Tipsy Shanghai

Very cozy and quaint specialized Chinese restaurant. It’s not a typical place for the traditional style NY Chinese you can find everywhere. The flavors and textures are varied and you should try it for a new experience. The menu is dim sum focused with a number of larger dishes to share. I loved the special warmed rice pudding with red bean paste and not too sweet of a glaze on top for dessert.

The food is delicious, service is friendly, and the decor is quite unique. I love the gold accents and the use of the color red throughout the restaurant. I recommend coming here when it’s less busy or when you’re not in a rush to eat. My favorite dishes are the eggplant in garlic sauce, pan fried xiaolongbao, Peking style pork noodles (surprisingly not heavy and there’s hints of sesame seed oil), and fried rice with veggies and meat!

This place is a great place if you love sweet Shanghai flavors. It's underpriced, flavorful, and authentic. I ordered like 6 dishes and nothing was spicy, so it's great for kids and those who don't like spicy foods. The dishes are customizable too. You can ask for changes if you would like. Also, they don't have a wheelchair access but they got a bottom by their door to help you in and out of the restaurant.

The steamed pork soup dumplings and drunken chicken Suzhou style were good. Shredded pork and salted vegetable noodle soup were fine. However, the sliced braised beef noodle soup and pan fried pork dumplings were not as good as expected. It would be nice if there were some greens in the beef noodle soup. Also, the hot and soup soup was very small, and I had had better elsewhere. Overall, it’s good if I feel like eating some noodles. But I probably go elsewhere for more tasty food.

I honestly wanted to love this place considering all the hype around it but it was a major let down. Fried rice had no taste other than just an oily film coating your mouth. Dongpo pork had more flavor than the fried rice but nothing memorable. The slice Szechuan pork was a major let down. It did not taste nor look like traditional twice cooked pork. It seems like all the people leaving glowing reviews have never been to any other traditional Chinese restaurant outside of this little bubble. Service was meh, I understood they were busy so no points off. Just bad food in my opinion.

Our waiters were were great! We just stumbled up on this great little place. We got the lunch special and honestly this was a lot of food for three people, but we got try alittle bit of all their stuff.

The atmosphere was ok with the decorations. A lot of issues with the food, where to start. Pan fried XLB while juicy were very small. Wuxi ribs first order came out room temp on one side and refrigerator cold on the other. Salted duck and eel were ok. All broccoli little shrimp on that dish. Mapo tofu heat is off, feels like a fruity hot sauce was used instead of Sichua peppercorns, tofu was good and silky. Eight treasure rice came out ok, would have liked more treasures covering the bottom like it's homemade. Service was quick and changed plates as needed.

It was great! We drove past it while going somewhere else and just stopped in. The staff was so nice and helpful. Plus the food was amazing. 4 people with around dishes. It was amazing.