Reviews Wang's Shanghai Cuisine

Although I have been to this plaza many times, I never noticed Wang’s Shanghai Cuisine quietly tucked in the back until Maki recommended. Sliced beef with noodles in soup: I was having a hard time deciding between this and their pork noodle soup. In the end, I had no regrets picking the beef one because it was so good.

The sliced beef was so incredibly tender and flavourful. From the online photos, it looked like the beef wouldn’t be that tender but the slices almost melted in my mouth.

Cheap and Great Dimsums & noodles.
Always line up but it's worth to wait.
Too small place, you need to ignore the waiting people looking at you is keep sending a silent signal to leave.
'Cash Only' is the only 'cons' for me.

Simple and quick. The XLB are decent, but the pan fried pork buns are better. The spicy beef noodle doesn’t look hot but it does have a kick. The stewed pork in rice dish is a good choice if u don’t want noodles. With lots of competition near by, Wang’s stands it ground with solid eats. It’s definitely a eat and go kinda place.

October 29, 2017 · by JuliaEats · BEST SHANGHAINESE IN VAN! I’ve already visited 3x and will continue to visit, my shanghainese fam loves this place as much as I do. The shanghainese owners are

The restaurant opens for business at 11am, we arrived about 5 minutes before, found the door unlocked and were welcomed to come inside.  Once inside and seated, and although the restaurant was still not truly open for business, we were provided menus, and brought some hot tea to enjoy while we checked out the offerings.  A friendly and nice start to our lunch.

It's a very small restaurant, and seating arrangement are rather 'cozy'.  We chose an end table for four, alongside the side wall.  We were joined by several other diners soon, and most of the tables were occupied before we left near 12 noon.  From our observations, a popular little place.

Service was great - with two servers working the tables, it was prompt, helpful (especially appreciated when it came time to settle on 'what' and 'how much' we wished to order), and very personable.  And during our meal, someone was always coming by to keep our tea mugs full.

Here's what we (as a threesome) ordered and shared:  steamed pork buns (xiao long bao dumplings), beef roll, pan fried rice cake with shredded pork, pan fried noodle (shanghai noodles), and spiced wonton (pork wonton in chili sauce).

The food freshly- and well-prepared, quite lightly-spiced (except for the wonton), but each very distinctly flavoured.  The dumplings were great - the 'skins' thin (based on those tasted elsewhere), the fillings hot and tasty.  The wonton was as listed - with the chili sauce providing a spicy hot and flavourful contrast to the mildly-spiced pork fillings.  The beef roll provided yet another contrast in preparation, taste, and flavour - the roll, served at sort of room temperature warmth, and the filling and sauce, so distinctly spiced, and tasty.  The two pan fried dishes were well-prepared - the rice cakes and noodles tender, but not soft, and the other ingredients and sauces each doing their thing perfectly - each dish flavourful and tasty.

Our lunch at Wang's Shanghai Cuisine was a fun and delightful dining experience.cters long :)

H was having a tough day. I was dealing with some work. We were both grumpy, but I wasn’t ready to let the day end on a sour note, so I forced H to come out to eat with me. We tried to go to Ramengers, but it was shut down (permanently?). We considered Chosun, but there was a 30 minute wait. What else is there along the Kingsway corridor that is worth putting into our mouths?!

Wow. This place is super cheap and serves some of the best shanghai food in Vancouver. Almost all their dishes are made fresh in house and they are all near perfect. Their XLB had tons of juice and were quite sizable and filing. The rest of their dishes followed the same excellence. Although the spring rolls looked bad, they were also super delicious. Their wontons were huge and were almost like pork meat balls wrapped in wonton skin. This place was amazing and I will definitely come again soon. They have super cheap prices and super good food. I'm surprised they aren't super packed.

My friends told me that we were going to try a new Shanghainese restaurant for dinner. I didn't even know its name as my friends only gave me the address.

The restaurant is located in the same complex of London Drugs on Kingsway and between Wessex Street and Harold Street. It is quite hard to find parking in the parking lot as the parking lot is shared by many shops and restaurants, so I looked for street parking instead.

The interior design is quite simple in the restaurant. The size of the restaurant is small, so there are not many tables. There was lineup when I was eating in the restaurant.

My friends ordered xiao long bao, wraps with beef, Dan Dan mian (noodles with spicy peanut butter sauce) and dumplings with spicy peanut butter sauce. All of them were delicious and cheap!! The portion was big. Three of us shared the food. Each of us only paid about $7.5! What a good deal for dinner!!

If I am in the neighbourhood, I would like to come back and try other dishes such as fried pork chop with noodles in soup, dumplings and pan fried Chinese rice cakes.

"Mouthful of Wang’s". The restaurant space next door to London Drugs on Kingsway near Joyce has been a restaurant black hole over the past 20+ years. In the 90s the space used to be a Taiwanese restaurant called “Lingering Flavour” which was really quite good. After Lingering Flavour closed down, the space turned into a few different restaurants before becoming a Bubble Waffle Cafe location last summer (review here). But then that closed down and became something else (possibly dim sum-related?), but NOW for the past month it’s been a Wang’s Shanghai Cuisine. I really hope they stick around because their xiao long bao (XLB) are great.