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Shanghai Inn

Shanghai Inn

4723 N Damen Ave, 60625, Chicago, US, United States

Soup • Meat • Casual • Chinese


"I tried to call the restaurant directly and give this feedback privately, but unfortunately the voicemail box was full, and no information exists only for sharing private feedback. So, unfortunately, my review and its 3 stars will have to be public until this issue is addressed.I say unfortunately, because my star value has nothing to do with the quality of the food. It's quite good. I think it's some of my favorite Chinese food on the north side, comforting, well-executed, with familiar favorites that manage to still be different from the norm in ways that are tasty and appreciated. I've never ordered something from this restaurant that isn't excellent and I'd recommend it to anyone.However, when I opened up my fortune cookie, it said There's more to life than just money, there's Bitcoin The logo on the back, when I looked it up, was to a crytpocurrency-hawking grift website in the Bahamas. Other cookies had similar messages from the same company.If I wanted an advertisement, I'd watch television. If I wanted an advertisement for a climate-destroying Ponzi scheme run by a parade of two-bit grifters and felonious charlatans trying to swindle as many easy marks as they can find, I'd watch the Republican National Convention. Since all I'd wanted was Chinese food, I had a reasonable expectation that my fortune cookie would tell me something innocuous about how I needed to beware of friends with false faces, a few lucky numbers, and a phrase to learn in Chinese. Instead I received something that made me feel so much disgust I questioned whether I needed to call a priest to renew the blessing on my house.This issue needs to be addressed with the supplier. I do not want to encounter advertising at the conclusion to my meal, and I certainly don't want advertisements for a speculative financial scheme designed to enrich a handful of cartoon villains at the expense of millions of suckers. I'll update this review accordingly the next time my fortune cookie is a fortune cookie and not a Trojan horse for glibertarian techno-liars."