Fook Yuen Seafood Restaurant

this place gets busy on weekends so call ahead for a reservation. A solid cantonese style (milder southern chinese style cooking) seafood rich menu, focus on those items. they have live crab and lobster specials and most order those. very extensive menu so i’ve been here multiple times with various groups. they have been consistently solid each time. definitely not the best cantonese style i’ve had, but for honolulu, some consider it one of the best. seabass in blackbean sauce, honey walnut prawns, broccoli in garlic, crab in ginger scallion sauce were all good.

Fool Yuen Seafood restaurant is an Authentic Chinese restaurant which serves delicious food, this place was recommended to us by our Uber Driver and it did not disappoint. The place was full on a weekday evening, prices were good. The service was a bit slow due to the amount of customers in the restaurant but not bad. Live lobster was $20 and was good.

Had a pleasant lunch at Fook Yuen. It’s a first time visit to this Chinese restaurant and a satisfied experience. The live lobsters are very reasonably priced. They are well prepared, tasty and juicy! They serve individual size whole abalone. Glad that they didn’t turn out rubbery, but don’t expect it to be as soft as the canned ones. I enjoyed their shrimp and egg fried rice as well. Done just right. I think they do it the “emperor style”, with egg yolk and rice cooked in chicken broth? Service is ok. A little short of staff I suppose. Overall still acceptable. Likely to visit again.

It was just ok for me. I didn’t try to lobster, which is their specialty. Just because I’m not the biggest fan of lobster. I tried a soup recommendation from the waiter which was fish and crab, but I didn’t like it. However, The honey walnut shrimp and crispy noodle dish was good 4/5, but just not outstanding enough to impress me. I don’t have a bad thing to say, I just wasn’t wow’d by anything.