Wooooo this is nearly a month old, Dec 29th was the day I visited No.1 Shanghai Cuisine because we went for Kevin’s 21st birthday!

The interior is not a typical Chinese restaurant setup. There are booth seats and strange decorations…most likely remnants of the lounge that used to reside here. Like true Chinese business owners, they probably decided to save money on redecoration costs and leave the place as it.

I had no hand in ordering anything, so taking a picture of the print out of what was ordered is handy, both at the time and later when I would post about it. There’s just no way I would remember the names of some dishes if I didn’t have this to refer to! This is going to be a picture intensive post with very little text for description because I’m lazy and honestly can’t remember much about the dishes…

From near to far, Braised Gluten w/ MR (what’s MR?!), Chicken w/ Wine Sauce and Fried Vegetarian Roll.

Shanghai Style Smoked Fish

Shanghai Style Juicy Pork Bun, or more commonly known as… Xiao Long Bao.

Edit, as requested by Melody, some detail about the XLB. Far as I can remember, the skin was thin but held its contents well, in this case, hot scalding meat soup.  To date, I still think the best XLB I’ve had (in the Lower Mainland) are at Shanghai River.

Spare Ribs w/ Vinegar, kind of like sweet and sour ribs.

Steamed Chicken Soup. Oh this was good, and this was only a small serving for the 8 of us! I would come back and just order this for myself.

Braised Lamb in Hot Pot

Fried Glutinous Rice Cakes

Smoked Duck

Lazy post from me, check. It’s also cause I’m not a fan of writing about Chinese restaurants cause there’s SO much to write about.