Shanghainese Restaurants in Plano, TX

“Just went there for lunch with the fam. YUM! Had the: 1) Smoked Fish special (cross-cut slabs of unboned fish pan fried with a sweet & savory "hoisin"-type sauce - only 2nd time my 19 y/o's liked fish and 1st time for my 21 y/o since fish sticks as toddlers), 2) Shanghainese Fried Rice with Pork (delish, almost like sticky rice), 3) Curry Beef with Rice Noodle Soup (good), and 4) Traditional Shanghai Juicy Pork Steamed Dumplings (yum).

Only complaint is serving sizes (except for the dumplings) were on the smaller end.

Very small dining room (~10 small. tightly-packed tables) so be prepared to wait. We waited ~30 min for 4 at ~12:30 pm on a Sunday).

Restroom was the cleanest, fanciest and most high tech - BY FAR - for a small, authentic Asian restaurant and above average even for nice western restaurants. Waitlist, ordering and payment processes were high tech also (kiosk check-in, text alerts, real-time website status (with # of tables ahead), and tablet payments). Host took our order while we waited to speed up the process. Can watch dumplings being made right next to waiting area.

FYI, I'm an ARC (American Raised Chinese) since 7 y/o but fam had a Chinese restaurant growing up and have regularly patronized all types of restaurants (incl. American, Italian, Mexican, TexMex, Americanized Chinese, Cantonese, Sichuan, Taiwanese, Vietnamese, Japanese and Indian) for over 5 decades) in several U.S. and Asian cities.“

“Great options of food near our hotel. The Food Republic is lovely filled with different food stalls (Chinese, Singaporean, Thai, Korean, Japanese, etc) and near a lot of shops. We tried different food shops here when we stayed in TST. It was quite clean and the service was good.“