Red Star Seafood Restaurant 鸿星海鲜酒家 - Vancouver, British Columbia

I’ve been to many Chinese restaurants and I’m Chinese-Vietnamese myself. Prior to this visit, I went to a food court stall in Crystal Mall and had their fried rice (same dish in the photo). It was $12 less and better than this. You know what they say, if the service is ... too good (or tries to be too good) in a Chinese restaurant, it’s probably making up for lackluster food. And that’s true here. Everything was overpriced (I don’t mind paying more if the food quality matches. But it didn’t at all. Everything in the photo was $131 before tip. THE TEA WAS $8!!! Do not recommend. Read more

Service is terrific! Super friendly servers and staffs. Has a great Cantonese restaurant vice, with nice seating arrangements. Fairly spacious and comfortable. Char siu (叉燒） and soy sauce chicken (油雞) were decent. Char siu is on the hard side. Other dishes were oily and salty. We ordered shrimp dumplings (aka har gow or ... 蝦餃), which tasted good but wayyyyy too salty. The stir fry green beans with eggplant was too oily and the beans weren’t treated properly… so you get all these hard strands that were supposed to be discarded, which are hard to chew or swallow. Maybe something’s wrong with the steamer? Har gow and 腸粉’s wraps were quite inconsistent. Some are good and some so soft that it would break when picked up. Kinda sad this is what’s it like now… maybe it will get better? Read more

We were craving for king crab dinner as it is in season. We’ve got 7.5 lbs. Cooked in 3 way: steamed with garlic; deep fried peppery salt; baked rice with king crab. Crab was Super delicious and cooked to perfection. we packed half portion of the ... rice to go. Service was very attentive. They kept up with changing our plates very frequently. Read more

At first when we sat at the table it started to feel quite hot so they turned on the A/C in our area which was nice of them to notice. Food is delicious along with great service. They changed their menu a bit.

we came to this Cantonese dim sum restaurant over a decade ago, and today we happened to be in the area, so we decided to have lunch there. We arrived at 11 o'clock, so there were plenty of parking spaces in their basement. The restaurant staff immediately greeted us ... as we walked in. The place was quite large with many seats. We ordered Steamed Crystal Prawns Dumpling, Mini Cuttlefish in Curry Sauce, Shredded Chicken Cold Cut, and BBQ Duck on Thick Rice Noodles in Soup. The curry sauce was very rich with spices,.The roasted duck was quite plentiful ,skin was very crispy. and the rice noodles were chewy. The shredded chicken has a crispy texture when eaten, but the taste is a bit too bland. The shrimp dumpling filling was well-seasoned. During our meal, the servers came to change our plates and checked if we needed to add water to our teapot. I thought their oolong tea was of better quality than many other places, with a clear color and a full fragrance. Overall, it was a pleasant dining experience, but their prices were a bit expensive. Also, it was quite unusual that they had various Japanese sushi and Japanese cuisine on their menu.I might come back to try other dim sum . Read more