Shanghai City Restaurant, Nanaimo

This weekend was Chinese New Year, so my son and I celebrated by eating at the Shanghai Restaurant yesterday. Located at the back of Brooks Landing Mall, it is an old favourite.

We missed the lunch and dinner crowds by going mid-afternoon. The dim sum menu ends at 2 pm but at 2:30 we could still order a small dish of those flat rice noodles that we like. We also ordered the mixed meat and tofu hot pot from the regular menu, which is a delicious sizzling stew in a clay pot. There are plenty of fresh-tasting vegetables in it and a flavourful gravy. You eat it by putting a scoop of rice in a small bowl and spooning some hot pot over it so that the gravy goes down into the rice. Mmm, yum!

Hard to stop eating when it’s so good, but the dishes were large enough that we even had a box-full left over to take home. It came to $28.25 including tax and before the tip.