Shanghai Classic Restaurant

Pretty tasty Chinese food. The ginger beef definitely has a richer flavour than any other Chinese place in town. It’s worth going for that alone. Aside from that everything else seems like an average Chinese restaurant.

Gone down hill. Ordered Cantonese chow mein for take out. The contents were the most laughable. Few mini shrimps and negligible amount of.pork.

Probably my favourite Chinese restaurant in town — lunch or dinner. It’s a small restaurant so reservations are recommended, but they also do takeout if you are unable to grab a table.
This restaurant has some of the most friendly wait staff ever. They are often super busy but still attentive and personable.
The food is delicious, the portions are big and really reasonably priced. Some of our usual dishes that just don’t taste as great anywhere else:
Duck 4 courses — variations of this exist, and all of them are delicious. The Peking duck is by far the best in the city! The duck fried rice is also delicious.
Salt and pepper squid /​seafood.
Sizzling rice.
Dumplings
Beef flat rice noodles (we only order this in Chinese so I can’t recall the exact English translation).
Try it! You won’t regret it!

Good but not great could be better in renovations and presentation but best jelly fish in calgary and awesome staff. Pretty good

There are not many good chinese restaurants in calgary. Shanghai classic is one of the few acceptable ones. The prices are fair and the food is decent. They have a wide selection of fried noodles and rice for lunch, a large selection of dishes for dinner and even a small selection of late night eats. I recommend their Peking duck for dinner which is what we usually go for. The service is not great which is not out of the ordinary for a chinese restaurant. I have noticed they have quite a few regulars that dine there and they seem to get better service.

I have eaten here again, this time take out, and the dumplings and rice have the same rating, but the ginger beef was amazing, and the mix veggies were hot and fresh. Its been a couple of hours since I have eaten, and I am still not hungry.

At 630pm I ordered sliced chicken & veggies, pork & sweet/​sour & steamed rice. They said delivery in 40min but it arrived in 20! Food was HOT and Very Good! Was it fluke everything was so awesome at peek business time?

It’s been a long time since I dined at Shanghai Classic, it was one of my favourites when they were located in the strip mall at Northmount and 4^th. I was glad to discover that they had not disappeared from the Calgary food scene. It is one of the better restaurants to be found in a residential area. Last night we had the Ginger Beef but unfortunately the Ginger Beef good have been better. The beef was cooked to perfection. The beef was tender on the inside with just the right amount of crunch to the batter. The sauce was too heavy on the soya and we could hardly taste the nuances of ginger in the sauce. The other dish we had was Snow Pea leaves in Garlic Sauce (off menu item) or in Cantonese Tau Miew. This is one of my favourite vegetable dishes and I must say it was cooked to perfection, the sauce was just garlicky enough to complement the snow pea leaves. The snow pea leaves were tender, the stems were cooked just enough to maintain the slight crispness expected in a stir fry. Service was good. Two dishes and steamed rice cost $ 30 before tip.

This restaurant is actually not bad… It actually has quite a bit of Chinese patrons. The food is good as well as long as you do not order the ‘gwei-​lo specials’. The prices are reasonable too.

We’ve been going to this place for about 15 years, when it was located on 4^th St and Northmount Dr. At lunch I always ordere Combo F (curry chicken, Shangai noodles, rice, vegetables) even though the menu now stops at E! They still remember it after several years…
We think the Ginger Beef is exceptional here — they use a higher quality meat than most places. The veggies are great too, and the portions are (too?) generous. Prices are good (especially lunch).

Another place that will serve you up a «Gweilo-​Special» — Ginger Beef, Chicken Fried Rice, Spring Rolls, and Chow Mein