Shanghai Best - Jersey City

No idea why there are so many negative reviews. eating is great, affordable, fast. suppe dumplings are big, noodle mapo tofu are great. 20% tipp applied to bills is not a ridiculous question if they do not already type this amount as basic when they go to eat, they should not go to eat. great place.

This restaurant has 20% tips on their bill mandatorically calculated, which makes me and my friend very unpleasant. and honestly they have not much service, except to give them a cup of water and bring the dishes on their table. I would like to give the restaurant more support in these difficult days, but in any case not to encourage them wisely.

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In all honesty I had googled best dumplings in Jersey City and this was one of the restaurants that were close by and seemed to have what I craved... however I was not pleased with my order... The soup was plain.. and the pepper steak with white rice was okay.. the chicken with broccoli was nothing out of the ordinary ... The dumplings had a strange taste and did not bring any dipping sauce... The best part of the whole 35$ meal was the 4$ watermelon ice juice ... however I wasn't impressed nor did I feel satisfied.. they are also a bit pricey.. and was a bit disappointed at the fact that I couldn't combine my orders with vegetable fried rice..

Came here to have lunch with a friend. My friend enjoys spicy Chinese food but I think it would be good to introduce him to the Shanghai cuisine. I explained to him earlier that this cuisine is more heavy on the sweet side and also heavier use on thickening agents. For appetizer my friend ordered scallion pancake, which is typically a northern Chinese dish. Turned out that the pancake was okay. We both ate a piece of two and I ended up taking them home, shredding them, and stirred fried them with shredded cabbage and wood ear (another famous northern Chinese dish). We also had dong puo pork it was good. The meat is soft and the color is so vibrant. It's a dish that would be very cumbersome to make at home. We both enjoyed it. Another entree we ordered was the eel stirred fried in chives. This dish is more complex. It has an aroma from sesame oil. I liked it but my friend did not. One thing that I don't like about this place is that we visited in AUG2021. A good proportion of the population already is not wearing mask and the restaurant is still charging a mandatory service fee aka tips. I personally tip well and many times I tip above what everyone tips nowadays. I just did not tip them what I normally would tip and just let them charge me that mandatory fee. Works in my favor, but I can imagine a lot of people would not be happy with it. Tips is an appreciation of service provided. When you turn it into mandatory I think that looks very bad.