Golden Paramount Seafood - Richmond

Golden Paramount Seafood Restaurant (I know, the name sounds just like all of the other Chinese restaurants) recently moved from a small strip mall into a brick building next door. The layout and the building itself is a bit confusing as we had a bit of trouble finding the place after parking in the attached parking structure.

[4.5/5]The dim sum here is incredible. The fresh ingredients are treated beautifully and it shows in the flavour. But on fine Cantonese cooking, the texture matters just as much as the flavour, and the dim sum chef has respected such aspect of the craft and created such the textbook-perfect dishes. This is definitely a top 3 dim sum experience for me. I will come back soon to try more dishes, and quite possibly, including the sweet and sour pork that might save us from grieving the closure of Hoitong. I can hardly wait.

It’s Chinese New Year (CNY) a couple of weeks ago, and us Chinese know how to celebrate — eat, feast, and repeat. Of course, there are many regional Chinese New Year traditions throughout China, and being from HK, the HK tradition is what I’m most familiar with. On New Year’s Eve I was invited to a feast with food expert Lee Man, and it just heightened my appreciation for my culture.

After reading Zomato reviewer 'Bellini8383 ' about this restaurant, I took it upon myself to dig deeper into the topic at hand. I actually found out that the boss lady goes to Hong Kong every year and learns new dishes and things. With all the negative reviews and low ratings, I was skeptical to think how could this be? She also won some awards, good enough for me, time to hit it up.<br/ <br/ The exterior needs some work, very ghetto, if not for the reviews, postings, stories and awards, I would have never ventured in. Walking into the bathroom reminded me of the other restaurants I visited, a storage room. The choices of Dim Sum were limited, and not much. There were only 2 other tables with patrons eating besides ours, service better be top notch. When the hours of Dim Sum was coming to an end, we got asked for last call, very rare these days.<br/ <br/ The Dikon Spring Roll was different but it actually was good and tasty, not what I was expecting. The chicken feet was soggy, the pan fried Water chestnut jelly was just one of the Water chestnut jellies you can buy at a bakery and they just flip upside down and fried, the crab dumplings taste exactly like my mom 's steamed 'Gok Jai ' with some crab in it, which I eat all the time. Just it 's strange as I never seen any Dim Sum places sell 'Gok Jai '. I told my mom I paid $5 for three of them, she almost pooped her pants, okay she didn 't but she said that was and absurd price. I told her she can charge that much because I 've never seen anyone sell 'gok Jai '.<br/ <br/ I wouldn 't go back a second time even though things were good. Besides, I try to go to different places on my list of places to go... this must visit restaurant list doesn 't seem to end.

The service is simply the worst here. Don't expect any smiles going around with staff, and becauce of the high level of patrons, they always hurry the guests to finish their meals and get the cheque. Aside from the lousy service, the food itself is delicious. I guess good food doesn't always come with good service and you always see repeat patrons (like myself). Besides their award winning dumplings, I would recommend their pan fried oysters with soy sauce, lotus leaf wrapped in the shape of a interesting looking hat that is filled w/ glutenous rice, cuts of shrimp, scallops, chesnut (you must order this one in advance), the deep fried beancurd w/ enoki and shitake in a sweet glaze and their complimentary red bean soup and home made almond and coconut cookies.