Shanghai Cafe

100 Mott St, NY, NY 10013

Rating: 1 - Wonderful
Visit #: 20
In brief: Rarely has the lunch trifecta of soup dumplings, sauteed string beans and rice cakes with shredded pork and preserved cabbage ever disappointed us. Maybe once the string beans were a little soft.

Necessary errands bring us back to our old beloved neighborhood which we miss dearly. It was hard to pick the one place we wanted to eat at. Well, not really perhaps. Shanghai Cafe Deluxe brings instant and guaranteed happiness into our day, so it was kind of a no-brainer. Without a third lunch companion, we only ordered 2 of our 3 favorite dishes, but we also noted that it was utterly satisfying to get  soup dumplings each, where we usually trade off who gets 3 and other gets 2.