small number of folks was generating so much racket, it's not that big of a deal, but there was a horde of children racing around the dining area, knocking into our chairs and table, screaming in our ears. Welcome to hell.
The food was mediocre. Wonton soup was fine enough. I ordered the duck tongues because I had never had or even heard of them before. The flavor was interesting, I think they used a marinade similar to Sesame which I'm not the biggest fan of. Duck tongues have little bones in them, so they're kind of hard to eat because there's not much meat. It's mainly cartilage and bone, but I'd like to try them elsewhere.
I'm not sure when they close, but they make it clear when they're done serving you. While people, including us, were still seated and eating they began to take off table cloths, ROLL the tables out of the room, VACUUM the floors. OK, hint taken, you could have just told us you were closing, that's not stuff you do when people are eating.
We used the bathrooms before we left and they were gross. Liquid all over the toilets and the floors around the toilets, and no toilet paper in either stall.
There are places that offer the same crappy service and surroundings, but have better food. Go to those places instead.