It's hard to find a nice place to sit and chat and have dinner at Box Hill, but Shanghai 1930 is an…read moreexception. And excellent chinese restaurant featuring Shanghai cuisine, it was perfect for family dinners and birthday celebrations. A tip from me is to pre-order the pan fried buns as they get sold out quite quickly. Also not featured on the dinner menu but it's delicious and available is the Shanghaiese stir fried noodles. If you order the Peking duck, as them to make the soup for you using the duck. You won't regret it

Great place for tradition cooking, but the way the food is bought out is very disappointing. Mains…read morewere bought out not together, rice took at least 15 minutes after the main, and the vegetables were later still. Service was very friendly, and when the food arrived it was fantastic.

What a good find when we couldn't get into hakata gensuke…read more Help yourself to tea, cutlery and condiments. Peruse a large menu with dumplings, noodle dishes, soups stir fries, drinks and desserts. The fried pork dumplings were massive and beautifully flavoured end crunchy soft. The fish noodle soup was the winner with tender pieces of white wish, dried red chilli, Sichuan flavours and a flavourful broth The chilli lamb dry noodles were bwlnd in comparison but th lamb was finely sliced and tender. We were bursting at the seams and it only cost us 33 bucks. Value for money.

I have been frequenting Pings since it opened. My favorites…read moreare the pork, chicken & prawn and the beef dumplings. They are great fried or boiled. I got take away this time but as always the dumplings were delicious and fresh. The skins are quite thin with generous fillings. This is my go to place for dumplings and I have recommended to friends who have all enjoyed them too. Very reasonably priced but don't expect any customer service you pretty much get what you pay for...nice food.

Pings dumplings are reasonable and they have heaps of options to choose from. You can get them…read morefrozen to take home and cook later (I haven't done this). They also have most of your your standard Chinese dishes available. From what we've tried I like the beef and carrot dumplings best. We also get some garlic or stir fried greens. They can use a little too much oil at times on this, but it still tastes OK.

Shanghai restaurant has closed down (they had pretty decent dan Dan min, not like others try to…read morepass jah jaing min off as). Unfortunately they are no longer. Replacement restaurant is so so. Lots of noodle for the price, but lacks meat and/or veggie. Stock is bland. I suggest trying other venues. Ps, floor is filthy. I'm not fussed about the rest of the venue, but floor is filthy, slippery and dangerous.

was convinced by a friend to give this place another try and relinquish ordering control ... what…read morefollowed was an amazing set of shanghainese food I never knew existed!! We had a grp of 9 and the food just kept on coming n quickly devoured. Almost like sharing food with siblings in a large family!! haha you snooze u loose!! individually we all had our suggestions and favourites... I reaaaally liked the chives dumpling and of course the 小籠包... UPDATE: 13 Aug 2016 Came back to retry... Noticed that the old lady making the dumplings next to the counter was replaced with a youngish chick... this time around the XLB ordered was salty and especially the soup inside the pastry pocket!! Also tried for the this time the "hashbrown"... hmm preferred our Aussie kind with potatoe instead. But having said that it was fried to perfection. Nice crisp and crunch!!

Choose a very simple meal (pancakes and the tofu soup), but tasted good. I made good use of the…read morestandard table condiment, chilli flakes in oil. Small, Shanghai style noodle house. Was still fairly busy when I visited at 8:30 on a weeknight.

Shanghai is a bustling little spot in Chinatown in Melbourne. Food is absolutely delicious. The…read moreline out front proves that. They have you pretty much write down your order while you are waiting in line so that service goes quickly. The pork belly with steamed buns is a must have. So good! I found the lamb cumin spiced noodles amazing as well. Don't think you can really go wrong here.

Nice restaurant in chinatown and very busy even in late night. Looks like it is pretty well known…read morerestaurant. So many items on the menu. We ordered plenty dishes and food was ready pretty quickly. All the dishes are yummy. We left with tummy satisfied and full. As tips are not common, it is interesting to see the worker surprised and happy when we pave them the change.

I was feeling like fish n chips but somehow ended up here. Quant small little restaurant. Very…read moredecent food and at decent prices. I had the xiao long bao and the Shanghai fried noodles. Both were really good. I wouldn't say exceptional but still worth a return visit. I wouldn't mind trying some of their other small eats. Noodles - not too oily very tasty. And huge size! Add some chillie oil and BAAAAAAM :) The xiao long bao... not the standard as Shanghai st or tin tai fung.. but still was pretty good. Skin was a bit thick but the soup inside the little parcels were pretty good!

Good servers. Season less food. Spicy dumplings not spicy. Poor spirits selection. Great location…read moreacross from Hoyts. Will go elsewhere after a movie. Sad bc the aesthetics are great.

From the owner: We care about our food quality control and the cleanness of our restaurantread more

It was for my lady''s birthday dinner which attended by our whole family. Decent Shanghainese…read morecuisine, our parents were very happy. The house specialty whole fish with pin nuts is highly recommended. This is a Shanghainese's style restaurant, usually it is impossible to wait for a table during the serving hours. Servers are doing incredible job for such volume of tables but it would nicer should they need to be a bit more relax.

I've never had vegetarian xiao long Bao before. I used to eat meat and I miss the soup dumplings…read morebut this must be the best vegetable dumplings I've ever had. If you've had Din Tai Fung before, the dumpling skin is a little thicker but still thin. This just means that it doesn't break when you pick it up. We got the sichuan cold chicken noodles and the zhazhang mian as well. The noodles are so good, better than DTF's. I recommend getting the noodle soup because that's popular but also any thing with the numbing sichuan spice. The noodles are a little chewy and very filling. They are the perfect texture. I highly recommend this restaurant and I'll definitely be back to try other things.