Since 2016, it has been selected as a Michelin Recommended Restaurant by the Michelin Guide for two consecutive years, and has been interviewed by well-known domestic and foreign media such as NHK and Hong Kong Television Broadcasts Co., Ltd. (TVB), and is still famous today.
At first glance, the location of the restaurant is not conspicuous, only when you walk into the alley can you find its narrow façade that is flooded by the crowd, and there are posters at the door to display the dishes and related honors, so that diners can understand and screen in advance; The layout of the restaurant is divided into ground floor, loft area and basement area, and the capacity of each area is limited.
Yellow croaker and snow cabbage noodles are the signature dish recommended by the "three stars" in the store, and they are served in a black tile bowl configuration, full of yellow croaker fillets covered with noodles, seasoned with snow cabbage and seaweed, and combined with the fragrant yellow croaker white noodle soup, the overall taste is sweet and salty, and the taste is rich. If you want to taste Shanghai's authentic Western snacks, you can't ignore the tonkatsu (fragrant fried ribs) in the store. As a unique and Chinese and Western cuisine in Shanghai, Shanghainese Western food is a Western food created by Shanghainese according to their own tastes and the characteristics of local ingredients, including tonkatsu, Shanghai salad, branded clams, branded crab buckets, etc. In the old days, due to the high cost of meat products and fried raw materials, tonkatsu was only served as a hard dish in Shanghai-style Western food, and was only served in Western-style restaurants or high-end restaurants. When making pork cutlets, the chef needs to beat the pork chops back and forth with the back of the knife several times to break the fibrous tissue in the meat, making the meat softer and avoiding the shrinkage of the meat during frying. Coated in a thin breadcrumb when fried to ensure a tender and juicy texture. If you want to experience the authentic Shanghainese style of eating, you can use the Shanghai specialty - Huangpai spicy soy sauce on the table for dipping, crispy pork ribs with salty and spicy dipping sauce, spicy and fragrant, which makes people want to stop.
In addition to snacks and pasta, the shop also offers rice bowls, wontons, porridge and other items that are open 24 hours a day, and provide telephone delivery service, so you can eat them at any time of the day. The fly in the ointment is that chopsticks and tissues need to be obtained at the front desk in advance, so diners who arrive at the restaurant need to be careful.
Although Topler has been wearing the halo of Michelin for a few days, it is not much appreciated by local diners. However, it is an indisputable fact that the restaurant is very popular, and the diners who come there are never stop from morning to night, and it is even more difficult to find a meal. In order to adapt to the tastes of diners, the restaurant has improved the taste of some dishes, which makes its products gradually distant from the word authentic, but this is one of the reasons why Topler has been able to become popular today.
In-store consumer prices are slightly higher. Taking yellow croaker and cabbage noodles as an example, a bowl is 32 yuan and the portion is small, it is recommended that those who eat more add noodles, 1 yuan for each two sides.
