Reviews for Shangri-La Restaurant in Birmingham, AL

Consistent good Chinese food! Family feeling. Good service!

I feel like since covid that shangri-la has come back up to what they use to be. Always nice staff and the food is back up to... par ???? Read more

This place slaps. Efficient staff. Food is excellent. Ask for sweet and sour sauce. My husband and I get the Mongolian chicken... with hot and sour soup and General Tso chicken with hot and sour soup. Read more

Best hot and sour soup, best service! I love the ladies at the front desk, they are always so kind!

One of the best restaurants around. The steamed dumplings are delicious, all of their soup is fantastic! Haven't had a single... dish that wasn't delicious here. Read more

Lunch was saved by the egg roll, it was the only thing worth eating. The hot and sour soup had so much starch you could hardly... swallow it, we did find a small piece of tofu in it, but the chicken wing that came with lunch was the worst. Shrimp was arubber tire, I managed to choke to down before I tried the rice, on the fluffy scale it scored a 1, with zero being the worst.We will not return. Read more

Excellent food especially hot sour soup. Large and plentiful shrimp! Great service if you dine in. Good prices. Been going there... since 1993! Read more

The people here are nice, but I was quite disappointed in my food tonight. I ordered the Family Dinner for Two so I could have... leftovers for tomorrow. When you order any of the family dinners, they decide which entrees you get. The dinner for two is sweetand sour chicken and mongolian beef. I was not happy to get home and find that the chicken was breaded. I don't like breadedsweet and sour chicken. This seems to be the standard in most of Chinese restaurants these days. I think they do it that way togive you less chicken. The veggies and pineapple weren't even cooked in the dish. They were steamed and placed in a separatecontainer, as was the sickly sweet sauce. The same mass-produced red sauce you get on every cheap Chinese buffet. If I'd wantedbuffet food, there were other cheaper places I could have gone. I was stunned by what they call fried wontons. It literally is adeep-fried wonton wrapper. Not a dumpling. Not wrapped around anything. No filling. Just a fried wrapper. The menu says friedwonton, not fried wonton wrapper. I couldn't finish the egg roll. It had a funky fishy taste. The menu also said my meal wouldcome with sizzling rice soup. It was a seafood and chicken soup. It was good, but it was not what is on their menu. It's too badit was such a disappointing meal. I got a lunch combo there not long ago and enjoyed it. Did not enjoy tonight's meal, and if Iever return, I will not order a family dinner again or an egg roll or fried wonton or sweet and sour chicken or sizzling ricesoup. The customers should be able to choose which entrees they want in their meal. And the fried wrapper? Just no. Addendum:It appears that I did get the correct soup. Just opened a bag that I thought was those greasy fried noodles they give you to puton top of your food (I always trash them), but it was a bag of what appears to be freeze-dried rice. I suppose I was suppose todump them into the soup. Whaaaaat???? Dried rice? Just no, no, no. Read more