Restaurant Review: Shanghai Tea House

These economic times has me looking for good cheap eats. Add a review in the Post by Tom Sietsma, an exploratory email from M, and my need for dumplings drove me to the Shanghai Tea House in Glover Park on a rainy thursday night. I brought with me Billy Hixx from the Sheremer High School Blog.

Shanghai Tea House is located in Cleveland Park which has seen a rise in new eatries, there is alot of yuppie money in the neighborhood. It's a small modern space with display counters with nothing in them and a number of tables. We sit down and wait for awhile before we get menus, service is still being worked on. The menu has one page devoted to an enormous number of teas, they care your balck and oolong but they have dragon pearl and some other hard to find teas. I just wish I was a tea drinker. They also had a ton of bubble tea. I got a mango bubble tea but they gave me a normal flexi-straw so sucking up the fun bubbles didn't happen. The place quickyy filled and we ahd to wait for a bit before our order was taken.

After a while the server returned, we ordered some steamed pork buns to start, Billy Hix had spicy pork stir fry and I had shrimp wonton soup. The pork stir fry had a nice kick and everything was fresh, the veggies the pork you could taste the ginger and garlic and all the flavors combined very well. My shrimp wonton soup was excellent. It was a large soup with 5 shrimp wonton in it. the shrimp and the wontons tasted fresh and they were nicely sized. The broth was flavorful and light. And the soup was $3.95 huge score. The stemed pork buns finally arrived but we got pork dumplings instead. i was a bit bummed out until i tried the dumpling, so good. Stuffed with pork it I was transported back to my Xi'an dumpling dinner. They were good. They also provided a rich balck vingear soy and spicy chile sauce.

All in all it was very fresh and tasty. I would go back in a heart beat.