Kirin Seafood Restaurant is a high end Cantonese restaurant located in metro Vancouver region in Canada. It has multiple locations just within metro Vancouver including Vancouver downtown and Richmond. The restaurant is known to provide amazing Cantonese Dim Sum dishes. Since we were visiting Vancouver, this was a must go place for us.
We went to the Kirin Seafood Restaurant located at Richmond. There is a parking garage right beside the restaurant but it is a paid parking. Since we were customers to Kirin Seafood Restaurant, we did not have to pay the parking ticket. We simply just had to register our vehicle at the front desk at the restaurant.
The restaurant opens at 10AM and when we got there at 9:45AM, there was already a long line in front of the door. The line was not formed properly with people cutting through from everywhere. It was very unorganized and we hope that the restaurant can do a better job on this in the future. When the restaurant opened, people were rushing in and the manager was telling people that they did not have any table for people who did not have reservation. We did not have reservation but we walked up and asked anyway. The manager told us that if we can finish within 1 hour, she could give us a table. We gladly took the table since we did not plan to stay for long because we still had to drive back to Portland.
We sat down and ordered a pot of Jasmine Tea. Then we placed our order with the server. In general, we ordered, Siu Mak, Shrimp Dumpling, Chicken Sticky Rice, Sweet Custard Bun, Crispy Rice Roll, and Orange Beef Rice Roll. This did not seem a lot but we were quite full at the end.
Siu Mak and Shrimp Dumpling came very quickly as they are popular dish. Kirin Seafood Restaurant did not disappoint. Both Siu Mak and Shrimp Dumplings were huge. Siu Mak came with many ingredients with even a little of caviar roe on top. The pork meat in Siu Mak was very juicy. Shrimp Dumplings were quite large and completely filled with shrimps in there. We really loved it.
Chicken Sticky Rice came right after. The size of Chicken Sticky Rice was smaller than what we were expecting. It was about half of the size of a regular Chicken Sticky Rice that other restaurants offer. Nevertheless, it still tasted really good and we appreciated that they did not put small shrimps in there.
The Sweet Custard Bun was quite special. The bun had block color with golden stripes on top of it. As we bite into the bun, the hot creamy custard was popping out. It was very amazing.
The Crispy Rice Roll and Orange Beef Rice Roll came last. These rice rolls also came with special sauce to put on top of the dish. We loved the crispiness of the Crispy Rice Roll. It has a lot of texture as we bit into it. We did not like the Orange Beef Rice Roll as much. It just did not fit our taste. It had a bit of pickled orange taste in the beef which we did not like.
Overall, Kirin Seafood Restaurant did not disappoint. We really enjoyed the food there. One thing that we will do next time is to make reservation before we go. So that we will not have to line up with all these people.
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