A branch of the original Joe's Shanghai in NYC, known for their first-rate shoronpo (xiaolongbao) and other dumplings. Budget around Y1500 for lunch, Y5000 at dinnertime.

This long-time neighborhood standby is nearly as famous for their rude service and painfully crowded seating arrangements as for their food, which is quite good.

Great nouvelle Chinese cuisine, with filling multi-course dinner menus from Y3500.

The city of Xi'an is located along the historical Silk Road trade route, and the cuisine from that region takes full advantage of the many spices that were part of the trade. The menu here includes...

Good-quality Cantonese cuisine in a stylish dining room. Budget around Y12,000 for dinner, Y1000-2000 for lunch.

A popular neighborhood hangout with good mid-level Taiwanese cooking. (Saturdays, Sundays dinner only.)

Good modern Chinese cooking - their clay-pot tofu, cashew chicken and fried pork belly are especially recommended. If you're in a celebratory mood, the menu offers some luxurious special dishes like...

Reasonably priced Chinese fare; dinner plans with open bar start at Y3500.

Well-prepared Cantonese standards are served here in a very ordinary-looking Chinese-restaurant dining room. The Y2100 weekend lunch features good-sized portions of shrimp in chili sauce, sweet and...

A late-night Shibuya standby - they've been here for decades, serving good-quality Taiwanese specialties at reasonable prices.

With its Francophile name and decor, this Ebisu hideaway has all the trappings of a French bistro, but it's one of the best places for dim sum in the city. Incongruous though this must seem, once you...

Good Peking-style food in a well-established neighborhood restaurant. Dinner averages around Y7,000.

Good Szechuan cooking at reasonable prices in a casual neighborhood spot. The prix-fixe dinners with open bar, priced from Y3000 for two hours, are especially popular. Budget around Y3000 at...

The Grand Hyatt's Chinese restaurant offers a dim sum buffet at lunchtime every day for Y4200. Budget around Y10,000 per person in the evening for food and drink.

While they may be a tad more expensive than the average Tokyo craft-beer bar, this small chain (with branches in Shinjuku, Akihabara and Tokyo Skytree) does its own importing, and carries some...

Though some may think that good dim sum is synonymous with brightly lit, noisy dining rooms and plastic tablecloths, we've found that style and substance coexist harmoniously at Sense. The dim sum...

Well-prepared Chinese standards and some Szechuan-style noodle dishes, with a mostly neighborhood crowd.

Excellent Szechuan-style cuisine - both spicy and non-spicy, in a spacious dining room. Prix-fixe dinners start at around Y6300, but lunch (from Y1260) is a real bargain.

Some thirty varieties of Hong Kong-style dim sum are served here, and there's an all-you-can-eat deal for Y2580 (two-hour limit, not available weekday lunchtime). There are several other set meals...

This unpretentious, long-running shop serves down-to-earth Shanghai-style cooking, including inexpensive noodle dishes and fried rice.

Kaseiro Shinkan serves highly regarded Peking-style Chinese cuisine in a glitzy Chinatown setting. Budget around Y8,500 at dinner, Y5,000 at lunchtime.