Paracel Seafood Restaurant & Catering

Tianbo Xu

If you've been looking to wow your guests with a multi-course Asian family style meal at the venue of your choice, for an incredible price and paired with amazing service, congratulations, your search is over. Paracel is one of very few places that will cater Asian banquet food at your venue and actually cook the food on-site in a mobile kitchen. Let me repeat. These guys actually cook the food ON SITE at YOUR VENUE. Not at their restaurant & then bring over in a box so that it's been sitting/lukewarm when dinner starts. No, it's actually served hot & fresh. Go ahead and try to find another place that does it better. I'll wait. Our journey with Paracel started in 2019 as we searched high and low in for a caterer who can serve Asian family style food for our then-2020 wedding at South Park Center in DTLA. We've also looked at Grace, Top, Panda, and Furiwa. In the end, Paracel emerged as the clear winner in terms of value and menu selection. We even sent our picky bridesmaids to do a tasting on our behalf, after which they collectively responded with two big thumbs up. When we had to ultimately postpone our wedding to 2022, Matthew the catering manager was more than understanding about moving our date. Throughout the entire 3 year process, we've bugged him with countless questions via text, emails, and phone calls. He's honestly one of the nicest people you'll ever meet and was always happy to address all our concerns quickly and thoroughly. Even when logistic hurdles arose as our big day drew close, Matt took the initiative to resolve them with our venue directly and saved us a ton of headaches. On the actual wedding day, Paracel arrived promptly to set up the mobile kitchen and all the tables. As a big surprise, Matt upgraded our standard plates to a beautiful translucent floral plate set that elevated the elegance of the entire table setting. They also moved 100 chairs for us between ceremony and reception spaces during cocktail hour, which was another gesture of goodwill that we greatly appreciated. And course, there is the food. We opted for the gold package that consisted of the 6-star platter, fish maw soup, house special lobster, the shaken beef, honey walnut shrimp, Peking duck, whole-steamed fish, yang-chow fried rice, and the fruit soup. We were only able to sample the first 4 dishes until we had to make rounds at all the tables, but all of them were delicious - with the lobster & garlic noodles being our personal favorite. To say that the food was a huge hit our guests would be a massive understatement. Many of them have told us it was simply the best dinner they've had at a wedding, or that they couldn't believe we were able to have this level of quality Asian banquet food served outside a restaurant. There was not a single guest who didn't overstuff themselves by the end of the night because the food just kept coming and coming and coming. Luckily Paracel also provided to-go boxes, so many of our guests ended up taking the leftovers home. At the end of the day, we could not have been happier to have chosen Paracel to cater our wedding. We booked them with high expectations and they absolutely knocked it out of the park with both the quality of the food and their professionalism. It had been such a pleasure working with Matthew, his father, and the entire Paracel team, and to be able to support their family business in Westminster. Thank you Paracel once again for helping make our dream wedding become a reality!

Andrea Nguyen

This place was amazing! Definitely book your event here. The owners were kind and helpful and we had such a good time. The food was fantastic too.

David Diep

Paracel Seafood Restaurant is best place to host wedding or celebration party. The food is quality and delicious. The price is unbelievable. The restaurant had up grade looking elegant and beautiful. The service is excellent. After looking at many restaurants in Los Angeles and Orange County for my son’s wedding, Paracel Seafood restaurant is only one meet our expectations in term unbelievable price, beautiful venue and excellent services. Thanks to Matthew for coordinating for whole event. This will be our family for celebration parties now and future. Recommend everyone check it out.

Christine T. Huynh

Delicious lunch with my family. The service was awesome and friendly. Thank you, Paracel Seafood Restaurants. 😋