Ala Shanghai Chinese Cuisine

This is some of the Best food, it was a real pleasure to eat here. The Soup dumplings were really good, the sweet and sour soup is one of the best I ever had. The scallion pancake was crisp and tasty. The Shanghai spring roll fell short, in Texas this would be considered a moderate to high end restaurant as far as prices go, but it is well worth it just for the experience.i will eat here again the next time I am in Albany New York.

5 stars (last year) -> 1 star. DO NOT come here unless you want to test if you are their favored type of customers. First experience in last year was great. This time on 05302022, overall fine food but the RUDE waiter bring the restaurant into the forbidden list. I gave 20% tip for the other waiters and asked them to not share it with a waiter here (who seemed to be the manager, unfortunately) that is the worst waiter I have ever met. I hope the restaurant can respect this request. When ordering food, This waiter was very impatient and rude, as if us ordering food brought him great inconvenience. After we mentioned our 7 dishes, he only recorded the names of 3-4 dishes and considered those to be all that were ordered. One dish was not available, which was fine. But the way he told us ‘out of stock’ was very unprofessional — annoyed and looking at us with side eyes at most. When we tried to confirm the ordered dishes and found one missing, he said that we did not order it before. Before

Had an absolutely terrific experience here on 5/4/22. As someone with celiac, gluten free options that are safe from cross contamination are hard to find. The manager came to my table to explain how everything was prepared and what would be safe for me to eat. I had the steamed chicken dumplings as an appetizer and the sesame chicken as a main. Even had the eight jewel sticky rice for dessert. Everything was so good! As it was my very first time having Chinese the manager even taught me how to eat with chop sticks. I will eat here every time I'm in the area. Highly recommend!