Shanghai Noodle House

One of a new crop of Shanghai restaurants to open this year in Chinatown. A bright welcoming place with friendly staff. Lunchtimes are very busy but you can wait for a table to come free, they turn over pretty quickly here. Whilst waiting look at what's being served on the tables around you. Menus on display are all in Chinese but there are some pink laminated English menus. They sort of match the chairs. Simple black painted tables and a nifty little chipboard ledge snakes its way around a couple of the walls for single diners. Very good fresh food, very low prices. Costs you just a bit more than the Government Dumpling Shop in Shanghai but the queues are shorter.

Rear Tattersalls Lane
242 Little Bourke Street
Melbourne
Chinese Cuisine
Melways reference 1B:P4
Phone: 9662 9380
Opening hours: 7 days 10.30am-10pm
Does not accept credit cards
Seats Inside: 45
Features: Kids encouraged
Favourites: Peanut butter won ton noodle $5, Spring onion cake $1.50, Shanghai fried noodles $5

*An updated review can be found in Mietta's Eating & Drinking in Australia 2000 pg99, published by Black Inc., 2000, Vic