Pacific House Restaurant — Restaurant in Melbourne

Dining Experience @ Pacific Seafood BBQ House. . Despite having expanded their store footprint and opening branches, Pacific Seafood BBQ House still draws a queue at meal times, and finding a seat remains a struggle, a testament to their immense popularity. . The Stir-Fried Kai-Lan Chinese Broccoli (AUD $27) features fresh crunchy kai-lan / Chinese broccoli, stir-fried with garlic. Carries bright vegetal sweet spice flavour. We'll probably never live down the fact that we missed adding on beef to this dish, for just AUD $2 more. . The Salt & Pepper Calamari Squid (AUD $30) has large bouncy chunky pieces of calamari squid, coated in a spiced batter, tossed with salt, white pepper, garlic, and green chili. This has addictive salty savoury spice sweet flavour, yummy. . The Trio Platter (AUD $42) allows customers to select 3 different varieties of their roast meats. We opted for Roast Duck, Siu Yuk / Roast Pork Belly, and Soy Sauce Chicken. . The Roast Duck was excellent, with a thin crisp skin and tender juicy roast duck meat, carrying smoky meaty salty savoury fatty flavour. . The Siu Yuk / Roast Pork Belly had a crunchy firm pig skin, with tender bouncy texture to the roast pork belly, and a meaty savoury salty flavour. . The Soy Sauce Chicken, garnished with spring onions, was springy juicy to the bite, with succulent meaty sweet savoury salty herbal flavour. . The Ginger & Spring Onion Crab Noodles (AUD $154) packs a full-flavoured punch. The large meaty crab sits over a base of crisp spring onions and springy egg noodles, tossed in a thick ginger and spring onion gravy. Infused with salty savoury sweet herbal grainy flavour, this was addictive and decadent...

A favourite on Victoria Street, Pacific House tends to bustle with activity no matter the service hour. The staff are great -- welcoming and efficient. The crispy pork belly and the roast duck are always beautifully cooked and seriously delicious. Indeed, one of the best places in Melbourne for roast meats! And the xiao long bao (soupy pork dumplings) proved very tasty.

But, for a restaurant that promotes itself as a seafood specialist, I was terribly disappointed by the hargow (prawn dumplings) and the prawn stuffed tofu (not an inexpensive dish).

The first were small, dry, and pretty tasteless (they can be incredibly sumptous little morsels), while the latter was 90+% tofu with no hidden prawn piece gems in the paste.

I appreciate the restaurant specialises in live seafood from a tank. But, it seems like a significant missed marketing opportunity, as my experience with these two prawn dishes would in no way inspire me to upscale to a whole fish or lobster dish. Nonetheless, I will definitely return for the pork belly with its deliciously crispy but not...

Very disappointed with hygiene standard. I have been a regular customer over the past 5 years. I ordered a roast dish which was prepared at the front. My wife ordered something else from the kitchen. I noticed the waiter was talking with the chef who was preparing my dish. Both were talking to each other without the mask covering their face. I was wondering at the time if the chef was preparing my dish and he exchanged conversation with the bald head waiter for a good 1 minute.

Later the chef placed my dish on the counter for the waiter to bring to my table. I commented to the waiter that the chef should cover his face when preparing food. He rudely said he can cancel the order. After 5 seconds thought, I said to the roast dish and returned the plate to the waiter. I advised him they should cover the their face while preparing food. He then rudely he can help cancel the other dish as well. I agreed and told them off saying I was pointing out the hygiene issue. I guess when a restaurant is doing well, they can afford to forego a loyal customer and their...