Como Garden 金滿樓 — Restaurant in Como

2nd visit in 8/2025: 4.5 stars Reserved tailor-made banquet for 15 pp, including tea, steamed rice, and condiments. Some dishes were not in the regular menu. Dishes served fast. Improved service. More Attentive. Fish cooked in 2 ways香骨魚: ---8/10 杏香百花雞 Chicken stuffed with prawn paste and almond flakes: crispy outside. --- 9.5/10 King Crab with spring onion & ginger, market price: ordered extraly on that day. --- 7.5/10 Violin Duck 琵琶鴨: good --- 7.6/10 Salted Pork with Kale 鹹肉芥菜: Tender pork ribs. Not overly salted. --- 7.5/10 King Prawns with Wasabi Sauce: wasabi sauce wasn't overpowering. ---- 8.8/10 E-fu noodles 干燒伊麵: good portion. Not very authentic as limited sources, but tasted good. --- 7.5/10 煎炆釀豆腐Grilled Stuffed Bean Curd (with prawn paste) (蝦膠釀豆腐)--- small portion of prawn paste. --- 7.5/10 Sweet & Sour Pork 咕嚕肉: small bite size. Cripsy pork. --- 8.3/10 Beef with pine nuts: tender beef. Smaller portion. --- 7.6/10 Watermelon Peach- shaped Buns壽桃包good portion of red bean paste. 1st visit in 3/2025: 4 stars New name. New owner. New management. Just took over the Imperial Court. Came for dinner, and want to try dim sum at lunchtime soon. Venue : free carparks. Spacious. Simple decor. Have private rooms. Not a causal setting. Comfy seats. Good atomphere. Alfresco dining area. --- 7.6/10 Service: Nice staff. Not busy on Sunday night. Not attentive enough. Food served fast. We ordered 9 dishes, I think it'd be better if they could change new bowls for us once in the middle. That avoids too much sauces and gravy mixed together. Dishes served fast. We asked for a spoon/rice spatula when the bucket of steamed rice was served. All of us felt uncomfortable and hesitated using the rice spatula when they just put it down on the dirty table. We used 1 spare spoon instead. I think that they need time to adjust and run smoothly as they just run the restaurant in March. --- 7.2/10 F&B: mainly Cantonese cuisine. Normal food presentation. Normal portion. The dishes didn't make me thirsty. Prices are on the high side but acceptable. Card payment surcharge 1.5 %. Minimum charge: $30pp Steamed Rice, $2.8pp Chinese Tea, $2.8pp

1. Fried King Prawns with Salted Egg Yolk (without Shell)黃金炸蝦球, $43.8: about 10 King prawns. Well cooked. --- 8.5/10
2. Stir-fried Fresh Milk with & dried scallops瑤柱海鮮炒鮮奶, $39.8: sprinkled fried-conpoy on the top. The bed of deep-fried rice Vermicelli made it look abundant and richer the texture. I prefer more seafood dices and Stir-fried milk. Good culinary techniques --- 7.7/10
3. Grilled Stuffed Bean Curd 煎炆釀豆腐, $30.8: there are approx. 8 stuffed tofu, snow pea, thick Shiitake mushroom slices. Good portion of fillings. --- 7.5/10
4. Steamed Chicken pieces with Fugus in Lotus Leaf,荷葉雲耳蒸雞,$33.8: unfortunately, the ingredients were not matched with the name of this dishes on menu. There were small bites sized chicken pieces (bone on), small Shiitake mushrooms (cut half-cut), Chinese Pork Sausage Lap Chong slices, spring onions. NO black fugus/ cloud ear mushrooms that I expected. Good portion of chicken. All of the ingredients are the traditional Cantonese Steamed Chicken dishes that are wrapped by Lotus leaf. Though the chicken wasn't overcooked. --- 7/10 (wrong name/ ingredients ?)
5. Stir-fried Kai Lan with Garlic 蒜茸炒芥蘭, $18.8: average. Still crunchy. --- 7/10
6. Roasted Duck燒鴨, ($32.8/half): served with Hoi sin sauce. No traditional plum sauce (not popular in Perth). Crispy skin. My friend pre-ordered it. It should have to be served as the first dish. --- 8.5/10
7. Home style Stir-fried 家鄉小炒皇,$32.8: There were Garlic shoots, Cuttlefish, Deep-fried anchovies, prawn dices, dried shrimps, and onion Probably, the ingredients vary depending on the supply. --- 7.3/10
8. Combination Meat with Bean Curd in Claypot八珍豆腐煲, $33.8: There were deep-fried tofu cubes, chicken, pork, Shiitake mushrooms, and onion. --- 7.2/10
9. Stew E-fu Noodles 乾燒伊麵, $23.8: the noodles were good. --- 7.2/10 Complimentary...

We used to go to the Imperial Court often because of its location. My husband and I were only there 3 days ago with 6 other adults & 6 kids, I went back again today with 2 girlfriends and our babies for lunch, BUT this will be our last visit! I CAN NOT believe how rude that boss lady is! She came over to our table, got right close to my 11 months old baby girl’s face with a scary look, raised her finger and said “SHUSH! BE QUIET!”, then walked off shaking her head! Me and my friends were all shocked by her action, we could not believe how SCARY and ANGRY she looked and that she told my baby girl off when there are other new babies in the restaurant making as much noises as she does?!!!! She was in the highchair or in my arms the whole time, wasn’t crying or anything, she’s just being a baby! I went to question that lady why did she scare my daughter, she said because apparently people made complaints, and if my daughter is making noises I should take her outside! My daughter is not crying or throwing tantrums why would I take her out of the restaurant? And if she has problems with us she should be talking to me! Not to scare my 11 months old baby!! I would be happy to apologize to other customers if my daughter was being too noisy and we would have left early, too. As a matter of fact, other mum and grandmas actually came up to say hello to us when we were in the restaurant, no one mentioned anything about the noises because there are babies everywhere! If babies are not allowed or if they are not a family friendly restaurant, they should let parents know! It is disgusting how they think they can scare (attack) a baby like that and get away with it!

Before the boss lady scared my daughter, she actually took my bag off the back of my seat, walked away to direct some other customers with my bag in her hands, then came back and put it on the other side of the table, without asking me!! It’s a small bag with my daughter’s sippy cup, some wet wipes, my mobile and keys in it. I was surprised and was watching her the whole time but said nothing. I don’t mind her moving it to make room for anyone or whatever, but she should have asked me before she touched/moved my bag! I was sitting on my seat, right in front of my bag! She has no respect towards others! Even if it is her restaurant, she shouldn’t be treating people like that.

More surprisingly, when we were paying the boss lady at the counter, she told me not to go back if I don’t like how she treated my daughter. Absolutely disgusted!

After talking to other mums in a mum’s group I learnt that she is infamous for being rude to customers and her staff! Well, there are plenty of restaurants in Perth, we won’t put up with this kind of service! We will not be revisiting! You have lost our respects for you as a business owner, as well as a person! You DO NOT...

We moved to Como - Perth about two years ago and hence myself and my wife went together to this restaurant at least five times and our bill was close to $100 every time (without any drinks). Until now we thought the service and food were reasonably good even if expensive, however we were happy to pay for the "quality", as well as being located five minutes walk from our house. We noticed over time that the owner and personnel seem to be much more attentive and friendlier towards some of their Chinese customers, even after us going there few times, but we thought that this may be due to them knowing them better, and we were happy with what we got. However today was just plain humiliation and it is unlikely we will ever go back: upon arrival we were given a nice table for two near the window , however shortly after being seated one of the waitresses came and said that the table was reserved (by whom ? certainly no sign when we arrived, and actually the same waitress indicated the table for us) and then we were taken to the most remote and darkest corner of the restaurant , near the toilet - despite the restaurant being half empty and with plenty of better tables. You would think that if you have to move for no fault of your own , you will be given at least the same nice kind of table. It was just plain humiliation for absolutely no fault of ours - we are a very decent, quiet and respectful middle age couple and actually always liked this restaurant's personnel and considered ourselves at home - until now. Of course there are plenty of better restaurants in Como/South Perth and Perth in general and the City is 5 minutes drive away, so certainly not our loss. Looking back, I just have the lingering feeling that if they could, they would just stop anybody outside their preferred old Chinese families circle coming in - so be aware that you risk bad treatment at any time (and based on some of the reviews on the internet we are not the only ones...