Delicious Chinese seafood restaurant | Beverly Hills

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When South Western Sydney residents crave “juicy Chinese food” (IYKYK!), they head to Beverly Hills and opt for the many Cantonese restaurants dotted on both sides of busy King George Road.

It’s 6:00 pm on Sunday and we’re shown to our reserved table at Yummy Seafood Chinese Restaurant. But not before we take a look at tank after tank of lobsters, crabs, fish and abalone that could soon be dinner. From the very beginning you understand that this is a favorite place among the locals: Chinese families soon fill the spacious restaurant. Lazy Susans, laden with garlic butter crab, steamed whole fish, heaps of noodles and stir-fried Asian greens, are giddy with anticipation.

Jasmine tea, hot and fragrant, is served with complimentary salted peanuts, which we nibble on as we peruse the menu. Yes, plural. There’s a seasonal menu with chef’s offerings ranging from pigeon to Peking duck, a regular menu with all your traditional Chinese dishes and, as we learn later, a separate menu just for Cantonese cuisine with offal, dried seafood and fermented foods.

Chopsticks at the ready, we treat ourselves to the first course: pipis in XO sauce, which can be ordered by weight. Our waiter offers to order a portion of fried noodles to go with it, and we agree. The pipi are on the right chewy side and the sauce seeps into the noodles over time, turning them from crunchy to delicious. The portion is so huge that we find it difficult to polish it off.

Next comes the har gou and those plump shrimp dumplings disappear in the blink of an eye. Wasabi beef is also a hit. The beef pieces are velvety, giving them a melt-in-your-mouth softness, and the wasabi sauce adds a spicy kick. We eat it with a serving of fried rice, which is your standard broth, and a bowl of fried king prawns in honey sauce. The latter, which we expected to be a crowd pleaser, contains too much dough and is too sweet for our taste.

The table next to us is occupied by a mud crab. Employees removed one from the tank and brought it to the table for inspection. It becomes completely transparent and is sent for cooking. Live seafood, especially crustaceans, is expensive, so be sure to check prices and seasonality. Note: Congee is served after 21:00 (yes, the restaurant is open until 1:30 every day), but not for lunch.

The service is excellent: fast, helpful and polite without being intrusive. The portions are huge, so come with a hearty appetite. We’re stuffed to capacity by now, but there’s still room for some free fortune cookies. On mine it says: Fortune smiled on you. Really.

As Shakespeare asked Romeo and Juliet“What’s in a name?” Luckily, Yummy Seafood Chinese Restaurant lives up to its name. Delicious? Check mark. Seafood? Check mark! Chinese? Check mark!!

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