The Best Chinese Food in Austin
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The best Chinese food in Austin, according to the experts: Time Out, the Michelin Guide, and The Infatuation have all weighed in, and their honors are what rank this list. Ling Kitchen comes out on top.
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P Thai's Khao Man Gai and House of Three Gorges hold the next two places. The Infatuation shows up on more of this list than any other guide, with Eater next.
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Rank 1. Ling Kitchen
Chinese
One seating a night, about twenty guests, and chef Ling Qi Wu cooking in front of you: that's the whole deal at this dinner party-style Chinese tasting menu tucked into a strip mall on Research Blvd. Dumplings arrive shaped like animals with fillings like steamed lobster and crawfish with XO sauce, and duck with foie gras and caviar shows up alongside a bao bun with a cutout in it, somehow both silly and serious. The Michelin Guide has it listed.
The awards
- Time Out Time Out: The best Chinese restaurants in America
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
- The Infatuation The Infatuation: #20 · The 25 Best Restaurants In Austin
- Time Out The best Chinese restaurants in America
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- The Infatuation #20 · The 25 Best Restaurants In Austin
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Rank 2. P Thai's Khao Man Gai
Thai-Chinese
A chicken rice shop on Airport Boulevard where the whole birds go through a poaching-to-ice-bath-to-hang-dry process that makes the skin pull taut and the meat collapse at the knife. The cooking traces back to Chinese immigrants who brought their techniques to Thailand and rewired them with bolder flavors. The chef landed on the 2025 New York Times Restaurant List and is a 2026 James Beard semifinalist. Seven house sauces come with; order all of them.
The awards
- The New York Times The New York Times: 2025 · The Restaurant List
- The Infatuation The Infatuation: #11 · The 25 Best Restaurants In Austin
- The New York Times The New York Times: The 25 Best Restaurants in Austin Right Now
- The New York Times 2025 · The Restaurant List
- The Infatuation #11 · The 25 Best Restaurants In Austin
- The New York Times The 25 Best Restaurants in Austin Right Now
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Rank 3. House of Three Gorges
Traditional Sichuan
The awards
- The Infatuation #10 · The 25 Best Restaurants In Austin
- Eater The 38 Essential Restaurants in Austin
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Rank 4. Wu Chow-Downtown
Modern Sichuan
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Rank 5. Chinatown
Classic Chinese
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Rank 6. Ling Wu
Chinese
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- The Austin Chronicle The Austin Chronicle: 2024 · #3 · Best of Austin - Melanie Hapt's Top 10
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Rank 6. Ling Wu
Chinese
The awards
- The Austin Chronicle The Austin Chronicle: 2024 · #3 · Best of Austin - Melanie Hapt's Top 10