Shanghai

The menu isn't terribly intuitive. "Small fish" means a fish sandwich with fish all the way filling the bread. It's delicious, moist, not greasy. Extremely yum. Nothing fancy. No lettuce, tomato, onion or pickles. Just fish on bread with tarter. But very good! The onion rings are also delicious and my wife and i could have split a small and not finished them. So, i got a "large fish" (why not include the dang word sandwich to clarify? ) and it was exacly like the small with an extra piece of fish awkwardly stacked on for an extra $3. My wife wisely got the small and i had to pull off the extra piece of fish and carry it out. I also ordered large onion rings and carried most of those out so learn from me. Get a Small fish (it is a sandwich) and small onion rings (not very small! ) and I think you'll enjoy it. We did!

The food was good, but the rice could been cooked just a little longer. After eating half my food, I dumped the rice into the other half. When I ate rest later that night the rice was perfect after sitting in the sauce for a while. No table service, but that's not a big deal. Especially since a lot of places are still doing that. The main thing I didn't like was that the building was barely air conditioned. But it has been extremely hot the last few days with some areas even having rolling blackouts. So they might just be trying to not overwork the air conditioner and lose it altogether. The air issue would have probably been more tolerable if the gave fountain drinks with ice and refills instead of a 20oz. bottled drink.

I'm going to start by saying the restaurant doesn't have drink cups or ice. Not sure what's up with that. You choose from bottled Sodas in a cooler. There is no table service, so your food comes in carry out containers and you sit wherever. The restaurant is dated and not well lit. There doesn't seem to be properly functioning air conditioning - that, or they don't want the temperature too low. In any case, it was a little warm in there. We counted the holes in the moth-eaten curtains while we waited. To be honest, I became increasingly nervous about the food as I looked around, and it's a shame because the food itself was good. The egg rolls were terrific, and the General Tsao's chicken was nice and spicy. The war su gai fell a little flat for me, but very few restaurants do that dish justice. I hope whatever is going on with the building itself is remedied soon, because all in all, the food was enjoyable.

I am sorry to say that my last visit was not good, for the reason. Everything was cold. I was in reasturant waiting for the takeout and I only live 1 mile away. I ordered General Toas Chicken, Crab Rangoon, and spring rolls. Everything was cold, Crab Rangoon and dipping sauce is normally the best and popping hot. Not this time.