Shanghai River Restaurant

Excellent flavors. The set menu was excellent, balanced, tasty, and hot. The flavors varied from subtle complex soups and fried rice to explosions of rich broth dumplings and crispy sweet ribs. Perfect black sesame balls topped this wonderful meal. We couldn't eat it all so some came home with s, a later treat!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Food was amazing, great service and staff.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Excellent food, excellent service. Best authentic Chinese food you can get in Vancouver. And friendly staff. Can't wait to come back!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Amazing Chinese food! Approved! Hope the shop could be larger so it fits more people at once :)

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

I had few out of town guests come to visit. I wanted to show off how great the Chinese foods are in Richmond. The waiter upsold me the fresh life fish so I can impress my guests. However, as you can see from the pictures, we were not able to pick the fish meat off the bones. After the waiter helped us take the bones out, the fish was broken up in tiny pieces. We ended up using the spoon to eat the fish. Anyway, the dish was a disappointment for the famous life fish costs $88 CAD.

Food: 3

Service: 2

Service was okay and the decor is nice, but food is very mediocre. Not too flavourful and few options include a healthy potion of vegetables.

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 2

Service: 3

Solid 3
Very mid, some dishes are definitely not as good as before. Like the normally crispy bing was soft and fell apart.

Dumplings are just ok. You can really taste the oil in the chinese doughnut

Do not recommend

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 3

Service: 5

Always awesome, foods taste great all the time. We usually order take out but this time was dine in and they never disappoint. We are a long time customer for years and will always come back for Shanghai food. Service is also great!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Today I came in for food, and the gentleman in the front that was greeting everyone basically denied me, and asked if I had reservations. I told him, no.
Everyone that walked in got in right away. I thought that was rude and disrespectful the food is good but, they don't really seem that busy but, maybe they are since it Sunday.
So, I ordered food to go and the gal took my order and was really nice. She told me it going told me it's going to be 10mins or so, and the guy upped the time and told me 20mins. I just shake my head. I really love coming into Canada but, I don't know if I will return to the restaurant anytime soon

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 4

Service: 1

Be sure to reserve ahead, seating area is comfortable, services is excellent and this Shanghai food is probably the best in town. Plenty of free parking. Highly recommend.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Being a busy restaurant, so it's a bit noisy.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 5

Good food!

Excellent Shanghai food! Good selections!!!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

The pork belly is spectacular.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 4

All dishes were well done - wine chicken very soft and smooth. Vegetarian duck - crispy bean curd, dumplings and buns were juicy, and the oyster rice soup was a surprise - it was 3 whole oysters instead of chopped up ones. The only disappointment was the red bean dessert - the crust was soggy and not enough red beans.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 4

Service: 4