My wife and I were hosting two exchange high-school students from Shanghai and they had been disappointed in not finding authentic Chinese food. I interpret that as most of what we call "Chinese" here is not only food restyled for the tastes of us gaijin (foreigners) but the typical Cantonese style food that has been the usual "Chinese" here for decades.
On a drive through Las Vegas Chinatown, one of our "adopted daughters" noticed a sign in Chinese that said, "Shanghai Restaurant" and asked if we could try it. Well, that was a good suggestion. The place doesn't look like much from the outside, but the interior is quite pleasant. All the other customers were speaking Chinese, so that's a good sign.
The staff was friendly and even gregarious, the service spot-on. When I dropped my knife on the floor, I was handed a replacement in about the time you could say "I dropped my knife."
Our students ordered Shanghai chicken, rice soup, fish soup, noodles, dim sum dumplings, shrimp, fried eggplant and I don't know what else. My wife wanted pork potstickers, I thought the sizzling beef sounded good, and for our daily vegetable we got the green beans with potato.
OK, the potstickers were good; the beef was indeed sizzling, with onions and chunks of bell peppers - think of Chinese fajitas. Yummy! The vegetable dish was like fresh string beans with French fries in a Hoisin sauce or similar. I thought it was exceptional. In fact, the students insisted we come back for lunch the next day.
Prices can add up if you are ordering individual dishes in the Chinese way of doing things, but they have an American-style $6,99 lunch special that is very much a bargain. This is truly delicious and authentic Shanghai-style food and I would give them six stars if I could.