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The best regional Chinese restaurants in Shanghai

Our Shanghai list ranks 16 regional Chinese restaurants, each named by between two and nine independent published guides and ordered here by Google rating weighted for review volume. Fu He Hui (福和慧) leads them at 4.8 from 81 Google reviews, in Changning (Yuyuan Rd) — #26 of 101 in Shanghai. The commonest style descriptors we hold on them are Cantonese, Chaoshan, Fujian fine dining, among others.

16 ranked named by 2–9 guides each ordered by rating × review volume checked 24 August 2026 How this is built

Read this ranking as a visitor's shortlist. Google is blocked in mainland China, so the review counts below come almost entirely from foreign visitors and are very small. The guides that qualified these restaurants are Chinese and reliable; the numbers that order them are not a verdict from Shanghai's own diners. Why we still publish it.

Shanghai qualifies on two guides, not three. Its ranking platforms resist automated reading, so agreement between three guides we can actually read is structurally rarer here. Everything after that step — the formula, the weighting, the check date — is identical to every other city. The full reasoning.

  1. 1

    Fu He Hui (福和慧)

    Changning (Yuyuan Rd)9 guides#26 of 101 in Shanghai
    Google rating 4.8 out of 581 reviewsscore 4.39
  2. 2

    Yue Xuan (悦轩, Park Hyatt)

    Pudong (Lujiazui)2 guides#27 of 101 in Shanghai
    Google rating 4.5 out of 5254 reviewsscore 4.38
  3. 3

    Zhangji Tianzeng Noodles (张记天增面馆)

    Pudong (Sanlin)2 guides#28 of 101 in Shanghai
    Google rating 4.8 out of 566 reviewsscore 4.37
  4. 4

    Imperial Treasure (御宝轩)

    Huangpu (Rockbund/Yifeng)6 guides#31 of 101 in Shanghai
    Google rating 4.6 out of 583 reviewsscore 4.36
  5. 5

    Jing Xi Hui (菁禧荟)

    Changning / Bund7 guides#41 of 101 in Shanghai
    Google rating 4.7 out of 56 reviewsscore 4.32
  6. 6

    102 House (壹零贰小馆)

    Xuhui6 guides#42 of 101 in Shanghai
    Google rating 5.0 out of 53 reviewsscore 4.32
  7. 7

    Lin Jiang Yan (临江宴)

    Pudong (Lujiazui)3 guides#43 of 101 in Shanghai
    Google rating 4.7 out of 53 reviewsscore 4.32
  8. 8

    Ling Long (玲珑)

    Huangpu (Shanghai Club, Bund)5 guides#44 of 101 in Shanghai
    Google rating 4.4 out of 512 reviewsscore 4.32
  9. 9
    Seventh Son (家全七福酒家)

    Seventh Son (家全七福酒家)

    Fengsheng Commercial Centre2 guides#45 of 101 in Shanghai
    Google rating 4.4 out of 58 reviewsscore 4.32
  10. 10

    Ji Pin Court (吉品轩)

    Huangpu (Hubindao)5 guides#47 of 101 in Shanghai
    Google rating 4.4 out of 55 reviewsscore 4.32
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    Lei Garden (利苑, IFC)

    Lei Garden (利苑, IFC)

    Pudong (Lujiazui)2 guides#48 of 101 in Shanghai
    Google rating 3.8 out of 54 reviewsscore 4.31
  12. 12

    Yong Fu (甬府·北外滩)

    Hongkou (North Bund)5 guides#49 of 101 in Shanghai
    Google rating 4.1 out of 514 reviewsscore 4.31
  13. 13

    Yang Fang Hotpot (洋房火锅)

    Huangpu (Xintiandi)2 guides#50 of 101 in Shanghai
    Google rating 3.5 out of 54 reviewsscore 4.31
  14. 14

    Xin Rong Ji (新荣记, Shanghai Square)

    Huangpu (Huaihai M Rd)2 guides#53 of 101 in Shanghai
    Google rating 4.0 out of 525 reviewsscore 4.30
  15. 15

    Canton 8 (喜粤8号)

    Huangpu (Runan St)5 guides#72 of 101 in Shanghai
    Google rating 4.1 out of 5116 reviewsscore 4.28
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    Yu Zhi Lan (玉芝兰)

    Huangpu (Rockbund)2 guides#74 of 101 in Shanghai
    Google rating 3.3 out of 523 reviewsscore 4.27

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10 more Shanghai restaurants filed under Regional Chinese have no Google listing we could match with confidence, so they carry no rating and are not ranked here. They are on the Shanghai list, at the bottom.

Every restaurant here qualified on published guides and was ordered by its Google rating, weighted for review volume. The method, in full. No restaurant paid to appear.