On my never-ending quest to find the Shanghainese restaurant, I ventured into Yu Garden, a newly opened Shanghainese Restaurant on the corner of Valley and Del Mar. Yu Garden is so new, it still has the new car smell. The walls are decorated with faux molding, the menus are still lacking the stickiness of well-worn [...]
The city of Wenzhou may not be known for their cuisine like other parts of China, but I was still excited to learn about a restaurant which supposedly has dishes from Wenzhou. Ding’s Garden is also known as Savory Garden and also known as 大合卤味 — it all depends on which sign and menu [...]
Attention! I’ve just gotten out of a time traveling vehicle from the past to bring you xiao long bao showdown! So what if I missed the xlb bandwagon a few years ago? I still enjoy the dangerously hot soup dumplings.
Din Tai Fung is many people’s go-to spot for these dumplings, but not me. The restaurant [...]
Previously, I wrote about Spring Wave in a Shanghainese Showdown but I didn’t write about all the dishes I got at the restaurant that night. It wasn’t fair to compare two restaurants when I ordered a number of other dishes from one of them but not the other, so I saved most of the [...]
I knew something was up when I visited my usual Shanghainese spot, Mei Long Village on a weekday night and it was literally empty when I walked in. A couple weeks later, I learned that yes, there was a new Shanghainese restaurant only a few blocks away. Through some mis-communication about Shanghainese restaurants in San [...]
As much as I like Shanghainese food, I was getting a little tired of alternating between Mei Long Village and Shanghai Xiao Chi every time I have a craving for it, so it came as pleasant news when I heard about Wang Jia Sha. The small restaurant is further east and north of where I [...]
It’s easy to miss this hole-in-the-wall restaurant with its generic name and bland red awning, but Shanghai Xiao Chi serves up tasty Shanghai dishes on par with that of better known Shanghai restaurants such as Mei Long Village.
We started off with a traditional Shanghai appetizer called kao fu. The kao fu was soft, chewy, [...]
