Ideal place to meet 'mom' and 'dad'

There is a new restaurant in town, and connoisseurs are tagging it 'the ideal place for impecunious gentlemen to treat and impress prospective parents-in-law for the first meeting'. Xu Junqian tells us why.

Why would a shrewd young man choose this particular restaurant to meet his future mother-in-law? Bluntly put, the restaurant offers excellent value for money, but appears high-end and extravagant - appearances bound to tickle the fancy of the widely known snobbish Shanghainese mother-in-law.

Jade Garden, or Cui Yuan, may share its English name with another chain of restaurants serving Shanghainese cuisine, but this one is a venerable 42-year-old from Hong Kong operated by the Maxim Group. It is known particularly for its dim sum, and wildly popular among yumcha aficionados.