Shanghai River

08/06/07

Are they really gone? Yayyyyyy!

by mrsmolly at Citysearch

Horrible food, horrible staff. If they're really gone then good riddance. Customers wont come back when the food is bad and the service worse.

• Pros: as if! lol
• Cons: bad food, bad staff

07/01/07

RIP Shanghai River

by yumy at Citysearch

As of last night, Saturday, June 30, 2007, Shanghai River is closed. I went to the restaurant last night, around 6 p.m., and it was locked up and dark inside. The furniture and steam tables were gone. There was no forwarding address.

I last ate at Shanghai River on the night of June 13. It was very good that night. I think that it was due to timing. I got there around 6 pm and they were putting fresh hot food on the buffet. I especially enjoyed the steamed fish and the vegetarian spinach with ginger dish. Not many Chinese buffets have steamed fish.

One thing that I did not like about Shanghai River in the past was that the food was often lukewarm. I used to complain about it. They claimed that the AC cooled the food and that I needed to stir the food up before serving myself. One time I went to the restaurant at 2:30. Big mistake, the food at that time was not fresh, and they made no apologies about it.

This is the third Chinese buffet restaurant to close in the immediate neighborhood area. The closest Chinese buffet is now the one at Sea Dragon at 8776 Research Blvd --lunch buffet only.

06/26/07

Absolutely Wretched

by saliasbrown at Citysearch

Food was awful. Tasted like rubber socks. Cold. Out of date.

Read the positive reviews and see if you dont think theyre all wirtten by the same person. Probably someone that works there.

• Cons: I should have been paid to eat here.

06/26/07

Bad Experience - We Wont Be Back

by joefriendly at Citysearch

Friday June 15th, about 6pm: I dont know if we caught them on a bad day, but the buffet food was cold had had the look of having been left under the lights since the lunch hour. The seafood was especially 'unfresh'. My wife and I left after just a few bites--and paying 'halfa price' of course.

I did some research and found that th latest available inspection score was 56 (out of 100, with 70 the pass/fail line) I just filed a complaint with the department of TX that inspects food establishments (the name is not allowed in these reviews.)

• Pros: Close to Adobe
• Cons: Food was awful - unhealthy in my opinion

05/04/07

Consistently Outstanding --update: Now chocolate vegan soft serve--

by tate_etc at Citysearch

It is my personal belief (and I could be wrong) that the people who wrote bad reviews about Shanghai are meat-eaters. I believe this because when they found out we were vegan, the owners catered to us hand and foot. They had everything we asked for. The food is always hot and fresh. My boyfriend and I look forward to coming here once a week. Above it says it isn't romantic, but heck we are swept off of our feet by the food everytime we go. It's definately a trip.We only eat the vegan items off of the veggie buffet so that's all we can speak for. But, damn it's really great.. We always go when we're ridiculously hungry and everytime we get defeated by our mountain of yummy yummy food-but we leave in a daze... maybe they put something in the food. It's too good.

OH ALSO, THERE'S VEGAN SOFT SERVE!! !! !! !!

• Pros: food--price-service-soy ice cream. It's way better than "buffet" food should be.
• Cons: I can't think of any. None.