Review: Does Jiang Nan Spring have the SGV’s best Shanghainese food?

Bill Addison reviews San Gabriel Valley's Jiang Nan Spring; the Alhambra restaurant specializes in the dishes of Shanghai and the surrounding Jiangnan region.
Bill Addison • Los Angeles Times • June 6, 2019
Our server at Jiang Nan Spring in Alhambra nods toward the tureen of yan du xian — double pork soup with bamboo shoots — he’s just hoisted onto the table, and then he makes a grand pronouncement over it in Mandarin and slips away. A friend dining...
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