[Shanghai Girl Eats] Canton Disco 粤味 @ The Shanghai Edition
Canton Disco 粤味 | www.editionhotels.com/shanghai | Dianping
Address: 2/F, Shanghai Edition, 199 Nanjing Dong Lu | 南京东路199号上海艾迪逊酒店2楼
Date visited: 2019.08
Price: RMB400-500 per person
What to get:
– Raw zucchini salad
– Wagyu carpaccio
– Chongqing style chicken wings
– Soy chicken
– Roast angus short rib with Hunan chili purée
– Fujian fried rice with prawns, snow peas, conpoy, Chinese kale
– Fried rice with Shanghai hairy crab roe, prawn, scallop
– “Breakfast 3.0”
Canton Disco is currently one of my favorite Chinese restaurants in town. Located in The Shanghai Edition Hotel, Canton Disco serves hip, fusion Chinese food with cool vibes akin to Hakkasan. The groovy soundtrack here usually gets recognized by people born in the 70s and 80s. If these dishes look familiar to you, it is because the Canton Disco menu is by the very same Executive Chef Jowett Yu at Ho Lee Fook in Hong Kong, which are both a part of Black Sheep Restaurants (responsible for Carbone, Belon, New Punjab Club, Buenos Aires Polo Club, Chom Chom, La Vache, and so on).
Please note that there is no Bund view at this restaurant but you can go to one of the rooftop bars or Hiya (the Japanese restaurant) in this hotel for a view.
Raw zucchini salad, lemon zest, sesame oil (RMB68)
Recommend: yes
Okay, you’re thinking why buy raw zucchini in a restaurant but this sesame oil sauce with a very mild “mala” spiciness to it makes it all worth it.
Wagyu carpaccio, smoked beef fat chili dressing (RMB138)
Recommend: yes
Omg the description says it all.
Chongqing style chicken wings, heaven facing chillies, dried chillies, Sichuan pepper (RMB148; two portions pictured shown below)
Recommend: yes
It’s delicious fried chicken. I literally had to look up what “heaven facing” chillies are — they are literally what they are called–a type of Sichuan chili that points upwards towards the sky. Here I thought it stemmed from some deep Chinese idiom.
Steamed coral trout, ginger, shallot (depends on weight; RMB348 per 100g)
Recommend: not a must – you can get this at a traditional Cantonese restaurant
For this kind of price, which you can purchase steak with, I always prefer to put money into beef over fish.
Roast angus short rib with Hunan chili purée, green shallot kimchi, soy glaze (RMB728)
Recommend: yes yes yes
The last few times I was at Canton Disco, I didn’t have enough people to order my favorite dish here and today we had enough people to get not one but two portions of the roast angus short rib with Hunan chili purée, green shallot kimchi, and soy glaze. Meat on the right and crunchy “side” bits on the left—guess which side I ate from. I think you could order this with a party of 3 or above.
Wok fried cauliflower with Hunan cured pork belly (RMB78)
Recommend: yes
A good way to get your daily vegetables in with this dish.
“Breakfast 3.0” peanut butter, jelly, and bacon French toast sandwich with bacon ice cream and smoked maple syrup
Recommend: yes
This is very intriguing for someone like me who a.) does not eat much dessert and b.) does not eat peanut butter, which I am not allergic to–I just don’t like. This thing not only has peanut butter but a raspberry compote jelly (I also don’t eat raspberry flavored things). and bacon French toast sandwich with bacon smoked ice cream (the thing that looks like butter) and smoked maple syrup. Literally ate an entire one by myself.
Not pictured in this post but also recommend these dishes:
Soy chicken (RMB228)
Fujian fried rice with prawns, snow peas, conpoy, Chinese kale (RMB208)
Fried rice with Shanghai hairy crab roe, prawn, scallop (RMB288)
