Shanghai Dim Sum

Did someone say cheap Siu Long Bao??? This place by far has the cheapest price on Siu Long Bao the first order is only $ 1.99 compared to other places at $ 6 – 7.99 per order. You may think because of the cheap price it maybe your run of the mill Siu Long Bao you get at some cheap dim sum restaurant that is typically made from frozen but I can tell you it is definitely not. The texture of the skin is very thin and soft and even has soup inside! The place is more of fusion between Shanghai food and a Noodle Bar. They have a wide variety of noodles and ramen the menu is small and filled with lots of pictures so you know what you are ordering. Be prepared for a wait because this place gets pretty rammed during the lunch and dinner times. Their portions are generous and when the bill comes you wont hardly believe your eyes.
Some personal favorites include: Siu Long Bao, Fried Rice with Preserved Meat & Vegetable, and their Beef Brisket Noodle in Soup.
It’s good food and its cheap; what else can you ask for?

Tonight I felt like siulongbao and so I came but I ended up leaving with no siulongbao in my tummy.
I have no doubt in their food. Even after they jacked up the price, I noticed that they slightly improved the quantity to make up for it e.g. more green onion and more dried shrimp in my noodles.
So it’s all fine.
But tonight the service TOTALLY failed.
We each ordered our own bowl of noodles and also a siulongbao to share. After we finished with our noodles the slb was still not here. Usually all the food came at the same time.
So we waited and still not here… We even heard other tables waiting for their slb.
We asked and waiter and he said there’s no missing order you have to wait.
So we waited… AND strange things happened
I saw slb went to another table and those customers came later than us.
And I called another wait staff… She saw me and then she went straight to the kitchen so I thought she knew we were waiting and went to check on our order but she didn’t come out with our slb nor did she come to our table again… Basically she just ignored us.
So I decided not to wait after we saw yet another table got the slb.
I went straight to the counter and another slb went by and I thought oh maybe it’s going to my table but nope it went to the table next to us who also came later than us.
Not exactly sure what’s wrong with their kitchen or steamer but that’s not the main point…
Regardless of what’s going on in the kitchen, I deserve to be informed rather than ignored. No apologies no thank you whatsoever.
U may say shouldn’t expect any services at a Chinese restaurant. I guess… Then don’t expect me to tip you nor my visit again.
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Came here on a Friday weeknight at around 630pm; not filled; seated right away
Food for two people: we had four different Siu long baos: one original; one crab; one seafood; and one pan fried. We also ordered a rice cake and a wo tip (pan fried dumpling).
The Siu long baos were still at promotional prices.
They are really pretty good. Piping hot and each bao had a spoonful of juice. Personally I find the seafood one and crab one a bit fishy so original one is my fav. Wo tip was also juicy. Rice cake was quite flavorful.
Rice cake was 6.99 but it’s not a huge portion.
Overall it’s $ 13 pp which is reasonable. But maybe another story when the promotion is gone.
For service: I don’t even need to say a word to the server because they have this little piece of paper for you to order! You just write down the number of the dish! And the menu is full of pictures too. So i don’t really need to interact with them lol.
Overall it was a pleasant and satisfying visit.
Pictures to follow.

Good food
Cheap as it will get for this type of food
Fast service and clean setup
Tried their soup dumplings. The ones they have here are grilled on the bottom so a bit different from othere places. The portions of the dishes are extremely generous. The one dish that stood out was the braised beef noodle in soup. The noodles were a bit different here aswell. They were a bit thiner but still with a good chew. The braised beef was soft and tender.
Tried a few other dishes and they were all excellent.

Arrived at location on Sunday, June 5, 2016 to use the free xiao long bao coupon I bought from axka app. The server said because today is a «holiday» I cannot get validated for the freebie. I spoke to the manager to inform him that today is a «weekend» and not a «holiday» like Victoria Day, he said ok he will give it to me this time. I added that there may be a wording difference and that he should get axka app to fix it. Food was hot and fresh. Also ordered the water boiled fish (spicy and good), the mochi ground meat (not that great), soy sauce noodles (no meat or veggies, just plain noodles, meh), and hot soya soup (good, with dough fritter). It was hot that day, looks like their AC is not working.

I didn’t find out this is the same Shanghai Dim Sum in Scarborough until recently. (And I didn’t know the English name of the places.) We used to frequent the Scarborough store when it first opened because of its authentic Shanghai food.
Food:
First of all, what can beat a 99 cent xiao long bao (steamed pork bun)? The XLB was excellent. The skin was thin and juicy inside. Watch out the steamy hot soup inside could burn your tongue.
Dan Dan Noodles — Love the chewy noodles here. This is quite spicy despite it only has one chili pepper on the menu. The peanut sauce is rich and not watery. Portion was huge and I took the rest home for two more meals.
Pork chop noodles — The broth wasn’t too overly salty or oily. Pork chop was tender. Again took home the remaining of my noodles. The noodles remained chewy after sitting in the container for fortnight.
Savoury soy milk — This one got a pass! I haven’t had decent savoury soy milk in Toronto after Oriental Delight across the plaza closed down around 7 years ago.
The soy milk was thick and custardy. Fried dough was soft and right amount of preserved vegetables. Could have some dried shrimps in there and more green onions but I am content!
Definitely would come back and order its noodles, cured pork bamboo shoots soup (腌篤鮮) and «ma lan tou».

Siu long bao here is indeed well made and great for the price ($ 1/​dish with 4pcs for the first one, $ 2.99 for each one after). Food is consistently delicious. The waiters offer a quick family-​style friendly, and easy to flag down when you need them. Most dishes i tried are above average and well worth the price!

Today was the second time I’ve tried them. I thought I would give them a couple of shots to show me since last time I went it was super busy.
So, going in I ordered some pan-​fried pork dumplings and stir fried beef with green onion to go. Took about 15 – 20 minutes to finish, and paid about $ 20 for both.
Took it back to my office and opened it up. It looked good and smelled good. The pan-​fried dumplings tasted great! only negative, they weren’t really crispy and it was what I was expecting based on the picture in their menu. The stir fried beef was good, but I completely forgot to get rice.
For the price and food, I wasn’t amazingly impressed, but it satisfied by hunger. Thus would say they are «A-​OK», and something to get if you need quick satisfaction.

Definitely recommended for casual dining and authentic Shanghai cuisine. Shanghai Dim Sum on Chalmers Court offers $ 0.99 for pork xiao long baos. We ordered
–Steamed Silk Skin (Crab+Pork),
–Steamed Soup Filled Dumplings (Pork),
–Steamed Shu-​mai w/​Shrimp & Pork
–Deep Fried Egg White Balls Stuffed w/​Red Bean
–Beef Brisket Noodle in Soup
amongst a few other things
It is a reasonable place to go for xiao long bao & not just based on price but on quality. Shanghai Dim Sum also offers ramen, stir fried dishes and a lot of variety amongst their dishes.

Would recommend this place for casual dining.
This place was recommended to me by a wealthy friend who is from Shanghai and he said the food there is very authentic, lives in the area and goes all the time.
Came here for dinner, we didn’t have RSVP so we had to wait upwards of 30 minutes for a table of 3.
We didn’t go with their set combo but saw that most of the tables did.
Instead we order soup noodles and dumplings. The dumplings were good, the wrapper for the dumplings was thin and the inside was tasty. They have 4 different types of soup filled steamed dumplings on the menu. The first order is $ 2 to $ 3 for a set of 5 dumplings depending which one you choose from. The re-​order is regular price at $ 5 to $ 6 which is average price. So tried all 4 different sets and it only costed $ 12! Amazing deal!
The soup noodles was good too, the soup base had flavour and didn’t have a lot of MSG and was $ 6.99 a bowl.
Dinner for 3 was less then $ 50 for dine-​in including tip!
4 stars because the food was good and the price was cheap.

We come here weekly. I love the noodles especially the pork ramen. The soup dumplings are pretty good too! Don’t expect great service here though.

My father saw an ad in a Chinese newspaper for Shanghai Dim Sum, the sucker-​in point being «99 cent xiao long bao.» So I guess it’s what daddy wants.
This location is located like so many things in York Region, in a nondescript commercial plaza on Highway 7 one light east of Bayview (had to be said since it is easy to miss whilst blazing at 80km/​h through this part of Hwy 7, especially when going westbound). The 99 cent special brightly marketed on the window.
Of course once we entered we learned of the real deal: only the first order of their siu long bao dumpings are charged that special promo sucker-​in price; any more are charged their regular – no, scratch that, their special discounted off the regular price price.
That being said, the packed-​hot-​with-​lots-​of-​soup soup dumplings themselves were not bad at all. They have a few varieties of them, which pretty much makes up the «dim sum» part of the restaurant. Everything else on the menu was mainly Shanghaiese fare; an entertaining mix of not-​a-​lot-​of-​much-​especially-​in-​the-​vegetables-​department and vaguely worded poor English. The rice cake dish was very good, but don’t get the «wild vegetables with bean curd.» It is just finely chopped mystery greens and stuff with little taste appeal.
The up-​and-​downness of the food, advertising gimmicks notwithstanding, doesn’t make me want to trek up this far for it, or even Scarborough for that matter. It gets packed here nonetheless with folks more local than I. Mandarin is predominantly spoken here.
{YRT/​VIVA: Purple/​Pink line to Chalmers Road.}

Standard Shanghainese Brekkie: hot soy milk, siu long bao (3 steam baskets!), dough fritters, curry beef soup and some fried rice squares
All this can be yours for the grand price of $ 10 pp. Yesyesy’all, three can dine comfortably for $ 30 including tax.
My parents deem this place ⁵⁄₅ authentic Shanghainese fare.

I consider Shanghai Dim Sum one of the rising players of Shanghai cuisine in the Greater Toronto Area. This place has one of the best Siu Long Baos (Soup Filled Dumplings) that I have ever eaten. The dumplings are prepared fresh made to order, since the soup inside the dumpling can burn your tongue. (I made the classic rookie mistake, even letting it cool for at least a minute.) The other choices they have (Green Onion Pancake, Shanghai Fried Noodles, Fried Rice) are just as delicious as the soup filled dumplings.
The service is questionable at best. The waiters were not as attentive as they should be. Even if you asked them for just a refill on tea, don’t be surprised for a long wait.
The prices for the dishes are more than reasonable. You will get value for any dish you order. I will definitely be back for more, especially for their dumplings. The service is questionable, but the food will make up for it.

Definitely is not your regular Dim sum place. I agree with a past reviewer who said you should ignore the dimsum part. The Dimsum portion of the menu is odd imo. It should be renamed Shanghai Siu Long bao! I honestly love the dumplings and would come here just for them. Becareful the soup in the steamed dumplings can burn your tongue. It is that fresh and that yummy. My favourite is the crab but I just order every type. Nomnomnom. ⁵⁄₅ for siu long baos
Service is not so great. The servers are unattentive and I had to yell to get their attention. It didn’t seem like they take their job seriously enough. The workers seem young and were just hanging around the bar area. ¹⁄₅ service
Atmosphere — beggers cant be choosers. It’s not the greatest but I can’t expect much from this type of restaurant. Wouldn’t go here on a date.

Didn’t know this place opened so long ago, I always thought it was new, even though i am aware that this restaurant is just the branch of the sister shop in Scarborough.
The siu long bao were of great quality, four in each crate for only $ 0.99 (plain) or $ 1.99 (crab meat) for the first crate and for each additional crate, it is $ 3.99 or so. These siu long bao are large in size and THE SOUP was absolutely delicious. The plain one definitely had dong gu mushroom as a soup base and the crab meat one tasted sweet like crab meat or at least crab shell. The siu long bao were wrapped beautifully with perfect folds.
I’m a little surprised to read a lot of comments regarding how rude the waiters are and how they yell at you for not being able to speak Mandarin because when I went, there was at least one waitress who is able to speak Cantonese to us and the other waiters were super nice as well.
Other dishes include rice with Chinese sausage bits and dice bok choy, a green onion pancake and a LARGE bowl of ramen. ALL of these were delicious and not one dissapointed me, which I was delighted to eat.
Best part?! ALL five dishes came down to $ 24.50 before tips, including tax. WHAT?! Man, I have to hit up this place more often before the xiao long bao special disappears.

Come in with the right expectation and you won’t be disappointed. Keep in mind that you are not here for the great service but more of an authentic Chinese restaurant experience which means great food, cheap and shitty service. Food is great and there is nothing to complain about when dumplings are $ 1 for 4 pieces. Fried rice was also well cooked– will definitely come back again.

I know this place is called Shanghai dim sum, but don’t comes here for that. There are plenty of other places for good dim sum, so ignore the dim sum part of the name. I would come here for the noodles which are really well made, thin but perfectly chewy. The right consistency in noodles is hard to find, and this place does it right. It can be accompanied by a wide selection of broths and meats, so there is plenty of choice. I got the lamb noodles, the meat was a little tough but the broth was flavourful enough that I didn’t mind it.
The xiao long baos are only a couple dollars for 4. Comes steaming hot, with plenty of meat and soup in it. Not the best one’s I’ve had, but for a couple dollars I will happily take it. Side dishes are good also, my favorite so far is the bamboo shoots.
This place gets busy so expect to wait for a table at peak hours. I came on a Saturday for lunch, had to wait 20 minutes for a table of 2. And there were plenty of people waiting after us also.

Heard some good things about their Scarborough location so I decided to check this location out.
Pros:
Lots of items to choose from
Many Entrees for just $ 5.99
Cons:
Not much actual dim sum items
Came here on a Friday night and the place was pretty busy. Luckily there was one table available at the time we were there. The menus here consist of two large laminated boards. All the items are pictured so you know exactly what anything looks like which is good. There’s a lot of items to choose from but I do note that there’s not much actual dim sum items to choose from. I may have missed the boat on what dim sum from Shanghai actually consists of though. I was expecting a twist on usual dim sum items or dumplings. Neither were really on the menu. Honestly, it’s more a regular restaurant than a dim sum restaurant in my opinion.
We ordered two types of soup filled dumplings (basically the only dumplings on the menu), a ramen bowl and a pork and broccoli rice dish. The food comes out pretty quick here which is nice. The soup filled dumplings were OK, but nothing special. The filling was average at best. The ramen and rice dish were pretty good. For $ 5.99, it’s actually a very good deal. They have many entrees at $ 5.99 to choose from so you can definitely come for a cheap decent meal.
I think i would of been a lot more satisfied if I came thinking this was a regular Chinese restaurant and not what I was expecting it to be. When you have dim sum in your name I’m thinking actual dim sum and dumplings at the very least. It’s still a nice place to come for a meal. just wish the menu would reflect their name a little better.

I have no complaints in terms of the food and the freshness of it. My biggest gripe with this place is the service. I’m not quite sure how they manage their guest but this place definitely sucks at it. We arrived there and waited for 15 minutes. A lady walks up and waits in front of us, but thinking nothing of it we stood there. Funny part was there wasn’t a person there to help manage the tables and who came first. So this middle aged biatch took our spot. We were pretty disappointed with that, but I figured I won’t be bothered with it. Because after a minute, we got a better spot. Beside the biatch’s table. Asides from this turd, the food was good! We ordered 3 dishes and all 3 came out perfect! I don’t have pictures, but next time I go I’ll remember to snap some up! :)
Make sure you don’t go on a busy night because you won’t be greeted when you go in. Neither will you be seated in an orderly fashion.

90% of why my rating is low is because of the service at this restaurant. The servers cannot speak any language other than mandarin. If you can’t understand chinese, this will be a tough place to get a server to even speak with you.
We sat at our table, and they give you your own piece of paper to write your order on, not a big fan of that, especially at a full serve Asian restaurant.
We placed our order and handed it to the server along with the menus. 15 minutes later, not even a drink had arrived, struggling to even communicate with the waitress (who looks miserable at what she does), says that they never received our order.
It took us asking 3 servers to get an extra setting St the table because there were 3 of us and only 2 settings were placed on the table.
So we replaced the order and food came within 10 minutes. Food quality was average, nothing special as any other Shanghai dim sum restaurant. We paid about $ 41 taxes in for 5 plates as shown in my photos.
They really need to up their quality of service and get some servers that know how to speak at LEAST English. Definately wouldn’t be coming back…