Pricey given the portions. Tastes are usually okay if you stick with the popular dishes (e.g. XLB), but other dishes are just okay. The fish dish I ordered barely have any meat on it and it's way too sweet for my taste.
Dinesty? More like disappointing.I visited on a recommendation from a friend and had high hopes for this restaurant coming in. Unfortunately, I was sorely disappointed.Overall, the food was at best... okay? I’ve had way better Shanghainese food for cheaper.Pros* Nice decor?Cons:* The soup dumplings were lacking flavour and soup. The dumpling itself was doughy, tough, and overly chewy* The shumai was, again, doughy and overly chewy. Lacked flavour as well.* The scallion pancake was overcooked, tough, and bitter. It’s meant to be flaky on the outside, this one was just - you guessed it - doughy.* The servers weren’t the most hospitable. Admittedly, there was language barrier, so I understand there’s not much I can do about that.* Lastly, one of the chefs wasn’t wearing a mask in the kitchen. I don’t have a photo, but thankfully, there’s another review on here that confirms the exact same thing with photos. All I can say to that is come on, really?Dinesty? More like disgrace.
Having an open kitchen, knowing all customers will be able to look at everything going on inside a kitchen that we all eat the food from, if you decide to put on a mask, please put them on properly. Having a mask under your chin, making it LOOK like you are following the order but actually don’t care how to follow it properly, just makes it even worse than not following it.All of our food was decent for the night. One star is good enough to give towards it. Service, on the other hand, was not impressive. No one bothers to clean up the dishes after all food was done. We had to have our dessert with a table full of dirty dishes. Didn’t even give some extra clean dish for us to enjoy our desserts.
Taiwanese style Shanghai foods. The xiaolongbao is pretty standard. My favorite is the pork and shrimp wonton, it uses a whole shrimp with pork. There's street paid parking in front. Good choice for a warm meal on a cold rainy Sunday.
Love the pork buns! The traditional steamed xiao long baos are great! Not a big fan of the pan friend one
I have just visited the one in Richmond and now visiting this location - the decor here is not quite as striking but the service is very warm and friendly and the little robot zipping around is very entertaining. ?The portions are large, very tasty and plated in an eye catching way.The scrambled eggs with prawns was delicious, so was the prawn fried rice. The crispy panfried dumplings were rich and interesting to look at when they arrive. Crispy outside, juicy inside! The fish in a spicy garlic sauce was tender and perfectly cooked. The egg and pork dumpling soup was just perfect on a rainy night. The steamed sesame paste buns were the perfect end to a meal.I have returned twice this week.
I ordered three dishes of food from Dinesty in Burnaby through Doordash tonight. The service was very efficient. The food was ready in 15 mins. I received text messages that they told me they received the order and when the food was ready for pickup. It was very convenient ordering the food online.The portion of the spicy beef noodles in soup was quite big. The noodles should have more than 100g. It didn’t look spicy but it was spicy. The smoke tea suck bento box was better than I expected. I liked the side dishes in the bento box. They were eggplants, half of an smoke tea egg and some mah poh tofu as well as the duck and rice at the bottom. The third item I ordered was the Shanghai fried noodles with chicken. The noodles were chewy that was the texture I liked. It was not too greasy. I expected fried noodles should have a lot of oil but the oil they put in this dish didn’t make me feel sick.Overall the quality was good. Service was excellent. Pricing was reasonable. I would love to order online again and try different dishes next time.
It's always good here. Not sure what people are complaining about. Better service than most Chinese restaurants. Food is good and comes out fast.
Been a while since we were last here. Looks like they did some renos since our last visit... Plus they also have a robot server which delivers your dishes (sort of).Of course, the reason to visit this place is their xiao long bao (they have a few varieties). I feel like their dumplings have gotten a bit smaller over time. Not bad but I remember them being better. I do like that they give everyone their own dipping sauce so you don't have to share.Added a few other dishes like the hot and sour soup, stir-fried vermicelli, and the seafood with veggies. All pretty good.
Great dumplings and food! Was a great atmosphere and the service was good. Lots to chose from and would definitely go again! Highly recommend.