Shanghai Yau Fat Restaurant — Restaurant in Alhambra

To me, an authentic Chinese restaurant serves hot tea with the menu. It's a small thing, but shows the establishment's roots are in the right place. This is that kind of place. Server was very friendly. Decor was nice and typical upper end Chinese. Since this is this place has Shanghai in the name, I ordered two types of dumplings from the five or six offerings. Before my main course arrived, a cabbage soup was brought out. Not great. but good and served free. Next out was steamed Szechaun dumplings. They sat in a pool of chili oil surrounded by crowns of broccoli, with a sprinkling of crushed chili on top. Delicious. Next up, pan fried pork dumplings. The eight giant dumplings were fried on one side and also quite tasty. Look forward to...

Food ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Service ❌

Ambience ⭐️

The restaurant lived up to its picturesque photos in appearance.

The floors and menus were sticky, and a pile of disposable meal boxes, napkins, and chopsticks cluttered a dining table in the corner, creating a messy atmosphere.

There was no welcoming greeting from the receptionist as we entered, and although half the tables were available, we had to wait for a waitress to clean up and set a table for us.

Luckily, the enticing aroma of the food kept us from walking out immediately. We ordered sautéed sticky rice cake with salty pork, crispy chicken, fried cod with pepper, and house tofu.

While the other three dishes were delicious (but a bit too oily), the house tofu tasted...

This restaurant had a lot of bad review on their customer service that's why we never went there. So, a couple of days ago my family decided to try it out for a benefit of doubts. Surprisingly, the service was fast and the staff was helpful and quite nice. She was very busy because she was working herself, so it's totally understandable if she looked like in a hurry. The restaurant was not so big but it's pretty nice though. It was not busy during our visit at weekday, but there were a lot of online orders coming to pick up food. Amazingly, their food tastes as great as our other favorite restaurant on Valley Blvd. Their pork belly tastes and smells great and their fried chicken is also tasty. Will...