Grand Shanghai Restaurant

This place doesn’t deserve a star. This is by far the absolute worst service I’ve ever gotten in any restaraunt.

Why is there never anybody in this restaurant? I came here to try a different place for Shanghainese food in Flushing, since I’ve already been to Nan Xiang 5 million times and Joe’s Shanghai is for tourists. I must say, this was a good choice. Since the first time I’ve been back a second time already.
BUT I must warn you, the only mediocre item here is their soup dumplings, which is a shame. Their xiao long bao skin is just too thick and it falls apart too easily.
Everything else is pretty good. They also have the biggest sea cucumber dish ever, and probably the best dish here.

I’m surprised this place got a four star review. When my party of 3 including me walked in, there was only one other party of 2. We didn’t see this as a good sign but figured maybe it was because it was little past the usual dinner time (8PM) and decided to try it anyway, since it had 4 stars.
Right away, we noticed our table and chairs had pieces of rice and appeared to be generally unclean. We ordered two sets of soup dumplings (regular and w/​crab), the braised short rib dish, a stir fry noodle dish, watercress, and scallion pancakes.
The stir fry noodle dish was not bad but nothing to write home about. The short rib noodle was not short ribs and was instead pork filet for some odd reason. The soup dumplings were big, but bland and the the skin texture was off. The ones supposedly with crab meat didn’t have any taste of crab at all. In fact, I think the orange «crab meat» topping was probably food coloring, as it looked artificial. The scallion pancakes were also disappointing as well. They were just tiny triangles of the outer pancake shells, with no scallions or the fluffy inner layers you’d expect. What was the last straw for us was the watercress which came in a strange murky sauce instead of the clear sauce. After a couple of bites, we noticed this slimy grayish looking thing in the watercress. I’ve ordered watercress a lot in the past and never have I seen anything like this before. Needless to say we lost our appetite and didn’t finish our food.
The customer service was alright though. Our waiter was nice enough to take back the watercress and give us a refund. The price was also good. I hope we were just unlucky and went during one of their off days. Unfortunately, I don’t think I will be returning.

I ordered three dishes here for takeout. Grandma’s braised pork, lamb chops and a yangzhou fried rice. Service was fast and the waiter was super friendly. The taste of each dish was on point. Very authentic as a Shanghainese cuisine. Would definitely go there again.

**this review is for the lunch specials**
Just FYI, lunch specials everywhere in Main St Flushing have jacked up their prices by at least 50 cents. Which is considered a lot by Chinese food standards. I ordered a takeaway here one time when Foo Kee was being renovated and while the price was cheap (around $ 6-​$ 7), the portion size left much to be desired (pun intended).
Instead of the typical lunch box, the rice comes in the classic white takeout container. Soup and MSG included. Everything is soaked in oil — go figures.
BUT, you can ask for a stamp card. 10 stamps get you a free lunch special.

excellent food and quiet atmosphere. For a homesick Shanghainese family, it is the exact remedy. Had sour vegetable fish, wine chicken, smoked fish, steamed pork buns, yian du xian, vancouver crab, vegetables. The waiter is very communicative and patient on requests. On behalf of parents, thank you for a great meal and friendly service.

I think this is a relatively new place. Conveniently right on Main St Flushing. Kind of modern looking, clean, almost american-​fusion looking. Great to see another Shanghai place, but I wouldn’t say anything stood out as spectacular, although we did get there pretty late at night right before they closed. Also seemed a little expensive.

It’s heartbreaking to see waves of Shanghainese restaurants open then close in Flushing. Until today, I still don’t have a comforting place to go when I’m craving for homie Shanghainese food.
Randomly spotted Grand Shanghai on Main Street close to the Northern Blvd. end of Flushing, my family boldly decided to give this not-​so-​grand– looking restaurant a shot. Based on my unbiased semi professional foodie tastebuds, GSH deserves a solid four star. What’s even more, my dad, who’s the best Shanghainese chef in my opinion and a total pain-​in-​the-​ass picky eater, granted his approval of the place as well!
The portions are very generous to Shanghainese standards. I hope they keep it up and maintain the authentic taste. Sustainable quality is key to survive in this overcrowded Flushing restaurant scene.
Couple of nitpicking things to point out, which I hope is only a matter of overlooking details to a newly opened restaurant:
— The LED ad clearly says that there is free XLB upon $ 60 of spending. None was honored at the restaurant because it was a «holiday».
— Our server was not the happiest camper. I’m not the best person either when it comes to my grandma’s annoying questions and all, but I don’t work in the service industry!
— The layout of the restaurant is a little odd. Easily fixable to be more inviting.
Get: crab and rice cake; fish head soup; fish fritter with seaweed; shredded tofu; salty pork shoulder

As with Randy I was surprised to see this place haven’t had more reviews from the amount of business I see its been getting. Its not some obscure hole in the wall but rather is located right on Main st. in Flushing. Although its more closer to Northern Blvd which means even more walking for people taking the 7 Subways here.
Overall the food was pretty good and met my expectations. With so many Chinese places in Flushing its hard to distinguish whats so special about each one. We didn’t really get too many dishes that’s considered Shanghainese other than maybe XLB. There are few dishes they did pretty well that I wanted to recommend however
— Scallion Pepper Lobster — It seems they do their seafood better with fried and salt. The lobster I had was seasoned just right. At ~$ 20 per lobster not exactly a cheap option but for Chinese places I think its decent price. I think it could be little better if lobster weren’t cooked as much though felt the meat were just a little too stringy.
— Fried Crabs with Rice Cakes — As with the lobsters, here the crabs were fried first then stirred fried with Rice Cakes. This particular rice cake flavor was a first for me and I quite liked it. I think the crabs were just normal blue crabs but they actually fried it enough for the shell to be edible! Or at least it was edible for me haha since I was too lazy to pry out the crab meats.
— Duck Stew — Something new for me definitely, Here a giant pot of stew was split amount of 10 of us with plenty of duck meat to spare. Very delicious indeed and I felt this is what Chinese herbs are for to bring the whole soup so much flavor
— Pickled Lotus Roots — Again something new here. I was surprised to see lotus roots covered in red~ Unexpectedly it has quite a sweet taste to it very pleasant indeed. Another dish that I enjoyed after trying for the first time.
There are many other dishes that we ordered but I didn’t think they were too remarkable to make more comments. I thought the clams and the steamed fish head weren’t so fresh to be honest and perhaps that’s why the deep fried version of their seafood tasted better.
Since its not too close to the subway station you will get to avoid the crowds as well, when we went in at close to 7pm Saturday night there were still few tables available so I doubt if you come in during peak hours wait will be long. I do recommend this place if you looking for something new to try as they seem to try to come up with some new dishes to make themselves stand out among the competition.

I am in utter shock that this place only has one stinkin review even though this place has been open for close to two months now.
This place is good. It’s good for people who are into Shanghainese cuisine without the sex and the city glamour ambience (joe’s shanghai). There will be no tourists. There will be no crazy stupid hipsters ruining the place and most importantly this place will not change due to customers palates.
2 men. one soup dumplings, one thick dumplings, scallion pancake, fried crab roe with rice cake and a beef noodle soup. we came out feeling fierce– with a sense of entitlement.

Good for a quickie cheap lunch. Had dinner and ordered steamed fish which was good with 1 exception. Scales, a couple of scales is acceptable but not a bunch. My wife [Chinese] showed the waiter and he turned into a Zombie, not a comment of any kind. She didn’t create a scene. There are many, many other places in Flushing, I predict this one will not be around long.