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A little restaurant that can easily be missed save for its bright yellow awning. I've been here a few times for lunch and always appreciate their simple, yet courteous service. The server is a cute little old lady with limited English. The menu has a large assortment of northern Chinese dishes and of course the staple item: siu long bao. The sui long bao's are smaller here but very good and fresh. My personal favourite is the beef roll wrap, perfectly flavoured beef with fried flour wrap...num! The value is reasonable but not 'cheap' by any standards. Ambiance is very simple with rectangular tables for groups of two's, four's, and sixes. Smallish place with a capacity of about 40 seats. Very commendable for a quaint mom 'n pop place that is conveniently located.
Recommended
A great pllace for good valued Shanghai food on Main. Went here for lunch and it's run by 2 sisters in the front and their husband(s) in the kitchen. Tried the steamed dumplings and they are very good. Juicy and thin skinned. The beef rolls in green onion pancakes are very good as well as the pan friend dumplings. Ordered a family style chicken soup where they put 1/2 a chicken in soup with mushrooms etc, very good. The only poor part of the lunch were the soup noodles. The Tan Tan noodles were just OK. Soup was good but the noodles were not. Good service, friendly but bare bones ambiance. Will go for cheap eats again.
Mrs. C and I took the usual dinner gang out for Shanghainese food, and this place certainly delivered. The restaurant didn't look like much, and it was not exactly posh, but it was clean, including the w/c. The menu was quite extensive and it took a long time to decide on our order. The staff seemed friendly and efficient, and our server helped us choose some of their signature dishes.
We ordered a variety of dishes including about 3 different kinds of Shanghai dumplings, Shanghai noodles (of course) kung pao prawns, mu shu pork, eggplant with garlic, eel with bean sprouts, steamed bread, and sticky rice with dried pork. All the food was very tasty and hot when it arrived. The portion sizes were big, and the price was cheap for what you got. By the end of the meal we were stuffed full of good food and filled with contentment.
We will be back soon!
The 5 of us were there on a Thursday evening. We ordered xiao long bao, salted soya bean 'soup', stir-fried rice cakes, beef pancake rolls, bok choi with bean curd, and a chunky fish soup (can't remember the name - I only remember it's item #104 ;-). I tried all dishes except the beef rolls -- my companion said they were a bit cold (colder than they were supposed to be). The xiao long bao were very well made - the skin was excellent in textile & thickness. They were not too salty & quick juicy.
I like all other dishes I tried, except the soya bean soup - it's very disappointing that they didn't use pickled vegetable ('zha choi') in it! The chinese donut pieces could have been chunkier & crunchier. All dishes were in very good portions - not overwhelmingly huge but they fill us up perfectly.
The homey atmosphere of this tiny restaurant, along with the very friendly lady that served us food (who appeared to be the owner as well), made it a comfortable place for both family dinner & people dining alone - I noticed that there were a couple of people that dined alone there, while there were 2 tables of family diners.
Oh yes, the tea they served is quite fragrant - I like it very much.
We went to this restaurant on Monday evening for dinner. The place is a small, mom and pop place. We ordered Xiao Long Bao (Shanghai dumplings), Beef pan cake rolls, crispy rice in hot and sour soup and Spinach with dried shrimp dish. The food was really delicious. I liked all the dishes except the Spinach. Next time, I will order different vegetable dish. Overall, we really enjoy the food. I will go back again and recommend others to give it a try.
I absolutely love this place! Of course, they have the odd dish here and there that may be found better someplace else, however, I find the motherly nature of the owner just a treat. This restaurant hand makes the best xiao long bao (Shanghainese steamed dumplings) this city has to offer, in my humble opinion.
Another favourite is the "gao choi hup" - chive box, roughly translated?
The atmosphere of the restaurant (ie, decoration, quality of furniture, etc) is rough but please do not let this sway you from visiting this wonderful restaurant.
After some good word of mouth from friends and reading other reviews, we thought we'd try this restaurant out. I'm always on the lookout for restaurants that are kid-friendly, food and tolerance wise. It's a very small restaurant, very spartan in decor/ambiance but to be expected as it looks to be a simple mom/pop operation. The waitress, who I think might have been the owner, was very polite, friendly and made some dinner suggestions. We asked for the Shanghai Fried Rice Cakes (which you dont find in a lot of Shanghai Restaurants but were told that they didnt have any more today) So we ended up with the following: steamed dumplings (xiao loong bao) which were juicy but smaller in size than expected but DadaMao said were pretty tasty; spicy deep fried beans, which were actually not so spicy and MiniMao, who's 2, ate happily; shanghai pan fried thick noodles, which wasnt too greasy but a bit bland (but again, worked for MiniMao); deep fried pancake with beef roll, of which the pancake was tough and IMHO a bit overpriced for what we received; and pork with chilli and garlic sauce, which we both thought was the best dish. Overall it was $40 for the 2.5 of us, not really cheap for the food that we ordered but about average. Would we go back again - yes - to try the dan dan noodles and shanghai pan fried cakes (if available)
This is a great, easily overlooked restaurant at Main and 22nd. It serves authentic Shanghainese food in a atmosphere that can fittingly be described only as "like a chinese restaurant". Which is to say, they are hoping to impress you with their food, rather than with gimmicky decor, and they succeed.
We were served by whom we believe is the owner. She was friendly and efficient.
We ordered:
Xiao Long Bao (steamed pork dumplings): This is a Shanghainese staple, everyone orders it. They were done perfectly with nice skin and flavourful juice inside.
Pan fried dumplings: These dumplings are made in a more traditional style than the ones above with a meat/choi filling. Tasty and large!
Hung Siu Ow Yuk Mein (brown noodle beef soup): Another good dish. It is a hard dish to find (outside of Richmond at least!). Although there was less meat than we expected, the broth and noodles were quite well done.
Shanghainese fried rice cakes: A dish made up of thick, medallion-cut noodles with cabbage and some meat. Again, this dish (the noodles in particular) is not common. Luckily it was well-done and a treat to be able to eat it.
Overall, for these four dishes it came to about $30 with tip. We took half of the rice cakes home as leftovers and were quite full.
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