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The Best OF Shanghai - Best Shanghainese Restaurant
PureXTC88 - June 02, 2008 - 02:33 PM
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Which is the best Shanghainese Restaurant? I've been to Shanghai Uncle and 1221 but wasn't overly impressed.
canuckian - June 03, 2008 - 06:44 PM
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Xin Ji Shi (新吉士)
Yang's Kitchen on Hengshan Lu.
Ye Shanghai in Xintiandi.
mat - June 03, 2008 - 06:47 PM
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Isn't that a bit like asking what is the best American Restaurant?

The food in both instances is just an absolute friggin tasteless greasy mess.
mat - June 03, 2008 - 06:48 PM
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As crap as the stuff is, i assume the one on Fumin Lu near Changle Lu is pretty good. Always busy. It looks like a little hole in the wall from the front, but it's friggin huge inside.
ThomasCaron - June 03, 2008 - 07:14 PM
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YIN
59 Maoming Lu
In the "restaurant alley" off the grounds of the Jin Jiang Hotel
5466 5070

Scroll down for update.
shanghaithunder - June 03, 2008 - 07:15 PM
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Mat, Do you mean Bao Luo (Polo)? Phone Number: +86 21 5403 7239
Address: 271 Fumin Lu?

The food there used to be fabulous but has gone slightly down hill recently.

Still the signature dishes are the Swiss Steak (tender, succulent and served with a sweet lemon sauce,you tiao haixian(Chinese doughnuts stuffed with seafood) , sheng jian (Shanghanese local fried bread dumplings) and the kao maiyu baked eel. Yummers!

Bring a Chinese person with you as the English menu does NOT do the dishes justice (so many more dishes are offered in Chinese one).
Humac - June 03, 2008 - 07:50 PM
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shanghaithunder wrote:
Mat, Do you mean Bao Luo (Polo)? Phone Number: +86 21 5403 7239
Address: 271 Fumin Lu?

The food there used to be fabulous but has gone a down hill recently.

Still the signature dishes are the Swiss Steak (tender and served with a sweet lemon sauce,you tiao haixian(Chinese doughnuts stuffed with seafood) , sheng jian (Shanghanese local fried bread dumplings) and the kao maiyu baked eel kao maiyu. Yummers!

Bring a Chinese person with you as the English menu does NOT do the dishes justice (so many more dishes are offered in Chinese language.


If it's gone downhill then I wish I'd found it sooner. Ate there a couple of times in the past three weeks and it was fabulous. But you're right about having a Chinese speaker with you. Tried to eat there again on a couple of Saturdays but it was full to overflowing with a queue outside.
qshell - June 04, 2008 - 04:48 AM
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Right cross the street from Bao Luo, there is "Ah Mao" which is pretty good too. Bao Luo is popular, but their cooking and presentation is on the rough side, whereas "Ah Mao" is a little more refined.
kumlong - June 04, 2008 - 09:56 AM
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jesse restaurant (old ji shi)
tel 62829260

http://www.dianping.com/shop/500702
PureXTC88 - June 04, 2008 - 10:22 AM
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Ah yes I've been to Bao Luo (Polo), I thought it was only OK. But Ur right, it is always busy but I haven't been there in a while. Thanks for the replies, keep them coming!
canuckian - June 04, 2008 - 09:19 PM
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Older thread, same topic: Best Shanghainese Restaurant in Town?
puhlease - July 23, 2008 - 06:20 PM
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I'm not sharing.
SnappySammy - Aug 20, 2008 - 09:50 PM
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mat wrote:
Isn't that a bit like asking what is the best American Restaurant?

The food in both instances is just an absolute friggin tasteless greasy mess.


It's a little sad.
sapphire57 - July 02, 2009 - 11:04 PM
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qshell wrote:
Right cross the street from Bao Luo, there is "Ah Mao" which is pretty good too. Bao Luo is popular, but their cooking and presentation is on the rough side, whereas "Ah Mao" is a little more refined.


Ah Mao..>> ? They serve the favourite dishes of Mao Ze Dong ?
Andreas - July 02, 2009 - 11:30 PM
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I'd stick to KFC
dfoo - July 02, 2009 - 11:34 PM
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xiao nan guo
cankles - July 02, 2009 - 11:58 PM
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Shanghainese friends - presumably who know their stuff - have taken me to Bao Luo as mentioned above and Homes.

Homes - 791 Julu Lu - 54030010

Personally, I liked Homes better.
neverboring - Aug 25, 2009 - 11:03 AM
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Bao Luo's food is terrible and I'm not sure why the locals flock there. I know the history and have been several times and I can tell you that it's subpar Shanghainese food, even when taking the relatively low prices into the equation.

I usually go to the restaurant on the northeast corner of Jinxian and Shanxi a lot (on Jinxian, a few doors down from Osteria). Great place, great prices, decent service, but VERY limited seating. It's better than the one that's always packed a few blocks south (on Shanxi just a bit south of Changle).

For something a bit more upscale, I think Xiao Nan Guo is actually pretty good. Pricey food, but the ingredients, service, and atmosphere are all topnotch.
wigglesmalibu - Sep 21, 2009 - 04:25 PM
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neverboring wrote:
Bao Luo's food is terrible and I'm not sure why the locals flock there. I know the history and have been several times and I can tell you that it's subpar Shanghainese food, even when taking the relatively low prices into the equation.

I usually go to the restaurant on the northeast corner of Jinxian and Shanxi a lot (on Jinxian, a few doors down from Osteria). Great place, great prices, decent service, but VERY limited seating. It's better than the one that's always packed a few blocks south (on Shanxi just a bit south of Changle).

For something a bit more upscale, I think Xiao Nan Guo is actually pretty good. Pricey food, but the ingredients, service, and atmosphere are all topnotch.


If you can recommend specific dishes that would be great.
dr3x320 - Sep 23, 2009 - 09:43 PM
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dfoo wrote:
xiao nan guo


This is the correct answer.

As the commercial says:

"Shanghai Taste, Shanghai #1". Located across Jing An Temple, minimal parking. The best original Food that is restaurant based. But 1 rung under the elite Food you get from the "Shanghainese Home Cooked meals in a family home with 4 tables and you eat what the owner cooks".
Abramis - Sep 23, 2009 - 09:59 PM
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Most time I would not bother with Shanghainese food.
However, If I would go eating local food, one good place would be Yuan Yuan on Tai'an & Xingguo lu corner.
rr1088 - Oct 02, 2009 - 10:31 AM
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Flash forward to reality. I went to Bao Luo specifically based on this post, and gave it several chances but it can NOT be mentioned as best of anything. The food was totally uninspired and tasteless, but the last straw was when they served everything but the xiao long bao and 1.5 hours later after we'd finished eating still hadn't served it. But they tried to refuse to give us the bill till it came out, saying "it's just coming". Finally they gave in but never again.

Xiao Nan Guo all the way.
ThomasCaron - Oct 02, 2009 - 11:44 AM
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YIN has relocated to Four Hengshan Lu, near Wulumuqi Lu, on the second floor of a block-length clutch of restaurants. Their lease in the alley off the grounds of the Jinjiang Hotel ran out a few months ago and they couldn't afford to renew it. On the inside the Old Shanghai decor remains intact, only in a smaller setting. In a way it's more cozy, because less spread out. The likes of Louis Armstrong and Billie Holiday still take up the tunes. The biggest difference is knowing that you're not really inside an authentically old Shanghai building, like before. The food is still great; maybe even better than ever. Shanghai style, but light on the sugar and oil. (If that's an oxymoron, so be it.) Had the best jellyfish I've ever tasted, their signature and scrumptious ba bao ya, and a delicious fish. My girlfriend, who never knew the old place, loved it. 5466 5070.
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