
At Old Shanghai, we want to provide an authentic Shanghai dishes in an environment that will make you smile. Explore our wide selection of dishes that we made from purely natural raw materials prepared solely according to the recipes of our ancestors. With hard work and commitment to quality, we welcome you to enjoy our delicious food and family atmosphere.
Basic Chinese restaurant for classic steamed buns, plus noodles, fried rice & other familiar dishes.
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Address: 133 Broad Ave, Palisades Park, NJ 07650
Phone: (201) 482-8088
Website: http://www.oldshanghaisd.com/
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Highly recommend it!
I’m nowhere near an expert when it comes to soup dumplings, but I know what I love about these – thin but expertly wrapped dumpling skins that manage to contain lots of hot, sippable soup and a tasty meat filling. They come six to an order and come to your table in hot, steamy bamboo baskets. On each table, there are pour bottles of soy sauce, vinegar, and chili oil to make your version of a perfect dipping sauce.
I’m also a major fan of the string beans here. They’re flash fried in hot wok oil to a perfect tenderness with just a tad of fermented funk. These are far and away my favorite way to enjoy string beans, and Old Shanghai doesn’t disappoint.
There were a few but major pitfalls with our dinner. One was ordering the beef with peppers as one of our main entrees. We were enticed by the pictures (both on the menu and on the front window when we came in). But in a major catfishing swap out, we were given a platter that was mainly shredded peppers with a little beef. The peppers were also so spicy that we were shoveling mouthfuls of rice with every morsel.
That led to the second snag with our meal. We were given a little bowl of rice with that entree, and after chowing quickly through it, we unthinkingly asked for another. At the end of our meal, we nearly choked to find that they’d charged a whopping $2.50 for the tiny serving. Ya’ll, I know food costs are rising, but that hurt a little.
Those quibbles aside, I’m still dreaming about those soup dumplings and when I can have them again. Service is somewhat cold but frighteningly fast and efficient.
Otherwise the food here is absolutely delicious – highly recommend the cucumber salad, soup dumplings, chili shrimp, and their fried rice dishes. On busy days, the restaurant can feel very loud and overstimulating. The salad and soup dumplings came out super fast, but the other dishes took a while.
The soup dumplings were actually better, and there were more menu selections. Other than the soup dumplings, all other food tasted pretty much the same as other Chinese restaurants and to me that’s not a bad thing.
The place was much quieter than Soup Dumpling Plus so extra star for that. It’s a BYOB but beer and wine only.