YUM!!!  I really like Shanghai cuisine and was so excited when my uncle introduced me to this one on Broadway.  It’s right across from the Chapters on Broadway and I was so shocked that I walked past it so many times and didn’t know anything about it.  It’s really a diamond in the rough.  The decoration outside makes it look like a typical chinese restaurant.  But it’s actually full of Shanghai goodies.  I’ve already visited two times by the time I write this post.  Both times I tried their smaller snack plates.  It’s a great deal because those appetizers are only around $5 each and we get to try a lot of different types because they aren’t big dinner dishes.

My most favorite appetizer is featured in the picture above and below!  It’s a radish cake puff (roughly translated from Chinese).  It has layers of puff pastry and inside are strips of radish, ham and green onions.  The reason I like this most at Lin’s is that they make it taste super fresh.  The radish strips are carefully sliced.  Most places I go to usually just have the radish is uneven and short chunks.  The strips here definitely made the differences because you can taste that this appetizer was not made to be sloppy.  It has texture to it!  The puffy pastry with the warm radish inside.  SO GOOD!!!  :P

We also had a soup.  This is the meat and veggy dumpling soup.  The little strips of yellow you see in the picture is actually egg.  The dumplings had a little bit of alcohol blended into the meat.  So in the end it wasn’t just a normal everyday dumpling.  The only disappointment was that the actual soup was not that exciting.  So if you want to have dumpling then this is your choice!  They do have lots of different choices of soup.  I want to try the sour and hot soup next time.

Another dish worth mentioning is this~  I can’t really translate the name directly but it’s similar to a meatball.  I’ve had this dish before but Rockia was definitely surprised at how the meat just melts in your mouth.  This is difinitely not a meatball because it is not hard and packed.  This dish would go great with rice because it has a great sauce and the texture is soft, light and fluffy ( I know! Meat that is fluffy!  But I can’t think of another word to describe the experience).  I would definitely recommend this~

We were super hungry that night so we also had the dam dam noodle which is peanut sauce with noodles and the xiao long bao.  I think most people can’t go into a Shanghai restaurant without having a shao long bao.  Lin has actually received a couple of awards for their shao long bao.  There is great reason to it because it is extremely juicy.  Be ready for the juice to gush out as you bite into it.  Wow!  This post made me extremely hungry.  I’ll stop typing now.  GO try it for yourself!  GO! GO!! EAT!

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