[SHANGHAI] The Grumpy Pig
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The Grumpy Pig
Adress: 65-4 Maoming Bei Lu, near Yan’an Lu / 茂名北路65-4号, 近延安路
Tel: 6217 3355
Hours: [Sun-Thu] 11:00am~10:00pm [Fri-Sat] 11:00am~12:00am
Price: 100~200 RMB/person
Visited on: 2012-02-19
Small, comfortable, and unpretentious. The walls are bare bricks, and the space dimly illuminated by Edison amber light bulbs. The menu? Succinct and pork-heavy. Welcome to The Grumpy Pig.
The Grumpy Pig
Interior
Decor
Love these light bulbs
Menu
We started with the Pork Street Toast (35 RMB), an adaptation of the Vietnamese banh tom chien. What it is: a mixture of sauteed ground pork, mashed sweet potato, and finely julienned raw sweet potato spooned on a baguette, battered in rice flour, deep fried, then glazed with some sweet chili sauce. Greasy, crispy, chewy, sweet, savory. It’s good stuff.
Pork Street Toast (35 RMB)
Shanghainese Spring Rolls (15 RMB/3 pcs) was typical – pork, mushroom, cabbage.
Shanghainese Spring Rolls (15 RMB/3 pcs)
I don’t know why I ordered the Seasonal Sauteed Greens (18 RMB). Just like the menu depicted - ”they are seasonal, they are sauteed, they are green” – nothing to sing about. I really should’ve ordered the Green Papaya Salad (40 RMB) as recommended by the waiter.
Seasonal Sauteed Greens (18 RMB)
Up to this point, I was ambivalent about whether I’d come back to The Grumpy Pig or not, but the Pork Rice Bowl (40 RMB) really sold it. Braised pork belly (fat and tender, mmhmm) with roasted onions and poached yodo egg over a bed of white rice. Stir them into a glorious goop, and down the whole bowl in a few satisfying mouthfuls. Not to be missed.
Pork Rice Bowl (40 RMB)
Pork Rice Bowl
Pork Rice Bowl
I took a bite of my friend’s The “Grumpy” Sandwich (55 RMB) – shredded beer-braised pork piled on baguettes with bacon onion compote, arugula, bacon vinaigrette, and a zesty aioli. The flavor and texture were surprisingly refined for a sandwich that’s named “grumpy” – I was expecting something more rustic – but I’m not complaining. It’s no wonder that this gratifying sandwich is a crowd-pleaser at the restaurant.
The “Grumpy” Sandwich (55 RMB)
Served with fries
I still need to come back to try their famed Tonkotsu Ramen, and of course to get another Pork Rice Bowl. Oink.
Grumpy
Grumpy pig is being just near my office…i went there for the second time to try THE grumpy pig sandwich…(i keep space for next time for the rice bowl advised by my favorite Sns writter !)
Atmosphere is really nice, i love the design of restaurant and music…but i was still fully alone in the “restaurant/boutique”….
Really great tasty pork sandwich which doesn t look like the other. It deserves to taste it for this unknown (for me) way of preparing beef which makes it melty, tasty but not fatty. I will try soon for an after work drink as place is really nice.
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29 Feb 12 at 9:40 PM
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