![]() Steamed bun with preserved egg: Though described as savoury this is really dessert-like.Steamed beef ball: There was nothing wrong with this but it didn’t get us too excited.Steamed rice noodle with bbq pork: Just excellent.Chinese lettuce in oyster sauce: Our gesture at healthy eating.Radish cake with assorted preserved meat: A bit much for two people to eat but very tasty with interesting textural contrast.They’re best eaten with the sauce scraped off. Shiumai with truffle sauce: Why they’ve muddied their excellent shiumai with this pointless “truffle sauce”, I don’t know.Shrimp, dried scallop and celery dumpling: Very good indeed.Deep-fried squid: Also excellent and inhaled by the boys.Plump with roe and crisply fried, these little fish are great. Deep-fried smelt: We miss this deeply here in Minnesota and it’s always gratifying to see it on the menu at Sea Harbour.Chicken feet in brown sauce: As good as this dish gets in the US.Minced fish and peanut congee: I think I prefer their dried scallop congee but I had no complaints about this one.BBQ pork buns: a Sea Harbour classic and very good indeed.All of it was nonetheless of a very high quality. We stuck, however, mostly with tried and true favourites-one of which, alas, suffered from some unnecessary fancification since the time we’d last eaten it. The restaurant, as you would imagine, was bustling and there was no sign of a limited weekday service: special dishes were zipping around the dining room. Thankfully, the wait was not too long and we were seated in less than 20 minutes. And there was still a wait with about 15 groups ahead of us. We were not foolhardy enough to try to go to Sea Harbour on Christmas morning (ending up instead at 101 Noodle Express) and so it was on a weekday-a Wednesday, to be precise-when we arrived at Sea Harbour for dim sum. That plan was hijacked by older members of the missus’ family and we ended up instead at Oo-Kook in Koreatown. We’d originally planned to eat at Sea Harbour on the Saturday before Christmas. And Sea Harbour rewarded my confidence: it was a very good meal. There have been some new challengers who’ve opened relatively recently-Longo Seafood is the latest in the San Gabriel Valley-but nothing I’ve read led me to want to go anywhere else for our one dim sum meal on our trip. Along with Elite-or just above it, depending on who you ask-Sea Harbour remains at the top of the San Gabriel Valley dim sum scene. Fortunately, thanks to our recent trip to Los Angeles I’ve also been able to erase the memory of that meal courtesy a dim sum outing to one of the San Gabriel Valley’s finest: Sea Harbour. The shopping center only has valet parking I dislike it but I guess it saves you trying to find parking elsewhere.Thanks to a less than indifferent meal at Yangtze in October I’ve had recent cause to once again deplore the dim sum scene in the Twin Cities. A bit pricey but it was worth it not having drive to Monterey Park. The service was pretty good and the staff were friendly and helpful. The only complaint I have is the radish cake was not hot It probably should have been kept in a cart w warmer. Everything we had was good quality and tasty. Even though the restaurant was relatively empty, they had a good selection of fresh hot dim sum dishes. It was true that they do not (did not) get busy until noon. Seven of us got there around 11 on a Saturday and got seated right away. From the reviews I read, this place seemed authentic without too fancy. ![]() I decided on Palace Seafood instead of the couple of places.
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