Nomorebullcrap wrote:
This here is a COMMUNITY! We all need each other! There is no monopoly on people's stomachs...what are we supposed to eat the same damn food everyday...come on...get real Jersey City! Holy crap!

NewportNJ wrote:
Good one! Your April Fool's fooled a few people I see.

jcguy05 wrote:
Just like any other food that requires a long time to cook. You cook a batch early in the morning/afternoon to be in sync with lunch/dinner time, then just let it simmer until customer orders it. I think some restaurant also use some type of commercial pressure cooker (not too sure) that can cook it much faster.

Either way what best shanghai served are not fresh cooked, it was cooled then reheated.

I do agree with you, it is still the most authentic chinese food around jersey city and a good addition, but it's more of a dim sum/noodle place to me than an authentic chinese restaurant


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Braised pork takes a few hours to cook, even in Shanghai. How do you expect the restaurant to not use precooked food and expect it to be delivered to your table in less than 10 minutes? Unless you have a domestic at home to take your culinary requests to prepare your meals from scratch, i find Shanghai Best a great addition to the neighborhood.

I agree price is a little high but it is a convenience.




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The dumplings are ok, i mean not much to compare to in JC to begin with.

However their entrees are just bleh, i tried their braised pork leg which is considered one of the specialty dishes in shanghai, and to my shock it's not fresh cooked. It's pre-cooked and they just heated it up and serve to you when you order it. No real chinese restaurant does that. Their crystal shrimp is also a joke, it's just supermarket (ocean) shrimp cooked pan fried, i can cook it better myself. It's not river shrimp, and not cooked fresh under strong fire to get that fresh/tender taste.

Nowdays i just order noodle soup when i go there, as their cooked entrees are not authentic, especially considering the price you are paying.

They also just opened up a hot pot sister restaurant next door, that is pretty good. You just need to bring cash as they dont accept credit cards (yeah wtf).

full disclosure I am born and raised in shanghai and pretty picky about my food.

jcguy05 wrote:
The dumplings are ok, i mean not much to compare to in JC to begin with.

However their entrees are just bleh, i tried their braised pork leg which is considered one of the specialty dishes in shanghai, and to my shock it's not fresh cooked. It's pre-cooked and they just heated it up and serve to you when you order it. No real chinese restaurant does that. Their crystal shrimp is also a joke, it's just supermarket (ocean) shrimp cooked pan fried, i can cook it better myself. It's not river shrimp, and not cooked fresh under strong fire to get that fresh/tender taste.

Nowdays i just order noodle soup when i go there, as their cooked entrees are not authentic, especially considering the price you are paying.

They also just opened up a hot pot sister restaurant next door, that is pretty good. You just need to bring cash as they dont accept credit cards (yeah wtf).

full disclosure I am born and raised in shanghai and pretty picky about my food.

MDM wrote:
Just to give everyone a heads-up, so you can keep an eye out for this particular modus operandi, my sister-in-law witnessed a mugging - beat down on the PATH early this morning (on or about 6:30 AM) on a train coming from 33rd st. to JSQ.

A group (the perps who were a mix of male and female) kept walking back and forth through multiple PATH cars, never sitting down. One of the female perps broke off from the pack and sat down next a woman in the car my SIL was riding in. This car had no men.. the women appeared to be all riding individually. The woman who had a perp sit next to her was young and well dressed. The female perp began talking to the young woman. My SIL couldn't make out what was said, but it didn't sound pleasant.

The perp female then got up and left... then returned with a male perp. The male perp then slapped the young woman and accused her of "touching her sister". The young woman protested her innocence at which point the male perp began beating her face in with a closed fist. The woman tried to escape, but the remaining five perps came into the car and blocked her escaped. She continued to get a beat down while being relieved of her belongings.

An older woman in the car hit the emergency call button and tried to inform the train crew what was going on. The doors opened up at JSQ and all 7 perps fled while the train was being swarmed by multiple Port Authority cops. Only one of the perps was captured.

The woman victim required medical attention. Per my SIL (who is a nurse) she got a pretty bad beating. It appears the woman was targeted because it looked like she maybe out of the women in the car, she was the most likely to have nice things. The car it appears was targeted because there was nobody there physically capable of resisting the attack.

The perps were black and appeared to be in age of their late teens.

Edit: Per NJ.Com, 6 got caught. The story got the gender of the victim wrong though.

brewster wrote:
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mghazi wrote:
I'm having surgery in a few weeks and will be on a strict liquid diet for 2 weeks. I'm new to JC and wanted to know what you guys recommend as some of the best soups in JC? Are there any particular takeout restaurants you would recommend that happen to have great soups?

Bummer, been there. Unfortunately most commercial soups have lots of solids, and the plain broths are not top quality. I would focus on the asian restaurants. Vietnamese and Japanese take pride in their broths, but may be confused when you ask for nothing but the broth. Even lowly chinese takeouts often have decent broth for their wonton soup. Maybe the ramen places like Union Republic would sell you plain broth.

Probably not an option unless you've got someone to cook for you, but "Jewish penicillin" is not that hard to make. Chicken and a pack of soup veggies like carrots parsnip and celery. Boil and then strain. Done. I like extra dill in mine.

tamard wrote:

Maybe the glare off the giant shiny Chinese letters distracted you from reading the new "Thai-Chinese" awning


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On_The_3rd wrote:
I just noticed the new signage above Sawadee last night. I know that the guy that manages BOX also does Sawadee, so apparently he's on some sort of rebranding kick. Correct me if I'm wrong, but those appear to be giant Chinese characters - above a Thai restaurant. Now, I understand that if this was Chinatown, this might make some form of sense, but really? Would it not have been more effective to use Thai characters to promote their sub-par "thai cuisine"?

mrushman wrote:
Dear residents of downtown Jersey City:

Last year on December 20, 2013, I posted an open letter to you regarding the City?s refusal to allow the Planning Board to hold a hearing on our development application. In that letter, I cautioned the City that it was:

? . . . taking a significant risk by not allowing the Planning Board to hear our application on a timely basis. It is our belief that our application has been complete since October 4 when the Planning Division directed us to submit plans for agent review and that the Planning Board?s statutory 95-day period for making a decision on our application expires on January 7, 2014."

I went on to state that:

? . . . if the Planning Board fails to reschedule the hearing that was to have occurred on December 17, then there is the very real possibility that our project will be approved by operation of law.?

You can access a copy of the entire letter at:

http://jclist.com/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?post_id=334876

As it turns out, that is exactly what happened. On August 29, 2014, Judge Turula of the Hudson County Superior Court ruled that the Planning Board failed to act within the statutory time period and granted our request for an automatic approval of the development application, which is the remedy provided in the statute. You can access a copy of the Judge?s opinion at:

http://www.brightandvarickcourtdecision.com/decision.pdf

Since then the City filed a Motion for Reconsideration, which was denied; and the parties consented to the Van Vorst Park Association?s request to intervene. The City and VVPA have until January 2, 2015, to file an appeal (the City stated at a recent court hearing that it did not intend to file an appeal).

Despite our having won the lawsuit, we have continued our efforts to resolve this matter through compromise with the City and VVPA.

1. On September 11, 2014, our attorney wrote to the City regarding the possibility of reaching some sort of compromise.
2. On October 28, 2014, I met with the JCRA and proposed a framework for compromise that would have sharply reduced the number of units at Bright and Varick, changed them to conventional units and included some on-site parking. In return, the City would have reimbursed us for certain development and legal expenses and sold us an alternative site(s) elsewhere in the city for our micro-housing project.
3. On November 25, 2014, I wrote to the Van Vorst Park Association offering to implement a package of mitigation measures including putting a cap on the number of neighborhood parking permits that could be issued to residents of our project.

To date none of our efforts have borne fruit, but we remain open to meaningful discussions with the City and VVPA regarding the offers we have made. As we have pointed out to both parties, there is little likelihood of either being able to overturn Judge Turula?s lengthy and carefully reasoned opinion. Rather than continue to waste time and money on a lawsuit that as Councilwoman Candice Osborne correctly predicted in November 2013 that ?we are guaranteed to lose?, the VVPA and City should focus their attention on seriously considering our offers to compromise.

http://candiceosborne.com/updates/wee ... ment-on-bright-and-varick

Both the City and VVPA have repeatedly passed up opportunities to have us make significant modifications to our proposed project. In retrospect, it is easy to see that doing so was a mistake. We are giving them a final opportunity to erase that mistake and work with us to minimize the impact of our project on the neighborhood.

One other thing has happened during the past year - micro-housing is no longer an ?experiment? as some of the project?s opponents have alleged. Thousands of micro-units have been completed or are under construction or are moving through the approvals process in cities such as Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, Denver, Boston, New York, Washington, DC, Vancouver, and Toronto. Public officials in these cities see micro-housing as an important means of addressing high housing costs, minimizing the environmental footprint of new construction and attracting the kind of workforce that is critical to future economic development. Our project offers Jersey City the opportunity to join the ever-growing ranks of cities that recognize the contribution micro-housing can make to their residents and their economies.

Over two years ago, the Jersey City Redevelopment Agency Board asked us to help them address the issue of workforce housing by constructing a market rate micro-housing project. We remain committed to moving forward with our project so that the residents of the City will have an exciting new and relatively affordable housing option available to them as soon as possible.

Once again, thank you for taking the time to read this update.

newbie2015 wrote:
JCMan8 Please change the subject of the thread to Terrorist holding over 40 hostages in Sydney cafe.

For example, no one begins the subject with "Black man robs white woman in parking lot". We all know it's racially insensitive & stereotyping blacks. It doesn't serve anyone well.

JerseyMom - thank you.

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score09 wrote:
Tough sell to begin with but fait accompli were the prices. Way, way, way overpriced were the juice blends. Upon inquiry, was informed that the price of the blending machine(s) were at root.

Strange you'd say that, considering their prices were generally cheaper than other juicing places

jcguy05 wrote:
missing key piece of info, 37mil break over how many years?

third_street_hats wrote:
They posted on instagram as well about the FREE pizza party starting at 4pm tomorrow. They'll have a DJ at 9pm.

Old-Skool-JC wrote:
Just the hundreds of thousands who died in Iraq and Afghanistan, just the civilians killed by drone strikes In pakistan, just the Palestinians shot dead by an occupying regime that we prop up with billions in aid.
Of course all of this is making us safer and in no way breeds terrorists.
Show me one credible source for your claim that Muslims are raping christians.

WordsOfaHooker wrote:
Thanks for the prompt response! Oh and before anyone asks my last name is Hooker ha ha...should've thought this through before making it my Username... :P

Time4JC wrote:
So the consensus is that this place is much better than the Bistro next door?