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[Pre-lockdown 2.0]
Shanghai Street on Bourke serves delicious Shanghai dumplings. I love to visit this place as seating is very comfortable but the customer service is a bit lacking.
🔆LOCATION🔆
Shanghai Street on Bourke is a little hidden from the main street as it is located on first level of corner building on corner of Bourke and Elizabeth Street. It is only 2 minutes’ walk from H&M.
Take the escalators up to first floor and the restaurant is immediately on the left hand side.
My friends and I like to visit this franchise as it is much more spacious and comfortable to dine in compared to the other smaller premises around Chinatown vicinity.
🔆SERVICE🔆
It was very quiet afternoon yet the service was extremely slow. Previously when we visited service was always the same, very slow and also somewhat relaxed.
We asked for forks because my Aussie friend don’t know how to use chopsticks, and it took forever to arrive. In the end I had to get up and go to the counter and ask.
There just doesn’t seem to be any proper customer service. Training really needs to be improved for the waiters.
🔆MENU/PRICE🔆
2 x Xiao Long Bao, $13.80 each
(8 per serve)
Pan Fried Mini Pork Buns (6), $18.00
Vegetarian boiled dumplings (12), $12.80
🔆VERDICT🔆
The Xiao Long Bao is so fresh and tasty and has a lot of soup liquid inside. The Pan fried mini pork Buns cooked very well and also quite tasty. I’m not really into vegetarian dumplings but one of my friends is a Vegetarian so she ordered it for herself but I did try one of them and surprisingly it was quite good. Overall, the food here is always good quality but the customer service is lacking.
One of my biggest weaknesses is xiao long bao and this place does some of the best dumplings I’ve tried in Melbourne! I always get the pork xiao long bao, the fried noodles and sometimes the dumplings
Cheap, quick and delicious
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Came here to dine as a group of three after hearing great things about this place from some friends. Quite a bit fancier than its famous namesake, the Shanghai Street restaurant on Bourke Street is spacious, not overly crowded (no line!) and has a great range of dishes. Starting with their famous xiao long bao, they have smaller dishes, mains and dishes typical of a restaurant that can host a Chinese banquet.
We had the pork xiao long bao (two baskets of them might I add), noodle soup, vermicelli crab, flaming duck and pickled vegetables this day and were pretty impressed by the quality of the dishes. The vermicelli crab had good flavour, but the crab they used didn’t have much meat on the inside which was a bit disappointing... a lot of work and not much reward. The flaming duck would have to have been the most impressive dish; the flavours were different, especially to your typical Pecking duck, cooked perfectly and had a great juicy texture. Of course, their classic pork xiao long bao did not disappoint either.
Service was attentive, staff were friendly, and the venue has a casual yet nice atmosphere. Definitely worth checking out; especially if you are after good Shanghainese cuisine in a setting that does not require you to wait for two hours to sit in a cramped space jammed full with tables and chairs.
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