Pacific Lighthouse

Overlooking the water, this spacious Chinese eatery specializes in dim sum & seafood dishes.

This was our first time here for dinner service on Chinese New Year Eve. It was quite an uncomfortable experience. I wonder if it’s because my family and I are not native Mandarin or Cantonese speaking. My party of 6 adults and 1 baby were not greeted upon entering the restaurant, so we decided to take a seat at an unreserved window table. Upon seeing us after we were clearly settled in, we were asked to move to an undesirable table although we were one of only 3 parties in the entire establishment. Thankfully we did not have to. After the host and servers finally realized we were here for dinner, we only received the banquet menu ($600+, 10 course set meal per table), which is obviously way too much food for our party. We had to ask two different employees before we were able to get a standard dinner menu. After ordering, the meal service went smoothly enough. The servers and host assigned to our table were kind enough. Unfortunately we ended on a sour note as the cashier visibly threw her head back and rolled her eyes as we asked for an itemized receipt for our dinner (isn’t this standard?).

Pros: standard banquet hall style food, lots of seating, easy parking Cons: some employees’ attitudes can really dampen what was supposed to be a good time, which IMO is more important than the food on certain occasions.

Should never have carpet in a restaurant, desperately needs to be removed- it's beyond cleaning. You order by filling in an order menu sheet yourself. Somehow they managed to miss about 4 dishes we picked (all small plates). So we got about 75% of what we ordered. Turned out it was enough food anyways, so we didn't bother to say anything and just made sure we were only charged for what we got.

Overall prices and qualities of the dim sum are acceptable. The best rate dim sum is Deep Fried Shrimp dumplings (actually bean curd wrapper). Avoid any steamed buns except the Black egg yolk buns which is the best of the best among the steamed dim sum.