Fook Yuen Seafood Restaurant

Dear Friends and Family,

You guessed it. More Chinese food. We called Mr. mouse's dad for a dim sum recommendation. We're staying right by SFO and wanted something close by. Fook Yuen is located off of the Millbrae Avenue exit on the 101. There's a parking lot located right next to the restaurant and when we arrived at 11:30, there was no wait to get seated.

Instead of using the usual rolling carts, the dim sum is brought around on trays which is surprisingly more efficient than carts. We got our usual har gow (aka har gao aka shrimp dumpling), lo bak go (turnip cake), fung zao (chicken feet), paigu (pork spareribs), congee (rice porridge), har cheong (shrimp wrapped in rice noodle rolls), cheong fun (stir fried rice noodle rolls) and potstickers. There's a ton of other dishes we usually get, but dim sum is always expensive (Weight Watchers points-wise) so we went easy on it.

The quality of the dishes was good. I'd say very good compared to the Midwest, but what you'd expect in Northern California. A couple of the dishes were a little cold by the time they got to us, which was disappointing. But, they did a nice job with the shrimp dishes and the potstickers, so we left happy and full.

They had a couple of more esoteric dishes, not weird dishes, but dishes that some restaurants don't always carry. We don't normally get the cheong fun, but since it was available, we decided to partake. And, it was worth it. How do I count the points for dim sum? It's a complete guess on my part:

• 3 pts 1.5 har cheong
• 2 pts 0.5 oz pork spareribs
• 3 pts 1.0 oz cheong fun
• 2 pts 1 potsticker
• 4 pts 1/2 large bowl of congee
• 2 pts 2 har gow
• 2 pts 2 chicken's feet

18 points for brunch. Ouch! But, it's not often we get real dim sum, so it was worth it.

Overall rating: 6/10

Fook Yuen Seafood Restaurant
195 El Camino Real
Millbrae, CA 94030
(650) 692-8600


Cheers!
mouse