Shanghai Restaurant - 上海小馆

Food quality, food price, and boss attitude rank last in Calgary. You can obviously grab it, but you insist on opening a restaurant. The quality of the food is ridiculously poor! With so many Chinese restaurants in Ka Village, it’s a matter of opinion as to which one is the best, but when it comes to comparison, this restaurant deserves to be ranked last!

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 1

Service: 1

This is our first visit to this new restaurant in Chinatown. We ordered noodles tossed with scallion oil with sweet and sour ribs, and braised beef noodle soup + 2 soy sauce eggs.

Service was good. Our waitress was nice and attentive - 5 stars. However, the food was disappointing. Both noodle dishes were not hot. The ribs were dry. The portion size was also very small. The eggs were good with a runny yolk center. However, they were close to fridge cold. It's not really an authentic Shanghainese restaurant. That's ok if the dishes tasted great, but they were not.

If food is what you care about most, I won't recommend this restaurant.

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 2

Service: 5

Quiet little restaurant. I ordered the noodle soup and sweet and sour ribs. All this for 15CAD I think it’s very reasonable. The food was actually pretty good! The soup was hearty and peppery like a home cook meal. The ribs was a little dry but it came on top of the sweet and sour sauce so not bad at all plus the meat just fall out of the bone! The service was quick. Menu selection was small but seems reasonable since there were only one staff working there. The staff was very friendly, she got really happy when I told her I loved the soup! Definitely go back!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: A Sweet & Sour Ribs

As a Shanghainese, to be honest I am very disappointed with all the food we ordered, I don’t think they could called themselves Shanghai restaurant.
For hygiene concern, I think they shouldn’t put the baby highchair inside the washroom. I feel bad and sorry for the parents who bring small kids to the restaurant. Overall I won’t recommend this restaurant.

Atmosphere: 2

Food: 1

Service: 3

SMALL food, RAW food. We ordered the smoked fish got 6 slices for $18.

We also got the dumplings and the pork filling was uncooked. Not coming back ?

Atmosphere: 2

Food: 1

Service: 2

A quiet lunch hour on a Thursday, quaint interior with dried-up hanging plants and equipped with polite service. The dishes were plated beautifully and are slightly higher-end prices for the size of the portions.

The dishes impressed my skeptical parent, an individual originating from Shanghai. These dishes have their stamp of approval for authentication!

The fried beancurd with enoki mushrooms is a ton better than my parent's version ?. It's a refreshing and cool dish on a hot day. The soup dumplings were a treat. They had thin dumpling skin and a satisfying amount of soup. The pan-fried buns had this nice sticky glaze on the outside with a sweet and savory taste. I'm biased against wonton soup, not my go-to dish, but we both agree it's nothing to sing about.

Would recommend the three other dishes!

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Soup Dumplings 4, Fried Beancurd with Enoki Mushrooms Peanuts Fungus 四喜烤麸

Food portion is very small. The dumpling has a sour but not fresh taste.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 2

Service: 3

Recommended dishes: Veg & Pork Wontons Soup

Very good store, the food is also good, the lady boss is very nice

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: hot & sour beef soup 酸辣牛肉汤, shanghai vegetable rice 上海菜饭, soup dumplings 4 小笼包 4

Food portion is very small. The dumpling has a sour but not fresh taste.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 2

Service: 3

Recommended dishes: vegetable & pork wontons soup wontons in soy sauce 菜肉馄炖 拌馄炖

I went there last week and tried their wontons. The taste was okay, but the cooking wine added to the meat made the meat a bit sour. That day, there were two men nearby who were chatting loudly and complaining about their colleagues. The experience was average and I left right after eating...

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 3

Service: 4

Restaurant interior is nice with decorations. Their lunch menu is limited so we tried the dry noodles (which were okay and noodles were chewy), pan fried bao (didn't taste great and meat was also uncooked), and I was expecting a different flavor for beef and sour soup but it just turned out to be hot and sour soup (white style). I felt like the flavors were just lower than average.

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 2

Service: 3

The food portion is very small compared to other restaurants, and the flavour is just ok. The only highlight is that the restaurant have a Chinese stylish renovation, thanks to the previous restaurant owner.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 4

Service: 4

Delicious and inexpensive

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Nice little place with a small but unique menu. It fills the niche in the Chinatown area. Tossed scallion noodle and the pan fried buns are not bad. The best part is the service --- the staff can speak Mandarin, Cantonese, and Shanghainese and they are very nice people. I will be back for sure to try some other items. I hope this place will stay for a long time at this location.

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Nice little place with a small but unique menu. It fills a gap in the Chinatown area. The scallion noodles and fried buns are both good. The best part is the service - the staff speak Mandarin, Cantonese and Shanghainese and are very nice people. I will definitely be back to try some other things. I hope this place stays at this location for a long time.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 4

Service: 5