Restaurant: World Seafood Restaurant [1, 2]
Location: 1412 S Garfield Ave. Alhambra, CA 91801. (626) 282-3888
Date: August 13, 2017
Cuisine: Cantonese Chinese
Rating: Great Cantonese banquet
I last went to World Seafood almost 2 years ago (for dim sum) and being that Cantonese Restaurants are basically two in one (dim sum and dinner) I was psyched to try it with master orderer Tony Lao for dinner.
Typical big Cantonese house outside.
Inside a touch of new color encircles the giant Chinese-style banquet hall.
But tonight we had one of the private rooms — all the better.
There was a ton of wine, but I’m not cataloging it because I tragically had a weird camera malfunction and most of the photos are from Yarom’s phone — yes, these are not my photos, and so not as sharp — but they will do.
Boiled peanuts to start.
Fungus with chili oil. Super delicious and great texture.
The white boiled chicken feet. I never try these, too gelatinous.
Sautéed geoduck clam with snap peas and fungus.
And look, they individually plated it (like most of the dishes). Incredible. Tony gets that to happen fairly often but I’ve never had it with anyone else at the ordering helm. This was the best geoduck ever. Super tender, not over cooked, with a lovely chewy flavor.
Giant prawns. In a sort of sweet garlic sauce or something. Delicious too and you pretty much had to eat the shell.
Working the wine.
Fried geoduck. Like the best fried clams you’ve ever had. Seriously like New England clam strips. Fried with garlic.
Suckling pig. Excellent! Very tender and totally deboned.
Some of the extra (less attractive but just as tasty) meat came as a separate dish.
Some more something (more clam?) fried in the heavy egg yolk fry. I don’t love this salty rich type of batter.
Turtle soup. On request, even though it was summer, they served us up this delicious consommé of turtle.
I guess that is turtle meat.
Lettuce cups with chicken. Specially made with chicken on request. Might have had more flavor with pork, but the texture was excellent.
Individually plated again.
Special stuffed duck. Stuffed with rice and chestnuts and I don’t know what other goodies. Tasted very soft and delicious. A little like Budha’s chicken.
Special lamb chops. We almost didn’t get these but they were amazingly flavorful.
Close up, individually plated.
String beans and pork. Nice version of the dish.
Yin Yang fried rice. This is a great dish, although in this version the red porky side was a bit too sweet. The white side is shrimp.
In the bowl.
Walnut and black sesame mochi ball soup. Strange Chinese dessert.
John and I went out for some “coffee” — if you can call this boba cookies and cream ice blended coffee — more like a milk shake.
Overall, World Seafood served up some really excellent Chinese banquet fare, and service was fantastic. Individual plating! We had some different things and they were nearly all perfectly prepared. I love this kind of dinner.