LAO YU YUAN DUMPLING HOUSE

We ordered a lot of dishes and most were awful in comparison to the same dish at other restaurants—the squirrel fish tasted off/moldy beneath the overly corn syrupy sweetness, the jellyfish was too sweet and chewy, the crystal shrimp also tasted old (fishy) not fresh, the salty soybean milk lacked flavor. Some dishes that were passable were the veggie dumplings and fried dough; and the loofa with gluten and snow pea leaves were pretty good (and also harder to mess up). Although the wait staff was friendly, they did NOTHING when we complained about 2 of the dishes being awful so we gave up complaining. Also, they validate the parking only for 1 hour and the parking lot charges extra for “large vehicles,” which include compact SUVs. Save yourself the trip and money.

the drunken chicken, braised gluten kaofu, jelly fish, and sweet/smoked fish were all great, very good shanghainese place