Cha's Restaurant

This Cantonese "cha canting" is a throwback to the 1950s, boasting dishes from crispy roast chicken to macaroni and spam in broth and fishball soup. The tiled floor, cafeteria ambiance and straightforward menu of skillfully recreated classic canto diner hits draws many curious expats and locals.

7 / 10
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    Hong Kong Restaurant

Address

30 Sinan Rd, 1F | 思南路30-4号 (Huahai Rd | 淮海中路) Huangpu Shanghai , 200020 China

Reservations No
Credit Cards No
Outdoor Seating Yes
Menus Brunch, Lunch, Dinner

Comments / 46


Keywords:

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Culinary Backstreets

A casual Hong Kongese diner serving traditional Cantonese food alongside milk teas and coffee . Try the soy sauce chicken , deep-fried wings , dry-fried rice noodles with beef , & fried ramen with pork . Read more

Gregory K.

Really really great HK / Cantonese diner style food. The HK French toast is fantastic. Everything is pretty great quality. You may be sitting with others at the table which is very HK diner style .

leon师傅

Great atmospheric Hong Kong style canteen. Everything on the menu looks tasty. I especially like the lemon chicken , instant noodles , and crispy beef noodles

Adelina Ong

The fatty beef with XO chilli sauce on instant noodles is amazing. The pork curry rice was delicious (very fatty tender fried pork cutlet ) n the chicken wings were juicy.

Diego Novoa

Very traditional HongKong/Cantonese style restaurant . Reasonably priced and always packed, so be ready to wait for a table. The macaroni soup with fried egg and luncheon meat is simply delicious

Lester Amara

Cantonese fare at its best with the ambience of old Hong Kong style diner . Sweet sour pork , pork buns and milk tea are guaranteed taste-bud pleasers. Expect long waiting times or share a table.

Andrew

Delicious Hong Kong cuisine. Marble beef , scrambled egg with shrimp and lemon tea (so different from European or Russian tea w lemon !) are strongly recommended

Martin Smith

Love this place. Creamy homemade curry is great, as is the fu yung omelette , lemon chicken , shrimp toast , crispy noodles , etc, etc..... Worth the wait in line .

Iulia Feofanova

Famous Cantonese restaurant in Shanghai. VERY delicious food! Chicken in sweet lemon sauce is amazing, try French toast for desert and Cantonese milk tea of course!

David Ellis

Solid & inexpensive . Open Every day until 2AM (last orders 01:30).

PUikUi Ch.

Good place for brunch . I would recommend every1 to try.

Jia Li

No fuss classics and busy busy. Get seated with strangers in a booth so you can stare at their food and play food critic.

Tablet

Try to be more gallant to expole the unknown world, especially those new dishes in Cha's.

Yang Fan

definitely worthy! classic Cantonese food , the same as what I'd enjoyed when staying in Hong Kong

R Y

The lady waitress is extremely patient with two "yellow bananas " and our terrible Chinese. Thumbs up!

David Henriques

Lemon chicken , house curry , pineapple buns , and poached chicken are amazing. I love this restaurant . Small and casual . One of my favorite Chinese restaurant in town .

Icarus Crawford

I like it but I don't love it? I feel like the reviews hyped it up for more than its worth. Don't get me wrong, its still great

Johan Farid Khairuddin (JFK)

Pricey but I had the lemon chicken , kai lan in oyster sauce and rice . tasted pretty good and made my afternoon.

Zeb Lee

Get the soy chicken . Really tender and juicy!

Kweekeak Lee

Please, the chicken wing . You won’t regret it.

Kat Wong

Scrambled egg , fried glutinous rice , fried chicken wing

MJ Lee

The best time to avoid wait line is to come after 1:30am.

Matt

Not expensive good HK food, try the eggs + shrimp !

Lisa Han

Fried shrimp toast is a must

Maggie Brennan

Seriously try the fried shrimp on toast , orange chicken shrimp and everything else. Look at everybody's orders for inspiration

Gabriel Jorby

Be gentle and nice to the waitresses dressed in white. Some of them finish work every night at 3am.

Betty N.

Fried chicken and iced milk tea !

Sammy6000

To really feel like you are in a wong kar wai movie you should dress up like tony leung in chung king express and eat macaroni with luncheon meat.

Nicolas Chan

Try the fried chicken wings and the iced milk tea !

Alex Greenberg

the pineapple bun 😻

Dellia Lim

Get the Cha's milk tea ! It's awesome!

Alex Greenberg

everything

YW W

Too busy everyday! Nice food though. Very Hongkong.

Leirda

Try the original iced milk tea - authentic !

Sonali Ranjit

Dry noodles with beef

kim goldtimes

Chickennnn

Wayne Wang

Always a lot of people. YES, ALWAYS

Mike

Get the fried chicken

Ben H

Decent casual Cantonese food . The stuff i got were all kind of bland. Little overrated IMHO.

Bin

好可惜鲍汁章鱼鸡粒炒饭已经没有以前那么好吃了

furkan iskurt

bu kopek bi harika dostum

Liu Jerry

推荐菠萝古老肉和港式冻奶茶,奶茶真的很正宗~

Bin Chen

地道的港式茶餐厅装修风格,奶茶也和其他家不一样。

Scott Lam

Don't try the 菜远牛腩炒面

J Ong

紅豆冰。。。勁好吃!!!

Brenda Wu

玫瑰豉油鸡很好吃

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