Wang Jia Sha is one of Shanghai’s legacy dim-sum houses, the kind of place where you'll see the city’s grandpas and grandmas sitting alongside tourists. Downstairs is mostly take-away counters and tends to have a queue, and upstairs is a sit-down dining room that looks like a 90s state-run canteen. Classic snacks like shengjian bao, breakfast pastries, fried sticky rice cakes, eight-treasure rice, lotus-leaf sticky rice, vegetable wontons, and pork ribs with chewy rice cakes. Nothing fancy, affordable, reliable, and good for a simple lunch or early dinner -- exactly why it’s still packed after all these years.