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jn78

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Posted: Apr 28, 2008 - 06:24 PM
Post subject: Shanghainese food??

Any good Shanghainese restaurants to recommend? Smile

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Posted: Apr 28, 2008 - 07:19 PM

rui fu yuan on jin xian lu (close to shan xi lu). If you don't read/speak Chinese it may be hard to order tho.

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Posted: Apr 28, 2008 - 07:21 PM

YIN
59 Maoming Nan Lu (by Chengle Lu)
Tucked in alley off the grounds of the Jinjiang Hotel.
5466 5070

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Posted: Apr 28, 2008 - 09:33 PM

Jade Garden

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Posted: Apr 28, 2008 - 10:26 PM

Langyifang (廊亦舫）
xiaonanguo（小南国）
lulu （鹭鹭）
shanghai renjia (上海人家)

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Posted: Apr 29, 2008 - 08:53 AM

留园 141 shanxi nan road tel: 34060379

Batavia

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Posted: Apr 29, 2008 - 09:04 AM

Jesse Restaurant
41 Tian Ping Road
6282 9260

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Posted: Apr 29, 2008 - 10:14 AM

Agree with dfoo, RuiFu Yuan is a pretty decent choice, used to be the "regular" after-coffee meeting lunch spot for years. I think they have another location on Moa Min near Fuxing Rd.

I like Paul's, (Bao Luo) on FuMing Rd. Its just mainstream enough for tourists and expats and yet local enough to give everyone a decent taste of how Shanghai foods are, good and bad.

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Posted: Apr 29, 2008 - 10:39 AM

v hard to get a table in jesse. u got to book days in advance esp for wkends

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Posted: Apr 29, 2008 - 10:45 AM

Shanghai Restaurant
4th Floor - Times Square
Huai Hai Road

expensive but fabulous cooking

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Posted: Apr 29, 2008 - 10:45 AM

We discovered Fu 1088 (375 Zhenning Lu, near Yuyuan Lu 镇宁路375号, 近愚园路) a couple of weeks ago - very good!

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Posted: Apr 29, 2008 - 10:55 AM

For those of u who read chinese

http://www.dianping.com/shop/579071

jn78

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Posted: Apr 29, 2008 - 02:26 PM

Globus: I heard about a Fu 1039, is it the same as the one you recommended? Did I make a mistake with the numbers? Smile

Anyway, thanks for all the replies! Also heard about lao ji shi (62829260) and lan gui fang (62740084). Any comments on these restaurants?

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Posted: Apr 29, 2008 - 02:50 PM

lao ji shi is jesse. only a few tables crammed in a semi 2 storey place. v v good food but hard to get a table. jesse is v much better than xin ji shi.

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Posted: Apr 29, 2008 - 02:54 PM

if u read chinese

http://www.dianping.com/shop/500340

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Posted: Apr 30, 2008 - 10:51 AM

jn78: Fu1088 and Fu1039 aren't the same, I had a reservation mix up and found out the hard way. 1039 does a very tasty Hongshaorou.

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Posted: Apr 30, 2008 - 03:00 PM

Batavia wrote:

Jesse Restaurant
41 Tian Ping Road
6282 9260

Agreed it is not great looking and is quite small, but many of the famous dine there when they are in town. Or try Lynne on Xikang Lu opposite Plaza 66, nicer surroundings plus the menu is geared more in favour of the Laowai.

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jn78

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Posted: Apr 30, 2008 - 09:00 PM

Doesn't Lynne offer Cantonese dishes? Heard it has good dimsum buffet in the weekends.

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Posted: May 01, 2008 - 12:15 AM

^ It does I think, only had a couple of evening dinners there and have not tried their buffet yet. I think Swiss James did a report on that a while back.

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Posted: May 05, 2008 - 09:15 PM

kumlong wrote:

For those of u who read chinese

http://www.dianping.com/shop/579071

It's like this. I eat Chinese much better then I read Chinese

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Posted: May 05, 2008 - 11:06 PM

Shanghai Old Restaurant (Shanghai Lao Fan Dian) in Old City Temple (cheng huang miao) is very good--classical Shanghai dishes. Expensive (the eel), and slow, but Gosh, the food is terrific!

Several other restaurants on Jin Xian Road---Lan Cun. And the one in Old Jinjiang hotel (sorry forgot the name).

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Posted: May 06, 2008 - 11:06 AM

Bao Luo is my fav
as for first time visitors show them the real part of shanghai..... can be fun

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Posted: May 06, 2008 - 11:09 AM

Bao Luo is my fav
as for first time visitors show them the real part of shanghai..... can be fun

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Posted: May 06, 2008 - 03:21 PM

btbt wrote:

Bao Luo is my fav
as for first time visitors show them the real part of shanghai..... can be fun

I really like that place to but you have to avoid the bus loads of chinese tourists they have every now and then. And on the weekends I always see someone throwing up from too much Bai Jiu in the bathrooms.

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Posted: May 11, 2008 - 08:13 PM

SH Mag ran a good review of Paradise Garden in the mall adjacent to the Jinmao tower http://www.shmag.cn/review/utopia_1. We ourselves haven't made time to go over the river to check them out yet, but I generally trust SH reviews.

Cheers,

Globus

PS to Jn 78: I believe the numeric question has been answered already. We've been only to Fu 1088, I think that the other one is run by the same management.