Shanghai & Mein

I used to work here, so I probably know more about this restaurant than I should.
It’s loud. You’re on Citywalk, which means you have tons of tourists from Universal studios looking for a sit down restuaurant so Mom and Dad can rest their feet while Jr and Jrette raise a fuss over how much they don’t like their chow mein. The décor is… red. Very red. With floor to ceiling portraits of delicate females of the Orient.
It’s an Americanized Asian Chili’s– does that make sense? Asian people would look at the food at Shanghai and Mein and think the same thing of it that Texans would think of the food at Chili’s. Just as Chili’s is not real Tex-​Mex, Shanghai and Mein is not real Chinese food. Which can be OK. The food isn’t bad at all– just not authentic. I used to order the walnut shrimp (Yummmmmm) all the time when I worked there.
They advertise themselves as a dim sum restaurant, but there are no nifty carts. The extent of the dim sum is an appetizer dish that gives you a handful of pieces of shu mai and har gao.
What’s nice is that this restaurant is next door to Wasabi, the sushi place. If you’re so inclined, you can actually order food from the Wasabi menu and have it served at Shanghai & Mein.