Excellent pan fried beef buns, xiao long bao and shanghainese noodles (white thin noodles in soup, served w topping of your choice). Good value as servings quite large. Other Shanghainese places around town don't offer the same dishes, which are tasty and authentic. Shame about the construction site right next door, they should get more customers!
Great service, nice atmosphere, authentic Juicy Bar, delicious food. Strong recommendation for the noodles, slated&pepper chicken ribs..Definitely worth a try.
The average cost per person should be $15, very reasonable. This place is great for casual meal, quick and good tasting dishes. The bubble tea is very nice too.
Melbourne Meet Shanghai 鑫笼坊/Botanic Tea 原茶
+5
Despite zomato saying cash only, we accept all forms of payment
The recently opened milk tea is highly enjoyable too, we didn’t make this page thus we can’t change the payment methods
Great dumplings and juicy buns. Have been a couple of times and loved the food. The pork with preserved veg was excellent. Everything has been tasty so far. Come and try it.
Came here for dinner on a Friday night, the service was slow since they were packed, so I will definitely recommend coming in early to grab a table. In saying so, they had quick and friendly service and their food a quite good. Especially, their xiao long bao was really juicy and flavoursome.
Overall they had a good atmosphere, good value for money and if you like dumplings definitely worth a try.
Tried the stone pot slow braised chicken. The sauce was very good and chicken was juicy. Fast service at a very reasonable price. Will be back to try out other dishes.
Verdict - would return: homely winter meal
Liked - braised pork with soft bones
Disliked - n/a
Other comments - lots to try and can tailor for different spice levels
Came here with a couple of friends on a Friday night. It was quite packed so I will recommend coming in earlier to get a table. Besides that, I will definitely recommend their soup dumpling, xiao long bao. It was super juicy and quite traditional. Good atmosphere, good value for food and a gem if you like chinese food.
I eat here last night. Had the shenjian bun (super juicy little buns... Think a ciao long bao, but pan fried, yes that juicy) and it was really good. I don't think I've had similiar ones in Melb before. I'd recommend it for ppl to try. I also had the meat ball noodle. It looked a bit simple, a ball of plain noodle and meatball on a small plate. However the noodle was surprising nice, the texture was great and the meat ball was great too. I will try to come back again to try their other foods.
Good quality food and very friendly service. We were thinking of getting takeaways and the boss was very thoughtful, pointing out dishes that are best to eat in.
The wontons with chili oil ($11.50 for 12) were fresh and not swimming in chili oil like in some places, though the sauce was not particularly amazing.
The Shanghai salted meat & vege rice ($11.80) is definitely one we'll go back for (note, this is not fried rice).
Xio long bao ($10.80 for 8) were juicy but not as thin as some well known places around town. Overall would recommend.
FOUND THIS PLACE BY ACCIDENT WITH FRIENDS. VERY NEW AND QUIET! WE NEVER EXPECTED THE FOOD TO BE SOOOOOO GOOOD!!! TAKEN MY GF HERE TOO FOR HER TO TRY AND SHE LOVES IT!
ALSO VALUE FOR MONEY! MUST TRY.
HIDDEN GEM
Not bad at all. The fried chicken was lovely. Drinks menu could be better
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