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PureXTC88

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Posted: June 02, 2008 - 02:33 PM
Post subject: Best Shanghainese Restaurant

Which is the best Shanghainese Restaurant? I've been to Shanghai Uncle and 1221 but wasn't overly impressed.

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Posted: June 03, 2008 - 06:44 PM

Xin Ji Shi (新吉士)
Yang's Kitchen on Hengshan Lu.
Ye Shanghai in Xintiandi.

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Posted: June 03, 2008 - 06:47 PM

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.

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Posted: June 03, 2008 - 06:48 PM

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.

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Posted: June 03, 2008 - 07:14 PM

YIN
59 Maoming Lu
In the "restaurant alley" off the grounds of the Jin Jiang Hotel
5466 5070

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Posted: June 03, 2008 - 07:15 PM

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).

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Posted: June 03, 2008 - 07:50 PM

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.

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Posted: June 04, 2008 - 04:48 AM

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.

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Posted: June 04, 2008 - 09:56 AM

jesse restaurant (old ji shi)
tel 62829260

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Posted: June 04, 2008 - 10:22 AM

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!