The next morning, jetlag woke me up at 2am. A bit too early for breakfast so I just used the time to plan the day’s itinerary instead. Finally started heading out at 6:45am since the breakfast places started to open then.
The first stop, was Yang’s Dumpling to get myself some shenjianbao. Yang’s was quite well known in Shanghai for their SJBs.
Everywhere else in the world shenjianbao is just pork inside a bun. In China and Shanghai, however, they get fancy and have all types of different fillings and flavors. I got their C set menu, which included mala, shrimp and regular shenjianbao, and a bowl of wonton in chicken broth. 31 yuan. about USD$5. So cheap.
I was the second table in the restaurant. A couple of girls in their 20s were already eating. I thought that might be their post-all-night-partying meal.
First the wonton arrived, hot and comforting. Classic breakfast food.
Then the SJB arrived.
Mala, which had a Sichuan mala bend to the classic SJB:
Shrimp, which was a bit more seafood-ish:
And the old fashioned pork:
Guess what, the oldie was still the goodie. Mala and shrimp were pretty good, but I still thought the pork SJB was the tastiest.
They also had xiao long bao but that wasn’t what I came for.
Plenty of SJB action going on in the kitchen.
The door on the left led to the restaurant. The window on the right was takeout pickups.
Noticed the same Chongqing Xiao Mian nearby that we had back home in San Francisco.
Yang’s Dumpling
小杨生煎(美丽园商厦店)
上海市静安区陕西北路678号(近武定路)
Opens 6:30am.
