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Moon Palace

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Essential Information

Street Address 216 W Cermak
Chicago, IL 60616
Phone312-225-4081
Website URL www.moonpalacerestaura...

Slip into this spiffy storefront for top-notch Shanghai, Sichuan, and Mandarin cooking. Start with juicy xiao long bao (Shanghai dumplings) and terrific hot-and-sour soup. The standards are there, such as salt-and-pepper fried shrimp, but so are more interesting options like spicy scallops with black pepper, shredded pork with mustard greens, stir-fried chives with dried bean curd and bean sprouts, and Shanghai-style crispy chicken. The all-Chinese menu offers treats like pork tongue in wine sauce. Downtown-worthy martinis.

Additional Information

Rating: 1 star

Price: $10-$19

Cuisine: Chinese

Neighborhood: Chinatown

Noteworthy:
3 or more vegetarian items
child friendly
telephone reservations
will seat past 10:30 p.m.

Dishes We Liked:


Chive dumplings ($7), Shanghai fried noodles with pork ($8.50), sautéed peapod sprouts with garlic sauce ($11)

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Hours: Lunch Mon-Fri., Dinner nightly