Shang Palace at the Shangri-La Hotel in Chengdu

It looks like the Shangri-La folks have a Shang Palace restaurant in most of its hotel locations. And many of them have garnered awards, like a Michelin star for the one in Paris. This one in Chengdu (9 Binjiang Dong Road, +862284097888) has recognitions from some publications as well. It's too bad then that most of the Sichuan food, like the dumplings above, weren't very spicy (neither was the laziji nor shuizhuniu). The non-spicy items were much more interesting to me, like some kind of a steamed shrimp and bamboo dumpling, as well as a goose liver shengjianbao on a bed of leeks.