Shanghai Bamboo House

933 W Duarte Rd, Monrovia
(626) 574-5960

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Lisa Qian

One of my favorite Shanghainese restaurants! It is kind of a hole in the wall place. No frills, waiters speak little English, but are helpful enough.

What I always get is the braised pig knuckle in brown sauce. Deep fried, then braised for hours. It is the best! The meat is so tender it falls off the bone with a fork. It’s served with spinach or bokchoy, a big dish that can feed a family of four just by itself!

I also like their seaweed fish and duck stuffed with sticky rice (requires advanced reservation).

Shanghai Bamboo house delivers on price and unique southern Chinese flavors. I highly recommend it if you’re a fan of Shanghainese cuisine.

Atmosphere: 2

Food: 5

Service: 3

Recommended dishes: 八寶鴨 Eight Treasure Duck Order 24hr in Advance

Danny Wu

The taste of real Shanghainese cuisine

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Bill Blanco

This place is one of those restaurants your glad you found. The food is unique compare to others and so delicious. Highly recommend it!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

忻惠國(忻惠國)

Shanghai local cuisine

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 4

Service: 4

Recommended dishes: 鱔魚

Jeff Laun

This place is certainly not catering to Caucasians. Everything was weird.We got seated right away and were given one menu. When we asked for second menu after trying to get the waitress attention for over 5 minutes she almost laughed about how silly we were needing two menus and didn't bring one.It was impossible to get the non English speaking waitresses attention the whole evening. She and the other waitress never even looked over in our direction the entire evening except when bringing the food to our table.I tried for 10 minutes to get her attention to get the check, but it was like we were invisible. I finally walked up to the counter to get the check otherwise we might still be there.

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 3

Service: 1

Nadia Woo

It is by far the most authentic shanghai food I’ve had here.I definitely recommend getting the Shanghai fried rice cake, it is so worth it and so good.The people working here is also very nice, reminds me of shanghai neighbors :)I also ordered a shanghai style rib, along with the dishes shown in the image. The portion size is quite big, couldn’t finish with two people

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Shih-Wei Su

Shanghai family style

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Warren Ng

Great foods. Restaurant is run by a Shanghainese couple. Service is slow when busy.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 3

Recommended dishes: 瑪蘭頭, 蔥爆腰乾, 烤麩 Kǎo Fū Fried Gluten, 醉雞

Yixiao DeWees

My family and I have been coming here for years and their Shanghainese food is consistently amazing. Incredibly authentic, food comes out crazy fast, and I personally find the owner lady super chill and friendly (we speak shanghainese so I’m sure that helps haha). For those who are rating this place low stars due to terrible service, c’mon, this is a mom and pop shop with a sweet owner who doesn’t speak much English. What do y’all expect!!!??? ?

Yixiao Yan

My family and I have been coming here for years and their Shanghainese food is consistently amazing. Incredibly authentic, food comes out crazy fast, and I personally find the owner lady super chill and friendly (we speak shanghainese so I’m sure that helps haha). For those who are rating this place low stars due to terrible service, c’mon, this is a mom and pop shop with a sweet owner who doesn’t speak much English. What do y’all expect!!!??? ?

S Sun

pretty good food and taste is authentic. The only problem is they are short of waiting staff.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 4

Mo Ni Ka C

Good Shanghai food but very poor customer service.

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 4

Service: 2

Jin Chen

The best price for the food.

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 5

Service: 4

Desmond H.

Poor service, very typical Mainland Chinese style service. The lady behind counter claimed to be snowed under when there were only 2 tables of patrons. They won't provide receipt and only give you a sloppy handwriting piece of paper to take picture of. the restaurant trying to evade tax?Criticized service, very standard Chinese service. The staff who ordered at the counter complained that they were too busy, but in fact there were only two tables occupied. No receipt is provided, only a scribbled order menu and fee are given for you to take pictures with your mobile phone. Is this a way to evade taxes?

Yi Zhang

Like a grandma’s kitchen: moss fish, loofah gluten, shepherd’s purse pork rice cake recommended.

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