The best Chinese restaurants The United States Of America

On the east side of Chinatown, you could almost walk past it without seeing it. Yet R&G Lounge is a must; it's even one of the favorite addresses of former President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle! While the service isn't necessarily the most extraordinary, the cuisine is top-notch. The secret of their success: the freshest seafood. Specialties include salt and pepper crab and shark fin soup, but the restaurant is also renowned for its mastery of vegetable cooking.

This is the signature restaurant of the very chic Peninsula Chicago Hotel, which offers Cantonese specialities in a warm 1930s decor with soft lighting. During the summer, you can dine outside on the terrace, which offers a sublime view of the city. The menu offers traditional dishes such as Dim Sum or lacquered duck but always revisited with contemporary creativity. As for drinks, don't forget to order one of the cocktails on the menu, they are almost all equally tasty. Nice address, perfect for a tête-à-tête.

Chinese food lovers, here you are. In this authentic and unpretentious restaurant, the flavors of the Middle Kingdom deploy in your plate with their thousand delicate fragrances, their undulating aromas and outstanding flavors for the western palace. Corn soup and dim sum are particularly recommendable. A charming service, no sleeves, in a quiet setting with a quiet light, as a parenthesis over time. Forget your glass of wine, order a teapot and dive into delicate, diverse and exotic flavors of Chinese cuisine…

Restaurant decorated directly with China and propaganda from the era of the great Timonier. The terrace is particularly pleasant in the evening, when traffic on the avenue has stopped or almost. The proposed Chinese cuisine, of course, is good and especially copious.

Don't be put off by the bright green frontage, unsightly neon lights and mediocre appearance of this little Chinese boui-boui, where you'll find great seafood and fish at all hours. There are plenty of Middle Kingdom specialties to choose from, starting with the excellent Peking half-duck, as well as Wonton Noodle Soup and dishes spiced with Sichuan pepper, for example. Portions are gargantuan. Late eaters will be delighted to learn that this restaurant stays open until 11pm every day, a rarity in San Francisco.

In a quiet and rather class atmosphere, you will be served here the best of Chinese cuisine. Accoudé at the bar or lit in the red on the tables, you will be easily tempted by the diversity and originality of the dishes, as well as the very good wine list. In the evening, you can follow a small glass of glass at the Blue Martini which is just above.

Macau and Asian fusion cuisine with Portuguese and African influences. This trendy eatery is always full, so reservations are recommended. The clientele, like the staff, is young and arty. The cuisine is original, often spicy, with unexpected but always delicious blends of flavors, such as the live-fire charcoal grilled chicken, the restaurant's signature dish. Fat Rice is the English translation of the Portuguese Arroz Gordo, a festive Macau dish, a sort of Asian version of paella. Most dishes are cooked in peanut oil.

This somewhat isolated restaurant in Richmond's district is worth a visit, and if you explore the Golden Gate Park, you can easily go there. On the menu, dumplings made with talent and tradition including the few insiders who know the address! Vegetarians, pork or seafood are all recommended. Stuffed brioches are also delicious and perfectly accompanied by a steam ravioli base. Perfect to regain strength before returning to the park museums. 

This Chinese restaurant is one of the favorite spots of Balboa residents for decades; It serves an Americanized cuisine, but tasty and generous.

Mrs. Ling, a fluette woman, owns this restaurant over thirty years old. On arrival, you will only see the brilliant seats, but very quickly you will forget them. The specialities of Canton and Sichuan are delicious. Enjoy spicy dishes, the best. Very good value for money. Breakfast breakfast very cheap.

In the heart of the Chinatown district, this typical restaurant is very popular with the locals. Located in the basement of the building, the room is filled with large round tables where San Franciscans come to dine with their families. On the menu, more than 240 dishes (!); so much to say that the choice is large and that one finds there all the great classics of the Chinese cooking. The soups are particularly good, as well as the Mongolian beef, a delight! Authentic and surprisingly economical, certainly one of the cheapest restaurants in town.

The first Chinese restaurant in North America to be awarded a star by the Michelin Guide, Wing Lei offers excellent cuisine, served in an elegant dining room amidst upside-down golden jars. Refined flavors from Canton, Shanghai and Sichuan, ingeniously revisited and combined by chef Ming Yu, are on offer. The crispy Imperial Peking Duck, to be rolled in small pancakes and dipped in the homemade sauce, is a delight - and very expensive.

This Chinatown restaurant offers specialties from southwest China, Sichuan. A region with delicious hot pepper. The house is a classic in the neighborhood, it doesn't look like much, but you can go in with your eyes closed. This simple room, with its print-covered walls and strange, elongated lights hanging from the ceiling, is an unrestrained delight! We loved the pork ravioli served with an ultra-fine spicy sauce, as well as the aged duck eggs, fish fillets and fried green beans.

This restaurant dedicated to contemporary Chinese cuisine has a modern design with a concrete ceiling and large wooden tables, all organized around the kitchen. Go for the Sichuan pork dumpling with hyperfine sauce, the small duck sandwich and the green beans with mushrooms. All washed down with a 2017 Mayacamas chardonnais, it'll go down easy... The house also has a cozier VIP restaurant, a whiskey lounge bar, a tea room and a boutique area to leave with tea, cookies and condiments.

This little takeaway-only counter is easy to spot from the street, it's always full, and all the customers are Chinese! Ideal for a picnic break in a park (either Washington Square or Porthmouth Square). The food is authentic, inexpensive and delicious. We loved the pork buns, steamed shrimp and coriander dumpling, fried corn cakes, egg rolls, sesame balls... It's easy to choose: all the dishes have photos on the wall and in front of the counter with corresponding numbers.