Ye Olde Station Restaurant
Ye Olde Station Restaurant is a unique restaurant which used to be an old french monastrey. Out of towners, kids, and foreigners alike will all enjoy the allure of this historic building with old railcars. If you call ahead, you might just get a table in a one of two cars that had passengers of the former empress Cixi and Sun Yat-Sen’s wife, Song Qingling.
As you walk in, you are pulled back in time in the large building. With turn of the century furniture and memorabilia, the restaurant could almost double as a museum. As you walk toward the main dining room, you notice several private dining rooms. Just beyond the windows you’ll see the two dining railway carriages, now parked permanently.
Though it has been around awhile, this restaurant seems almost forgotten. The historic ambience lends itself through food and story.
What to Order: Stuffed Duck, Smoked Fish, Hong Sau Rou What not to Order: almost everything was pretty good
Rating 2 Pigs Price Range 2 $/¥/NT
上海老站 Ye Olde Station Restaurant 徐汇区漕溪北路201号(近南丹路) 201 North Caoxi Rd, Xújiāhuì +86 21-64272233
Links Lonely Planet, YoYoor, Trip Advisor, DianPing, Shanghai Stuff
Ye Olde Station Restaurant
This restaurant is now one of my go-to-places for taking out of town guests. The food is decent with the added historic nature.
Starting off with the cold dish appetizers. The sweet stuffed lotus root seems to always be a crowd pleaser as well as a safe bet.
Cucumbers are always refreshing for greasy dishes. The sweetness cleans the palate and readies yourself.
Four Assorted Hor d’oveures in a Platter. Not bad but a bit over priced.
Stuffed Duck with sticky rice. This is one of the restaurant’s featured dishes. I thought it was the best of the night. The hearty sticky rice gelled together with the oily duck meat.
Braised Pork Belly. What more can I say? I order this dish at almost every Shanghainese restaurant.
Crab Tofu, another famous Shanghainese dish. At Ye Olde Station Restaurant, this dish is quite unsurprisingly good.
Smoked Fish. One of my dining companions was waiting for this dish, ever since she heard that we were coming to the restaurant.
Shanghainese fried calamari
We finished off with the rice steamed dumplings
One of the private dining rooms.
You can see the old railway cars just beyond the windows. Yes, I know I should have gotten a better picture or two.
