Deep fried Pork Cutlet(Tonkatsu, in Japan Speak). Frog curry with some good chiles.
Wife had Frog in Mala HotPot (yeah, it’s 90°f outside).
Mala HotPot was indeed Mala. Quail Egg, Yuba, Romaine, Spinach, Cabbage, various Mushrooms and quite a bit of Frog.
Added a side of Guy Mo Choy, Chicken Feather Choy. Rarely (if ever) see this vegetable outside of China/HK.
Chose a Lime drink and Coconut Water as our included beverages. Added a TsingTao.
Usd$9.40. ALL. IN!!!
Love Shanghai!
Yum Cha (Dim Sum) at Imperial Treasure.
We YumCha’d at a less than satisfactory venue the day before and wanted a better experience, Imperial was a superior experience. Yum cha literally translates to drink tea. Osmanthus Chrysanthemum Pu’er, my wife’s choice.
No carts, dim sum cooked when ordered ala minute.
Lots of enthusiasm for dim sum, and Cheung Fun in particular in several other mentions recently. Fun wrapped crispy YouTiou and snappy Shrimp. Fantastic bite, textures and flavors meld seamlessly.
Waat: smooth and slippery. To my taste, more important in cheung fun than the filling. This was ho waat, perfect together with the fresh crisp of the fillings.
Ha Gow rivals the best I’ve enjoyed in HongKong and Canton. Translucent delicately pleated wrappers, FRESH Shrimp, explosive pure shrimp goodness.
Perfectly stir fried Choy Sum, lightly wokked and seasoned ala Cantonese. Back in SF, choy sum has a short season, which just ended. I’m gorging here at every op. Perfect snap, light on the oil and seasoning. Excellent.
Shrimp wrapped in Tofu Skin. Deep fried, I prefer steamed. Tasty, but will insist (as available) on steamed if presented a choice.
Molten Lava Buns. Somewhat surprised my sweets adverse wife ordered these.
Pillowy fluffy bun filled with a creamy Salted Egg Yolk Custardly filling. A touch of grainy feel from the yolk. These were a nice balance between sweet and savory.
All delicious. Service was IMPECCABLE!!! Our Pu’er tea on the tabletop warmer. Servers topped our tiny teacups after every sip. Attentive, non obtrusive.
No mystery Imperial Treasure Fine Chinese Cuisine sports two stars. Highly recommend!!
Shunde district in Guangdong province has long been a food destination. We won’t get to eat there till next year, a good Shunde dinner tonight a consolation.
Any restaurant with Cantonese roast poultry/meats hanging in the window, or live seafood in tanks grabs my attention.
Shunde Raw Fish Salad
A brilliant build of fresh fish and aromatics. Fresh out of the tank Grass Carp, precisely filleted to translucent slices. Tossed with: pickled Shallots, Scallion Bulb, Purple Onion, Seasame Seed, Carrots, Ginger, Daikon,Garlic and crispy deep fried Taro.
A table tent with construction instructions. We accepted our lovely server’s offer to provide the professional touch.
Voilà!!! Light chew and flavors, all working together. Dare say better than the versions we had in Canton. Fish sliced very thin (fugu-sequel), more refined with pearl coloured bites.
Frog (Tien Guy aka rice paddy chicken) Claypot. Generous pieces of frog with copious Garlic cloves accented with Ginger and bits of Bell Pepper. Our 4th frog in 5 days. Frog is good in Shanghai.
No Cantonese meal is complete without Rice. After all, standard street greeting is sic fon mei? Eat rice yet?
Stir fried Chayote, the bits of fried Pork Belly were fabulous!!!
Simple prep of Chinese Loofah (si gua), steamed on table. My wife kept marveling how this simple gourd prep could be so delicious!! Barely (didn’t need) used the provided soy chile sauce.
Bottle of Guyuelongshan Rice Wine, a Shaoxing wine.
No English contact info, China great firewall. Broschure lists a Richmond BC branch.
Off to Hangzhou in a couple. Very impressed with this revisit to Shanghai. Very glad we scheduled to be back in town in 2 weeks, will explore further!!
Good looking har gow!
Tasted even better than they look!
Really want a plate of plain basic cheung fun, congee with a twin stick of youtiao for dipping and a glass of fresh lightly sweetened soy milk. Breakfast of champions.
Speaking of champions. Ran into the future ping pong gold medalist working on her game. Four more years !!! 
Dang, that’s some prehistoric setup.
Were they using Brontosaurus testicles as the “ping pong ball”?
Would hate to be around when they harvested the balls for the volleyball team. 
Hate to have been the hunter who was tasked to find balls for the bowling ball team, too.
Food Hall in Raffles City. Singaporean Hawker Center meets Shanghai Street Food, circa ‘50s?
Wife must have her Jian Bing, custom crafted to order.
Her childhood fav, Pancake with lotsa Chives.
SUPER Bok Cheet Guy (White Cut Chicken). Tender bone-in chicken packed with chicken goodness, bouncy skin. Duck Blood in Shanghai even better than Taiwan, she admits. gasp
XLB. Just because……Shanghai!
We were like kids in a candy superstore, delights in every direction. All cooked very well and priced very affordably.
Alas, we had to exercise some restraint and paused our gluttony. . Didn’t wanna ruin our appetite for dinner.
This was great fun, and everything we ate was delicious!!! Planning a revisit in a couple of weeks.
