Editors' note: This story was reported and written before Royal Capital Seafood closed in October of 2022.
ROYAL CAPITAL Seafood Restaurant, located in the Little Saigon district of Garden Grove, California, is a chandelier-studded Teochew-style palace of oceanic delights. Walk through its doors on any weekend and you’ll see servers navigating the congested dining room, carrying platters of lobster, crab, fish, and shrimp that were just minutes ago swimming in one of the restaurant’s many holding tanks.
Of the menu’s more than 200 items, the standouts are the house special seafood dishes. What they all have in common is their
