New Shanghai Chinese Restaurant, Stockton - Review

So this weekend I paid attention to Yelp, and went to so highly recommended restaurants in Stockton.

New Shanghai Chinese Restaurant

6041 Pacific Ave.

Stockton, CA 95207

Kind of a disappointment.  I often order too much food at Chinese places, mostly so I can try a bunch of things… my favorite way to eat.  I ordered:

Fried Prawns – A favorite of mine.

Crab Puffs - Known more commonly as Crab Rangoon, and Amazing’s favorite.

Cherry Pork – Something unique, so I had to try it.

Orange Chicken

House Fried Rice

The prawns had a lot of breading on them and rather small shrimp.  It was strange they weren’t curved at all.  Straight prawns are odd prawns.

‘Crab Puffs’ – Whoa there on the onions!!!  These weren’t so much ‘Crab Puffs’ as they were ‘Onion Puffs’.

Cherry Pork – Pretty darn good and a unique flavor.  I think I could have done without the maraschino cherries in there.  And if they insist on putting them in there, couldn’t they remove the stems?

Orange Chicken – I’m not even sure I got Orange Chicken.  I got deep fried chicken filets sliced into strips on a bed of shredded lettuce.  There was a sauce packaged with my to-go box, so I used that on the chicken.  It was overcooked:  dry and tough.  The sauce was not orange sauce.

House Fried Rice – I asked if they had ‘House Fried Rice’, she said yes, and gave me their ‘Combination’.  Pork, chicken, and shrimp in the same fried rice.  Not for me.  Other than that, the rice was overcooked and bland.

Since I got this all to go, I can only review the food, which I give a

2 out of 5.

I certainly won’t be going back there.  With Dave Wong’s Deli being close to the same price point, I’d only go to New Shanghai for the Cherry Pork.  I wanted to try the duck they have on the menu, but they didn’t have it in the kitchen to make for me.