Shanghai Bun - Chinese restaurant in Matawan - 952 NJ-34, USA

Authentic Chinese family restaurant, atmosphere included(that's how you know it's legit); the beer chicken was just like the kind I had growing up, they have chinese sodas/drinks, tea; the flat noodles, soup dumplings, everything we had was amazing. Could not recommend more for anyone looking for authentic Chinese cuisine.

Excellent excellent food. Best soup dumplings in NJ. Other dishes are delicious as well. We had the leek and pork dumplings, the beef chow fun, the green beans with pork. Love the free hot tea and the chili oil at the table. Service is very minimal. You pick up a menu at the front desk and write your order in, hand it to them and wait. Food comes out quickly and piping hot. Pay at the counter too.

Food was great but seems we were ignored a bit until other groups left. Took almost 20 minutes for them to pay attention to us and take our order. We had to grab our own menus and just sit patiently and wait. The food was great and I would eat there again, probably a take out order though.

Been eating and ordering here for YEARS… used to go in but usually i just get takeouts The 5 star is purely for the shredded beef and peppers noodle soup…it is absolutely crack to me… add some vinegar to that bish and go ham! Soup dumplings is ok locally ,but if you really want the best soup dumplings around mid jersey you would have to go to edison Recently tried their zhajiangmian but its too sweet for me

Ordered take out from Shanghai Bun for the first time. Great place for authentic casual Chinese food. Very efficient! Next time will try dining in. Highly recommend their steamed pork dumplings.

From a food and price perspective, this place is hard to beat. Big portions of tasty and cheap food. The spicy beef noodle soup had flavorful broth and really good beef. The lo mein was super tasty as well as the mini wonton soup. We also got the soup dumplings, which are always delicious. If you’re there to dine in, you check off on the menu what you want and can grab your own drinks. The place was crazy busy for a Monday and now I know why!

We like most of foods in this restaurant. However, the service is not good, especially the service from the owner’s wife. I have a couple of bad experience with her while I was dining in. First time she spilled the hot sauce oil on my jacket. I did not say anything. However, she did not apologize for that but kept saying that the reason she spilled oil on my jacket was because she was trying to put the chair at the table. Yes, she’s was trying to put a chair for me. However, that’s not the excuse that she spilled the oil on my jacket without apologize. Second bad experience was that bean curbs in the noodles tasted sour. So I told her the bean curbs are not fresh. I did not ask her to pay me another bowl of noodles. I just wanted to let her know the problem. She was pissed and kept saying “no, they are fresh. We have been eating this today whole day.” it became so ridiculous that the owner’s wife refused to accept the problem and with a bad attitude. From that time on, I decided that I would never go to this restaurant. And I also told my friends about the problem.

Absolutely love this place. The soup dumplings are amazing. We usually get 2 orders of soup dumplings along with an order of salt and pepper pork chops and it's the perfect balance. We've been going here for awhile and they seemed to recently purchase custom chops sticks, plates, and tea cups which may be small but makes me know they take pride in their product. Food has also increased in quality and if they're reading this I just want to say I appreciate your hard work. Keep up the great work!