shanghai restaurant 上海楼

the best chinese restaurant in wellington city, especially suits some one like spicy food. if i dine out, the first choice will be here. always friendly, always good taste.

there is a guy there who's nice to deal with. but the lady (in pjs) there is extremely rude and unprofessional. no customer service, didn't bother apologise for their error. i felt unwelcome to be honest. i'm not sure how a business with such bad service survive. not impressed and wouldn't go back.

they served decent lunch, but the foods served at dinner are below standard. our last visit, we ordered stewed pork belly with yam, although the dish is hot, but the pork belly was still cold. i suspect they microwave the pre-cooked dish instead of cook to order.

the male boss is so unbelievably rude. and the food is nasty. will never come again. and it is overly priced.

beautiful food here
my wife and i had the honey pork, dim sim and the roast pork and shrimp fried rice.
the food was nice and tasty.
friendly staff
we will definitely come back

food is okay at best, portions are extremely small for an asian restaurant, and pricing isn't the best either. not recommended for large groups but possibly more suitable for smaller groups

from my favourite white poached chicken, to the signature orange beef (a play on a sort of sweet and sour beef), and back, the food here is excellent.  last time i went we also had delicious hot salty prawns in their shells, slow braised pork and taro, and the combination seafood in a deep fried potato basket.  if you care more for the taste of your food than anything else, shanghai is a very underrated cantonese style restaurant and worth a try.  oh and they do byo also ;)  4.5 stars

went here for a friend's 21st birthday party.
really delicious food and everything i tried was cooked perfectly and well presented. i really liked the turntable in the middle so people could rotate to get to try each different dish. fun overall experience and good service. would recommend and i'd like to go again.

great time at a friend's birthday dinner, tried around 8 dishes from menu, good food, best chinese so far in wellington, have live fish & lobster..

we really enjoyed our lunch here. our unanimous rating is 4. the egg custard rice noodle is the best we had in
wellington. sweet and sour fish, mapo tofu and salted fish fried rice hit the spot. however, the singapore noodle is very dry. if anyone can recommend a yummy one, please reply below. did i mention all lunch dishes are $10.

we had a family gathering here one night. this place was a regular for us in the past, and still we had high expectations. we were a little let down though. the food was really average. we had lemon chicken, chinese vege, ma po tofu and roast duck, fried noodles and fried rice. the main gripe was that the meat pieces were way too big. it wasn't bad food, but there are other places around town that are better.

live seafood if you are into it. the place also have a good selection of dishes from different parts of china. the sichuan spicy chicken was nicely done with free range chicken with hot sauce. the overall experience was good but the price wasn't cheap- over 100 for two.

i went on 4 oct 2016 in a party of 10. total bill was $292.  we had about 10 dishes and our group was happy with all of the dishes. we had steamed blue cod in soya sauce & ginger, tofu with mined meat, lemon chicken, duck with spring roll wrapping, long beans with savory meat, orange beef,  banana fritter with ice cream, etc. we were about the only ones in the restaurant so ambience was nice for group chat & fun. owner served us personally and gave us complimentary starter soup at the beginning and fresh fruits at the end of dinner.  we brought our own wine and our own tea. happy to recommend this restaurant if you want value for money, spacious and quiet ambience.

the shanghai was our departed parents (back in the day) favourite chinese restaurant. it was dads birthday so we decided to go there for dinner .... big mistake! prices have gone up by $9-$10 on every dish, this wouldn't be so bad if the quality and service equaled the price increases but no it didn't. not a taste of peanut in the beef satay, onions galore through every dish, customary tilt of the tea pot lid was ignored so we had to keep asking for top ups of hot water - charged each time, flavour was lacking in every dish and we ordered eight.
we decided that will be the last time we eat there ... hello grand century / dragon ...
best dish of the night was the banana birthday cake that my daughter made!

we ordered shanghai duck, crispy chicken and vegetables in garlic sauce, with a simple entree of steamed dim sim. we made a point of asking for the dim sim to arrive first. the duck arrived first. sent it back reminding them of what we ordered. 20mins later our entree arrived. then shortly after, the duck returned - now less than warm - with the vegetables (or vegetable really as only bok choy), then waiting for the chicken...15 mins later and still nothing. we were told that it takes longer to cook than the other items on our order...isn't it the chefs job to manage these things? but they checked with kitchen and was cooked but apparently too hot to chop up yet. we cancelled the chicken. and proceeded to leave. the hostess, who we presumed was the owner was exceptionally rude, refused to acknowledge how poorly we had been treated and argued with us as we left. if i could give zero stars i would. i don't ever recall leaving a negative google review for anything but the way we were treated was totally unprofessional.