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Pacific Northwest

Chinese restaurants in Pacific Northwest

  1. A

    Shanghai Garden

    Hand-shaved barley noodles are the specialty of Shanghai Garden, and they frankly trounce all expectations you might ordinarily have of a noodle. They’re wide and chewy, almost meaty, and just barely dressed with perky spinach and nicely integrated globs of chicken, tofu, beef or shrimp. It might seem odd to get all rapturous about a plate of noodles, but these deserve it. The sugar-pea vines are also a favorite, and if neither of those options tempts you, there are about 75 other choices.

    reviewed

  2. B

    Jade Garden

    Usually mentioned near the top of the list of best places for dim sum in the ID, Jade Garden offers a good range of the delicacies, with everything from standard, newbie-friendly shrimp dumplings and steamed pork buns to the more exotic plates, like black cylinders of sesame-paste gel and, of course, chicken feet. The more things you try, the more fun you’ll have. The Jade Garden’s hot pots are also recommended.

    reviewed

  3. C

    Purple Dot Café

    The Purple Dot looks like the inside of an ‘80s videogame (it is actually purple) and draws a late-night drunken-disco crowd on weekends, but most of the time it’s a calm, quiet place to get dim sum and Macao-style specialties (meaning you can feast on baked spaghetti and French toast along with your Hong Kong favorites).

    reviewed

  4. D

    China Gate

    Like House of Hong, the China Gate now has all-day dim sum. The Hong Kong–style menu offers a couple of hundred choices, and the building is interesting in its own right – it was built in 1924 as a Peking Opera house.

    reviewed

  5. E

    House Of Hong

    This huge mainstay of the neighborhood serves dim sum from 10am until 4:30pm every day – handy if your craving hits in the middle of the day.

    reviewed