Chen's Shanghai Restaurant

Ordered near Lunar New years and received above and beyond service. We ordered the dandan noodles and the rice cake with shepherds purse and shredded pork. They included two tea drinks and a box of goodies with a coupon for free! It was a great surprise. The rice cake dish was good but I wish there were more of the veggies on it. The veggies bring flavor and with not much of it, then it just tastes like regular rice cakes. The dandan noodles were a huge portion. Good nutty flavor but I prefer a little more spicy.

Had to stop here after being away for meetings, craving for some food ‘ol Shanghai Chinese food. Couldn’t finish our portions so took them home. Tasty as ever. Prices have gone up but that’s true of everywhere was anyway. Cravings satisfied. Service was not consistent today though. Hence 4 of 5 stars.

After eating out at restaurant much less due to Covid-19, my family decided to give this restaurant a try. However, we regret coming here. The pineapple and chicken fried rice is oily and has only 3 pieces of pineapple. With pineapple in the name of the dish, this is very disappointing. After eating a bit of the unappetizing dish, I felt sick to my stomach. Although the shaolongbao/ steam dumplings had a thick skin, what I ate next made myself and family never want to come back again. The noodles with pork was the worst. The pork was too salty and the noodles were mediocre. Spend your money elsewhere. Don't make the same mistake. Not worth your time and money.

We come to Baiyulan for 4 dishes every single time, and for these it is worth the drive! Be sure to try their whole crab 🦀 with salted egg rice cakes (not on regular menu, it’s on their chef’s recommendation on banner outside their front entrance - $53 for about 2lbs 💯 best deal in town). Their turnip cake is also one of the best we’ve had. Their peikin duck (2 wraps option) is hella good and such a good deal! Then there’s their salt and pepper fried squid 🦑 beats most Taiwanese eats around! 😮🤭 Their clam soup is pretty legit too. Definite will remain a regular here🔥🔥👌

I wanted some Shanghainese breakfast on our way to Vancouver and this place is open earlier than other Shanghainese restaurants. We were the first ones here and waited around 25 min for food. The waitress was friendly but didn’t check on us or anything during the meal. The salted soy milk was bland and had very little topping on it. The onion pancake was also bland and not very flaky. The soupy dumplings (小笼包) was just ok. The best item was pan-fried bao (生煎包). The weirdest item was the sweet rice roll which normally comes with pickles veggies and curlers inside but this one comes with over sugared rice and sugared curlers which was not bad necessarily but very unusual.