Golden Bay Banquet

Authentic Cantonese food. Delicious 😋

It’s been ages since we’ve been here when it was King Kong. It isn’t as buzzing as before and in fact they’re much quieter.

But that’s perfect for us, came in for a late lunch on a Saturday and there were only a couple other tables. So we got seated and served right away! Can’t find that at most good dim sum joints.

Got the e-noodles with seafood in XO sauce as the main dish, and some dim sum dishes like the shrimp dumplings, durian puff, bean curd wrap etc. All came out quickly and were very good!

Parking is tricky as there’s only the front lot on this stretch of the street. So at peak hours you might have to park a couple blocks away or in the nearby neighborhood. Still a good option and we’ll come back soon!

This restaurant replaced King Kong. I came here for dinner and got 5 dishes. The total came out to be around ~120 which is quite expensive for the quality I ate. They renovated the restaurant so it looks nicer than before.

I was a bit skeptical about stopping by this spot because of the connotation of King Kong dim sum (the business that golden bay banquet took over). As I didn't have a good experience. But to my great surprise, the food has improved so much and from my understanding, they have another location in union city!

For the price and flavor of the food, I'd definitely recommend stopping by. However, if you are looking for new and modern dim sum dishes I wouldn't say that golden bay would provide that experience. They have more of the old and traditional dishes.

Some of my favorite items and highly recommend yall to order would be:
- deep fried taro root (not vegetarian - has pork intermixed)
- pan fried leek gor
- baked durian puff (i really appreciate this spot's version bc usually it has a small lingering taste of bitterness at other spots but this spot is fireee)

tips:
- VERY limited parking so be prepared for street parking on the busy E14th street or on the side parking inside the neighborhood areas
- relatively quick service id say but at the same time your ordering would be through a wipable menu with an expo marker

Great selection of traditional Cantonese afternoon dimsum. Like its predecessor, Golden Bay offers roast goose ($45 for one whole order), which is basically like Chinese roasted duck, but coming in at twice the mass. One neat thing is for some tea orders (the tea fee), your table gets a Chiu Jao (潮州) method of tea service. Boiling water is poured into the kettle with a leaf strainer. Immediately, the newly brewed tea is poured into a glass decanter for serving. A table drainpot is on hand for spills. The only downside are that the cups are tiny.