Kirin Seafood Restaurant - Chinese Wedding Banquet
This past weekend I had the pleasure to attend my friend Jimmy & Cathy’s wedding. They held the banquet at Kirin Seafood Restaurant located near Vancouver City Hall.
The Kirin in City Square Centre is on the 2nd level. The entrance has a long hallway where you can set up a reception table to greet guests and have them sign your guest book.
The dining area is shaped like a “T”. The hall way will lead to an open area. Then to the left and right there are several steps which takes you to a slightly elevated platform - the top of the “T”. Here’s a very rough sketch I made of the floor plan.
The head tables were placed by the double happiness and people sitting by the wall/pillar location could not see anything. This is one of the down side of this location. There were 25 tables for the banquet. It was slightly crowded but not too bad. For pictures of the table set up and how it looks like, take a look a the Kirin photos I took.
The food were good. I’d say above average but not one of the best I’ve eaten. The dishes were not as hot as I’d like. I didn’t get a chance to take photos as the server comes by to tell us what dish he is serving, then went to divide the dish for us. This is partly because there was a pretty big centre piece so he can not put the big platter of food down. Another reason is so that they can clear the platter off right away instead of coming back to check whether people are done eating. Having the server divide the food is a great idea. But I find that they didn’t divide it very evenly so some people get very little while others have a lot.
Conclusion
I’d recommend Kirin in City Square for those with a smaller banquet size. I was one of the people that had to sit by the corner where I can not see anything and it almost felt like you’re just having a normal dinner while the people a few tables away are having a party. A solution which might be able to fix this problem is to have a video set up, pointing at the head table (since that is where the bride & groom are sitting and where all the games/speeches will be made). Have it hooked up to projectors on to the celling so that the event is broadcast live for the people sitting on the sides.
Contact
Kirin Seafood Restaurant
2nd Floor, City Square
555 West 12th Avenue (& Cambie Street), Vancouver, B.C.
Canada V5Z 3X7
Tel: 604.879.8038<
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