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Shanghai Old Station Restaurant (Shanghai Lao Zhan) Frommer's Highly Recommended

Cuisine Shanghai
Hours Daily 11:30am-2pm and 5:30-10pm
Address
Caoxi Bei Lu 201
Location Opposite the Xujiahui Cathedral, Xuhui District (Southwest Shanghai)
Transportation Metro: Xujiahui
Reservations Reservations recommended
Phone 021/6427-2233
Prices Meal for 2 ¥150-¥320 ($21-$46/£11-£23)
Credit Cards Not accepted

Frommer's Review

Located in a 1921 French monastery, this restaurant easily boasts one of the most atmospheric and nostalgic colonial settings in town. A mosaic-tiled corridor, lined with traditional lamps, antique gramophones, old photos, and even a painting of Jesus Christ, leads to a main dining hall where you can find the real novelty of this restaurant: two traditional railway carriages (an 1899 German wagon once serving the Qing empress dowager Cixi Taihou, and a 1919 Russian carriage used by Song Qingling or Mme. Sun Yat-sen) running off the side of the building and providing additional seating. The food holds its own well enough, with traditional Shanghai dishes such as sauteed fresh shrimps, fried hairy crab (seasonal), special vegetarian duck, powdered crabmeat with tofu, and mushroom and vegetable buns making an impression. Don't expect the royal treatment in this Orient Express, as service is mostly perfunctory.

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