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I Do, Let’s Eat! Kirin Mandarin Restaurant

written by John Chow on September 2nd, 2007

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The evening dinner reception for my cousin’s wedding was held at Kirin Mandarin Restaurant at the Three West Centre in the heart of Richmond. The entire 350 seat restaurant was booked out for this event.

If you have ever been to a Chinese wedding banquet then you know they are a big deal. I think Chinese wedding banquets ranks near the top of the most expensive list. Dinner cost $548.00 per table of 10 (there was 32 table plus the head wedding table) and I haven’t even added tax, tips and drinks yet. Expensive yes, but you only get married once. At least you hope so!

The twelve course dinner menu was fit for royalty. The service at Kirin was top class. They’ve changed our plate after every course. The menu consisted of the following:

  • Kirin Special Platter with Roasted Pig
  • Geoduck Sautéed with Prawn and Chicken
  • Deep Fried Crab Claw Wrapped with Minced Prawn
  • Shark Fin with Crab Meat and Fish Maw Soup
  • Live Lobster in Consommé with Light Ginger and Green Onion
  • Sliced Abalone Braised with Chinese Mushroom and Selected Vegetable
  • Steamed Live Rock Cod
  • Crispy Skin Chicken
  • Kirin Special Fried Rice
  • Stewed E-Fu Noodle with Tender Scallion in Abalone Sauce
  • Two Kinds of Dim Sum Dessert
  • Chef’s Special Sweetened Soup

Enjoy the pictures. Hope it doesn’t make you too hungry.

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  1. Mmmm…I love banquet food although last time I went, Kirin’s shark fin soup wasn’t particularly impressive.

  2. Gotta love Asian weddings! Invite as many people as possible, and serve them the best food as possible and as much of it as possible. :mrgreen:

  3. Almost all Chinese wedding food menu is the same!

  4. those purple squares look good for some reason

  5. Geoduck Sautéed with Prawn and Chicken
    YUMMY! :p

  6. It is 8-10 course per table in M’sia and S’pore. It is rare or never heard of to have 12 course here.
    The pictures are very nice!

    • Personally I can only stomach 4 or 5 courses – especially after all the alcohol that flows at weddings – too much to drink and too much to eat followed by drunken dancing are not good combinations! :lol:

  7. dude, where did you put all that food???

  8. To be able to afford laying on a spread like that you need to be a dot com mogul – oh hang on!

    It’s a good job earnings are up! :lol:

    • Haha, I think John makes more than enough =]

    • Oh John hasn’t yet seen banquets of Albanians, where they spend nearly 10k Euro and the medium payee is around 250 euro a month…now thats what i call “stupid expensive”.

      One thing i like, both chinese and albanians attend 300+ people during the evening banquete, but what i can’t understand is that albanians are couple millions while chinese are couple billions :P

      • Unfortunately there are too many idiots in this world who spends excessive amounts of money on needless things (many celebrities for example). While I am all for spending a lot to have a good once in a lifetime wedding, I wouldn’t spend a ton for no reason.

      • Wow – that is a lot of cash. What kind of food is traditionally Albanian? There must be some rich grooms in Albania to be able to afford that kind of outlay.

  9. somedudewhoquitbloggingbecauseofgooglesinterference

    That third picture is just scary John. Don’t drop it while you eat or it may snip something important!

  10. malaysia have all the foods,
    juzt vacate it
    come here,Malaysia,Malacca
    http://doubleuisw.blogspot.com

  11. The noodles look pretty tasty :wink: and that desert looks good as well.

  12. bob

    Yummy..the crispy roast pork is my favorite!!

  13. Can I get discounts from restaurant.com?

  14. It looks great John!

    I’ve also been to a few Chinese weddings and they both had a 10 course meal!

    I love Chinese Weddings!

    Regards,
    Carlo

  15. Love your site. Love the food as well. Yum.

  16. It’s interesting to know that the chinese wedding banquet in Vancover is very similar(price & menu) to those found here in Singapore.

  17. just looking at the food makes me wanna go to a chinese restaurant right now!! :razz:

  18. It’s definitely not free food.

    They invite almost any distance relative. Even if you decline, you are expected to pay $35-$50 USD. Attending one, cost at least $100 USD pp. More if you are closer to the bride/groom $500-$5,000+++ pp

    In Chinese banquet, the whole purpose for the dinner banquet is to MAKE money (and receive jewelry). They probably (100%) make more money on that night than Dot Com Mogul’s August blog earning.

    Yes.. all chinese banquet serves the same food. They start out with suckling pork/jellyfish, broil live shrimps, big white snails, abalone with veggies, followed with shark fin soup, followed by dry scallop with black hair thingy, fried chicken, lobster, whole fish, dessert.

    Gets boring (and costly) after a while.

    • So you’ve gotta have a lot of disposable income to attend a Chinese wedding. Aren’t Chinese families typically quite big? Sounds like it could get very expensive very quickly – especially if there’s a crop of family members around the same age who decide to get married in quick succession!

  19. I eat some of those myself since I came from Asia too. I miss those kind of foods sometime here in America. :oops: :cry:

  20. chinese food iS very delicious~~~ :razz: :razz:
    :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

  21. John, I can’t stand the food reviews and pictures. The reason is that you make them look so good and make me unbelievably hungry with the beautiful pictures.

    Today is labor day, I have no plans but to hang out with my girlfriend. I’m up early and she’s next to me sleeping. So until she wakes up, and I take her out to breakfast, I’m stuck here starving and staring at your pictures!! Evil!! :shock:

  22. So delicious…. I feel at the party with you John…
    Is there Indonesian menu there ? :smile:

  23. Damn, i never have this nice foods for quite a while.! :cry:

  24. Price per table sounds pretty cheap… only thing is there was so many of them!

  25. This food looks incredible! I am so hungry looking at it now, hope you had a blast and eat for a week :grin:

  26. lsg

    Great photos! Have you ever considered a career in food photography?

  27. John – with all this great food you are eating…how do you stay so thin? :grin:

  28. My stomach hurts. I feel like going to my Chinese buffet. It has AYCE sushi, crab legs, and of course noodles. :lol:

    Yum Yum
    I hope you enjoyed and savored that food.

  29. John, u still have this great appetite for food.
    :razz:

  30. Wow these pics are making me hungry :???:

  31. Come on maan, your bring along your camera even for a dinner at hotel? Imagine all of the guess delicously tasting the food but suddenly there is one man shooting your food with macro shoot in front of you. Aaah maybe its normal in Canada… :smile:

  32. Great! but abalone is sliced which is not so great. There better be 4 head abalone for everyone :mrgreen:

  33. I’m officially hungry.

  34. j0sh

    is that a chicekn head?

  35. What a feast in Vancouver? Vancouver right?

    I thought Chinese Banquets are popular and a must in Asia. Wow, it’s available in Van ! Bravo, John.

  36. Ahh, the joys of Chinese food in Richmond! I just had dim sum myself and I’m stuffed. But yeah, you gotta love the dinner at Chinese weddings…you just eat, eat, and then eat some more!

  37. the roasted pork and the deep fried crab claw looks tasty ..
    in hakka roasted pork is called sao chu lol

    lol my mouth is watering now eheehehe

  38. Those noodles look delicious… I think I may have to order some in tonight for dinner. :mrgreen:

  39. Looks nice. Did you know all those people john?

  40. Glad I just got done eating a good home-cooked meal before reading this post or it probably would have made me hungry.

  41. Too much meat. Not enough vegetable.

  42. Wow.. makes me wanna have chinese wedding :razz: Congrats to the couple!

  43. Wow. I think it’s lunchtime now… ;-)

  44. Max

    Cool, I ate some similar Chinese food at my friend’s wedding 2 weeks ago. It was freakin’ good, we were all wasted though…before…during…and after…

  45. Oh, YUM. You said you hoped you wouldn’t make me too hungry, well, you did. What a feast. I have to go get something to eat now. :lol:

  46. I would love to attend such royal receptions. I can just imagine how classy the whole ambiance of the place would be.
    And yes John You have made me feel very hungry.
    Get me some foooooood

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