SILVER PEARL - Cabramatta, New South Wales

Gina

Attended a wedding reception at Silver Pearl. Really large servings! Abalone were massive, lobsters were meaty.
Food was tasty, though the 4stars is for the let down in service...staff were inconsistent with serving guests and don't seem to keen in doing their job....

Jackie McMillan

For the amount we spend feeding people at weddings, it’s hard to understand why function food is generally so bland and disappointing. Surely, in multicultural Sydney, we can do better than alternate plates of tepid chicken and beef? The re-imagined Silver Pearl in Cabramatta set a new wedding benchmark for me last week, when, along with four hundred guests including Fairfield City Council Mayor, Frank Carbone, I got treated to a peek at what this renovated function space can do.

With a daggy glass door entrance on Cabramatta’s main drag, Silver Pearl has been part of the local landscape for twenty-five years. The recent spruce-up makes for a wonderful reveal when, after climbing the stairs, you enter into an opulent crystal chandelier-heavy predominately white space, painted using lights with washes of colour. Styled by Anna Wang, the room gave us a taste of just what is possible for your special night!

Under autumnal trees adorned with fairy lights and candles, Creamed Cakery and Sweet Obsessions’ moist cupcakes and dessert canapes were expertly arranged by Juls & Co Events into a whimsical dessert bar, with trays of cupcakes dangling from the branches.

From the Silver Pearl kitchen that specialises in Asian seafood banquets, friendly floor staff with small squares of expertly-handled suckling pig. Tiny cups of fish maw and crab soup were a viscous, creamy delight after coming in from the cold, wintery night.

A raw seafood bar held trays of freshly shucked Pambula oysters alternately adorned with wasabi dressing, bright blue scampi caviar and juicy arms of beach bananas. My favourite spoonful took scorched green lip abalone and delicate coral trout sashimi and teamed it with a ginger and shallot relish, white soy and bursting pearls of salmon roe. I went back three times to check it really was my favourite canape, too.

Vegetarian guests were not forgotten with little bamboo boats of silken tofu adored with house-made vegetarian XO sauce, soy bean floss and crisp wonton skin. In between popping pliable Peking duck pancakes with pickled yuzu cucumber and crisp chicken skin into my mouth from clever cones (so they didn't drip) I kept returning to the raw seafood bar. Silver Pearl's local suppliers saw me enjoy kingfish and salmon sashimi with ponzu dressing, and even better briny spoonfuls of freshly shucked sea urchin roe.

In a hyper-modern, multicultural mash-up, the entertainment came courtesy of the Qing Fong Lion Dance Team, Cdarz Entertainment and the Dani B Band. Arabic drumming met with Chinese lion dancers on the glistening white dancefloor surrounded by a ring of smokeless fountains. Big smiles abounded on guests and performers alike. Once the dance floor cleared, the super-competent Vietnamese wedding band, the Dani B Band, even got a jaded crowd of suppliers and hospitality professionals dancing like they were at the best Chinese-Arabic-Viet wedding ever. A new wedding benchmark has definitely been set by Silver Pearl.

Andrew Phan

Good place for a wedding although it seemed like staff was keen to wrap up at the end of the night. Other than that food was really good as the venue was decent enough

Liv S

Went here for Valentine’s Day, amazing food and service. Although today they were under staffed and the food came out slow. It was worth the wait.

Nicole Chan

Hanh and her team at Silver Pearl saved my wedding! I originally booked with another Asian catering team to do a Chinese banquet for my wedding, however I couldn't get a menu tasting with them until 1 month before my wedding date. We did the menu tasting with this other company and it went terribly.
That's when I called Hanh at 10pm to ask if there was any way she could cater for my very large wedding with very little notice.
Although Hanh's external catering teams were already booked, she called in favours and managed to find enough staff to make a new catering team to cater for my 270 guests.
She also managed to source very specific produce to satisfy the demands of my family who are also in the hospitality industry.
Silver Pearl honestly served great quality dishes. Everyone raved on about how good the food was, and how big the portions were. It was great to hear that our guests left with not only full stomachs, but leftovers to take home as well.
Hanh knew that I was under a lot of stressed from the whole ordeal with my venue and the catering. She went above and beyond to personally oversee everything went smoothly, even talking to me on the phone for hours, and offering pieces of advice that were extremely helpful. Hanh is such a honest and genuine person who loves weddings, I honestly can't thank her and her team enough for saving our wedding!

nicole long

SilverPearl provided offsite catering for my wedding in December 2023. Hanh was so easy to work with and your communication was on top. She was always so supportive and helpful and met every request that we had and made sure leading up to the wedding that we were doing ok.

We got the best of the best from the food to the service. We received so many compliments from our guests regarding the food and service and everything turned out perfectly.

Hanh and the team at Silver Pearl really do go above and beyond to meet all their clients need and making sure the process is as stress-free as possible whilst serving high quality seafood.

Thank you Hanh and the team for everything you guys did on our wedding day <3

Phuongie Nguyen

Thanks to Hanh and the staff there for organising everything for our client. I came in to do the deco & balloons, and they had the backdrop ready to go. Helps the customers save money in the long run. Good food & service also of course!

Jeannie Vo

We had our wedding here last month in October 2023 and I can only rave on about our experience. From my first enquiry with Hanh, I had a good feeling about her and I was right. She was so easy to communicate with throughout the process and very accomodating to what I needed. She definitely took a lot of the stress out of planning a wedding because she knew so much and was able to help us out a lot. On the night, the food was SO GOOD and it's often hard to please your uncles and aunties, but everyone raved on about how good the food was and how big the portions were. I highly recommend hosting your wedding here or even just going to dinner here!