Shanghai City

Shanghai City trades directly off Richmond's cobbled Market Place — one of only a small handful of Chinese takeaways anywhere on the square at the historic heart of the Dales market town, beneath the looming Norman keep of Richmond Castle. The kitchen runs an authentic Cantonese menu with a notably long card: salt-and-pepper variations including the king prawns that recur in reviewer praise, prawn toasts, spare ribs, the full sweet-and-sour and black-bean range, chow mein and the usual chip-shop crossover sides. Restaurantji aggregates around 75 reviews and reviewers consistently single out the portion size as oversized even by takeaway standards, with the "freebie" extras — spicy chips, prawn crackers, chef's extras pushed in with larger orders — picked out as a defining feature of the shop. Honest note: the kitchen does not open until early evening and weekend waits at peak Friday-and-Saturday collection can run long, which is the trade-off for the made-to-order approach. The Market Place position puts Shanghai City within a thirty-second walk of the King's Head, the Castle Hotel and Richmond's central pub run, making it a natural collection stop for the town's tourist accommodation as well as the steady local regular trade.