Interesting menu, we enjoy having lunch here. Burgers presented on burger shaped board. Love the salad. Really good quiet atmosphere, loved this place.

We visited for weekend lunch and I was pretty excited to see our table already arranged. They also provided crayons for my little one. The food was also amazing. Really impressed with their service

The service is very slow but the best sushi I have tried on this suburb! Well worth the wait if you've got 15 minutes for them to make your order :)

Very nice food and good servings too. The food was also tasty and good The papaya salad is awesome. The staff is friendly. Although needs to improvise the food quality.

My family visited here for the first time last Sat for a late booking. The place was great, service was by Italians & the food was fresh & well priced for the area.

Good French restaurant to go. Food, it's more of Australian/French variety of food is available. Wine list was ok.

All the vegetarian dishes are marked which is quite helpful. not as flavoursome as some of the other Malay joints around town but nice enough for a quick weeknight dinner

Restaurants reputedly based on Shanghainese cuisine are exceeding popular in Sydney. New Shanghai is just one of the chains offering modern Shanghai cuisine (the other two are Din Tai Fung, my review here and Taste of Shanghai). New Shanghai spans 5 locations in Sydney (two in Chatswood alone, Ashfield, Bondi Junction and Charleston), one each in Brisbane and Melbourne and has even made it into Shanghai. There is much to love about New Shanghai. Their funky street scenes interior in their signature bright red colour recreates the hustle and bustle of vintage Shanghai streets. Think screens, pictures of retro Shanghainese ladies in cheongsams and old bicycles. The xiao long baos preparation is done behind glass walls (like that of Din Tai Fung) so you can chose to sit at the counter in front of the chefs and watch their deft dumpling making skills.

The service is just about the fastest I’ve experienced. On this Sunday, five of us arrived at 7:30pm, 15 minutes before the kitchen closed. We were quickly seated and given 3 minutes to select our orders, with the wait staff hovering over us. To our amazement, all 7 dishes were delivered within the allocated time. The menus are used as tablemats, and the extensive menu span cold dishes, dim sum selection, soups, vegetables, noodles and rice and larger protein dishes. The selections are tweaked regularly and there are also specials on offer.

We started off with cold shredded jellyfish and radish tossed with sea salt and light soy dressing ($7.80). I grew up eating jellyfish at the dinner table, and this was more for nostalgic reasons than taste. Jellyfish is eaten primarily for its texture, and this slightly savoury, crunchy and chewy entrée is a good way to whet your appetite. The two must-do are the Shanghainese xiao long baos ($7.80 for 8 pieces) and Shanghai pan-fried pork bun ($10.50 for 8 pieces). Both of these have soup in them and arriving piping hot, it’s always a struggle to wait for them to cool down sufficiently before biting into the dough to release the fragrant soup. I enjoyed the stir-fried clams with ginger and shallots ($15.80), perfectly cooked and redolent with spicy ginger gravy.

BL always orders the stir-fired prawn coated with salted egg yolk ($24.80). The salted duck egg yolk coating gives it a very rich taste, nice to have as the occasional treat. The pork belly braised overnight in sweet soy sauce ($17.50) is served in an earthenware pot was beautifully tender. To balance out all the protein, we had garlic stir-fried seasonal vegetables, which on the day was choy sum ($11.50).

New Shanghai is an easy choice for a delicious quick meal, in pleasant surroundings. The 3-hour free parking at Chatswood Chase is a great bonus. ...

. Go old-school with Mongolian lamb and salt-and-pepper crispy lamb strips, or spice things up with Sichuan sauce, a red sauce amped with garlic and chilli was excellent.

A bakery in S.A... that's something worth celebrating. In advance of the official opening next week, staff were treated to a pre-opening party surprise and delight.