Jin Jiang Shanghai Restaurant

6 Reviews on “Jin Jiang Shanghai Restaurant”

• Nomnomnom

  This Shanghainese restaurant is tucked inside a Best Western Hotel, and this little gem serves elevated homestyle Shanghainese items you’ll rarely find at other Shanghai restaurants in town. We started with the Cheung Kong Pork, which is similar to head cheese – slow simmered pork cooked down with bones to make a collagen rich aspic, cooled, cut into slabs and served with red vinegar to give the savory pork a tangy pop. As it was a hot summer day, our second dish was also cold: wild beg with bean curd. I think it’s a typo and they meant wild veg, but this dish was an u expected fav of the night. Yes, it’s a vegan dish but dont let that scare you. It was a well balanced dish with slight bitterness from the wild veg, slight nuttiness from the bean curd, and a herbaceous note from either the wild veg or a parsley herb added to the minced mixture. Our third cold dish was braised bean curd with Chinese mushrooms. This was an earthy unami packed dish that we enjoyed. We also had the deep fried yellowish which had a light batter with bits of nori added to it that added savoriness to the dish that was fried to perfection. It’s not a Shanghainese dinner without ricecake and xiao long bao! We went with pan fried ricecake with shredded pork and salted vegetable – a lighter take vs hr usual ones you see at other venues with pork belly, as this version didnt leave you feeling super bloated after. The xiao long bao were tasty, though we prefer the dough to be paper thin vs medium thickness here. The pan fried pork buns seemed like they were steamed and then had their bottoms pan fried instead if being pan fried from start to finish, but still tasty. We rounded out the meal with some Shanghai spring rolls. Overall, a great place to have some Shanghainese fare. It gets pretty busy, so make sure you make reservations and cut the friendly staff some slack as they try to do 50million things at once eatyourcity.ca

  November 21, 2020, 9:50 pm

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• Lizzielikes2eat

  The food was very tasty. However, dishes did not come as efficient as it should be. We had to cancel a few dishes because they took a long time. Service was not good. Basically, they ignored us and servers only attended to taking orders and bringing out dishes; other requests ie water, and question about how long will it take for the dishes to come, were ignored! Think having more servers may solve that problem. I may go back one more time to see if service is better…

  January 12, 2019, 11:29 pm

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• Barry Wong

  We ordered a set menu. The waitress made a mistake and gave us deep dried shrimp dish probably meant for another table. The manager later came to our table and asked if we order that shrimp dish. We said No because only then we realized that’s not what we ordered. We didn’t really like it and only ate half of it. However the manager charged us for the dish. Not a good practice at all.

  April 13, 2017, 10:06 pm

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• Vann_foodie

  Haven’t been here for some time..we ordered the Peking duck in two courses and sweet and sour rockcod..it was extremely DISAPPOINTED!!! The server didn’t notice us that the first course of the Peking duck is just the skin with wrapping and the second course of the Peking duck is served the duck with lettuce wrap..it was very unusual to us as we have tried different shanghai restaurant and have never seen any restaurants serving the Peking duck like this..I think the server should have responsibility to notice the customers about what the two courses would be!! Also, the rockcod hardly has fish meat..it was all the deep fried skin that you can taste!! I would never coming back to this restaurant anymore..

  July 9, 2016, 8:31 am

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• Kelly Yee

  My Friends wanted to get together and have a family style dinner, Jin Jiang Shanghai Restaurant was the chosen place. The restaurant was slammed busy. We finally got seated and ordered around 10 dishes between the 6 of us. When the dishes came they were very small, and the pictures have nothing to do with the numbers of the food you are ordering. Our deep fried tofu was actually deep fried pork, and when we asked why it wasn’t tofu apparently that’s what we ordered. We told them we want deep fried tofu and the waiter to show us where it was on the menu and he pointed to some random name that had nothing to do with tofu. Our tea kept running out and it was hard to wave down a waiter near the entrance doors.

  July 8, 2016, 2:49 pm

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• Sunny Wong

  ()$50Burnaby 89C20135Best Western Hotel Burnaby

  June 25, 2016, 10:22 am

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