New Shanghai Tan Restaurant
“For $26 a person, tax and tip included, you can gorge yourself with everything your little hot pot heart desires.”
“The trek from uptown Manhattan to Flushing is a doozy, but it's worth it just to go to Shanghai Tide.”
“The best all you can eat shabu shabu you can find in New York and trust me I have been to several and non of them is like this one.”
New Shanghai Tan Restaurant
Takes Reservations: Yes
Take-out: Yes
Bike Parking: Yes
Wheelchair Accessible: Yes
Good for Kids: Yes
Good for Groups: Yes
Has TV: Yes
Waiter Service: Yes
Price range.
$$ Price range $11-30
8 reviews
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Why does this place remind me of an old Irish pub like McSorley's or a Blarney Stone? It was probably a MacAnn's in a previously life and the current owners are just cheap. There's an upstairs and that reminds me of 70's disco. Besides the non-decor, the AYCE hotpotting is a good deal and the food is not bad. Base price is $20.95 and they even calculate your tax & tip for you to a flat figure of $25.95.
When you sit down they'll ask you what type of soup you prefer, spicy or regular, but you can get a split pot with both or if you have a large group, get multiple pots. The table behind us got extra spicy and it looked like the BP oil spill glistening with chili oil. Order up your favorite meats, veggies, processed fish balls & fungi and start cooking away. You might feel adventurous and try some of the cow and pig innards. Make your specialty dipping sauce because the boiled food is not too flavorful. My recipe is a chunk of scallion, cilantro & garlic with chinese BBQ sauce (sa-cha), sesame oil, a little soy and chili sauce and maybe a little peanut sauce.
The best thing about Shanghai Tide is that they have other cooked items on the menu like Xiao Lung Bao, scallion pancakes & pan-fried pork dumplings! And you can have as much as you want for the same price! The worst thing about the place is the waiters. Totally clueless sometimes, just standing around staring off into space when you're trying to flag them down. Because tax and tip is already figured into the price, they don't feel like they have to bust their humps for a better tip. A word of warning to not order more than you can eat. The table of 10 people next door left a heaping platter of veggies and they gave them crap about it. I couldn't hear if they were going to charge them the difference or not. We were stuffed and left some cabbage, so we just tossed it in the soup to camouflage it so we wouldn't get lectured.
I always crave for late night hotpot, and this place happens to always be opened for when my crave hits me at 1:30am.
They've recently changed the ayce price from $26 to $28 including tips and tax. I am deeply sadden by this, why? Because price increases sucks.
The cooked food is pretty good, but they take FOREVER to come. I always get the pan fried soup buns, soup dumplings, spring rolls, and scallion pancakes on the side for carbs. The hot pot stuff is all frozen except for the veggies and clams.
Personally I don't care much about the frozen meat. A lot of ayce joints probably freeze their meat too, but just defrost it before the customers start rolling in. The spicy soup base is always a hit for me, but the regular soup is always a miss. The regular soup base is ridiculously plain. Thank goodness for the sauce section. If it wasn't for that, i would be literally cooking my food in water.
The staff are pretty old, so theyre a bit slow during late night hours. They're not really attentive unless you order food from their family style kitchen menu, so you pretty much have to do everything yourself.
This place is great for killing my late night cravings, but I wouldn't come here if there was another spot opened as late as this one.
For a long time Shanghai Tide was *it* for the AYCE hot pot game. Huo Guo (火鍋) / Shabu Shabu food baby seekers could get their eat on for $25 (tip included), which included soup dumplings and all you can drink budweiser. Even at $30 today, this is still a really good deal, but the hot pot game has changed city wide. The competition is stiff and Shanghai Tide has its up and down days of being really solid or really mediocre.
AYCE Sushi caught on in the last 10 years, for the next few years, AYCE Hot Pot is starting to turn heads. The communal experience of cooking one's own vegs and proteins is undoubtedly fun, but the food waste can be bad as any buffet. The English menu is incredibly large, broken down by meats / vegetables / and Shanghai small dishes (listed as dim sum). Don't forget about the sauce station, that's a crucial step in keeping the food from being too bland.
Meatwise, the usual suspects are there. Standard meats like lamb, chicken, and pork are easy choices, though the myriad of meatballs and dumplings, along with bonus meats like luncheon, pork gizzard, and blue crab. The "dim sum" menu is the most impressive thing to me, with unlimited shengjian bao (生煎包), soup dumplings aka xiao long bao (小籠包), and scallion pancake. There are also spring rolls and a ton of desserts, but I've never liked any of them.
The service is about as lackluster as one might expect. I tend to feel the waiters don't enjoy being given a run down of random stuff where they'll just bring it out from the freezer (so much of it is frozen) and plop it on the table, hoping for everyone to be stuffed or drunk. Beyond the attitudes, the food isn't much to get excited about. The food is generally filler stuff, possibly to warrant a bad hangover or prevent one. The quality has been surpassed by the many other hot pot spots around town, but this place is an old reliable.
One thing that is worth pointing out during my last visit: *Something* was crawling through the ceiling and making heaps of noises. It was loud enough to get diners to exit their seats in a scurry. Once we heard a few thumps or two, even my group and I were nervous. The waiters told us to not pay attention and to pay before we leave. So we did but we haven't been back since.
Never disappointed!
Food is pretty quick, the service is usually friendly, and the quality is pretty good.
I'm a sauce-fiend so the sauce bar gets two thumbs up from me. A good variety! Big fan of the self-serve soda bar too.
As of 11/2014, the price after tax and tips was $29.95. I like how they just lay it out for you like that.
What I like most? There's an app menu that comes with the hot pot. Probably ordered 6 dishes of the soup dumplings. Chicken wings are good too.
Hands down….it's official. My favorite hot pot place. Only thing that would've gave it 5 stars would've been a cheaper price.
This venue is a sad testament of our times – this is an example of what "old Flushing" used to be in terms of quality and service.
Food: the broth is extremely bland and the items were not all that fresh. Most were obviously newly frozen items that looked like they were cut from a large slicer. A good example would be the beef: edible, yes. Bland and low quality, also yes.
Service: extremely unresponsive. It took too long for them to notice we needed anything and when we needed something, we had to get up to ask.
Decor: disgusting. This place is in dire need of a major renovation.
It is no wonder why there was nobody here on this Tuesday night. There were only two other tables in an otherwise empty restaurant. The Yelp community knows that it can go to Little Mongolian Hot Pot or Zebra Lounge 2 or Minnie's Shabu Shabu for good quality food for about the same price.
Skip this place. I came here very often when I was significantly younger and the food was much better. Never again.
It's 29.95 for unlimited hotpot including tip. (unlimited beer as well so a star for that! However don't expect a good choice)
My friend likes to come here for the unlimited amount of clams but that cleanliness of the place is a bit sketch.
The quality of the meat is very mediocre as well as the rest of the items on the menu. However, there is a plethora of choices in terms of vegetables, tofus, meats, seafoods as well as cooked foods (such as chicken wings). The waitress was very nice and accommodating for our big group as it was late at night (stays open until 2 am).
One of the things that irk me about this place is the America's Choice sodas and the MSG at the sauce station. But like i said, you get what you pay for!
I think this is kinda pricey for an all you can eat hot pot restaurant. After tax and tip, it's about $30. I have a couple of complaints about this place. First off, why do we have to share a stove? There should be individual pots. Second, yes it is all you can drink Budweiser but how about some brand named soda? Third, the sauces were so watered down.
Yes, there is a variety of food that usually isn't included at other places like crab and clams but I rather go to a closer hot pot place with individual pots.
Unfortunately, the quality has gone down greatly. The past two times I was here the soup base was just crap and the meat just tasted like it was very low quality and everything else just didn't seem fresh or clean.
And the worst thing is the staffs here. They are nasty and slow. They omit the items you order on purpose and pretend not to see you when you flag them down. And when they do come to you, they are just rude and nasty to you. Why be so miserable? Just freaking quit your jobs already
Sorry but I won't be coming back here again