This is one of the best Chinese restaurants in NYC, if you only care about getting nice food but not good service.The food is very authentic. You'd better go with someone from Shanghai or somewhere close by so that you can get some good recommendations about which dishes to order. If you just want some Americanized Chinese food, such as orange chicken and Mongolian beef, don't waste your time to go to this restaurant and leave a bad review afterward. The price is fair considering the good dishes you can get here.

Had the fortune to be invited to dinner here by a program in the college I attend, so I can't say anything about the pricing, so I'll concentrate on food and service. I was with a group that encompassed 4 tables, and I sat on the much less populated vegetarian/pescetarian one. As others ravaged flesh, we helped ourselves to delectable cold appetizers, including wheat gluten, veg duck, veg chicken, edamame, vinegared veggies, tofu rolls, etc, delicious steamed dumplings, various veg including mountain yam, bok choy, wood ear mushrooms, delicious fried tofu, shrimp, a fried whole fish, a light veg soup, fried rice, fried noodles and the best eight treasures rice (ba bao fan, in mandarin) I ever had for dessert, along with the usual oranges that taste like they have sugar injected in them. The service was also remarkably good given we were a large group in an extremely crowded restaurant. They replaced tea pots within a minute of depletion, changed plates, picked up my bag when it fell off my chair, and provided us with ample take out containers for the surfeit of leftovers. I don't eat out very often in chinatown so I'm not sure how the service is usually, but overall I left very satisfied. Also impressed with the quality of vegetarian items for a non-vegetarian restaurant, I'm used to eating extremely simply in a chinese restaurant given the dearth of choices.

I don't expect impeccable service when I go eat in chinatown, but the horrible service at this place cannot go unmentioned! I've been going to eat at Chinatown joints for many years now and this place is just the worst experience ever!We came here only for the pork soup dumplings, but when the dumplings came, it did not taste like pork -- these tasted very much like crab meat . I asked the waiter in Chinese (so I know they understood what I was asking) if they gave us the pork soup dumplings, I told him that I was pregnant and I had food aversions to shell fish. He said "Yes, it's pork" ... after tasting the soup dumplings again, I know it is definitely not pork. Another waiter came by and again I inquired. This waiter said, no it doesn't look like pork, but did nothing about it. I asked a third waiter to take a look and to please bring me the right soup dumplings. At this point, almost all the wait staff decided to stand around our table and take a look at the dumplings while the entire restaurant's other customers stared! How embarrassing! They finally did bring those pork dumplings, but I already had lost my appetite.THE WORST was when the check came, I was so furious with the service that I gave them 10% tip, in my honest opinion, i don't think they deserved any tip. Tip is to show your appreciation for a job well done when you eat at a restaurant. The restaurant manager stopped us at the door and DEMANDED MORE TIP MONEY! Can't believe them! They won't let us leave until we gave them more money.This is one of my worst dining experiences in chinatown.Also, please note that anyone looking for authentic Chinese food -- this is not the place. Aside from the Soup Dumplings, all the other food is what you can expect to find at a chinese take out place at 3x the price and half the portion. This place is expensive compared to most chinese restaurants in Chinatown. If you are in the area already, I would say skip this place and find yourself elsewhere!

Great location and nice atmosphere. However, their food tasted like Chinese takeout food - where they use the same sauce for cooking. Food was very greasy. The Soup Dumpling skin was thin and good, but the meat tasted like they freeze the meat then steam it. The best Soup Dumpling should just freeze the juice and use fresh pork meats on the wrap.

it was quite expensive but had a good deal of food. i had soup dumplings, fried duck, and bamboo shoots with mushroom. wow the fried duck was good! it was like chicken fried duck. it was just the rightness of friedness, the dumplings were good but not comparable to i guess joe's. the shoots were ok too, i was hoping it was a little softer. i spent $40 with the tip included.

Terrible food! I seriously cannot believe how bad it is...I ordered Sha Cha Beef lunch special with Egg drop soup. I first tried the egg drop soup... It was really thick and goopy, almost gelatin like. I thought I ordered soup?The sha cha beef was completely flavorless. It's marked spicy on the menu, but I did not taste spicy at all. I asked 2 other girls to try it - and they agreed - not spicy at all! In fact, the only thing I tasted from the beef was the BAMBOO that was also in the dish. I don't even get how you manage to make beef not taste like beef.

Maybe it's my fault for thinking in Chinatown in NYC I would be able to pop into any restaurant and get a decent, halfway authentic Chinese meal. Maybe. But this placed sucked.I'm not a Chinese food connoisseur, but if I wanted sweet and sour pork, I'd order from the local joint around the corner. I almost walked out after walking in and seeing nothing but tourist families with kids and the bright orange sweet and sour whatever on the table next to us, but I decided to stick it out for some reason.The pork soup dumplings were a promising start. They were light, soupy and very good. The dipping sauce wasn't great, but was passable. The menu had a few hints of non-generic food. I just wanted something simple, so I went with the pan fried Shanghai noodles. What I got was a mess of vegetables and grade B meat in a bland, gloppy sauce, on top of a bed of raw, uncooked ramen. I'm not sure what the hell was going on in the kitchen, but there's no way raw ramen is part of this dish. It was disgusting. My wife got noodle soup, which had a decent broth, but otherwise was full of bland veggies and cheap ramen.I imagine there are a number of decent places in the area, so lesson learned: do some quick research before heading down, and avoid this place at all costs.

Everything is so salty and oily here! I had stir fry veggies and the dish was glistening from the oil. The fried pork chops were very crispy, but it was too salty. It was tough to eat too. The soup dumplings were delicious, but the sauce that they provided with it was very diluted. I appreciate the overall look of the restaurant. The uniforms add a fun and authentic touch. However, the food is definitely not authentic Shanghainese food.