Shanghai Shikumen Restaurant

Actually rating on this place was not so good but then I realized not was done by a chinese. Shanghai cuisine is quite unique and has a different taste yo most chinese food. I try to avoid it but still like it.
Today the rabbit was really good. Don’t think it was shanghaineese but i liked it. So was the bambo and spice lotus. Beef soup was more of a thai style and of course the Xiao long bap both steamed and fried were excellent.
Since my wife is from Shanghai I have a feeling we will be back here.

The menu is nice and the pictures of the food looks delicious. Too bad the actual food doesn’t even remotely resemble anything in the menu photos. Every time they brought a dish to our table, I had to stop myself from saying we never ordered this!
Service is bad too. They sat us at a large table with other people and when a small booth opened up, we asked to be moved and they gave a lame excuse that the food has already been entered to come to this table. Really?
Food quality and taste is mediocre at best and surely does not justify the price. Seems that any restaurant with the word «fine» in the name is compensating for something… If you want to provide a fine dining experience, provide better service and food…
Really miss the original King of King Chinese restaurant at this location. Every restaurant that came after (Qing, Li’s House, and now this one) has progressively gotten worse… Either they better shape up and serve food that looks like the menu photos and actually tastes good, or I’ll be looking forward to visiting a new restaurant in the near future.
Oh, and they tried to get us to buy the membership card when placing the order. Glad we waited until the food came!
The Shanghai restaurant on Hwy 7 near Bayview (in the same plaza as Ocean/​Steam kitchen) is so much better!

The outside kinda look a bit lay back not much outside the inside décor was nice. Had a bit of Shanghai feel to it. There are a few private rooms in this restaurant.
I went with my brother around 2:30ish. Staff where having lunch. sat down and rhe staff gave us a menu. There are two prices for each dish i bleieve prince in red and another priced in black. If you buy a membership card innot sure if it expries or anything but you get a discount on each dish. I think its about 1 $off each dish. The membership card i think they sat was 20 $.
we ordered the rice cake and veggy stir fried. I love the rice cake. It was nice and thick, soft yet chewy love that. I added a bit of chilly oil (more spicy then regular chilly oil you may find in other restaurant).
The siu long bao was pretty good. The soup inside the siu long bao was pretty clean. Didnt have much oil as a lot of other places may have. The dipping vinegar needed a bit more ginger.
Another dish was the mini wonton soup. By far the best ive had so far in a Shanghai restaurant. Pretty filling as there was plenty of the mini wonton to eat. Soup was nice and not too salty for me.
The pan fried meat bun was great. The bun itself was fried perfectly at the bottom. Only thing i see that could be better is a thicker bun. Other then that the flavors were nice and meaty.
The bill came to about $ 30.
I think i will go back for the rice cake loved it the most.

2:15 pm Tuesday, time for lunch.
Definitely a time for lunch as when I walked in Shanghai Shikumen Restaurant, everyone working there was having lunch. Awkward moment, should I just walk out without anyone noticed me but one of the wait staff came over to seat me at one of the tables.
What to order? A big colourful menu. Dim sum and noodle might be the best choice for a single person.
Special Spicy Noodle Soup with Meat Sauce ($ 8.99) was pretty good. The noodle was cooked with a nice bite and soup base was well seasoned. A little touch of spiciness which I cannot call it spicy at all.
Apparently, the restaurant is closed from 2:30 — 4:30 on weekdays but even when I was leaving the restaurant at 3:00, the OPEN sign was till on.
There are quite a few private rooms that are good for groups.
I might come back to try some other items on the menu but in no rush.

This Shanghainese restaurant opened up about 3 weeks ago and we decided to give it a try for lunch. Ordered 5 dishes, and only 2 of them were considered good. The pan fried buns were about the best I’ve had in GTA in awhile, the bottoms were actually fried properly about half way up and crispy, reminiscent of the ones I dearly loved eating in Shanghai. Too bad the filling was a bit lacking, but overall worth ordering again. The other decent dish was the fried spring onion noodle with dried shrimps (similar to the one at Yu Garden).
The tofu with chives was a bit too salty. The marinated cold fish in wine sauce was dissappointing, while the cauliflower with chinese bacon was toned down on the spice level as we requested. Final bill was $ 50 before tax. Prices are a big higher than other Shanghainese places in town, but we’ll likely go back to try some of their other dishes on their menu.

The foods is too bad taste like shit, $ 15 for one small dish of veggie I order spicy chicken dry and all bone. Service is ok