After many many years of hype and having gone to a different bougie seafood restaurant unknowingly in 2016 thinking that they were the same; I think it was time to set things straight and finally go to the right one; the famous and well known Fishman Lobster Clubhouse. I mean, it’s been 7 years since then, why not do it right this time?

Outside the kinda jokes exterior of the restaurant is painted crabs, lobster and other seafood friends. Ok.

When we sat down, I immediately knew what to order. I had thought about it for a few days ever since I made known the intent to go here. Gotta be that nice Set meal 3 for a cool $318; a nice and well rounded course with not just pure seafood but with some other meat and fish too with the main attraction being the 8 lbs of lobsters in two styles, 4lb HK style and 4lb salted egg yolk.

For a Monday evening it was still kinda busy which is not entirely surprising since this place is kinda famous in Toronto and around the world to a degree, it’s become something of a tourist attraction in itself.

The decor of the place looks pretty nice, classy but just a bit campy with mild hints playing up a fisherman’s lodge or mess quarters on a boat or pub with Chinese accents flare everywhere of course.

I mean, this statue is pretty accurate in terms of what they are going for, a bit campy and gimmicky like a Red Lobster but not really, we serve Chinese style lobster and seafood is the feel here.

As per apparent tradition of eating in at this place they bring over the bucket of the lobsters you are going to eat. For our meal, they gave us 1 ‘big’ lobster for the salted egg yolk style while 2-3 smaller ones for the HK style.

As per mandatory bait online profile image that thousands of other people have taken similar photos of already; the man of the hour gotta hold up the largest lobster. I did that shit, jokes.

After the lobster show and tell passed it didn’t take long before our first dish came, some chicken broth soup. Nice clear soup.

Apparently this is supposed to be some black chicken soup with some other veggies and shit inside. Not sure if it’s supposed to be expensive but I guess it was.

Next came the beef tenderloin with veggies and fried garlic bits. Pretty good shit, just not enough of it to be honest, I expected a bit more in quantity.

A pretty solid sweet and sour pork, pretty base standard good fresh sweet and sour. Good shit.

Then the first lobster dish came, the salted egg yolk style. Nice mini tower, or should I just call it a pile?

Slight turn of the plate and angle and we get to see that nice head and shit. I can’t tell if this was the same lobster that I picked up but who cares, tastes pretty good. I find that while salted egg yolk style is good, you get tired of it quicker than other styles, especially since there is no other garnish or add-ons with it compared to other styles.

Oh shit here comes the highlight of the meal, the HK style lobster or “typhoon style” as some places have called it. Comes with a ton of fried garlic and seasoned fries; I can’t remember but I think in the past those fries used to to be fried small white fish? I guess white fish is more expensive and they only reserve it for the big boy high rollers ordering like $500+ or something courses.

Another nice angle of that pile of lobster. Looks and tastes pretty good. Definitely the best lobster dish of the meal.

Not long after our steamed bass fish came. Pretty standard steamed fish with seasoned soy sauce, pretty solid shit. I wished that the fish was a bit bigger tho.

While we were in the middle of eating I forgot to take individual pictures of the lobster tamale fried rice and snow-pea leaf greens as pictured in the full table shot from above. Both were pretty good, even the veggies which kind of serves as a nice palate cleanser after eating so much fried lobster.

We were able to finish all of the dishes except for about like 25% of the HK style lobster and like 2-3 pieces of the salted egg yolk lobster and half of the snowpea leaf greens which we just asked for a takeaway container for home. Our dessert surprisingly was this mango pudding jello thing. I kinda wished they served red bean soup or something but guess it’s not the case here, ah well.

So then, is Fishman Lobster Clubhouse worth it? I would say so, at least only for special occasions or if you want to impress a guest from out of town/Toronto/Canada and want to try HK style lobster and seafood. The service for a Chinese place was unusually attentive and responsive, all the staff had headsets and communicated with each other and were observant when our plates were filled with shells and needed to be replaced and whatnot. While our meal set was about $318, after tax and tip and whatnot, I think the final bill came out to just over $400, which I think is pretty comparable to the Fishmen Wharf Seafood restaurant I went to 7 years ago although less bougie overall.

But honestly, I would probably come here over Wharf simple due to the spectacle of the lobster pile and social media hype and potentially see other tables with a very high Lobster tower, in which we did see today. One table with just two woman alone ordered a huge course with a big tower, probably double our HK sized lobster tower which was a sight to behold.

Overall pretty good shit, would go again, but not for a long time; you can only eat so much lobster or crab you know. Worth it.