Shanghai Garden - Seattle

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  • Lunch specials and take-out
  • No MSG
  • High nutrition menu items

Shanghai Garden serves versions of classic Chinese cuisine with low fat and low cholesterol. All menu items are free of MSG. Eating healthy? Try our delicious high nutrition menu items with barleygreen hand-shaven noodles and brown rice. In addition to traditional Chinese fare, we have unique specialty entrees, such as: Barley green or corn pot stickers Chicken with garlic and ginger Crispy shrimp with sweet chili sauce Crispy scallops with house special sauce Our lunch specials are served with soup, rice, and choice of the following: Beef with orange flavor Szechuan beef, chicken, pork or shrimp in hot garlic sauce Kung Pao beef, chicken or shrimp Beef, chicken or shrimp with vegetables Beef, chicken or shrimp with black bean sauce General Tso's chicken Cashew chicken or shrimp Almond chicken Snow Peas with chicken and beef

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(206) 438-9468

524 Sixth Ave S Seattle, WA 98104
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In Short
Owner/chef Hua Te Su ("Mr. Su") caters to a largely local clientele in this International District eatery, with its pastel walls and huge fish tank at the entrance. The menu boasts black moss-and-bamboo fungus soup, sauteed hog maw, fish-head casserole and kung pao ostrich. Lunch has a short menu that includes black-bean chicken, moo shu pork or chicken, and more. The house specialty is a dish of chartreuse, hand-shaved barley green noodles.

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Yum-oh  5 Star Rating - World class

By James A. | insider_guru Insider Guru | Rank: 277

Shanghai Garden is a yummy restaurant. I love their hand shaven noodles, sugar pea vines, and their mapo tofu. This restaurant has the best Shanghai cuisine in Seattle, WA.

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Yummy  4 Star Rating - Very good

By M G. | insider_expert Insider Expert | Rank: 6,980

When my coworkers and I crave chinese for lunch, this is the first place we think of. Their lunch selection ranges between $6-7 and most comes with a bowl of hot and sour soup. I have ordered almost everything from their lunch specials, and have not been disappointed with any of them.

Although food is good, I feel they could do with better customer service though. On the lunch special menu, they put numbers next to the item, so my coworkers and I have ordered it by number instead of the item name. When we did this, the wait staff rudely told us she doesn't know the number, and insist we look for the item to tell her what we were ordering. (this happened TWICE!) But they have improved since then.

PROS: Excellent food
CONS: Bad Service

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Taste like cheap chinese buffet 1 Star Rating - Unsatisfactory

By ohmn

nothing chinese about the menu. If you want to have real chinese food, don't bother go there. ordered 4 dishes. All tasted like cheap chinese buffet dishes. If you want to grab a quick bite, maybe.

Definitely not going back. There are a couple of restaurants around the blocks that are way better than this one.

Pros: fast; service is ok
Cons: taste like cheap chinese buffer
Posted 03/25/09

Great Chinese Restaurant in International District - Must try the Barley Green Hand Shaven Noodles 4 Star Rating - Very good

By pilot12

We've been here twice before and will return again. Our favorite is the House Special Barley Green Hand Shaven Noodles with shrimp, chicken and squid. Food is served very quickly, is hot and always delicious.

Posted 12/27/08

Horrible (Xiao LOng Bao) Shanghai Dumplings 2 Star Rating - Wouldn't recommend

By eddyg

Went in thinking I might have found a place to have the soupy Shanghai dumplings in Seattle but alas...they were chunky, not soupy at all with a thick outer skin that made the whole dumpling taste like an overcooked meatball. The dumpling is supposed to have a thin outer skin with a soupy inside that bursts with flavour when you bite into it. NOT! Big disappointment.

The hot and sour soup and the Ma Poh ToFu was OK.

Would not go back.

Posted 12/13/08

Big disappointment 3 Star Rating - Satisfactory

By rmcmahon

Hard review. I was expecting so much based on previous reviews, but I was sorely disappointed. I have yet to find really good, authentic chinese here. I am used to chinese from Vancouver, Toronto and NYC, so perhaps I am too spoiled. Anyway here it is: Busy. Rushed meal at the end. Mediocre to poor service. (too forever to get our order in and then were didn't see the wait staff until they tried to rush us out). Food was good, not great. Kind of bland, nothing special. Not even close to NYC chinese. Best thing on the menu was the dumplings. (which were good) Definately kid friendly (or just a lot of kids in the restaurant) All in all a big disappointment.

Pros: Kid friendly
Cons: Service, food, price
Posted 11/08/07

Best Chinese in Seattle? No way! 1 Star Rating - Unsatisfactory

By botanist

I went here with a friend who raved about the freshly shaven noodles and their dumplings. I was disappointed on both accounts. Way too doughy. Dumplings should have a thin "skin" not gummy as these were. The vegetables were over cooked.

I'd take Hing Loon (same street on the east corner of the block) or 663 Bistro (SE kitty-corner from Hing Loon) over Shanghia Garden any day. Granted these places feature Hong Kong-style cuisine, but the quality is so much better.

Posted 10/25/07