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  1. Rank 42. MO Jasmine

    Beijing

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  2. Antlers on the white walls, no moose on the menu, a century-old Shanghai mansion doing its best impression of a gallery. This is a polished Jiangzhe restaurant where the chef's decades in Huaiyang cooking show in dishes built around technique rather than trend. The crispy white teat fish, a sea cucumber preparation that arrives in a crackling crust, is exactly the kind of thing that earns a Michelin star without needing to explain itself.


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  4. Rank 42. Narisawa

    Japanese

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  5. Rank 42. Obscura

    Chinese

    A private collection of Chinese antiques lines the walls of this low-lit, polished-wood dining room inside the Tangxiang Cultural Space on Xikang Road. Obscura holds a Michelin star for its tasting-menu cooking, which folds Sichuan tradition and forgotten regional techniques into something genuinely its own. The chef duo spent a year crossing China before opening, and the research shows on the plate without feeling like homework.


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  7. Rank 42. Pin Ning Fu

    Huaiyang

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    Address
    39F, The Ritz-Carlton, 18 Zhongshan Road, Xuanwu, Nanjing, Jiangsu, Chinese Mainland · Nanjing Shi
    Hours

    Open now, until 2:30 PM

    Friday 11:30 AM–2:30 PM, 5:30 PM–9:30 PM

    Online
    Website
  8. Rank 42. Pingjiangsong

    Suzhou Jiangsu

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  12. Rank 42. Rong Pao

    Sichuan

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  13. Rank 42. Sense

    Modern French

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  14. Rank 42. Seventh Son

    Cantonese

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  15. Rank 42. Seventh Son

    Cantonese

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  19. Rank 42. Silver Pot

    Sichuan

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  20. Rank 42. Sole

    Cantonese

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  21. Rank 42. Song

    Ningbo Zhejiang

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  22. Rank 42. Stiller

    Seasonal German

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  25. Rank 42. The Hall

    Contemporary Italian

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  26. Rank 42. Trb Hutong

    Contemporary French

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  27. Rank 42. Vivant by Johnny Pham

    Contemporary French


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  29. Rank 42. Wild Yeast

    Chinese-French

    Seafood pulled from the East China Sea arrives at this contemporary Chinese restaurant in Hangzhou's Binjiang district with a precision that suggests the kitchen takes terroir as seriously as any French farmhouse. The team builds a menu around Taizhou produce, threading classical Chinese instincts through a modern, almost architectural presentation. One Michelin star and a spot on The 50 Discovery list confirm the room is not just scenery.


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  32. Rank 42. Xi Ding Jia Yan

    Northeastern Chinese

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  33. Rank 42. Xin Ji

    Cantonese

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  34. Rank 42. Xin Rong Ji

    Taizhou Zhejiang

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  36. Rank 42. Xin Rong Ji (Jiaojiang)

    Taizhou Zhejiang Seafood

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  41. Rank 42. Yong

    Sichuan

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  42. Rank 42. Yong Fu (Hongkou)

    Ningbo Zhejiang

    Ningbo cooking occupies a specific lane: intensely briny, fermented-forward, and proud of it. This upscale restaurant on the 56th floor of Raffles City The Bund leans into that tradition, anchoring the menu around wild seafood pulled from the East China Sea that morning. The room runs to aubergine walls, linen, and chandeliers, which creates a pleasant contrast with dishes built around deliberately pungent ingredients. It holds a Michelin star.


  43. Rank 42. Yong Fu (Huangpu)

    Ningbo Zhejiang Seafood

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  46. Rank 42. Yu Yue Heen

    Cantonese

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  47. Rank 42. Yu Zhi Lan

    Sichuan

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  48. Rank 42. Yue Hai Tang

    Cantonese

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  49. Rank 42. Zhiguan Courtyard

    Liaoning Chinese

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  51. Rank 42. Zijin Mansion

    Cantonese

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  52. The brick-red interior is a deliberate nod to the Minnan courtyard houses of southern Fujian, set against floor-to-ceiling windows with the Shanghai skyline doing its thing beyond. This is Fujianese fine dining, a regional cuisine that prizes the clean, layered flavour of the ingredient itself over any attempt to dress it up. The tea pairings run from jasmine to aged pu-erh, and the kitchen holds a spot on Asia's 50 Best Restaurants list.


  53. Rank 154. Fumée

    Modern Chinese

    The name refers to smoke, and the kitchen earns it, charring and curing its way through a "province-less" take on Chinese cooking that borrows freely from France without tipping into fusion cliché. Chef Reina Chen runs an eleven-course tasting menu that pairs each dish with cocktails, landing combinations like duck piped with prawn mousse or glutinous rice beside Jinhua ham and sea urchin. Asia's 50 Best lists it at number 65 for 2026.


  54. Rank 155. CMYK

    Creative Cocktail Bar



  55. Rank 157. Sober Company

    Modern Chinese Cocktail Bar

    A cocktail bar that doubles as a scavenger hunt: find Tipsy, the secret bar hidden somewhere in the building, and you've earned bragging rights for the evening. Sober Company runs three floors of drinking and eating, but Sober Society is the heart of it, where the team behind Speak Low works through a menu of cocktails built around Chinese ingredients. It has landed on Asia's 50 Best Bars list, which tracks.


  56. Rank 158. La Bourriche 133

    French Seafood

    Dim as the bottom of the East China Sea, this French seafood restaurant in Shanghai's Rockbund sits where Suzhou Creek meets the Huangpu, and the room feels like it knows that. Leather banquettes, travertine walls, and restrained plating frame a menu that shifts with whatever the ocean is offering that season. The chef came up at Odette in Singapore, and the technique shows. It landed on Asia's 50 Best Restaurants list.






  57. Pork sliced thin enough to hold up to the light is the calling card here, a modern Sichuan restaurant in Chaoyang where the chef, a native of Emei, treats the cuisine's famously layered heat as a palette rather than a blunt instrument. The room draws a crowd that takes its Sichuan seriously, and the kitchen obliges with food that is fiery and precise in equal measure. It holds a spot in the Michelin Guide.


  58. Rank 164. Coa (Shanghai)

    Cocktail Bar


  59. Rank 165. Pony Up

    American Cocktail Bar

    Checkered tiles, timber walls, and green leather stools that look like a diner lost its passport and ended up in Huangpu. Pony Up is an all-day bar on Jinxian Road, open from early afternoon so the post-lunch crowd has somewhere respectable to be. The signature Cigar cocktail layers vermouth, absinthe, and a house smoke-infused spirit. Asia's 50 Best Bars has it on their Discovery list.


  60. Rank 166. Ralph’s Bar

    Americana Cocktail Bar



  61. Rank 168. Mio

    Italian

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  62. Rank 169. Jade on 36

    Contemporary French


  63. Min Cai, the cooking of Fujian province, rarely gets the fine dining treatment, and Shanghai's 56th floor is an unlikely place to find it done seriously. Meet the Bund is a formal tasting restaurant where the chef reframes a regional tradition that tends to get overlooked in favor of flashier Chinese cuisines. The broth for the signature slow-cooked abalone dish takes several days to build, which tells you the kitchen's general attitude toward shortcuts.

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  64. A wave sculpture runs the full length of the ceiling, which tells you something about how seriously this place takes its own idea. Chao Yue is a fine-dining Chaozhou restaurant where the kitchen reinterprets Chiu Chow culinary tradition through prix fixe menus built to feel like a single continuous argument. The service is unusually considered, and the room is quiet enough that it actually matters.


  65. Rank 172. 157 Shi Fang

    Shanghainese

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  67. Rank 172. A Cheng

    Zhejiang

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  69. Rank 172. A Xi Xia Mian

    Noodle Shop

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  72. Rank 172. A Zhong Shi Fang

    Minnan Seafood

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  73. Rank 172. Antstory

    Fujian

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  79. Rank 172. Bao Bao Hao

    Cantonese

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  81. Rank 172. Bao Yuan

    Sichuan

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  83. Rank 172. Bei Men Niu Xie Geng

    Chinese Noodle Shop

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  84. Rank 172. Blossom

    Teochew

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  90. Rank 172. Chen Xian Sen Sha Cha Mian

    Chinese Noodle Shop

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  91. Rank 172. Chi Man

    Zhejiang

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  92. Rank 172. Chic 1699

    Minnan

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  93. Rank 172. Chuang Fa

    Cantonese

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