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| - I went to a Chinese wedding banquet recently and it was at The Golden Palace Banquet Hall. The dinner was a 10 course meal. Some items were excellent, some were not that great, and some were so-so.
What I really liked was that the servers serve you your portion from the big platter, and they evenly distribute everything. As opposed to plopping the platter down and everyone serves themselves. In this latter scenario, the aggressive gluttons at the table get all the good stuff and the shy and meek ones end up just eating onions and garnishes. Thank you Golden Palace servers for making life a little more fair.
Since I have limited characters for this review and readers likely have limited attention spans, I'll just summarize what I had and my impressions.
1. Suckling pig and jelly fish. This pig needed to lift some weights because it was just skin and fat. Where's the meat? Skin was crispy and flavourful, I'll give it that much. Was my first time eating jelly fish. I found the texture strange, but not unpleasant.
2. Deep-fried minced shrimp around a crab claw covered in vermicelli bits. Fantastic! Crispy and flavourful. I could have eaten 10 of them.
3. Shrimps and scallops stir-fry. Delicious. Shrimps and scallops were big. Snap peas were crunchy and sweet. Loved this course.
4. Crab soup. Meh. Weird texture.
5. Abalone, shitake mushrooms and greens. This luxury is wasted on me. Abalone tastes to me like a fishy mushroom.
6. Some sort of bird, which I later discovered was squab (after posting the picture on Yelp, thanks Yelpy friends Karen K and Wei C for identifying the mystery fowl). Too gamey and fatty for my tastes. The worse course of the 10 in my opinion.
7. Some sort of steamed fish. Nothing to write home about.
8. Deep-fried lobster. Lobster anything is delicious in my books, so naturally I loved this.
9. Yeung Chow fried rice and noodles with straw mushrooms. Rice was a bit on the dry side. Noodles were good. I love straw mushrooms!
10. Mango pudding, some sort of pastry, and a dessert bean soup. Mango pudding was delicious. Full of real mango flavour. Pastry was too oily. Bean soup was acceptable.
There you go friends, my synopsis of the 10-course meal.
They are also famous for dim sum, which we had the morning after the wedding with the bride's parents. The dim sum was good. I liked the spinach dumplings with shrimp, the shrimp rice rolls and the BBQ pork buns. They don't push the carts around, you order from a menu.
The restaurant is in First Markham Place. There's lots of free parking.
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