wow.best fried pork dumplings in town. the other food is also good. free tea,water..and energetic staff. always busy.highly recommended

Had our first ever dumpling experience at Shanghai Village Dumpling.
Located in Chinatown (the top end), this venue blew our minds.
Walked in and found a table, the waiters were eager to impress.
Received menus straight away.
The menu is quite extensive, but our choice was a plate of fried beef dumplings each and a plate of fried pork & vegie to share. Great choices.
The plates arrived about 10 minutes after we ordered, although on subsequent visits this has varied from 6-10. Very fast service.
They have soy sauce and vinegar sauce at each table, although my personal choice was the chilli sauce. It's not too hot and has a great tang to it. Amazing.

Service-wise, it is good, waiters take your order efficiently.
Drinks arrive before your meals do.

We have been back to this restaurant at various times, including Saturday 5pm, Sunday 3pm, Friday 5pm and Monday 1pm. It gets busy at peak times, although they have a second level of seating.
You could easily be in and out in under 30 mins at this venue.

Price is amazing, we usually get charged $21 between us ($7 per plate, order as per above). Value.

Approximate cost: $11

Amazing building, great food, service ok, located right in China Town, will be back again, enjoyable.

Not bad for a lunch place in the CBD. GOod taste and good price. Will go again for lunch on weekdays. Probably not convenient for dinner time.

I am surprised by the compliments this place has got, I even had to check if it was the same place that we ate the other night. Perhaps if we had ordered differently but we had the banquet for 4, great value at $16 each for the 3 of us but as it was 4 for $48 total they did not give us the extra bowl of rice. You had to order 2 cold dishes and 2 hot. Had 5 spiced beef and Pork in ginger and soy. The 5 spiced beef was fairly tasteless considering and was just like cut deli meat. The pork was nice although had the little bone in it. Hot meals we ordered the (broiled) scallops and the chicken and veges. Chicken and veges was the nicest part of the meal. The broiled scallops came after the 3 other mains, then the (seafood) soup. The soup came with no spoons and we had to ask. When we got the spoons we ended up just straining some of the prawns from it and that was about it as it was mainly cabbage which seemed to have flavoured water andn oil over it. Even the scallops were little boiled things. Would never go back. The worst thing was when the waiter was cleaning up and spilt juice on my jeans, a quick apology was it!

Great little in and out kinda place. Another 15 dumpling for $7 kind of restaurant. Service is quick, expect your meal in 5 mins. Sometimes you share a table with randoms if the table is big and the place is packed(which it usually is). STill a great place. 2 Big eating guys can eat for less than $30 and be totally stuffed.
Eg. 45 dumplings (pork chicken beef) would cost you $21. And a fried rice another $6-7.
Pretty good value i think. Have eaten there over a dozen times and like it.

Approximate cost: $8

Shanghai Village is a very old Chinese restaurant more than 10 years old in business. I like their beef noodles, fried dumplings and crispy duck. This place is value for money and is not a place to sit and dine but having a good quick meal.

Approximate cost: $10