Royale Fine Dining

Came for dinner on a Sunday night and there were several private parties and a wedding banquet going on. Great place for large groups. Portions are huge, great presentation and service. Lobster was huge and tasty. Are other dishes didn't disappoint...had fish, tofu, peking duck. Dessert came with the red bean and got mango pudding and almond cookies.

Having been to Royale Fine Dining for dim sum, we decided to return for dinner, when the restaurant wouldn’t be as hectic and cramped. As part of their set menus, there was one fit for 10 people for $688, inclusive of taxes and gratuities. Half a suckling pig started the meal, the thin crispy well rendered skin the traditional first bite of most banquets. The pork was well flavoured and the accompanying cold crunchy jelly fish and sweet seaweed salad a nice compliment to the warm pork. The plump prawns were cooked well, just oddly presented with a limp vegetable skewered through it. I enjoyed the crisp broccoli florets and sweet straw mushrooms piled in the middle, with a light hint of ginger permeating throughout. After two good starters, the following dishes started to take a downhill plunge. The shark fin soup with shredded crab and preserved ham was

Of course, they offer the traditional dishes: steamed pork siu mai (L) and shrimp har gow dumplings (L). The fish roe on the siu mai adds an essence I’m not crazy about, but the pork mixture is delicious with shrimp and straw mushrooms mixed in. The har gow is brimming with shrimp and well-seasoned, although it doesn’t contain the fish maw (the dehydrated air bladder of a fish) listed in the description. Other steamed dumplings I’ve had include a crab meat and egg white (L) and steamed stingray shaped dumplings filled with shrimp and fish (L). Both are beautifully presented, but the crab meat one is rather bland. Although the beady eyes are slightly creepy,

Royale Fine Dinning and Banquet. Terrible service, quality and waiters (Cindy) lazy and rude !!!

Since the space used to be a big buffet, the area is massive for a Chinese restaurant. My family and I tried out this restaurant for the first time and here’s what we ordered: