Chinese
Open 11am-9:45pm (LO) daily.
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.
Open 11am-9:45pm (LO) daily.
Open 11:30am-2, 5-9pm (LO). Closed Sundays.
Fairly reliable Chinese cooking, including Shanghai-style crab. Budget around Y5000-7000 at dinnertime.
Open 11:30am-2, 5-9pm (LO). Closed Sundays.
Open 24 hours a day.
You'll find great Peking Duck here - just Y3680 for a portion big enough for three or four people - plus a big menu of surprisingly inexpensive dumplings and small-plate dishes.
Open 24 hours a day.
Open 11:30am-11:30pm daily.
Noodles, stir-fries and other typical Hong Kong-style street stall dishes, prepared exceptionally well. Their "dragon ramen" has giant, tasty chunks of kakuni (stewed pork) and a bit of octopus for...
Open 11:30am-11:30pm daily.
Open 11:30am-2, 5-10:30pm (LO) daily.
Great nouvelle Chinese cuisine, with filling multi-course dinner menus from Y3500.
Open 11:30am-2, 5-10:30pm (LO) daily.
Open 11:30am-2:30, 5:30-10pm (LO) daily.
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...
Open 11:30am-2:30, 5:30-10pm (LO) daily.
Open 11:30am-2:30, 5:30-9:30pm (LO) daily.
Good-quality Cantonese cuisine in a stylish dining room. Budget around Y12,000 for dinner, Y1000-2000 for lunch.
Open 11:30am-2:30, 5:30-9:30pm (LO) daily.
Open 11:30-2, 5-10:30pm (LO) daily.
A popular neighborhood hangout with good mid-level Taiwanese cooking. (Saturdays, Sundays dinner only.)
Open 11:30-2, 5-10:30pm (LO) daily.
Open 11:30am-2, 5:30-9:30pm (LO) daily.
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...
Open 11:30am-2, 5:30-9:30pm (LO) daily.
Open noon-2pm, 5-midnight (LO). Closed Thursdays.
A late-night Shibuya standby - they've been here for decades, serving good-quality Taiwanese specialties at reasonable prices.
Open noon-2pm, 5-midnight (LO). Closed Thursdays.
Open 24 hours a day.
Good Peking Duck and side dishes at unbelievable prices.
Open 24 hours a day.
Open 11:30am-2, 5-10pm (LO) daily.
Good Peking-style food in a well-established neighborhood restaurant. Dinner averages around Y7,000.
Open 11:30am-2, 5-10pm (LO) daily.
Open 11:30am-2:30, 5-10:30pm (LO) daily.
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...
Open 11:30am-2:30, 5-10:30pm (LO) daily.
Open 11:30am-2:30, 5-10pm (LO). Closed Sundays.
Top-notch Chinese cuisine prepared with medicinal herbs, for whatever ails you. Prix-fixe menus range from Y4200-15,750, plus a big a la carte menu. Lunch starts at Y900 and includes numerous...
Open 11:30am-2:30, 5-10pm (LO). Closed Sundays.
Open 24 hours a day.
You'll find great Peking Duck here - just Y3680 for a portion big enough for three or four people - plus a big menu of surprisingly inexpensive dumplings and small-plate dishes.
Open 24 hours a day.
Open 5-10pm (LO). Closed weekends.
It feels just like a Taiwanese night market during the Lantern festival at Taiwan Yoichi 101, but fortunately without the pungent aroma of the stinky tofu stalls. Colorful lanterns, check. Friendly...
Open 5-10pm (LO). Closed weekends.
Open 11:30am-2, 5-9:30pm (LO) daily.
Well-prepared Chinese standards and some Szechuan-style noodle dishes, with a mostly neighborhood crowd.
Open 11:30am-2, 5-9:30pm (LO) daily.
Open 11:30am-2, 5-9pm (LO) daily.
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.
Open 11:30am-2, 5-9pm (LO) daily.
Open 11:30am-2, 5:30-10pm (LO). Closed Sundays.
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...
Open 11:30am-2, 5:30-10pm (LO). Closed Sundays.
Open 11:30am-10:45pm (LO) daily.
Qibao serves only one dish - spicy Szechuan-style soup with glass noodles. The soup is infused with a blend of medicinal herbs, and to keep things interesting there are dozens of optional extra...
Open 11:30am-10:45pm (LO) daily.
Open 11am-10:30pm (LO) daily.
Taiwanese dim sum, spicy ramen and rice dishes are served with craft beers at this kiosk inside Tokyo Dome City's popular food court. Five taps dispense a rotating selection of freshly brewed beers...
Open 11am-10:30pm (LO) daily.
Open 11:30am-2:30, 5-9:30pm. Closed Thursdays.
This unpretentious, long-running shop serves down-to-earth Shanghai-style cooking, including inexpensive noodle dishes and fried rice.
Open 11:30am-2:30, 5-9:30pm. Closed Thursdays.
Open 11am-10:30pm (LO) daily.
You'll find reasonably priced Szechuan noodle and stir-fry dishes at this unpretentious Chinatown noodle shop.
Open 11am-10:30pm (LO) daily.
Open 11:30am-9pm (LO) daily.
Kaseiro Shinkan serves highly regarded Peking-style Chinese cuisine in a glitzy Chinatown setting. Budget around Y8,500 at dinner, Y5,000 at lunchtime.
Open 11:30am-9pm (LO) daily.
Dim sum
Open 11:30am-2:30, 5-9pm (LO) daily.
This branch of the original Joe's Shanghai in NYC is best known for their first-rate xiaolongbao (shoronpo) soup dumplings as well as their 59th-floor view. If you want a full dinner, prix-fixe...
Open 11:30am-2:30, 5-9pm (LO) daily.
Open 11am-10pm (LO) daily.
Fantastic Taiwanese-style dumplings; including the hot-broth-filled shoronpo dumplings for which they're most famous.
Open 11am-10pm (LO) daily.
Open 11am-9pm (LO) daily.
Good Hong Kong-style dim sum is served all day long in this conveniently located shop attached to Shinjuku Station. You can choose from a fair assortment of dim sum favorites - xiao long bao, spicy...
Open 11am-9pm (LO) daily.
Open 11:30am-2:30, 5:20-10pm (LO) daily.
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...
Open 11:30am-2:30, 5:20-10pm (LO) daily.
Open 11:30am-2:30, 6-10pm daily.
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.
Open 11:30am-2:30, 6-10pm daily.
Shumai Mania - Dim sum: Shimbashi
Open 11:30am-2, 5-10pm (LO; Sat 9:30pm). Closed Sundays.
Choose from an impressive variety of shumai dumplings (including cheese-infused Italian-style), plus pan-Asian small dishes like oysters ajillo, spicy Korean yangnyeom chicken, and soft-shell crab in...
Open 11:30am-2, 5-10pm (LO; Sat 9:30pm). Closed Sundays.
Open 11am-3, 3-9:45pm (LO) daily.
The showpiece at this dim sum specialist is a colorful platter of eight different xiao long bao (shoronpo), representing exotic flavors like foie gras, truffles, cheese and Szechuan pepper. You can...
Open 11am-3, 3-9:45pm (LO) daily.
Open 11:30am-2:30, 5:30-9:30pm (LO) daily.
This classic Hong Kong-style dining spot serves a dozen varieties of dim sum as well as seafood- and meat-based main dishes and claypot rice. Lunchtime menus featuring shrimp wonton noodles and...
Open 11:30am-2:30, 5:30-9:30pm (LO) daily.
Open 11am-10pm (LO; Sat, Sun -9) daily.
If you're curious about the name, this casual cafe is fashioned after the British-style tea shops of Hong Kong's post-war colonial era. You'll find a good variety of Chinese tea and more than a...
Open 11am-10pm (LO; Sat, Sun -9) daily.
Open 10am-10:30pm (LO) daily.
Chinese dumplings - to eat in or take out - are the specialty of this Kamakura-based shop inside the Gran Roof complex next to Tokyo Station. The take-out menu includes three types of gyoza (shrimp,...
Open 10am-10:30pm (LO) daily.
Open 11:30am-2:30, 5:30-10pm daily.
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...
Open 11:30am-2:30, 5:30-10pm daily.
Open 11:30am-2, 6-10pm (LO). Closed Sundays.
Chinese dim sum is served with a small selection of Japanese craft beers at this casual cafe. Eight varieties of steamed and fried dumplings are on offer, along with nine small dishes, all quite...
Open 11:30am-2, 6-10pm (LO). Closed Sundays.
Open 11am-10pm (LO) daily.
Fantastic Taiwanese-style dumplings; including the hot-broth-filled shoronpo dumplings for which they're most famous.
Open 11am-10pm (LO) daily.
Open 11am-2, 6-11pm daily.
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...
Open 11am-2, 6-11pm daily.
Gyoza
Open 10am-10pm daily.
Around a dozen famous gyoza shops from around the country are gathered here in this unusual dumpling-centered theme park inside the very noisy Namja Town game center. (Weekdays tend to be quieter.) ...
Open 10am-10pm daily.
Open 11:30am-4:30am (Su -10pm) daily.
With its big wrap-around counter as well as row of booths along the side, Lou is quite a bit larger than the average gyoza specialist, and seems like one of the cooler places in town to satisfy your...
Open 11:30am-4:30am (Su -10pm) daily.
Chinkairou - Gyoza: Meguro
Open 11:30am-midnight. Closed Sundays.
Boiled gyoza dumplings filled with juicy shrimp and cabbage are the specialty at this small neighborhood shop.
Open 11:30am-midnight. Closed Sundays.
Open 11:30am-10pm (LO) daily.
Pairon offers a wide selection of well-prepared Chinese dumplings and other dim sum dishes, all at very reasonable prices. Dishes here seem a bit more sophisticated than at your typical gyoza joint,...
Open 11:30am-10pm (LO) daily.
Open 11:30am-11:30pm. Closed Saturdays.
In general the gyoza dumplings at this small specialty shop are flavored with more Chinese-tasting mix of spices and ingredients than is typical for Tokyo gyoza. The namesake Pairon ("white dragon")...
Open 11:30am-11:30pm. Closed Saturdays.
Open 11:30am-1:50, 5-8:50pm (LO). Closed Sun, 3rd Sat.
This unpretentious Chinese noodle shop has been preparing their famous gyoza dumplings in the same style for some five decades now, with minced pork, chives and bok choy but no garlic. The gyoza are...
Open 11:30am-1:50, 5-8:50pm (LO). Closed Sun, 3rd Sat.
Open 11am-10:15pm (LO; Sa, Su -9:30) daily.
This big, lively dumpling emporium serves eight different varieties of gyoza, along with Chinese noodles and assorted stir-fry dishes. Your gyoza comes either a la carte, in a set meal with rice and...
Open 11am-10:15pm (LO; Sa, Su -9:30) daily.
Open 11:30am-10:30pm (LO) daily.
Tiger's menu is devoted to gyoza dumplings, both fried and boiled. The signature dish is their extra-large Banana Gyoza, so named because of their elongated shape - these come with a voluminous pork...
Open 11:30am-10:30pm (LO) daily.
Open 10am-9:30pm (LO) daily.
Gyoza dumplings are the specialty at this unpretentious counter shop inside the Joinus food hall. There's space for ten diners at two tightly packed counters, but most customers get their gyoza to...
Open 10am-9:30pm (LO) daily.
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