369 Shanghai Dim Sum

I was craving some Shanghai-style food, and since we were in the area, my mom and I went to 369 Shanghai Dim Sum for dinner and ordered our usual dishes, some classic Northern Chinese cuisine favourites:
Spicy beef hand-pulled noodle soup
Shanghai-style stir-fried noodles
Steamed pork soup dumplings
Pan-fried pork dumplings
Okay, so since trying Ding Tai Fung, I just feel like all other Shanghai restaurants are inferior. Not that 369 is bad, it's just very... standard. It'll satisfy your cravings for Shanghai-style food, absolutely, but the quality is just average. The pork soup dumplings are decent, but they aren't quite as plump, the wrappers are a bit on the thick side, and the pork doesn't have that perfect meat-to-fat ratio that makes Ding Tai Fung's version so melt-in-your-mouth glorious. The hand-pulled noodles are a bit too firm for my liking here, and not quite as fresh, and the beef is way too lean and tough (perhaps we got a bad batch?). I will say that they get the heat factor just right, though, as the broth is quite spicy (Ding Tai Fung's broth was, by comparison, quite mild). The Shanghai-style stir-fried noodles and pan-fried pork dumplings are, again, very standard. Good, but not particularly memorable. Honestly, if I'm in Markham, anyway, I'd drive the extra five minutes down to Ding Tai Fung for Shanghai-style food.

369 Shanghai Dim Sum 8380 Kennedy Road, Unit C8 Markham, ON L3R 2N9 (905) 305-7713