Jubilee Chinese Restaurant: 24-Hour Chiu Chow Restaurant

Traditionally the Chinese celebrates the Chinese New Year over 15 days. I don?t think anyone does that anymore but in some Asian countries people still take a week off for the celebration. This is very much like what we have in Canada during the Christmas-New Year holidays.

On the first day of Chinese New Year, Suanne and I went to look for a new restaurant to eat. Too bad it is a school day and so Arkensen and Nanzaro did not join us.

It was just a few weeks ago I heard that the Gala Seafood Restaurant had closed. They are known for their cheap dim sum. And now a couple of weeks later, there is a restaurant with a new name re-opened at that place.

The new restaurant name is Jubilee Chinese Restaurant. It is located in the Union Square strip mall.

Actually I had never been to the old Gala restaurant before. It was Suanne who went there and blogged about it.

This restaurant looked quite fancy. It is decked in gold and they have the expensive looking gold seat covers. Not knowing anything about this restaurant we were fearing that this is going to be expensive. We were thinking that this will not be a place where we could get $2 dim sum like when it was still Gala.

The dining hall is huge. It is so big that it was difficult to count the number of tables, let alone how many seats there are. We estimated that they have 30, maybe 40 tables in all.

The waiter told us they had opened for a week already. When we asked the captain, she told us that this is a completely new management and staff including the chef.

We learned that this is a Chiu Chow restaurant and the surprising thing is that they are opened 24 hours. That was what the captain told us. She said that for now, they will open 24 hours and so you can come in at any hour and they will serve the appropriate food for the hour (i.e. dim sum in the morning and da-lang for late night suppers).

Click on the menu to show larger. You can see the dishes we ordered.

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