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Shash 沙市

Shash is not the easiest restaurant to find. The facade of Chaoyang Theater on the East Third Ring Road nods almost directly into the road from which a turn to the right down an unassuming alleyway leads to Shash, which is tucked in behind the entrance to the Saint Angel Hotel. The interior’s high ceilinged, intricately decorated and opulent interior has to be seen to be believed. Salads, noodle and rice dishes, and above all, lamb, all feature prominently on the menu – be sure to order a few mutton kebabs (also beef and chicken), along with the wonderfully crisp, tandoor-baked lamb and pumpkin puff pastries. The grilled veggie salad is another goodie, while the chajhana plov (horse meat with fried rice) is a more distinctively Uzbek specialty. Nightly singing and belly dancing performances start at 7.30pm.

Location

  • CBD CBD
  • 10 Xiangjun Beili (next to Saint Angel Hotel), Hujialou, Chaoyang Beilu, Chaoyang District
  • 朝阳区呼家楼向军北里4巷10号
  • Daily 10am-11pm
  • 5190 7230/7236/7239
    • Parking available
    • No smoking sections
    • Chinese and foreign cards accepted
    • ¥¥¥¥¥ 120-200 per person

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User reviews of Shash 沙市

Easily the worst dining experience I've had in Beijing

Review of Shash
1

Got there at 6:30pm with my girlfriend after trying to find it for 20 minutes. Eventually found it tucked away behind a hotel.

No one in there except for owner/management on a laptop and a fuyuan playing with her phone at the bar.

Ordered - starters turned up within literally 3 minutes, and salads were soggy as though they'd been sat around for a while. Soup was lukewarm and pretty measly. A half-full bowl of soup.

Finished starters - not impressed, but hopefully the main will be better.

Ten minutes later, I noticed one waiter from upstairs had brought some dishes down and left them on a far table for another waitress to bring to our table. A few minutes later, I noticed they were still there and asked if they were ours.

They were. The surly waitress - seemingly annoyed to have been disturbed from her game of Angry Birds - tossed the dishes on our table and went back to the bar.

By now they were cold.

Cold indeterminate meat skewers. Not impressed so far.

Next dish, turned up shortly after. This was actually quite nice.

After we had waited fifteen minutes for our last dish - a pancake and fruit dessert, I asked the waitress how long it would be. She told me "soon".

Five more minutes; "How much longer?" "A few minutes."

Five minutes later the upstairs waiter brings down the dish, dumps it on the far table and shouts to the surly waitress. She ignores him.

Two minutes later I bawled at her to get our dish. She gets it, drops it on the table and goes back to her phone.

The four tiny pancakes are stone cold. "F*ck this, let's get the bill."

While surly is fetching the bill, my girlfriend accidentally knocks her glass off the table.

"Sorry, about that." Surly tuts, picks up the broken glass and just says "20 kuai" as she walks away.

"What did she say?" "I think she said '20 kuai'."

"Excuse me, what was that?" "You must pay 20 kuai for the broken glass."

"Get the manager."

To manager: "Do you speak English?" "No, what's the problem?" "Am I being charged for accidentally breaking a glass?" "Yes, it says in the menu that you have to pay if you break a glass." "Please show me the menu."

She then shows me the menu where it reads that a broken glass costs between 100 and 200rmb.

I throw my money on the table and walk out, hungry and angry, never to ever consider going to this sh*t hole again.

To summarise: expensive food, awful service and charges for broken glass.

What could be better?

Dinner at Shash

Review of Shash
3

A group of us were at Shash last night for the first time and despite some of the negative reviews this place has on a few sites I was actually impressed. The deco walls and ceilings are quite nice (in a kitchy former soviet union state kind of way) ornate and impressive and reminds me of some cathedrals in eastern Europe.

We arrived late so the food was already there with our friends at the table.
We had the
lamb chops which were nice
Pilaf was very good
Kebabs tender and flavorful
A type of meat pie which they serve with a white sauce which were really nice as well
a few salads which were just ok
Lamb sausages were good
We had some sort of Uzbek dumpling which i would have passed on and while i am sure they are authentic were not my thing

Service was prompt, and they quickly brought more drinks when asked.

The show... was ok, the performers kept their spirits high despite only having 3 tables full in the restaurant, the dancer finished in this golden butterfly get up that reminded me Cirque du Soleil which i thought was interesting.

The bill caught us a bit by surprise, but if you take out the alcohol it was pretty reasonably priced.

Overall, I enjoyed my time, had a pretty good meal and I will definitely be going back for more of the pilaf and lamb chops and meat pie. I would give it a good 3.5 stars if i could.

Restaurant sells only by Bellydancing

Review of Shash
1

If you take off the Bellydancing from the restaurant, the restaurant will close.

We were there the other day after reading the admin review of decor and ornat stuff !

While the decor is quite good and impressive we were disappointed by the food.

The kebbabs, the spicy rice we ordered the breads ,nothing were as good as we r used to at Bittepitta or Rumi or 1001 nights.

There were few men in their 50s who were ogling at the bar dancer and that was the crowd.

I dont think anyone comes here for good food.

And Yes Beijinger sold the agenda covering the dancer picture was a good marketing strategy as sex sells. You did exactly what the restaurant did.

Being myself a girl , surely I wouldnt want any girl,or daughter to sell her body like the dancer does there. If you have no brains and cant study ,there are many other professions , a Belly dancer is just short of a prostitue.With lewd men ogling at you I am sure no sensible girl would like to take up a career like that .

Ornate interior, exotic cuisine

Review of Shash
3

While on the overpriced side and hard to find, Shash is definitely worth a visit for its ornate dining room and its exotic cuisine. With hints of Middle Eastern and Russian cuisines, the dining options here are certainly out of the ordinary. Good for fans of culinary globe-trotting. If you are not a fan of belly dancing and loud music you might want to avoid the peak dinner hours when performances are de rigeur

So bad it makes you go "wow"

Review of Shash
1

Outrageously expensive, shockingly bad (and rude) service, and oily over-spiced food.

Throw in "traditional Uzbek music" (aka "two guys launching iTunes on laptops while standing around in traditional costumes") which sounded more like dance club tracks played so loud you can't actually have a conversation, and you've got a disastrous evening.

25 RMB for a crappy lamb skewer (羊肉串). 50-60 RMB for a bowl of rice? Are you kidding me?

We couldn't get out quickly enough. We went home and had dinner.

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