Lee Garden Seafood Restaurant — Restaurant in Burnaby

We came here for a small family dinner, 4 adults and 2 children. We ordered a set menu for 6 people. There were 2 sets of different coloured chopsticks for each person. This was different, rather than community chopsticks on the turntable. The crab/fish maw soup was okay, I found crab shells in my bowl. The 2nd dish was peking duck wrap. They gave us 11 wrappers for 6 people. So, we couldn't have 2 wraps each. The peking duck was very fatty and therefore made it chewy. To boost up the peking duck skin on the plate, they put them on shrimp chips. If you ate the shrimp chip on its own, it's normally crunchy, but these were stale and soggy. They also provided probably 12 cucumber sticks and green onion. The hoisin sauce was watered down! The 3rd dish was lettuce wrap with the peking duck meat and some chopped up veggies. The duck mixture did not look appetizing. It was all dark and dry and it didn't taste fresh either. My husband noticed crunchy noodles around the mixture, I didn't see it and there wasn't much of it either. The 4th dish was lobster and noodles. The lobster was tasteless and awkwardly cut, so difficult to eat. The noodles were overdone and therefore soft and mushy. The 5th dish was pea tips and bean curd strips with gingko nuts. I actually liked this dish, it was simple, yet tasty. The 6th dish was beef, scallops and broccoli. The beef tenderloin was so soft and tasty, the scallops were good and broccoli was edible. The 7th dish was yellow chicken. Definitely not a favourite dish at the table! The chicken had no taste, normally there is flavour without dipping it in the green onion/ginger/oil dip, but not this dish. Normally when you have shellfish, they come take away the empty shells and give you new plates. Nope, they didn't so we ended up dumping all our shells off our plates onto the empty serving dish so they can take it away. We waited and waited and we expected the scallop fried rice (8th dish) to come. We asked about the next dish and it seemed like they forgot...so, we finally got the rice (it was steaming). They normally give you a new bowl too, but not this place. The rice wasn't flavourful enough. The kids enjoyed it better when I put the watered down hoisin sauce on the rice. Dessert was the 9th dish and it was red bean soup. This red bean soup was sweet, but not too sweet and had small tapioca pearls...it was good. I've had this exact same menu and another restaurant and it was way better there than at this place. I would not come back here. This restaurant was busy, but not packed. As we walked past the fish tanks, we didn't see lobster, just crabs, some fish and floating fish. So, did we eat fresh lobster?? Definitely do not recommend this place.

Dim Sum Definitely overpriced at $9.88 per dish! We ordered our regular dishes: ha gow (shrimp dumplings), siu mai (steamed pork dumplings), steamed spare ribs, chicken feet in special sauce, shrimp and beef rice rolls, chinese donut in rice roll, deep fried radish with XO sauce(no XO sauce tasted at all), chinese donut, spring rolls, sticky rice, eggplant with shrimp (small plate mostly filled with bean sprouts didn't even notice the shrimp), mango pudding (had cut up pear inside, no mango!), deep fried dumplings with pork, deep fried huge dumpling ball with sesame seed coating and red bean paste inside (these were large balls, maybe baseball size...with a fingernail size of red bean paste!). The food was not memorable (the kids said the same thing), but the prices were definitely memoriable in that we'll never go back! Disclaimer, we didn't pick this place for dim sum! Parking is also limited, we lucked out and got the last spot in the...

There's 2 locations. There’s one in Coquitlam and one in Burnaby. I came to this location in Burnaby on Kingsway. Also, if it’s your first time here, the entrance is behind the building where their back parking lot is. There’s plenty of parking all around the neighborhood.

It was a hot day and the air conditioning was on. The restaurant is very spacious. This type of restaurant is a banquet style setting with Cantonese style cuisine. You come here for the seafood to maximize your experience, but there are many other items that are non seafood.

Our family came here to celebrate Father’s Day early. We decided to get the lobster set dinner. Btw this kitchen was on fire that day. We had all our main items come out to us in less than 18 mins. That’s incredible. At one point we were wondering if another table had cancelled their order LOL.

First came the fish maw crab soup. Done wonderfully and with real crab. Great start to the dinner. Very silky and savoury. Great preparation with the fish maw. Sponge soft with a feather crunch.

The crab claws are very classic Cantonese style. Be careful they are piping hot in the center. Done properly and very delicious. They come with a sauce to dip if it fancies you but I like it au natural 😬

The lobster with noodle was very classic. Great flavours but I thought the noodle was a touch skimpy. No complaints on how it tasted. Very comforting.

Scallop and beef tenderloin with broccoli. The scallops weren’t over cooked. The beef was soft. The broccoli cooked perfectly.

Our vegetable dish we chose the snow pea tip leafs modified in vegetable stock. Normally it’s eaten with garlic stir fried. But for 5 bucks more you can modify this dish. Either way it’s delicious and considered among very nutritious with a good source of vitamin C, folate, fiber, and beta carotene.

The chicken dish we had it upgraded ($5 bucks more) to the salt roasted chicken with crispy rice chips. All the kids love eating the rice chips haha. The chicken wasn’t dry. It was moist and light on the saltiness.

The seafood fried rice done to standards You can taste the element of the wok hei, the breath of the wok fire 🔥

Dessert that night was the classic red bean soup. It was delicious. We were also surprised that the kitchen gave us almond cookies. They were made in house and was so delicious and fresh.

It was a great Father’s Day dinner. So pretty much a 9 course with desserts included. It can definitely feed 4-5 adults. The service is amazing. There’s very few Chinese places that have such attention to their customers. They are kind and always social. Great first experience. I’ll definitely be...

You can't go wrong with any Chinese food here in Vancouver, and Lee Garden is no exception. Although I'm not a local, I have friends who say they order takeout or dine in here often.

Food: The time I wrote this review, my family wanted to try some fish, so the waitress suggested the goby. Our family wanted it steamed and on the lighter side, but the waitress insisted on frying it, swearing that it was their signature dish. When the goby came, it was quite good! Sauce was flavorful, and the oil used to fry it was definitely fresh and not oil reused for days like some other restaurants. Oh, also the goby was nearly seventy dollars. Seafood ain't cheap, guys. The pea tips (豆苗) had a generous serving size, thank god we brought along the whole family to finish this off. The green beans with pumpkin and eggplants were great too, you know the chef knows what they're doing when the eggplant is fully cooked but the skin retains its vibrant purple. It was a bit too oil-heavy for my family, but considering we like stuff on the lighter and less salty side I'm sure you don't need to worry about it. The BBQ duck (烧鸭) was great, chewy meat and crispy skin— what you'd expect from experienced kitchen staff. Ooh! And dessert was red bean soup. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I do taste a hint of citrus that was used in this soup. Ingenious! Definitely balances out the palate, making it a great dessert.

Service: Shout-out to our waiter (I think his name was Gary), he was super friendly. He also cut the goby with expertise, and as bonus points brought over the reader to our table instead of us having to walk to the counter to pay. His energy and passion in what he was doing was very evident, if the bosses are reading this please do give that guy a raise.

Atmosphere: Very pretty chandeliers, and also those are some impressively large snow crabs (our family debated on getting them for dinner, but we finally decided we probably couldn't finish a whole entire snow crab). Only thing is that Vancouver is a little more on the colder side in terms of temperature, and the AC was just a tad too cold for me... or maybe it's a me problem.

Stop by here if you don't want hellishly long wait times (like some other restaurants). There was no line when we came for dinner, and the overall experience is what you'd expect of...