{"id":239,"date":"2011-04-24T23:05:09","date_gmt":"2011-04-25T07:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pickydiners.com\/www\/?p=239"},"modified":"2014-07-09T11:39:21","modified_gmt":"2014-07-09T19:39:21","slug":"lobster-dumplings-neptune-seafood-hail-to-the-king-of-the-kings-of-dim-sum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/lobster-dumplings-neptune-seafood-hail-to-the-king-of-the-kings-of-dim-sum\/","title":{"rendered":"Neptune Seafood&#8217;s Lobster Dumplings: Hail to the King of the Kings of Dim Sum!"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_324\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-324\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/do-2011-04-LobsterDumpings2-Neptune.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-324 size-large\" title=\"Lobster Dumpings - Neptune Seafood \" src=\"http:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/do-2011-04-LobsterDumpings2-Neptune-1024x765.jpg\" alt=\"Lobster Dumpings - Neptune Seafood\" width=\"1024\" height=\"765\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/do-2011-04-LobsterDumpings2-Neptune-1024x765.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/do-2011-04-LobsterDumpings2-Neptune-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/do-2011-04-LobsterDumpings2-Neptune.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-324\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lobster Dumpings &#8211; Neptune Seafood<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I have mentioned in my previous blog on why Garden City Hot Pot is one of my favourite dim sum places in Richmond: spectacular tastes of food and comfortable seating. And I think Neptune \u00a0Seafood Restaurant (????) is definitely on this list!<\/p>\n<p>Dim sum dishes at Neptune are lighter in flavours and elegantly beautiful in presentation. Look at the Lobster Dumpling&#8230; The dish is a variation of steamed shrimp  dumpling. As Cantonese foodies always refer shrimp dumpling as the King of dim sum, the lobster dumpling here has gone beyond:\u00a0A luscious piece of lobster sits on chopped prawns with a hint of ginger, topped with tobiko caviar and cilantro, completing this colourful artwork in a bamboo steamer. \u00a0And when the fresh sweetness of all the ocean goodness hits the palette, I am truly convinced this is the art of dim sum at its best!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_255\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-255\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/do-2011-04-PrawnSpringRolls-Neptune.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-255\" title=\"Prawn Spring Rolls- Neptune Seafood\" src=\"http:\/\/pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/do-2011-04-PrawnSpringRolls-Neptune-1024x765.jpg\" alt=\"Prawn Spring Rolls- Neptune Seafood\" width=\"640\" height=\"478\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/do-2011-04-PrawnSpringRolls-Neptune-1024x765.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/do-2011-04-PrawnSpringRolls-Neptune-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/do-2011-04-PrawnSpringRolls-Neptune.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-255\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Prawn Spring Rolls- Neptune Seafood<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Map and other reviews on Urbanspoon:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbanspoon.com\/r\/14\/181256\/restaurant\/Vancouver\/Richmond-Central\/Neptune-Seafood-Restaurant-Richmond\"><img style=\"border: none; width: 200px; height: 146px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urbanspoon.com\/b\/link\/181256\/biglink.gif\" alt=\"Neptune Seafood Restaurant ?????? on Urbanspoon\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have mentioned in my previous blog on why Garden City Hot Pot is one of my favourite dim sum places in Richmond: spectacular tastes of food and comfortable seating. And I think Neptune \u00a0Seafood Restaurant (????) is definitely on this list! Dim sum dishes at Neptune are lighter in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[39,100,124,71],"tags":[9,36,35,68,66,65,8,67],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1898,"href":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions\/1898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}