Capital Seafood is an authentic Chinese restaurant located in Irvine along Jamboree street. In the morning, it offers Cantonese styled Dim Sum dishes and at night it offers traditional Chinese seafood dishes. The restaurant is located in the plaza that has many other Asian restaurants.
Initially, we were just at the plaza to purchase some bread for breakfast, but we happened to tumble across Capital Seafood and wondered why it opened so early. We figured that it must be serving Dim Sum in the early morning and thus we decided to give it a try since we haven't had Dim Sum for a while.
We went in and the restaurant was about half full. We were led to the table and chose to get a pot of Jasmin Tea. Right after we sat down, many Dim Sum cart were brought to our table to allow us to pick the Dim Sum dishes that we would like to have. We have been to many Dim Sum restaurants and we could tell that Capital Seafood restaurant does not do Dim Sum as its main business because the Dim Sum dishes that are being served are very limited.
We picked the usual Dim Sum dishes to see how it is. The shrimp dumping is gigantic! The shrimp dumpling served at Capital Seafood is twice as large as the one served in other places! The dumpling was filled with lot of shrimp! Although the dumping is big and filled with lot of shrimp, the taste of the dumpling isn't that great. The skin of the dumpling was falling off and hard to use chopstick to grab it since it is so big!
Siu Mak was huge too! We were shocked when we saw it! Siu Mak has a pretty good taste. It was still juicy inside and has chewy texture!
When we got our bill, we were shocked to see how much each Dim Sum dish cost. The cheapest one was $4! This could possibly due to the large dumping.
Overall, we think it is a bit too pricy for a Dim Sum place and may not go again if we don't have to.
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