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  • B2J Suancai Soup

    151 W. Spring Creek Parkway, Ste. 517 Plano

    469-367-5443

    For cold appetizers, a popular choice is the spicy and sour fern starch noodles. It looks like squid-ink noodles and is topped with chiles, sesame seeds and their signature sour sauce. For hot appetizers, you can’t go wrong with the fried Chinese doughnuts, fried milk custard or fried chicken wings. The fried Chinese doughnuts are like unsweetened churros and are great to dunk in the soup broth. The signature dish here is a sauerkraut fish. Trust us when we say this rich, sour, oily, velvety and spicy dish is nothing short of spectacular. The fish is sourced from Dutchboy Farm in Idaho where it is flown in live and kept in a tank until it's ready to be cooked. The broth is full of ribbons of pickled mustard greens, which is their version of sauerkraut. There's also loads of ginger, dried chilies and Szechuan peppercorns. Delicious fresh chunks of fish or beef rise to the top of the broth. The fish is fresh, firm, and holds together when plucked out with chopsticks.To order, first, choose the flavor of the soup: the classic spicy sour, spicy or vine pepper numb. Next, you choose a size (small, medium or large) and your main ingredient: tilapia, largemouth bass, Wagyu beef or a combination of tilapia/wagyu beef.
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  • Bamboo House

    2301 Central Expressway Plano

    214-501-3958

    Originally a local Houston phenomenon, Bamboo House opened the doors to its first North Texas location. Hungry families have since piled in the Plano joint to get a taste of what the chain claims to be the ‘best Peking duck in town.’

    The platter’s arrival is almost a royal event; it’s trolleyed in on a large, black cart with a wide spread of traditional accompaniments. A basket of thinly sliced Chinese pancakes, platters of slivered vegetables and small cups of tangy plum sauce are served alongside a steaming plate of duck.

    Juicy slices of duck are meant to be swaddled in the thin, paper-like pancakes before being drenched in plum sauce and enjoyed much like a taco. Servings of clear-broth soup, stinky tofu and roasted pea sprouts are larger convoys to the main course duck. It takes multiple servers (and steady hands) to offload the full meal onto the table.

    The duck is served on an elegant white platter, molded into the shape of a swan. Breathe in the scents, soak in the royalty, and perhaps snap a picture before digging in. The duck tastes almost as royal as it looks. It’s prepared by creating an air-filled sac between the duck skin and meat before tossing it into the bake. The result is an ultra-crispy outer skin and a buttery meat inside. Dunk it in the plum sauce for a nice marriage of crispy, soft, juicy buttery and tangy.

    Additional entrees include both classics and eccentricities like lo mein and beef tongue soup. Fast-food favorites like orange chicken and honey-walnut shrimp ($21.95) are also scattered throughout the almost excessively large menu. But regardless of your order, it’s almost a crime to leave here without the duck. Disapproving glances from the staff discourage any intent to skip out on the main part of the meal. It’s—according to our waiter—the “star of the menu.” 
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  • Big Claw

    2001 Coit Rd. Plano

    972-596-3113

    Targeted at Asian-American millennials, Big Claw’s menu encompasses Chinese street foods, noodles and stir fries. The fare spans numerous regional cuisines, but it’s all delicious. Using a pencil, mark your order directly onto the paper menu, and be sure to choose at least one rice noodle dish — the noodles are perfectly tender and served in a rich, meaty broth — and a stir-fried veggie or two. More adventurous eaters can jump into a bowl of sour fish soup with numbing Sichuan peppercorns.

    Top pick: The spicy-sour sweet potato noodles are translucent, slightly wide and served in a sauce that lives thrillingly up to its description.

    The downside: There’s just too much to try here. Bring friends.

    Fun fact: The restaurant was originally meant to serve crawfish — hence its name — but quickly pivoted after discovering that out-of-season crawfish is not so great.
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  • Caravelle Chinese & Vietnamese

    400 N. Greenville Ave. Richardson & Vicinity

    972-437-6388

    If you're looking to feed a crowd of people something other than the usual Tex-Mex or Italian, consider Caravelle. Its modest strip mall location conceals a massive high-ceilinged dining room decked out in entirely too much pastel pink, accented with giant chandeliers and gold dragons. The extensive Chinese-Vietnamese menu offers a little something for everyone, from expected dishes like Peking duck and an especially delicious version of orange chicken to slightly more exotic offerings such as cheese lobster and green bean tofu (don't miss the addictive deep-fried shrimp balls). The bring-your-own-booze policy makes it an especially attractive option for large groups. Service is definitely authentic -- that is to say, somewhat sluggish, with definite potential for a language barrier -- but it's a small price to pay for huge platters of food this tasty.
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  • Chef Hsu Chinese Super Buffet

    11180 Harry Hines Blvd. Northwest Dallas

    972-484-0808

    It is perhaps redundant to point out that Chef Hsu has an all-you-can-eat "super buffet" at lunch packed with fresh, fried, braised, sautéed and steamed foods, plus fortune cookies. And chopsticks. What isn't redundant to point out is that most of this Chinese food is delicious: fresh, greaseless and tasty without that nasty steam-table shrivel that can sometimes make egg foo yong look like melted auto parts. But the real gems stud the à la carte menu with its braised sea cucumbers, fried and braised whole fish and braised shark's fin. Even the bravest buffet tables wouldn't go near these slivers of delicious Chinese exotica.
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  • China Queen

    3412 E Hebron Parkway, Suite 100 Carrollton/Farmers Branch

    469-984-1507

    Start your meal at China Queen with a pot of pu-erh tea, which is complex and flavorful and will be constantly replenished.

    China Queen has received a lot of social media buzz about their pork bao buns. These are so popular (and it turns out for good reason) that they often sell out early. Their house special steamed buns are pan-fried with sesame seeds on the bottom and pork in the center, not the barbecue/sweet variety that one often finds in such buns, but rather a ground pork meatball. These were steamed perfectly and had a wonderful texture and taste with a lovely contrast between the slightly crunchy sesame seed bottom and the soft bun top.

    China Queen offers scallion crepes that were wonderfully crunchy yet with a bit of chew. The xiao long bao are of course soup dumplings, and are deliciously prepared, but perhaps were a bit less soup-filled than one traditionally finds in such dumplings. Pork and chives steamed dumplings were traditionally served with a dumpling skin that was steamed just right and a filling that hit all the right notes; these came eight to a basket.
  • Empress Palace

    2208 New York Ave Arlington

    817-548-8223

  • Fat Ni

    2528 Old Denton Drive, Suite 310 Carrollton/Farmers Branch

    469-900-8887

    Fat Ni is fun. Everything about it is fun. Well, it's in a strip mall, but aside from the location, it's a good time. To order you'll get a sheet of paper on which to check off boxes, almost like ordering Girl Scout cookies. It allows newbies to get familiar with the options. Then, in the open kitchen you can watch the skewers of meat cooking over the grill. Each skewer is brought out as soon as it's done, making for a parade of offerings to the table. "Oh! Scallops!"

    Top Pick: The lamb and tendon skewers are tender and flavorful, but we also devoured every bit of a spicy chicken soup with house-made noodles. Super long noodles can at times make for awkward table manners, so maybe bring your own scissors.
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  • First Chinese B-B-Q

    111 S. Greenville Ave. Richardson & Vicinity

    972-680-8216

    Things you won't find here: egg rolls, sweet-and-sour pork, chicken chow mein. You will find some of the finest and most authentic Cantonese-Vietnamese food available, with a heavy use of seafood (including shrimp) and organ meats. Don't knock it until you've tried. The seafood hot-pot is not to be missed.
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  • Fortune House

    2010 Greenville Ave. East Dallas & Lakewood

    469-858-1265

    This is the second location for Fortune House - the original is in Irving. The menu is the same; go for any of the dumplings and you'll leave happy. Aside from those little pillows of happiness, they serve fun cocktails (tiki and martini espresso) along with the Chinese standard hits like fried rice, orange chicken and General Tso.
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  • Fortune House

    8150 N MacArthur Blvd. Irving/Las Colinas

    972-831-9888

    The best xiao long bao (soup dumplings) in the area are the stars at Fortune House, a Shanghainese mainstay on the north side of Irving. But don’t miss the fried buns, either; they’re steamed and fried, the crispy bottom and moist top producing two different colors and textures. Aside from buns, dumplings and the occasional vegetable special (look for “spinach in special consomme”), the rest of the menu is pretty ordinary.
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  • Haidilao Hot Pot

    9244 Prestmont Place, Ste 200 Frisco

    469-598-7988

    Chinese hot pot is similar in many respects to fondue: it’s an interactive dining experience where the center of table contains a simmering pot of soup into which various raw ingredients such as veggies, meat, seafood, tofu, etc., are placed for quick cooking. The ingredients are sliced thinly to facilitate the fast-cooking process, and the soup can be flavored as well. The cooked items are then usually dipped into some sort of sauce prior to eating.

    Here customers get to choose up to four different bases, like spicy pork bone, classic spicy, mushroom, and Thai tom yum goong. Then proteins and vegetables are chosen (each at an additional cost). There's a sauce bar to make your very own sauce to go along with the meal.

    If you time it right, you just might even get a show from the dancing noodle maker.
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  • Hei Hei

    9660 Audelia Road Suite 117 North Dallas

    972-685-5583

    Hei-Hei offers a family-friendly and laid-back atmosphere with a full bar of premium booze and specialty cocktails. They are an American-Chinese restaurant and they make no bones about it. So, what is American-Chinese? Simple: it is Chinese food with an American flair. Expect a creative twist on most dishes, and that is by design. This isn't Panda Express, after all. Take, for example, crab rangoon. This appetizer is usually served in a fried wonton with a dollop of crabmeat and cream cheese in the middle. At Hei Hei, it is served as a dip with a load of crispy fried wonton chips. The dip has decent chunks of crabmeat mixed into the cream cheese and is the perfect way to start your meal. J’s Lo Mein, not to be confused with Jenny from the Block, came highly recommended by our server. It was a good recommendation and came loaded with plenty of shrimp, chicken and beef. Typically, at a fast-casual kind of place, you’re searching for your protein choices in the midst of a mound of vegetables and noodles and that was not the case here. We asked the kitchen to make it spicy and it was.
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  • Hello Dumpling

    1146 Peavy Rd. White Rock Lake Area

    469-779-1551

    What an expressive name is Hello Dumpling. It’s short, sweet and friendly, and it holds out the promise of delicious dumplings. There’s only one problem with the name: This restaurant’s noodles are even better. Hello Dumpling is serving a wide variety of northern Chinese home cooking and market foods: grilled skewers of meat, beef noodle soup, petite plates of veggie sides. There's nothing too ambitious here, but that's a central part of the restaurant's charm.The kitchen is making its noodles by hand, long and gently curly, and cooking them perfectly. The beef noodle soup sports a brown broth so rich with spices that its aroma hits the nose like an explosion. There are tender, flavorful slices of beef shank, bok choy, bean sprouts and scallions. Hot peppers hidden somewhere in the broth make their presence felt, as does the richness of bone marrow. It’s wonderful. Peking noodles are excellent, too, topped with bean sprouts, scallions, julienne zucchini and carrots, and a spicy, red pepper-flecked mixture of ground pork and finely minced tofu.
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  • Howard Wang's China Grill

    4343 W. Northwest Highway #345 Northwest Dallas

    214-366-1606

    We have an aversion to artificially tenderized meat, MSG and slimy sauces. We have exclaimed to many people that it's extremely difficult to find reliably good Chinese food in Dallas. Then, on the recommendation of a friend, we found Howard Wang's, at Northwest Highway and Midway streets. The first thing you notice is the sleek décor – then the outstanding service. Of course, everything hinges on the food, and here Howard Wang's delivers with top-notch ingredients and preparation. Now when we want a Chinese food fix, this is where we go.
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  • Hunan Bistro

    2220 Coit Rd., Suite 420 Plano

    972-599-9996

    A hot spot in Plano’s growing Chinese food scene, Hunan Bistro packs in customers looking for rustic specialties from its namesake province. Garlic cloves remain whole in stir fries, chopped-up chile peppers pile high, and some form of braised pork is on nearly every table. Whole croaker fish get fried without batter until their skins, and bones, are nicely crunchy.

    Top pick: The smooth cross-sections of pig ears doused in chili oil are a great appetizer, and “dry pots” featuring proteins like bullfrog are fun to share among a larger table. Don’t miss the quick-fried green beans.
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  • Hunan Express

    6333 Harry Hines Blvd. Uptown/Oak Lawn

    214-754-4747

    The owners of Hunan Express know a good location when they see one. They opened this Chinese restaurant/diner across from the Ritz Carlton – and priced it accordingly. With approximately 10 tables, it's not a small place, but it's not a chop suey palace, either. Chinese chef Li's popular dishes include the chicken fried rice. Among the specialties are fiery Da Chang Chicken with celery, carrots, ground Szechuan peppercorns and red chilies as well as the light tilapia Hunan with a sesame ginger sauce and green onion garnish. It's a popular spot for local chefs like Dean Fearing. One of the few Chinese restaurants in the area, Hunan Express also does a brisk delivery business.
  • Jade Garden Chinese Restaurant

    4800 Bryan St. East Dallas & Lakewood

    214-821-0675

    Customers who have traveled to the Big Apple's Chinatown swear this East Dallas joint, in an old drive-in, is the closest thing to New York Chinese food in Big D (especially if driving up 75 to Richardson is out of the question). Aside from the standard Americanized Chinese choices, there are more traditional options tacked to the wall, with some specials of Vietnamese origins. Try the Vietnamese coffee (thick with condensed milk). Oddly, this restaurant gets a lot of spillover from Jimmy's Food Store, across the street, probably due to the Jimmy's short hours and Sunday closing. Nevertheless, the chicken fat noodle with black bean sauce, the Chinese water spinach and steamed dumplings, not to mention the enormous portions, keep loyal patrons and newbies coming back.
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  • Kirin Court

    221 W. Polk St., #200 Richardson & Vicinity

    214-575-8888

    Whatever the explanation, this Richardson institution isn’t living up to its outsize reputation. Superior dumplings — at places such as Imperial Cuisine or Jeng Chi — aren’t too far away. Even First Emperor, right across the street, has its merits.
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  • Little Kaiping

    4011 E. Renner Road., Suite 128 Richardson & Vicinity

    972-235-6888

    Few are the foods with such power over the imagination that just hearing their names can stop your stream of thoughts and send you off to the internet to look at restaurant menus. Take, for instance, Peking duck. The name alone is mouthwatering. And its scarcity recommends it, too: Very few Dallas-area restaurants serve true Peking duck. Little Kaiping is among them. Its duck is very subtly flavored — faint whispers of smoke and sugar add to the delicacy of the meat itself — and it’s not too fatty at all. The skin remains crisp, but not tooth-crackingly brittle. It’s not a flashy presentation, but it’s completely satisfying.
  • Little Sichuan Cuisine

    240 Legacy Dr. Plano

    972-517-1374

    There’s something about devouring a whole fish — truly devouring it, leaving nothing but bones — that feels victorious, like climbing a mountain peak or getting through downtown on Interstate 35 without hitting traffic. That’s especially the case at Plano’s Little Sichuan, where the whole tilapia comes buried in an avalanche of potatoes, cauliflower, lotus root, hot peppers and numbing peppercorns. It’s a spectacular centerpiece that requires group effort. Underneath all those vegetables, the tilapia is cooked perfectly fork-tender and served with the escalating heat of chili oil, which enters into partnership with the fish’s natural sweetness. Whole fish is a must, but otherwise ordering at Little Sichuan can be intimidating. There are three menus. First and easiest is the standard menu, divided neatly into appetizers, noodles, beef, pork and other expected categories. In here, Americanized Chinese dishes like General Tso’s chicken mingle with Sichuan staples like tea-smoked duck, beef and Napa cabbage in spicy chili sauce, ma po tofu and konjac with pickled cabbage.
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  • Lover's Egg Roll

    3501 McKinney Ave., Ste. D Uptown/Oak Lawn

    214-443-1888

    Since the first Lover's Egg Roll opened in 1989, two locations have been added to this fast-food Chinese-American take-out/delivery concern. Overall, it offers everything a lover of the particular cuisine could want, including sesame chicken, broccoli with garlic sauce as well as the expected Hunan and Szechuan standards and typical greasiness. Affordable price points, too! Major detours (Thai, Japanese) are present on the menu, especially in the House Specialties and Chef's Specials sections. For example, there are honey basil spicy fried rice, Japanese thick noodles and jalapeno crispy chicken. In keeping with its name, the first item on the menu is an egg roll (regular or veggie). Those who insist on dining in can't expect much in the way of ambiance.
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  • Maxim's Chinese Restaurant

    310 Terrace Dr. Richardson & Vicinity

    972-231-6371

    Got a couple of hours to kill on a Sunday morning? (Or any other day of the week, for that matter?) Try this Chinatown wonderland off Greenville Avenue and Main Street in Richardson, where the waitstaff strolls through this gargantuan restaurant with wagons full of goodies familiar (shrimp-and-scallion dumplings, fried rice, sautéed Chinese broccoli) and mysterious (soup with "1,000-year-old eggs") and always delicious. Maxim's, so named for a legendary Hong Kong eatery, offers the best dim sum experience in town: Eat till you can't talk, and wash it all down with pur tea that seems to make room in your tummy for more of the pork barbecue-stuffed buns or the steamed shrimp balls.
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  • May Dragon

    4848 Belt Line Rd. North Dallas

    972-392-9998

    Named after the festival that commemorates a second century BC martyred Chinese poet, this Addison restaurant specializes in elegant culinary preparations of the best of regional Chinese cooking. This isn't a greasy take-out joint whose only real specialty is MSG. It's pricey. It's also beloved by every major Dallas periodical and numerous celebrities as varied as Chinese food itself, among them Chuck Norris and Martin Yan. Owner Joe Chow's restaurant and its menu are expansive. There are private rooms and seemingly endless dishes. So, we'll give you a small sample of the house specialties: pork and hard tofu Szechuan style, Peking duck, three ways and the May Dragon combo. There are the supermarket variety Chinese dishes well loved by Americans, but they're elevated in presentation and ingredients.
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  • Monkey King Noodle Co.

    2933 Main St., Dallas / Fort Worth Downtown/Deep Ellum

    469-713-2648

    Deep Ellum needed something like this. Monkey King Noodle Co. is an off-the-beaten-path Chinese street-food restaurant that brings big flavors on the cheap. The spicy beef noodle soup is exceptional and by far the best way to get to know the Monkey King’s handcrafted noodles. A subtle version of dan-dan noodles isn’t that spicy, but the ladle of hot chicken broth dumped over the top will soothe you. Try the wontons to see the best of what the dumpling ladies are capable of. The tender, pork-stuffed wrappers are dressed in chile oil that smacks of vinegar. They’re at once bright and spicy. Or get the pouty soup dumplings, which explode with broth when you take a bite, or the regular pork dumplings, which seem almost as juicy. Even the vegetarian dumplings, loaded with finely minced mushrooms, are surprisingly flavorful. Vegetarians should also take notice of the noodles dressed in a slightly fermented bean paste, with potatoes and fresh, julienned cucumber. Omnivores should take notice, too.
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  • Morefan

    240 Legacy Dr. Plano

    972-517-8898

    This restaurant specializes in the only Xi’an style noodles in Dallas. Off Legacy Drive in Plano, just west of 75, is a strip mall emblazoned with the yellow words “Food Court.” That terse but accurate description conceals a small operation filled with Chinese and Korean stalls, including a tofu specialist, a bubble tea shop and Morefan. Order the wide, flat biang biang noodles — each noodle can be up to two feet long — coated in a savory, gently spicy stew of meat and peas. If you’re especially hungry, upgrade to a combo and get as a side dish a small chopped beef sandwich, served on the Xi’an equivalent of an English muffin.
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  • Mr. Wok

    2600 14th St. Plano

    972-881-1888

    Mr. Wok is absolutely the best thing that could have happened to a defunct Pizza Hut. Since 1989, the Kang family has been using the remodeled space in Plano to serve some of the Dallas area’s best Peking duck. You’ll notice the old relic in the rooflines, but walk through the front door and any notions of deep-dish pizza will evaporate quickly. The beggar’s chicken is another popular dish involving a bird that’s stuffed with sticky rice and slowly roasted for 20 hours. You’ll need to call two days ahead to order the chicken, and one day ahead for the duck. Both are worth the effort.
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  • P.F. Chang's China Bistro

    8687 N. Central Expressway Park Cities

    214-265-8669

    How many diners know that the giant, 11-foot-tall stone horses flanking the entrances of many P.F. Chang's symbolize the original Forbidden City in China, which was built for China's first emperor Qin Shi Huangdi? Or that the restaurant's founder, Philip Chiang, is still this successful chain's consultant, and author of its current menu? People probably don't care, so long as they can find Caramel Mango Chicken or Philip's Better Lemon Chicken, two of many entrees available only at Chiang's chain. Chiang — born in Shanghai and son of the founder of the first Chinese restaurant in the United States to serve Chinese food from regions other than Canton — has upped the Chinese ante by offering every dish on his menu prepared to order. Like extra cashews in your Cashew and Almond Chicken, or want an order of Kung Pao without any chili peppers? That's a problem if you're dining at most other chain Chinese restaurants, but not here.
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  • Pei Wei Asian Diner

    18204 Preston Rd., Suite E-1 Richardson & Vicinity

    972-985-0090

    Diners in Dallas / Fort Worth don't head to Pei Wei for authentic Asian cuisine, but rather for non-traditional takes on Chinese noodle dishes and lettuce wraps. Large portions are the order of the day at the chain, whose restaurants combine faux Asian fare (Sriracha Chicken Salad, Crab Rangoon, and any number of pan-fried-while-you-watch entrees, all with dipping sauces) with good, old-fashioned American food court technology (check out the massive soft drink machines that allow you to sample a dozen or more sodas for one small price). Counting calories? Ask the staff to "stock-velvet" your meal and, instead of pan-frying your dishes, the chef will cook it in broth for you. Pei Wei is easy to find on Voice Places.
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  • Royal China

    6025 Royal Lane North Dallas

    214-361-1771

    You’d think Royal China, situated near Preston Hollow and catering to a mostly American clientele since 1974, would have been surpassed many times over by the new wave of Chinese restaurants in Plano, Richardson and other northern suburbs. But this Dallas institution is more than keeping up with the times. Chefs pull noodles and roll dumplings before customers’ eyes at a bar added in 2008, and the menu expands well beyond Americanized favorites to include specialties from Wuxi, Sichuan and Shanghai. Dan dan la mian noodles are one of the city’s most essential bowls, and many of the pork and seafood specialties, like slow-braised Wuxi pork ribs, are just as good.

    Top pick: Coming to Royal China and not ordering noodles is tantamount to sacrilege. Choose between the cold bowls of dan dan noodles or go for the meaty, super-savory lu rou mian.
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  • Seven Woks

    12300 Inwood Rd. North Dallas

    469-580-6838

  • Shanghai Restaurant

    12817 Preston Rd. North Dallas

    972-239-1400

    Typical fast-food Chinese isn't what is served at this bantam white-tablecloth restaurant. No, this place, as its name spells out, offers diners Shanghai-style cuisine. Among the specialties are the preserved duck, jellyfish with radishes and yellowfish soup. And the staff will guide first-time customers in the proper way to eat Xiao Long Bao (soup dumplings). It's the Xiao Long Bao that everyone raves about, whether it's the pork or crab dumplings. Keep in mind, though, when you're at Shanghai, you're in Chinatown. That means sometimes you have to raise your voice to be heard over the din of the flat-screen television broadcasting Chinese variety shows and soap operas.
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