Pearl's Seafood

The food is great the atmosphere is beautiful. If you get there as soon as they open, there's already a line waiting outside, but the restaurant is fairly large, so everyone gets a table right away. The service is quick and efficient. After you order, they will bring your order receipt to your table, and they mark off each dish as they arrive. Prices are average and definitely worth the money. My co-workers and I had only the day for a work trip but made sure to eat here as we heard it was worth the time, and I would have to agree.

Noise because it is so full of happy no longer hungry clientele. If you are near you owe it to have. Cross it off your bucket list. I am a chef and hands down. If they do this everyday.... they are the best I have had EVER! I love my local food. But in Honolulu...this just can't be beaten. Thank you .. I would definitely come again.

We had a great lunch experience. The menu is quite sizable and there were a lot of good items to try. Servers were pretty quick and the food tasted great. This place is very low hygiene standards. The same server, after walking around and not even washing his hands, stuck his hand in the tank of crabs, and then walked it 25 yards back to the kitchen holding it while seafood tank water was dripping across all the restaurant carpets. Then he went on to handle other things with his hands it seemed. And when you then look at the carpeted flooring -you realize how filthy it is. This is what made it hard to enjoy the food - I just couldn't stomach it after realizing how disgusting the environment actually was.

One of the top best dim sum restaurants in honolulu. Some people might find it now perfectly clean or the services are not attentive but it you embrace that this is a Chinese food restaurant and the focus is “good food” then you’ll see my point. My personal fav is the shrimp dishes, har-gao or shrimp seafood scallop dumplings. All are good. I’ll post some pictures so you can see. Usually friends of four, we split the check comes up to about $18 per person. I would say it’s pretty reasonable.

So usually, on a Saturday, there's a wait, but for 2 of us, we were seated quickly on Saturday, May 13, 2023. Restaurant opens at 10:30. We got there at 10:50, taken inside, ordered and served 7 dishes including the snow mountain char siu ball. We ate look fun, choy sum, shrimp with chives... leisurely and was done in 45 minutes. Yummy experience. 😋

It is one of my favorite Dim Sum place in Honolulu. They used to have partitions around the table, so you couldn’t see much outside your enclosed area but now that they have removed the partition, you realize how big the restaurant space is! There are many large tables for 8 - 10 people all are enjoying good dim sum. We were there early 11:30 am but majority of people were finishing. Nothing fancy but energetic and fast service as you can expect in a big Chinese restaurants. We ordered couple of items to goad it is always nice to have some left overs in the fridge.

Seating took a bit longer than expected, at around 35 minutes compared to the originally estimated 25 minutes. Wish they had an online system to keep track so you don't have to stay right outside. Food ordering was straight forward and service was attentive. Good and solid taste, and the baked bun was the highlight.