Mud crab with garlic and butter sauce $32 (crab $21.60/kg plus $10 for cooking sauce) Usually we'd get this with e-fu noodles, but tonight we're all about the crab. We splash out on two kilos of mud crab cooked with a classic combo of ginger and shallots. Mud crab with ginger and shallots $55 (crab $21.60/kg plus $10 for cooking sauce) The puddle of soy and ginger in the shell is always the best part. Steamed scallops are on the modest size, but at $5 for three we're not complaining. The sauce is worth relishing over a pile of fluffy white rice. Pipis arrive with speed, the glistening bivalves cooked in a thick - if a touch too sweet - sauce made with XO. It's a sweet pork and vegetable broth, jam packed with pork bones, carrots and greens. The live coral trout gets a cursory inspection too.Īn urn of house soup sets the scene for Speedy's celebratory birthday dinner. On weekends, the current price for mud crab is $29.60 per kilo but during the week that drops to $21.60.Īfter ordering, the live mud crabs are brought out for you to inspect before they're sent to the kitchen. Mud crab for one doesn't sound too ludicrous when you check out the prices. They host a lot of wedding receptions here, but tonight it's just a motley crowd of families, friends and one guy tucking into a whole crab on his own. Glittering disco balls, a draped chiffon ceiling and gold fabric chair coverings with giant bows make for strong wedding reception vibes. Golden Palace sits above an arcade of shops - all closed by dinner time on a Friday - but take the escalator up one floor and you'll be spat out the front of sprawling restaurant that looks blinged up for a wedding.

We would be in for a bountiful night of seafood. Mud crab for $10.80 per half kilo? We couldn't get to Golden Palace fast enough. The market price for seafood changes regularly here, but as we parked in the sprawling council carpark in the middle of Cabramatta, the scrolling LED sign outside the restaurant confirmed tonight's price.

Golden palace seafood restaurant