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No such thing as instant gratification here, but chicken roasted in lotus root is worth the wait. Hot soup dumplings are a slurpy marvel of kitchen chemistry. Cold appetizers like aromatic beef and drunken crabs (marinated in rice wine, not what you picked up on freshman year Spring Break) provide authentic Shanghai appeal. Open until midnight because you never know when the urge for stir-fried jellyfish will strike.
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