Shanghai Garden

Located in a Cupertino strip mall, Shanghai Garden specializes in regional dishes from Shanghai and the surrounding region. The menu includes pan-fried pork buns, vegetable-and-salted-pork rice, stir-fried rice cakes, and, one of my favorites, squirrel fish. Made with rockfish here, the dish manages to stay equally crispy and saucy. I recommend balancing out the rich flavors of squirrel fish by ordering a few lighter vegetable dishes to go alongside it, such as sautéed snow pea leaves, or celery with lotus root and lily bulb.

photo credit: Erin Ng