Dim Sum House 上海一号

Authentic Shanghai style Chinese food.

I was born in Shanghai and let me tell you, this place currently has the best/most authentic Xiao Long Baos within 30 mins of Philly. However, the rest of the food was pretty bad.

-Xiao Long Baos, tons of soup, super thin skin, flavorful filling and soup. My only issue would be price and the fact that they put a pair of tongs right on 1 XLB that caused all the skin to leak out.
-Sheng Jian Baos needed thinner skin, crispier bottom, there was 0 soup inside the baos because of how thick they were. They're also more Taiwanese than Shanghainese. Knot side should be face down :)
-Scallion Oil Noodles was not authentic at all, there was no fried green onions but instead fresh onions. Noodles were also the wrong kind, should be thinner. The soy sauce also needed to be darker
-Chives and Egg "Calzone" was fine, could be saltier though
-Shanghai Shao Mai was perfect, could be a little bigger
-Snow cabbage edamame with bean curd sheets was very bad. It was so hot it felt like it was microwaved. Everything was flavorless, we barely touched it and didn't even take it home.

Other notes:
-Soy sauce and vinegar jars aren't labeled
-No sauce dishes on the table and when I asked for sauce dish they only gave me one. Sauce dishes should be automatically given to anyone that orders XLB/SJBs.
-We arrived around 12:30pm on a weekend and ALL breakfast items were sold out. How can you call yourself a dim sum house/Shanghai #1 and be sold out of the most common Shanghainese breakfast items?
-When I asked server if owner was Shanghainese, she said no. When I asked front desk host if owner was Shanghainese, girl said yes. So which is it?

The soup dumplings were amazing. The skin was so thin and delicate, and not a single one broke, it's magic ✨ The beef scallion pancakes were one of the best I've had. Other items we tried were pretty good too though the chicken and corn soup could use more corn, it's currently more of an egg(white) drop soup with chicken in it. Items came out one at a time so it was hot and fresh, but we couldn't eat everything together as a spread that way; up to your preference I guess. Excited to come back!

Just opened, everything was very good during soft opening.

Ordered delivery. I really like the string beans. The pan-fried bun was juicy. The soup dumplings had soup but not a lot of soup.

There are more items in the menu I would like to try.