New Shanghai Chinese Restaurant Ashfield, Sydney

User Reviews of New Shanghai Chinese Restaurant, Ashfield

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7 Recommended

Food 8 Ambience 6 Service 6 Value 8

Often come here with family for a tasty and cheap lunch. Pretty much always get pan fried dumplings and xiao long bao. Service is pretty bad, but hey, I come for the food!

Jan 27, 2012

firedragon
5

8 Recommended

Food 9 Ambience 7 Service 7 Value 9

Discovered this little gem whilst having a Saturday mooch through the area and fell in love with the place. Once I find something I like I keep ordering the same thing and that is their handmade noodles which are like a hokkien noodle and their pan fried pork dumplings. The dumplings are addictive and the noodles are the best I have tasted. I don't mind the staff's aloof attitude and learned quickly just to grab their attention to get your order in otherwise you will wait. Prices are great and make the drive well worth it.

Nov 21, 2011

Mookster
23

5.3 Average

Food 8 Ambience 3 Service 3 Value 7

I really like the food from this place (ashfield/chatswood). The taste and serving size is decent. Although not much ambience or service per se, the value's worth it. My family really like it.

Nov 06, 2011

t7gc
13

7 Recommended

Food 8 Ambience 5 Service 6 Value 9

Some of the best dumplings I've had! We also ordered the pumpkin balls which I think is just a bad decision regardless of where you eat them. Prawn curry was sweet and full of frozen veg mix. Wouldn't order again, but would be very keen to try every single dumpling they have on offer.

Oct 29, 2011

johngreen
2

1 of 1 reader found the following review helpful

6.8 Recommended

Food 8 Ambience 5 Service 5 Value 9

Awesome food and great value for money!... for the 5 of us the total bill was $70 including our drinks! The dumplings were divine, perfectly cooked with the soup inside. We went towards the end of the day when it was quiet, we didn't have to wait for a table but they ran out of some of the dishes we wanted. I would say stick to the dumplings and fried pork buns.

Jun 14, 2011

eaten_here
19

3.3 Below Average

Food 5 Ambience 4 Service 2 Value 2

Note to Management: Please get your staff to cover hair before preparation. Your food is far too good, to be ruined by simple issues! But I have had to score the food low, due to this food hygiene issue.

I had eaten here before with my chinese friends (I am English) and found the dumplings to be divine. So I decided to bring my Aussie friend to show her how great this place was. To begin with, the waiter (who could only speak marginal English), seemed to be serving everyone else first, even those who came in after us.

When our food finally came, we both agreed that the dumplings were delicious. However, she eventually noticed a dead fly in her soup (I convinced her that it must have landed in it after cooking, she still left the soup). Then I noticed a little hair sticking out of my half eaten dumpling, so I pulled it out, to discover that it was about 15 cm long! Then to top it off, I found a hair in my soup!

Jun 06, 2011

adcoupe
13

7.8 Recommended

Food 9 Ambience 6 Service 6 Value 10

Came here for the Dumplings and they sure lived up to the reviews. The xiao long bao was absolutely delicious, and so were the pan fried buns. You may have to line up, but it's worth it! We also tried this cold noodle, but it didn't taste quite right and we left it. Don't worry too much about service/ambience, the dumplings will make up for it.

May 22, 2011

melty.dumpling
70

1 of 1 reader found the following review helpful

9 Highly Recommended

Food 10 Ambience 8 Service 8 Value 10

This is my favourite dumpling place. I can't comment too much on most of their dishes because every time I go there I only order two things, the xiao long bao and the pan fried pork buns. Those two things alone make up for the 10 stars rating on food. They're absolutely delicious. And they're also ridiculously cheap too.

May 02, 2011

FoodLover1987
5

7.3 Recommended

Food 7 Ambience 6 Service 8 Value 8

We went to the New Shanghai after reading a review in the paper and looking up the eatability reviews. We were proactive with the waiters (as suggested by one of the eatability reviews) and this worked well.

Food was great and served in time. Nice to see the chefs sitting out the back making the dumplings. We had our kids with us (8 and 4 yo) and there was no trouble with spills/ noise etc. The only shocker was the toilet. It had been raining heavily and one of the toilets was blocked. Not good. Hope they fix it soon.

May 01, 2011

Mana I.
3

6.8 Recommended

Food 8 Ambience 4 Service 5 Value 10

Can't help loving a place that fills us with superb food for $10 a head. Don't go here for ambience or service (it works way better if you're pro-active and call waiters over rather than waiting to get someone's attention). Just go here because it has dumpling gold. We had the xiao long bao and the pan fried dumplings, along with the shallot pancake. The pancake wasn't anything special, but those dumplings are to die for.

Apr 08, 2011