What makes unique Shangrila Dimsum Bar? Discover in this article why this restaurant Madrilenian has returned to the most traditional origins of the Chinese Food. Go for it!
Shangrila Dimsum Bar: Grandma food?
This is a restaurant with a lot of history. To begin with, it is located in the place where the first Chinese restaurant in Madrid. That is, the same place in the most Asian street in the center of the capital: Leganites. This has many shops by and for Chinese, so you can enjoy there very authentic food. Also, this first place was called the same way!
The restaurant Shangri La commitment to a return to tradition.
Thus, it manages to replicate "granny's food" thanks to their dim sum. You probably know these steamed dumplings from their Japanese name: gyoza. The case is that a group of three second-generation Chinese entrepreneurs; Alonso Zhan Zhu, Alex Zhu and Alex YeThey have their own vision.
What to eat in the restaurant?
They themselves reopened the famous happy buddha. For this reason, and with this experience, they know what to offer the client. Thus, its objective is to make the Western public better aware of the
diversity of Chinese culinary wealth. They reject the topics of the "Spanishized" Chinese dishes to adapt to the local public of a few decades ago. They seek to make known to the western public the enormous diversity of Chinese gastronomy. In this way we find a menu based on the aforementioned dumplings, homemade noodles, Chinese offal and spicy dishes.
To give an example, the Chinese noodles with house sauce They are just the ones that the grandmother of one of the owners prepares. The homemade noodle soup comes from the same place and the triangular dim sum of potato starch stuffed with meat does too. It should be noted that the dishes come from the qingtian province, famous for the rice fields with fish.
They also offer a lot of sauteed. We have chicken, veal, prawns... In the same way, it has a wide repertoire of vegetables such as lotus, asparagus, cabbage and Chinese aubergines. On the other hand, Shangrila can also please lovers of pork ribs and roast duck, as well as all kinds of soups and noodles.
Within the spicy food, the highlights the chicken Skillets, veal, prawns or squid with vegetables and offal. We found the latter en Calluses beef or pork sauteed with leek.
To finish, we want to invite you to try the menu if you stop by Leganitos. There is still a lot of those three Hong Kong immigrants who opened the first Chinese restaurant in Madrid in 1962 with the premise of offering exotic dishes for that time. Are you more of noodles or dim sum?
