Chef Tony Seafood Restaurant - Richmond

I came for dim sum with my family during covid and felt pretty safe with their protocols. We ordered most of their signature dishes truffle chicken, truffle siu mai, the salted egg yolk buns and some classic dishes like the shrimp rice rolls, ha gao, etc.<br/ <br/ The truffle chicken was very interesting and the truffle flavour is strong so if you like truffle, you should try it! Needless to say, I think they use more truffle oil than actual truffle.<br/ <br/ Prices are higher than your average dim sum place but everything was above average. I recommend coming here to try some innovative fusion dishes instead of ordering the basics/classics that you can get at any other dim sum restaurant.<br/ <br/ More on my blog: [hidden link]

The dim sum at Chef Tony was fantastic. All the dishes tasted deserved a round of applause for the creativity. While some of the dishes are elevated in taste or presentation, I really hope they could have kept some of the old traditions, such as the old-school bamboo steamers. It is great to see Cantonese cuisine flourish in China with such greatly improved quality. And I’m glad this phenomenon is being reflected in Greater Vancouver. After all, here we have the best Cantonese food outside of Asia. For people who have only tried old school Hong Kong-style dim sum, it’s worth checking out the innovated dishes at Chef Tony. I would also like to come back to check out their dishes.

Chef Tong Seafood Restaurant is located on No. 3 Rd Richmond. It has been popular for a while. The same as many other Chinese restaurants in Richmond. This restaurant opens twice per day and between 3 pm – 5 pm the restaurant closes. It serves Dim Sum in the morning and seafood in the afternoon. At the early year, dad’s friends invite me and my fiance to go to this place to have a try. We had such a great experience at this restaurant.<br/ <br/ Environment: Chef Tong Seafood is on 4600 No.3Rd #101, Richmond. The location is in between of Lansdowne Station and Aberdeen Station. Between these two stations, there are so many Chinese restaurants. Chef Tong Seafood is one of them. It’s very surprising to me that Chef Tong is one of the most popular ones. Since so many restaurants around, it’s easy to find the parking around the restaurant. We arrived at Chef Tong around 10:30 when it just opened. It was already a huge lineup outside the door. After waiting about 15 – 20 mins, we finally got into the door. Inside the restaurant, it’s all traditional Chinese Restaurant settings, nice and warm.<br/ <br/ Service: Once we sat down, the servers brought us the menu to take a look. At the same time. They served us tea and hot water.<br/ <br/ Food: There are five of us. We have ordered lots of food for brunch. All the food came out of the kitchen one by one. They are all in great quality and fresh. Most importantly, they are tasted delicious. We had Deep-fried Chinese donut 3.00, Shrimp and matsutake dumplings 6.88, Ground beef ball 6.88, Choy sum and preserved vegetable in brine 10.95, Steamed bun filled with salty egg yolk lave 8.28, Baked barbequed pork buns 6.38, Baked barbequed pork buns 6.38, seafood sauce bean curd 6.88, small ribs with black beans 6.88, Marinated Chicken Trimmed with radish, red onion, and pickles 24.80/half, and etc.<br/ <br/ Final Thoughts: The food in Chef Tony has great quality and representation. Highly recommend people to have a try. I heard they will open another location in Metrotown. Definitely, we will go there when it opens.

Chef Tony is one of the best dim sum places in Richmond. Plenty dishes to select from in which some of them are quite unique compared to typical dim sum restaurant. <br/ <br/ The portions are standard, but the flavours are there! Love their food that’s for sure.<br/ <br/ The place is quite famous and was often visited by famous singers and stars from Asia. Attentive service by friendly servers.<br/ <br/ Highly recommended!

Delicious dinner. Most dishes were great, but the deep fried oysters and the stir fried milk seems a bit too oily. However the restaurant is definitely overpriced. They charged $90 for a big bowl of duck soup.