Golden Lake Seafood Restaurant 湖濱海鮮酒家

Golden Lake Seafood Restaurant 湖濱海鮮酒家

On our way home from Whistler, my dad wanted to have some dimsum for lunch. A four day fast from Chinese food is too much for him, haha! Family friends have mentioned Golden Lake Seafood Restaurant and it required no detours to get to, so we gave it a try.

The larger seating section of the restaurant

By the way, if I remember correctly, all orders placed before 11am get 20 or 30 percent off the final check. We juuuuuust missed it...:(

Sneak Peak of Menu

The menu is quite vast compared to our local dimsum restaurant. But since it's a 'fancier' dimsum restaurant, items are categorized into small, medium, large, and specialty prices. And most of the time, there are barely any small items. So expect to pay at least $4 per item. There are larger dishes like noodles and fried rice on the backside.

Dimsum at Golden Lake Seafood Restaurant

1 -Eggplant stuffed with shrimp paste ($4.50)

The eggplant pieces were fairly large and served very hot. Pretty good. The black bean sauce was slightly on the bland side though.

2 - Beef rice roll ($4.50)
Standard rice roll. The beef is the same as the beef balls; not 100% beef but mixed with fish paste.

3 - Chicken and Chinese sausage rice casserole & Beef short rib rice casserole ($5.95 each)
Rice is not cooked in the hotpot so no crispy rice at the bottom :( There are more bones than meat in both casseroles. Not the best we've had. Only good aspects were that there was a lot of rice and I liked eating the broccoli.

4 - Chiu Chow dumplings ($3.95) (they spell 'Chiu Chow' really funny on the menu but I don't remember what it was...)
One of my favourite dishes to have, and not every restaurant serves it. Plus, it's usually cheaper because it's a 'medium' item. :D Golden Lake's has a good amount of peanuts (yay!) and radish. The skin was slightly dry on the outside since it was pretty thick. Other than the skin, the filling was good. The best I've had was at Po King in Burnaby, but it's closed now *teartear*

5 - Beef ball ($3.95)
Pretty large, tastes very standard. Not too 'fish-pastey', which is good.

6 - Beef tendon ($4.50)
Cooked until very soft and the sauce has a good level of spiciness. There are a lot of large pieces that are good to eat. Just a little oily like all beef tendon dimsum out there.

All the dishes we tried were very standard. Not special or different enough to be worth the higher dimsum price. There is also a charge for tea per person ($0.80 per head). Charging higher prices just for gold-fabric-covered chairs ain't gonna cut it at a Chinese restaurant. There is very limited parking so be prepared to try and find some street parking around the area. We were lucky enough to nab a spot right as we arrived. Inside the restaurant is pretty small, so expect to wait for a table during peak hours. Overall, our experience wasn't disappointing, but not amazing enough to have a reason to purposely come back. 


 
Love from Coconut Crumpet's Corner ♡