Restaurant: Sea Harbor Seafood Restaurant [1, 2]
Location: 3939 Rosemead Blvd. Rosemead, CA 91770. (626) 288-3939
Date: February 12, 2024
Cuisine: Cantonese
Rating: Good, but very expensive
After many many dim sum visits to this SGV Cantonese classic I finally make it for dinner banquet — and this time on Chinese New Year.
I think Sea Harbor has been around for a long time and is one of the mainstays.
The interior is pretty typical.
The private room at Sea Harbor. I have been here countless times for dim sum but not for dinner in a long time.
Eve brought a huge amount of caviar — salt all night!
Peanuts.
Celery or asparagus with truffle. A bit truffle oily but the vegies had a nice crunch.
Fried squid. Salty and good.
Fried tofu with chilies.
Pig Trotter “Salad.” Nice flavor actually. Lots of ginger.
Geoduck (I think) salad. Great crunchy and strong (onion) flavor. I had a couple helpings of this as it seemed very fresh.
Fried Geoduck. Excellent fry. Super crunchy and chewy with a lovely flavor. Very salty.
Roast quail/pigeon. Very good version of this dish.
Shiitake and abalone in brown sauce. I’m not sure I prefer those so “straight up.”
Soup. One of those “all ingredients” brown soups.
Steamed crab. Good, but I prefer it with the garlic.
Typhoon style crab body. Very tasty fry.
Crab custard.
Fish head.
He’s looking at you!
Greens. Straight up.
Fish meat. Tasty and not too many bones.
Almond cookies for New Year.
Sweet soup.
Eve brought Basque Cheesecake.
Then covered it in caviar.
And lime zest.
It was really quite good this way. The zest really kicked it up.
Strawberry Jam Gelato.
Awesome wines.
This was a super fun dinner. Wines and company were amazing. Food was very good, if just a hair “staid” in certain ways. Mostly it was just that the price ($470 all in) was pretty outrageous. Sure it had a lot of luxury ingredients but it should have been more like $300.