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Exterior enticements limited to window full of newspaper clippings, all glowing reviews that explain why this clanging place is always packed to the gills. Serves up salt-lovers' Shanghainese specialties like double sautéed pork, with sweet and sour tones married in plum sauce. Yellow fish with dry seaweed infinitely better than it sounds. Addictive scallion pancakes have crispy golden skin. All this and cheap, too, confirming the world hasn't gone completely to hell yet.
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