Shanghai Garden

The Shanghai dumplings are very good. The fish in the fish fillets with green vegetables are soft and hot. The beef in the beef noodle soup has good flavors albeit a bit salty, and the stewed beef is well done. The amount of food is very decent and the selection on the menu are huge. We will definitely come back and try other dishes.

My family and I used to be regulars, but the owner changed and so did the staff. The new dishes are much more oily, less authentic, and smaller portions. The braised tofu with beef dish was so salty, that my family couldn't even eat 1/3 of it. The veggie "Shanghai" chow mein only had 2 ingredients: noodles and bok choy cooked with plain soy sauce and lots of oil (the authentic dish is much flavorful and has many more ingredients). All the other dishes were also way too oily to perhaps make up for lacking flavors.

This place is super busy on the weekends, even with reservation prepare to wait. And the AC inside did not work well so it was muggy with a lot of people. And since there are so many people, it was so loud that you have to shout to be heard, plus the service was bad (but that's nothing new for Chinese restaurants). Food here is mediocre Chinese food, with some special dishes like fish gluten and Chef Zhou's tofu. We tried the 10-people set menu, and it included a lot of meat/fish/protein, but not too much vegetables. I would order individual dishes instead. Advice: it's not worth the wait or the crowd. So either come early on a weekday, or skip it all together.

This is a traditional Shanghai restaurant. We were visiting San Francisco and my friend who lives in the area took us here for dinner. This place does get so busy with many customers waiting, I would suggest to book the table first if you have a large group, or go early to be ahead of crowds. I really suggest everyone to try them out if you are in town.

This is one of my very favorite restaurants. I live about an hour away, but try to eat here whenever I'm in the area. The food is authentic, the menu is extensive, and with a very wide variety of tastes. One of my favorites is Volcano Fish, which is an inexpensive fish cooked in a hot, spice broth. Service is friendly, but often a bit distant. The vast majority of clientele appear to be ethnic Chinese, which I find to often a good indicator of the quality and authenticity of the food. Seating is pretty close quarters, and at long tables that are close together. When they're busy (and they usually are), a small party is likely to be sharing a large table with another party. I find that very pleasant experience. Parking is easy in the large lot that's part of the strip mall that the restaurant is in. Menu prices are quite moderate.

My family has been here a few times and we're pretty pretty picky about our Chinese food. Their steamed pork buns (生煎包）is one of the best items on the menu and where my family likes to eat this. Their spicy fish (水煮魚） was really decent and not too spicy if you want some spice in your meal over rice. I would give them a 4/5 star rating but was not a fan of the heavy amounts of fatty pork in the Vegetable-Meat rice (菜飯）and the fact they used chicken egg yolk instead of duck egg yolk (which is traditionally how it's made) for their Egg Yolk Squash dish（鹹蛋絲瓜）. They're service is fairly fast though and there's usually long lines at this place, so I'd recommend going early. Overall, would recommend for some authentic Shanghainese food!

As a native shanghainese, I am disappointed with the three dishes I ordered - yes there is supposed to be a sweet element in some shanghainese dishes but absolutely not all. To be fair, it's not the worst I have tried. But as a shanghainese, this is a big disgrace and complete torture of people's perception of Shanghai dishes.