Howong Seafood Restaurant
Howong Seafood Restaurant
Takes Reservations: Yes
Delivery: Yes
Take-out: Yes
Accepts Credit Cards: Yes
Bike Parking: Yes
Good for Kids: Yes
Good for Groups: Yes
Has TV: Yes
Waiter Service: Yes
Caters: Yes
PokéStop Nearby: Yes
Price range.
$$ Price range $11-30
6 reviews
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I came here for dim sum on a Sunday and they were pretty packed. There are two floors and we ended up sitting on the second floor because the first floor was full and the second floor had plenty of tables available.
I have to say the dim sum was pretty terrible. It's bad enough that we were seated on the second floor because the food doesn't come to the second floor often enough and it lacked variety. There wasn't much to eat.
The turnip cake was super oily. The shrimp rice roll was so thick. The chicken feet were bland. After ordering a few dishes we had enough. I don't recommend this place for dim sum. I don't know how good their dinner is. Could be better or worse.
I love this place. But I've never eaten the restaurant's food alone. Let me explain.
Howong Seafood is great for large party dinners and they are one of the few restaurants that allows you to bring in your own seafood.
So for a few company parties, my coworkers bought fresh seafood from 8th avenue Chinatown.
The restaurant will clean and cook the seafood for you. To compensate them for using their kitchen and chef, we had to order 5-7 large restaurant dishes plus pay a large tip.
FOOD
All of the food was delicious, fresh and amazing.
We've had the gigantic steamed oysters with XO sauce, Cantonese style lobsters, Alaskan King crab legs, and Alaskan king crab head cooked with glass noodles. We devoured crispy creamy Mayo shrimp with crunchy walnuts, crispy Cantonese fried chicken, sautéed spare ribs with bean curd, and wok fried tender beef cubes with pepper and onions. We picked at the steamed Shanghai bok choy with pork bones.
On another occasion we had the steamed steamed Dungeness crab, scallops on a shell, salmon sashimi, sashimi Geoduck, steamed oysters with black bean sauce, Cantonese fried lobster, and sweet and sour pork chops.
All the dishes were delicious. My favorites were the Alaskan King Crab and steamed oyster. The Alaskan King crab head was so sweet and briny and the al dente glass noodles soaked up all the crab juices. I loved it. So did the 7 year old next to me that was licking her plate.
I am a huge fan of the steamed King crab legs in garlic sauce. They taste so soft, sweet and tender compared to the frozen rubbery King Crab legs from the AYCE buffets.
And the plump meaty steamed oysters with black bean sauce was wonderful. I had mine and was greedily eyeing a leftover oyster.
Some of these dishes were some of the best Chinese banquet style seafood dishes that I've ever had.
Service was the best that I've ever had in a Chinese restaurant. The servers gave us individual plates for all the lobster and scallop shells. They changed the plates very frequently and gave us warm hand towels to wipe our hands. There was no attitude. Probably because we were such a large party.
I would definitely come back under these circumstances.
Dim sum portions were so BIG! The ha gow and siu mai looked like they were on steroids. I didnt like the rice noodles that much. They were so thick. Like all chinese resturants, it;s jsut your standard dim sum place. My family was able to get a table for 9 at their busiest time of the morning. There's two floors.
Warning: bathroom was very dirty and no toilet paper.
Decent dim sum at this restaurant. We went in early Sunday morning in a large group. I believe we chose this restaurant because it was close and it's a large enough restaurant to accommodate our large group of people. Quality of food was good. Portion size was good. But I think I only saw maybe 3 or 4 different types of carts. I haven't been to dim sum in awhile and was hoping I could order a larger variety but I had trouble remembering what else I used to eat when growing up because I didn't have anything to look at to jog my memory. Overall it was a good place for a quick dim sum fix.
This restaurants been in the area for many years. The food is pretty decent.. Better than most chinese restaurants around the area. Some places are way too oily or gives u really little portion. My fam order take out for dinner from here every now and then. Their salt and pepper fried pork chop is very good.. Nice batter and crispy. The shrimp walnuts w broccoli is good, "bah wong" chicken is also good. Ive had their dim sum a few times and i think it was decent.
Like most Chinese-owned businesses, restaurants like these are able to run for long periods of time because of the fluctuation of Chinese immigrants in the neighborhoods. This place is just one of them…. so this doesn't exactly call for a dining experience thats sure to WOW you, nor does it call for a meal that'll have you begging to come back next time- but food is authentic. If you're looking for cheaply priced dim sum and subpar service on a Saturday morning with family, feel free to stop by- just don't expect anything extraordinary.