James A.
Yelp
This time, the three of us went early for lunch and was able to order from the dim sum menu this time. Some of the dishes were quite good, with large portions, but also having the price to account for it. Don't expect Chinatown or SGV quality or prices.
We came around 11:00, and surprisingly, we were the only customers. The interior is as nice as described before, and the three of us were seated in a booth/chair combination with plenty of space.
All dim sum here are prepared when it is ordered, so preparing might mean just defrosting and steaming it from frozen in most cases. One orders simply from a paper sheet by marking what you want. It will start to arrive as it is prepared, and was inadvertently a nice cadence to we could sample everything as it came. We ended up bringing back about a third of the food homw so we ordered just a little too much for the three of us. Service was excellent throughout, including bringing out sturdy to-go containers for our left overs.
Pork Porridge w preserved duck egg ($14.75) - it's a large bowl, enough to serve 4 people multiple helpings. The pork was barely there, but there was plenty of diced up egg...I like the pungent taste of this playing off of the plain congee, but my companions did not. Definitely not for everyone.
Steamed pork dumplings ($7.95 each) - Got two of this. this is supposed to be a soup dumpling (XLB). There were five pieces, pretty sure it was prepared from frozen, originally made by a machine (the top didn't have any creases and the wrapper was uniform and thick). Not much soup inside, and the little pork ball had little flavor. Definitely skippable.
Shrimp Rice Noodle Roll ($7.95) - one of the best dishes we got. Plenty of plump, well flavored shrimp, surrounded by thick rice noodle sheets, covered in a soy sauce. It needs to be chopped up to be servable, and we did that with our forks.
Shrimp dumpling (HarGow for $7.95 each) - got two of this, and it was good and filling. Three large pieces in each order. It wasn't stuffed with whole shrimp like other places, but instead had a very chunky shrimp mixture that gave it a nice flavor and mouth feel.
House Special Pan Fried Noodle ($16.95) - presented so beautifully, this dish shows that EA Seafood is elevated Chinese cooking. The brown sauce was good, and it was fun cutting the fried noodle with the provided spoon, making sure you got the side pieces that you wanted.
Pineapple Sweet Cream Bun ($7.95) - part of the dim sum menu, it was OK. Tasted like it was prepared from frozen, typical from a Chinese grocery.
I'm sure if we knew what we wanted, we could have asked for a right sauce, but wish they had offered a selection of it. The right sauce would really have elevated some of these dishes.