Pacificana

well all the wedding couple have there reception there it must be good. i like the pan fried noodle

This used to be mine and my family’s absolute favorite dim sum spot. Prices went up and food quality went down. There used to be a wait on the weekends. I guess I’m not the only one that noticed. Disappointed to have lost what used to be such a great place. Now, it’s just okay.

Went there for Sunday brunch. Service is good. Ppl are happy there. No need to share tables (this is important). If you don’t see the food you like, just ask the waiter. They will bring it to you.
In terms of dim sum quality, I have tried 3 dim sum restaurants in NY, still haven’t found 1 that is a bit closer to what you can get in Guangzhou (Canton). I will keep trying, and expect something nice like in LA.

If my favorite place is too crowded, This is a great substituent.
Many of my buddies do prefer this place more.
My biggest complaint is I have a super size SUT,
So not easy to fit anywhere.
Too tall & long, But that is my own fault.
Other wise nice place to eat.
Best Regards,
Jimmy Wong
VIP AUTO NYC

For your health’s sake, please don’t do it.
I’ve visited Pacificana more times than I can possibly tell and it’s gotten less and less appealing every time. It is a convenient dim sum place for me, so my family used to stop by there on occasion. The last TWO times I’ve visited, I found strips of metal/​foil in my shrimp dumplings. Absolutely not okay.
Their dim sum is not even worth the wait. Depending on where you’re sitting, it can be difficult to catch the attention of the servers/​dim sum ladies. I never expect excellent service at these type of places, but we once had to ask three different people for a small plate of hot sauce. It’s not a very difficult request, especially considering that they weren’t even that busy at the time.
With Park Asia newly renovated only a few blocks down, I’d much rather go there instead.

How in the world have I never written a review on Pacificana?
I have a car, so it is fairly easy to get to and you can get parking validation for the garage below the restaurant.
Come for dim sum on a Sunday and you will be met by a huge crowd– come as early as possible! If you wait until a more reasonable time, you will wait and wait while numbers are called out in Chinese and hope that the hostess will remember that you speak English only and will help you out.
Once you are seated, delicious dumplings and other plates come by in carts. You point to what you want and shoo away the somewhat pushy ladies (do they work on commission??) when you don’t want something. I used to go the adventurous route — chicken feet, super fatty beef knuckles (ok, they aren’t knuckles but they seemed like they could be), snails — but now I stick to the easier to palate stuff.
Order soup dumplings from any staff member — they will bring them out. They aren’t mind blowing — but they are soup dumplings.
Go here with friends — you can order more of a variety to try — eat too much and spend only about 20 bucks a pop.

This is a good quality Dim Sum restaurant with good selections, everything you’d expect from a Dim Sum restaurant. Snugged in Sunset Park, you can be seated immediately since there isn’t a lot of people around in the area compared to Manhattan.
I have to say some of the food seemed like it could have been cooked a little longer. The food were also somewhat lukewarm, not steaming hot.
Very reasonable price to say the least! Dropped only $ 30 that fed the four of us!

Four stars here for the dim sum and not for the dinner. Dinner is not too good… salty and aight.
Dim sum is a solid experience, and worth the journey to sunset park. The options are many, and many of the items are fantastic. I would make sure you get the har gao, an egg tart, and some soup dumplings. They even have porridge and countless other things. If you are in the mood for dim sum this place beats many of the manhattan places, I’d say, and if you’re in BK and want more legit dim-​sum, head on down.

This place is definitely the nicer of the dim sum places, definitely banquet style place, huge room with a bunch of tables. When you enter the building, it’s upstairs. If you don’t speak Chinese, just use the universal language of using your fingers to tell them how many people in your party.
It wasn’t terribly busy when we sat, then I saw the carts making a beeline towards us. Yea, I want this, this, this, this and that. So we just started picking out what looked good and off we go. Pretty standard dim sum, not every item was super hot, but only warm-​ish, nothing really blew me away or anything. Same carts came around and around each time with the same stuff, not much of a variety was offered nor was it ready yet as the response of «coming later» was to be told to us. We ate slowly in anticipation that more stuff would come out «later» but unfortunately «later» meant much later.
Good amount of pastries on the carts was the highlight for one of us, but overall it was just ok.
It was a little tough flagging down someone in a suit to get our bill, so I just went to the front counter and paid. Prices were pretty good so that was a plus, I think they prefer you pay in cash.

Alright, so who likes waiting? Raise your hand! And you’re right — noone. So, if you’re deciding between Pacificana and Park Asia you’re better off choosing Pacificana because likely, you’ll have to wait at Park Asia for at least thirty minutes. And the food is exactly same, although to be honest I prefer Pacificana because of the detachable tables and it’s just much better for two people as with Park Asia they mostly have larger tables and two people will likely end up sharing a table with a larger group.
The only thing that threw me off was definitely the hostess speaking Mandarin, whereas most of the wait staff spoke Cantonese. I don’t understand Mandarin so it’s difficult for me to understand when my number was being called but I went at a time that wasn’t too full of people so it wasn’t too difficult to get the hostess to confirm. With Park Asia, if you miss your number, the next person is called and you’re automatically out. Plus the hostess/​host is hard to find — they’re usually somewhere with a microphone unfortunately. The food is also similar to Park Asia, except much cheaper. I felt like I ate much more food here for $ 30 than I did at Park Asia which was about $ 40. Plus, the staff goes around for everyone to see selections, which is better than Park Asia where you may be hidden off in a crevice somewhere, away from all the food!
There is parking for a fee below Pacificana, I believe. However, a few blocks down is a school and if you’re going on weekends, you’re in luck.

Pacificana has decent dim sum, but I think East Harbor Seafood Palace is definitely a step above it in terms of quality and selection, so if you have the choice as to which Sunset Park Dim Sum Spot you are going to dine at, I would choose EHSP over Pacificana.
Prices are reasonable though and it is centrally located.

The location makes it difficult to find parking. The restaurant it self has a nice décor, it does not seem like it started life as a chinese restaurant. Seems like a banquet hall with beautiful ceilings and nice wood décor. The chandeliers are beautiful just not what you come to expect for a chinese restaurant. The food itself was good but not good enough that i come back this far to brooklyn, since i am in Bayside i have flushing for excellent Chinese food. We ordered peking pork chop, jelly fish platter, chicken, fish and several plates of seafood with different types of veggies. Overall light dishes with good flavor. Final bill $ 350 including tax and tip for a table of 15ppl. Having just had a chinese banquet 2 days ago the food was just ok. The chicken which should be the most simple dish was dry, the skin was crunchy but not much taste. The jelly fish platter was sandy. Had to send it back, they gave us another one but nobody really touched it. The fish was good probably the best part was the peking duck. Odd because normally i would have taken pictures of it but they did the duck on the side so no pics. I can tell you the peking duck was delicious, would live to have that again. I brought my own wine, they had no problems with that. The wait staff was very attentive so service was very good.

One of the best place in the neighborhood if you can pay their price. They are a bit on the higher end however good service comes with the price. Definitely come here for that special day.
Food wise is very traditional cantonese food. Flavor is top notch as well as freshness. I would suggest you come with someone who know their stuff or you might end up eating General Tso chicken. It’s really quiet on a weeknight or I should say it’s empty. We are the only full table and it’s hard to believe they are still in business. Dimsum time is packed thou. There is normally a huge line after 10AM on the weekend.

I usually come to Pacificana for all my dimsum cravings. Their food isn’t amazing, but it’s very standard and consistent. Honestly, it can’t compare to Hong Kong’s dimsum scene, but is that fair of me to compare?
Everything I’ve had here is good, can’t say anything stands out exactly. Get the chrysanthemum tea — it’s so fragrant and a wonderful way to start off your day. The cart-​pushin’ ladies are a bit abrasive, and if you don’t speak Chinese (usually they’re Cantonese-​speaking), they will rush you.
Paid about $ 15, including tips, for dimsum. Wasn’t too hefty. Also, try to pay in cash — if I remember correctly, they charge tax if you pay by card.

Held a couple of banquets here during my college years and loved working with the management of Pacificana for being so accommodating and throwing in service to our packages.
Food is better than the dim sum places/​banquet halls in chinatown (manhattan). The beef chow fun is one of the best I have had in the neighborhood.
Will be back if I ever have a reason to :).

Solid dim sum place with a few interesting dishes.
The place is large, but not massive, and at around 12 noon on a Saturday our wait for a table for two was no more than a couple of minutes.
Apart from dim sum staples such as har gau, rolled rice noodle with shrimp, chiu-​chao fan guo, siu mai, etc… there were 2 dishes that I’ve never had before:
— soft tofu with pork in the middle.
— a gigantic, yellow dumpling the size of a baseball, filled with mushrooms, cabbage, pork and vermicelli noodles, that came in a small bowl with soup.
Also, they had fried soft shell crabs, which were as plump as they were delicious.
Overall I was pretty happy with the selection, quality, and price. I can’t compare it to any of the dim sum places along 8^th Ave., since this is the one and only I tried, but I would put Pacificana one step below nearby East Harbor Seafood Palace.
3.5 stars.

Dim Sum as Martin Yan would put it is a little touch from the heart. Yum Cha means drink tea. You all share the dim sum with friends, family, colleagues, etc. Dim Sum is a staple cuisine for us Chinese people. We love it.
Now this dim sum restaurant is bit further down in 8^th avenue, but it is still great place to go to.
Very classic style dim sum restaurant. The interior is like any other dim sum restaurant in 8^th avenue Chinatown. Ladies pushing the carts around with steaming fresh dim sum. The dim sum are pretty good here. They have specialty dishes that you wouldn’t see at other dim sum places. For example, the staff are going around serving snails, lobster salad, and jellyfish as dim sum dishes.
On weekdays the place still has good business, but you will definitely a get a table a lot quicker than on the crazy crowded weekends, holidays, school closing days.
I have tried out all the dim sum restaurants in 8^th avenue-​Chinatown. I must put Pacificana towards the top of the list.

3.5 to be exact.
Pacificana has an undeniable beautiful décor as compared to some of the other dim sum spots on 8^th Avenue. I would say this spot has a more traditional take on dim sum which tends to be much less seasoned and does not offer much trendy dim sum dishes, catering more to the older crowd. There is a reason that this place gets extremely crowded with long lines of people on weekends. They are a solid performer in the dim sum competition in Brooklyn, Chinatown.
While I admit that they are certainly not the best dim sum I ever had but I must say I do enjoy the dim sum here. The Fried Culler dish was indeed my absolute favorite in all of 8^th Avenue. They are really almost the only spot on 8^th Avenue that kept the pieces of dried shrimps and cilantro on it. See what I mean? Traditional. Other dim sum spots skimped on this. I love the effort, it makes it much tastier, and it is just simply the best!
Handling of the wok is Pacificana’s greatest strength. Everything made from the wok are really good! I would say their pan-​fried noodles like the Beef Chow Fun or Pan-​Fried Noodles with Chicken Gravey, and the Soup Rice Noodles with Preserved Vegetables and Duck Meat are superb compared to their competition, hands down.
No cash? Credit Cards are accepted.

Hadn’t been here in years, but my parents randomly wanted to have dim sum here, so I came along to see what it was like now. It’s definitely not better than East Harbor or Park Asia.
They have typical dim sum dishes, and nothing too special. Some of their rice noodle dim sum dishes were lukewarm at best. For our main, we had beef pan-​fried mei fun noodles, which were okay but not great.

I came here a few weeks ago for dim sum, on a Sunday morning. With the hoards of Chinese people waiting to be seated, I figured it was a hot spot for dim sum. After about 45 minutes of waiting, we finally were seated. My mom said the more people you have, the longer you’d have to wait for a table. Figures, since let’s say, if you have a party of four, they would probably put you at another occupied, but not filled table.
As soon as we sat down at the table, a lady immediately placed a dish on our table. Wtf, we didn’t ask for it. We said no thanks. Throughout the meal, ladies would place the plate on the table then ask if we want it. I found that annoying. They’re trying to make a bigger sale by pushing dishes to customers.
We also were sat in a side room, by the main room, so we didn’t really get to see all their dishes. When we were done, and already paid, we saw a dish that my sis-​in-​law liked.
The food was okay. I didn’t enjoy the chicken feet, which was unfortunate. It was a good experience though. When one of the head waitress found out that our family was from the same village as where she’s from, she treated us extra nice and giving our table more attention.