New Shanghai Chinese Restaurant, Ashfield

14 July 2008, 03:05

Ashfield is best known as Little Shanghai among the Chinese community and although it is nowhere near us we’ve heard great stories about the dumplings at New Shanghai Chinese Restaurant (273 Liverpool Road, Ashfield).


i took this foto arond lunch time but the brightly lit restaurant glows from the street at night.


all night these dumpling ladies stand behind a glassed-in room and were hard at work folding, poking and squishing meat into the noodle skin to make the wontons and dumplings. it was kinda hypnotic…


Famous new shanghai steamed mini pork ($6.80) yeah that was the name on the menu. if you have nothing better to do go and grab a takeaway menu and highlight all the spelling mistakes (the mothership counts 17mistakes). eh but anyways moving along now. the dumplings, also known as xiao long bao are fantastic, the noodle skin was just thin enough that it was almost translucent yet still able to hold the magical soupy innards. wait a bit before biting into one or you will surely burn your mouth! or do what my bro does and stab it and save the soup for later…


Shallot pancake ($4.80). Crispy and very morish the fried pancake was chocablock full of shallots


Famous new shanghai pan fried pork bun ($8.80). 10 whole buns arrive all soft and fluffy on the outside and porky goodness on the inside


Egg pancake with fried dough ($4.80). we ordered this mainly because it sounded funny… it was ok the fried dough just tasted like those cruellers you get at yumcha? and the egg pancake was pretty much just a thin crepe with a bit of shallots


Special steamed mini crab meat and pork ($9.80). more dumples! look how the bottoms have poofed out like they want to explode and release its soup to escape our hungry stomachs


and the star of dinner: Deep fried crab with yolk of salted egg ($26.80). have you ever had the salted egg yolk in the mooncakes? yeah imagine that coating on crab… mmm salty goodness!


the only way to eat crab… NOM NOM!


Deep fried bean curd tofu in yolk of salted egg ($12.80). and because we couldnt get enough of the salty eggy goodness we ordered the tofu and while it was pretty good with super soft tofu innards in a crispy coating we thought it needed more of the salted egg coating


Mini pork wonton soup ($4.80). hurhur so cheap! less than $5 and you get a whole bowl of wontons swimming around happily


and because noods is still hungry…


da family

1. hmmm cheap dumplings…need to go back soon

   — noods    Jul 14, 09:24 PM    #
   
   

2. hey! i posted about this recently too! i love it…hehe, never had the mini pork & crab dumplings though, they look delish…must try… mmm…

   — Jen    Jul 14, 10:16 PM    #
   
   

3. mmm.. have often walked past this place but tend to stick to ol’ faithful Shanghai Night. I presume you went here twice since you’re sitting at different tables in your photos, with different drinks too. lol!

   — Helen    Jul 15, 11:09 AM    #
   
   

4. noods: 2moro? fri? i want me some more crab!
   jen: haha yeah i know! and noods wants to try din tai fung and keeps bugging me about it!
   helen: lol you have a very sharp eye! haha yes we went twice both times for the crab oh man i love salted egg! ill give shanghai night a go soon but its always packed!

   — chocolatesuze    Jul 15, 11:52 AM    #
   
   

5. Those are good prices! :)

   I find the prices at Ashfield great, but I’ve never really been a fan of Shanghainese cuisine.

   — Kym    Jul 15, 10:28 PM    #
   
   

6. hahaha I’m going shanghainese tonight and we can’t decided which one to go. This is a constant argument between me and my friend. New Shanghai, or Shanghai Nights?? The only way to settle it is to go 2 weeks in a row, and go to both! :D

   — SoRMuiJAi    Jul 17, 10:31 AM    #
   
   

7. that crab looks interesting!

   We had the tofu as well but found the coating to be inconsistent. The dumplings were awesome though. It also seemed all the dumpling joints have a faithful client base, they were all packed!

   — Howie    Jul 18, 11:56 AM    #
   
   

8. mmmm that crab looked good!
   and thank goodness you added the family shot cos I was beginning to think you ate that between the 2 of you!!

   — tammy    Jul 21, 01:00 PM    #
   
   

9. I went to Shanghai Night last night and noticed this place next to it….Gotta try….

   — aptronym    Jul 30, 09:37 PM    #
   
   

10. BEST Shanghai dumplings IN SYDENY are the Guo Tie that lanlans Shanghai Dumplings sell at the Pyremount markets outside Star City In the park on the first saturday of the month.
    Hand made, filled with chicken soup with Shao Xing , fried on the bottom, steamed on top-yum yum, beter than the originals in Shanghai. Lanlan also sesl frozen to take home and shows you how to cook them. She even has an original guo tie cooker

    BETTER HURRY-MARKET IS ONLY OPEN FROM 7AM TO 11AM

    — Mark Y    Aug 8, 08:13 PM    #