Diamond Harbor Seafood Restaurant Review, Foster City
Posted by admin, November 9th, 2008
Diamond Harbor Seafood Restaurant is a new Chinese Cantonese restaurant in Foster City. It took the place of Mr. Fongs Seafood, but has a totally different owner, chef, menu, and improved interior and bathroom! Their dinner menu is significantly more fancy and expensive. This review concentrates on dim sum served only during lunch. They are primarily a cart based dim sum restaurant.
Decor, Vibe - This place is a fairly busy and noisy Chinese restaurant with lots of families and friends eating together. We arrived about noon and found it almost full. Many people expected Mr. Fongs, but decided to stay anyway.You can easily pick out Chinese Cantonese restaurants, as most have tanks of fresh fish, crustaceans.
Menu Pictures
Dim Sum Menu
Picks:
Deep Fried Pork Dumpling ($2.50) - Hot out of the kitchen and steaming hot. Very crunchy and good.
Chicken Feet ($2.50) - Good quantity, not greasy, lots of tender cartilage.
Sesame Balls ($2.50) - Hot, straight out of the fryer. Filling was not too sweet. Pretty good.
Steamed Spare ribs in Black Bean Sauce (pai gwat) ($2.50) - Tender meat but not a lot of flavor. Not too oily or salty.
Sticky Rice Wrapped in Lotus Leaf ($4.30) - The 3 were filled with meat, egg, mushrooms and tasted good.
Shark’s Fin Dumpling in Broth ($6.50) - Had to special order this from the Kitchen. Good broth and tender dumpling. Real shark’s fin!
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Steamed Beef Tripe ($5.80) - Lots of tender chewy beef inards. Not too oily. They initially forgot the dipping sauce, making it pretty bland.
Chinese Broccoli ($5.80) with oyster sauce. Tender but cooked a little too long.
Pans:
Diamond Harbor Seafood Restaurant had service a little above average for a place like this. You have to hunt down the workers for most requests, but they did refill us.
This place is smaller than most, which helps as most dim sum comes out fresh and hot and ’sells out’ quick resulting in good turn over. The downside is that some items on the dim menu have to be ordered. The food quality is similar to Hong Kong Flower Lounge. While the food is solid, they do not have exotic items. Koi Palace and Zen Peninsula have better dim sum and a much wider variety.
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Guide: 0 = poor, 1 = Fair/Average, 2 = Good, 2.5 = Very Good, 3 = Excellent , 4 = Extraordinary
| Alcohol: | Beer, Wine |
| Attire: | Casual |
| Hours: | Mon - Fri 11am-10pm, Sat-Sun-Holidays: 10am - 10pm |
| Parking: | Free Lot |
| Reservations: | Yes |
| Prices: | $2.50 - $40 |
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Diamond Harbor Seafood Restaurant 949A Edgewater Blvd Foster City, CA 94404 650-627-8728 |
Filed under: $$, 2 stars, California, Chinese, Cost, Cuisine, Dine Again?, Go Again, Location, Peninsula, Rating, Restaurant | Tags: dim sum, Foster City, Lunch |
November 19th, 2008 at 4:55 pm
“BIAS” comments from the owner :-):
Thanks for the review. While most of the comments are accurate. I do like to make a couple of corrections:
1. price of the Chicken feet is $2.50, not $5.80;
2. Shark’s Fin Dumpling in Broth, it is 100% shark’s fin, and you won’t find this quality of shark’s fin used in this item at any other restaurant;
3. our Dim Sum chef came RIGHT from “Zen Peninsula”, and we use only top quality ingredients;
4. Hours: Monday - Friday: 11:00 - 10:00, Sat, Sun, Holidays: 10:00 - 10:00
5: Service: November 9 was the second day that we opened for business, thus things were not as smooth as they should be. You will find nothing less than 5-star service now.
6: Exotic Items/Variety: our Dim Sum menu has over 120 items, not to mention our 16-pages main menu, and our 8-pages Specialty menu. Oh, you want exotic, look at the different kinds of live seafood, you’d think you’re visiting the California Academy of Sciences.
Come and enjoy some real authentic Hong Kong style food!