This place is the best Shanghai food I've ever had. For those that have not had this type of food, it's great for sharing.
1. xiaolongbao. It is this tiny round dumpling with a piece of moist ground meat mixed with spices swimming in it's juices inside the dumpling skin. The skin is so thin and has just the right about of al dente. Perfectly steamed and always comes up hot. Goes really well with a little red vinegar and a touch a ginger.
2. beef tendon with spicy noodles in soup. The soup base is so powerful and with all the spices. Few have noticed but this is one of the few places that put veggies in our soup.
3. preserved cabbage with pork and rice cake. This dish is sweet, and sour and salty and it just bounces off your palette like a ping pong ball. The rice cakes are nice and chews, pork brings out the sweet and the preserved cabbage add the sour and salty. It's perfect.
4. pan fried meat dumpling. It's exactly like the xiaolongbao but it's long with thicker dumpling skin and fried perfectly on the bottom. The stuffing is the exact stuffing they use in the xiaolongbao. This dish is so good.
5. onion pancake. OMG it's crunchy! Salty and chewy in the middle. It's packed full of green onions, the most amount of onions I've ever had in this type of dish. My mouth just waters thinking of this dish. If you're not that hungry it makes a great snack. Just order take-out.