The World’s Best Cantonese Food

The menu at this Cantonese fine dining room inside Wynn Palace rotates every fifteen days, timed to the 24 solar terms of the traditional Chinese calendar, which means Chef Tam Kwok-fung is effectively on a different creative brief year-round. The room is all gold, jade, and five thousand roses, with fountains performing outside. Two Michelin stars, a Forbes Five Star, and a spot on the World's 50 Best list confirm this is not a casual Tuesday decision.

1. Forbes Travel Guide Forbes Five Star
2. Michelin Guide 2 Stars
3. The 50 #72 · The World’s 50 Best Restaurants

A lychee wood barbecue anchors the menu at this fine-dining Cantonese restaurant inside City of Dreams, which holds three Michelin stars and a Forbes Five Star. The kitchen follows a seasonal, ingredient-first philosophy, with dedicated sections for abalone and live seafood, plus healing soups developed with Chinese medicine practitioners. The room reads as a serious occasion, the kind where the staff already knows what you should order before you do.

1. Michelin Guide 3 Stars
2. Forbes Travel Guide Forbes Five Star
3. The 50 #80 · Asia's 50 Best Restaurants

Steamed flowery crab with aged Shaoxing wine and chicken oil is the dish people wait months to book for, and the wait list is, by all accounts, a genuine obstacle. The Chairman is a Michelin-starred Cantonese restaurant that holds the number one spot on Asia's 50 Best and sits inside the World's 50 Best. The cooking updates classic Cantonese with new recipes built on old foundations, and the room runs quietly, without theatrics, which somehow makes it feel more serious.

1. The 50 #19 · The World’s 50 Best Restaurants
2. The 50 #1 · Asia's 50 Best Restaurants
3. Michelin Guide 1 Star

The menu runs to several pages on abalone alone, which tells you everything about Forum's priorities. This Causeway Bay Cantonese dining room, which holds three Michelin stars, was built around the mollusc and its late founder's obsession with it, and the kitchen shows no signs of moving on. The braised oxtail and the famous fried rice have their own followings among regulars who've long since stopped looking at the menu for guidance.

1. Michelin Guide 3 Stars
2. Chinese Restaurant Awards Top 30 Honourees · Elite 15 Asia
3. South China Morning Post 2026 · 100 Top Tables

Preparing the golden fried chicken here means dousing the skin in hot oil repeatedly rather than submerging the bird, and the difference shows in every crackling, grease-free bite. This is a formal Cantonese dining room inside The Langham, the kind where you pre-order signature dishes and dress accordingly. The kitchen holds three Michelin stars and covers the canon, Peking duck, stuffed crab shell, stir-fried lobster, with technique that makes familiar ground feel considered.

1. Michelin Guide 3 Stars
2. Forbes Travel Guide Forbes Recommended
3. South China Morning Post 2026 · 100 Top Tables

Floor-to-ceiling windows over Victoria Harbour frame the dining room at this fine dining Cantonese restaurant on the fourth floor of the Four Seasons, where the dim sum trolley passes tables of families and bankers with equal composure. The chef, Chan Yan-tak, built his reputation here over decades, and the kitchen's restraint, clean seasoning, controlled steam, first-rate sourcing, holds. Two Michelin stars and a Forbes Five Star.

1. Forbes Travel Guide Forbes Five Star
2. Michelin Guide 2 Stars
3. South China Morning Post 2026 · 100 Top Tables

The central crystal ball fountain is ringed with lucky eights, which tells you something about the room before you've touched the menu. This is a formal Cantonese dining room at the Grand Lisboa, holding two Michelin stars and a Forbes Five Star, where the dim sum programme runs to over 40 varieties, including har gao shaped like goldfish. The chef has been at this for decades, and it shows in the precision of a kitchen that takes both tradition and theatrics seriously.

1. Forbes Travel Guide Forbes Five Star
2. Michelin Guide 2 Stars
3. South China Morning Post 2026 · 100 Top Tables

Sitting on the 102nd floor of the ICC, this Cantonese fine dining room offers a view that makes the harbor look like a screensaver. Chef Paul Lau has spent decades across kitchens on several continents, and the menu lands somewhere between deep tradition and careful refinement, with the char siu drawing pilgrims on its own. Two Michelin stars and a Forbes Five Star confirm what the room already implies: dress accordingly.

1. Forbes Travel Guide Forbes Five Star
2. Michelin Guide 2 Stars
3. South China Morning Post 2026 · 100 Top Tables

A 90,000-piece frosted crystal dragon winds across the ceiling, which sets the tone for everything else at this Cantonese fine dining room inside the Wynn. The kitchen, holding two Michelin stars and a Forbes Five Star, leans into premium dim sum, barbecued meats, and abalone, with the kind of sourcing that takes itself seriously without needing to tell you so. Dress up; this is Macau at its most considered.

1. Forbes Travel Guide Forbes Five Star
2. Michelin Guide 2 Stars
3. South China Morning Post 2026 · 100 Top Tables

The view from the 51st floor of the Ritz-Carlton does a lot of work before a single dish arrives, but this polished Cantonese dining room earns the altitude on its own. Blue-and-white porcelain lines the interior, dim sum shares the menu with seasonal signatures, and one preparation quietly nods to Macau's Portuguese past with a port wine prawn casserole. A Michelin star and a Forbes Five Star sit on the record.

1. Forbes Travel Guide Forbes Five Star
2. Michelin Guide 1 Star
3. South China Morning Post 2026 · 100 Top Tables

1. Michelin Guide 3 Stars
2. The 50 The 50 Discovery

A 35-metre silk embroidery from Suzhou runs the length of the dining room, and the private rooms are themed around fans and butterflies, so the setting does its own talking before the food arrives. This is a formal Cantonese restaurant specializing in Taishi cuisine, a refined court style from the Qing dynasty. The chef holds a Michelin star and a Forbes Five Star, and handles premium ingredients with the kind of restraint that confident cooking tends to require.

1. Forbes Travel Guide Forbes Five Star
2. Michelin Guide 1 Star
3. South China Morning Post 2026 · 100 Top Tables

The tea station has its own sommelier, which tells you something about how Pearl Dragon operates. This Cantonese-Chaozhou restaurant, perched above Studio City's gaming floor in Cotai, holds a Michelin star and a Forbes Five Star, and the kitchen earns both with a menu that leans into quality ingredients rather than spectacle. The room is elegant, the service is attentive, and the aged pu'er list is longer than most wine lists nearby.

1. Forbes Travel Guide Forbes Five Star
2. Michelin Guide 1 Star
3. South China Morning Post 2026 · 100 Top Tables

Cantonese fine dining on the second floor of the St. Regis, where the kitchen's obsession with balance and seasonality runs from hand-folded dim sum through to whole live seafood done in classic style. The roasted salted crispy chicken tends to end conversations. Two Michelin stars and a Forbes Four Star rating suggest the kitchen's precision isn't accidental. Dress accordingly, and don't skip the roasted meats.

1. Michelin Guide 2 Stars
2. Forbes Travel Guide Forbes Four Star
3. South China Morning Post 2026 · 100 Top Tables

1. Forbes Travel Guide Forbes Four Star
2. Michelin Guide 2 Stars

Bead curtains divide the room into something between a private dinner and a proper night out, which sets the tone for this Cantonese restaurant on the eleventh floor of the Altira Hotel. The kitchen roasts its char siu over lychee wood, which lends the Iberico pork a faintly fruity smoke you don't get from a standard oven. The menu moves between contemporary Cantonese and the sort of live-tank seafood that needs no reinvention. A Michelin star and Forbes Five Star.

1. Forbes Travel Guide Forbes Five Star
2. Michelin Guide 1 Star
3. South China Morning Post 2026 · 100 Top Tables

The dining room at this Cantonese fine-dining restaurant runs quiet and pale, the kind of calm that makes you sit up straighter without knowing why. The kitchen traces a careful line between classic and contemporary, turning out dim sum, double-boiled soups, and seasonal clay-pot dishes with the confidence of a team that grew up with this food rather than studied it. It holds a Michelin star and a Forbes Five Star.

1. Forbes Travel Guide Forbes Five Star
2. Michelin Guide 1 Star
3. South China Morning Post 2026 · 100 Top Tables

A 42-cover Chinese restaurant in Victoria that holds two Michelin stars while somehow managing to feel relaxed about it. The evening menu takes you on a three-hour tour of China's regional cuisines, including dishes virtually unknown in the UK, while lunch leans into exceptional dim sum. Start with a drink downstairs in the Forbidden City bar before heading up, and let the team explain each dish, because they clearly want to.

1. Michelin Guide 2 Stars
2. National Restaurant Awards 2026 · #31 · The National Restaurant Awards
3. The 50 The 50 Discovery

Floor-to-ceiling windows frame the Hong Kong Island skyline, which does a lot of the work before any food arrives. This is a formal Cantonese dining room inside the Regent, holding two Michelin stars, where the kitchen has kept essentially the same core team for three decades. The cooking runs classic and precise, leaning on clean broths, wok technique, and premium ingredients, the kind of place where the dim sum trolley, if it appeared, would seem wrong.

1. Michelin Guide 2 Stars
2. Eater The 38 Best Hong Kong Restaurants
3. South China Morning Post 2026 · 100 Top Tables

Perched on an upper floor of the Ritz-Carlton with Pearl River views, Lai Heen is a Cantonese fine dining restaurant that holds a Michelin star and a Forbes Five Star. The cooking follows the classical Cantonese tradition, where precision and restraint do more work than showmanship. The room is formal without being stiff, the kind of place where a Sunday dim sum lunch feels like a proper occasion rather than a casual outing.

1. Forbes Travel Guide Forbes Five Star
2. Forbes Travel Guide Forbes Four Star
3. Michelin Guide 1 Star

The harbour view from the 25th floor has been pulling people up here for decades, but Man Wah earns its Michelin star on the plate. This is Cantonese fine dining at the formal end, dark azure walls and embroidered silk panels setting the tone. The dim sum shows genuine craft, and the Peking duck and baked crabmeat in yuzu and Chin Kiang vinegar jelly have been on the menu long enough to qualify as signatures.

1. Forbes Travel Guide Forbes Four Star
2. Michelin Guide 1 Star
3. South China Morning Post 2026 · 100 Top Tables

Live seafood tanks line the walls of this Michelin-starred Cantonese restaurant on the third floor of a Wan Chai hotel, giving it the feel of a place that never needed to be trendy. The roast suckling pig, booked in advance, arrives with skin so thin it shatters. Old-school classics fill out the menu, and the kind of regulars who know to reserve the pig months ahead fill out the room.

1. Michelin Guide 1 Star
2. Chinese Restaurant Awards #5 · Elite 15 Asia
3. Eater The 38 Best Hong Kong Restaurants

Cantonese fine dining on the third floor of the Regent Taipei, with a Michelin star and a spot on Asia's 50 Best list. The chef came up through Hong Kong's Lei Garden and built a career across the region, arriving here with a deep command of the classical repertoire. Roasted meats, double-boiled soups, wok-fried dishes, and dim sum all get the full treatment, with Taiwan's own produce quietly threaded through.

1. Michelin Guide 1 Star
2. The 50 #64 · Asia's 50 Best Restaurants
3. Chinese Restaurant Awards #15 · Elite 15 Asia

The gilded dining room inside the Wynn was designed to stop conversation mid-sentence, and the food takes the same approach. Wing Lei is a fine dining room built around Cantonese, Sichuan, and Shanghainese cooking, and it holds a Forbes Five Star, a distinction no other Chinese restaurant in North America can claim. The Peking duck arrives on a custom cart and gets carved tableside, which is exactly as theatrical as it sounds.

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2. AAA Four Diamonds
3. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

A soft-boiled Japanese egg wrapped in Taiwanese rice, breaded and fried, is the dish regulars call The Bomb, which tells you something about the mood here. China Tang is a Michelin-starred Cantonese restaurant inside Landmark Atrium, polished but not stiff, with a menu that takes classic Cantonese technique seriously while pulling seasonal ingredients from wherever in the world they happen to be best. The room runs toward business lunches and celebratory dinners.

1. Michelin Guide 1 Star
2. Chinese Restaurant Awards Top 30 Honourees · Elite 15 Asia
3. South China Morning Post 2026 · 100 Top Tables

Walls plastered with Polaroids and faded Cantopop posters set the mood at this Chinatown restaurant, where the cooking is as high-energy as the room. The menu is compact Cantonese with a loose, playful hand: claypot rice with bacon and sausage, mapo tofu spaghetti that shouldn't work but clearly does. Reservations vanish fast, and the walk-in line forms before doors open. Bon Appétit and Esquire both named it among America's best new restaurants in 2024.

1. Food & Wine Squab · Best Dishes Our Editors Ate This Year
2. Chinese Restaurant Awards Elite 12 United States
3. Bon Appétit America's Best New Restaurants

1. Forbes Travel Guide Forbes Four Star
2. Michelin Guide 1 Star

Stained-glass windows and stripped wooden floors give this fifth-floor Cantonese restaurant in the Rosewood Guangzhou the feel of a very grand old house that happens to serve roast goose. The kitchen works closely with named farms across Guangdong, which is the kind of supply chain that shows up on the plate rather than just the menu. It holds a Michelin star.

1. Michelin Guide 1 Star
2. Chinese Restaurant Awards #7 · Elite 15 Asia
3. South China Morning Post 2026 · 100 Top Tables

A Michelin-starred Cantonese dining room on the third floor of the JW Marriott, where the char siu arrives made with Iberico pork and quietly reframes what you thought you knew about roast pork. The kitchen leans into inventive riffs on classics, with the occasional curveball like Inaniwa udon or deep-fried prawns on rice crust. Gluten-free, lactose-free, and vegan options, still a rarity in Chinese restaurants, round out a menu that seems determined not to leave anyone behind.

1. Michelin Guide 1 Star
2. Chinese Restaurant Awards #13 · Elite 15 Asia
3. South China Morning Post 2026 · 100 Top Tables

Ying Jee Club holds two Michelin stars and wears them the way a bespoke suit fits: without fuss. This is formal Cantonese dining in Central, where the kitchen takes classic dishes and adjusts them with a steady, experienced hand rather than reinventing anything. The dim sum changes twice a month, the menu turns with the seasons, and the team will quietly rework the whole thing if you have preferences, which is a rare and welcome offer.

1. Michelin Guide 2 Stars
2. South China Morning Post 2026 · 100 Top Tables

1. Michelin Guide 1 Star
2. Gault&Millau 3 Toques

Art Deco screens divide the dining room into something that feels almost private, despite the scale, and the color palette leans deep enough that you half expect a saxophonist to materialize. This is the Peninsula's flagship Cantonese restaurant, holding a Michelin star, where the kitchen pairs classical technique with a quietly modern hand. The eight-seat chef's table is the room's open secret for anyone who knows to ask.

1. Forbes Travel Guide Forbes Recommended
2. Michelin Guide 1 Star
3. The 50 The 50 Discovery

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1. Michelin Guide 2 Stars

Lingnan cuisine spans Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, and Macau, and Imperial Court, tucked inside MGM Macau, takes that whole sprawling tradition seriously. The kitchen follows a seasonal philosophy rooted in Lingnan cooking, so the dim sum, roasted meats, and banquet dishes shift with what's freshest. A Forbes Five Star restaurant with a signature dish that finishes tableside, this is the kind of place where the ceremony is half the point.

1. Forbes Travel Guide Forbes Five Star
2. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
3. South China Morning Post 2026 · 100 Top Tables

1. Michelin Guide 2 Stars

1. Michelin Guide 2 Stars

1. Michelin Guide 2 Stars

The abacus-inspired light fixtures alone could convince you this is a design hotel lobby, but Mott 32 is a fine dining room doing serious contemporary Chinese food inside The Palazzo. The menu pulls from Cantonese and Sichuanese traditions, and the applewood-roasted Peking duck has a following of its own. The dim sum spreads run all-you-can-eat without feeling like a cafeteria, which is a harder trick than it sounds.

1. AAA Four Diamonds
2. Forbes Travel Guide Forbes Recommended
3. Chinese Restaurant Awards Elite 12 United States

1. Michelin Guide 1 Star
2. Eater The 38 Best Hong Kong Restaurants

Seven private dining rooms, each named after a Chinese dynasty, ring the main hall at this Cantonese restaurant on the fourth floor of Rosewood Beijing. The kitchen holds a Michelin star and runs on a philosophy of restraint, letting the ingredient lead rather than the technique. The pastry course, a molten jackfruit number the chef has been refining for years, tends to stay with people.

1. Michelin Guide 1 Star
2. Chinese Restaurant Awards #14 · Elite 15 Asia
3. The 50 The 50 Discovery

1. Michelin Guide 2 Stars

Floor-to-ceiling windows frame the Huangpu River and the Pudong skyline, which is a lot of competition for what's on the plate. This is a formal Cantonese banquet restaurant on the Bund, small enough that a few private rooms account for most of the seating. The kitchen revives a style of multi-course celebratory cooking that had largely receded from view, with seasonal menus and a sweet-and-sour pork whose sauce rotates by season. It landed on Asia's 50 Best Restaurants list.

1. The 50 #29 · Asia's 50 Best Restaurants
2. Chinese Restaurant Awards #6 · Elite 15 Asia
3. Chinese Restaurant Awards Top 30 Honourees · Elite 15 Asia

A yellow neon sign greets you at the door of this small Columbia Heights restaurant, and everything inside quietly contradicts it: white floors, blue banquettes, geometric screens carving out private nooks. The menu runs through modern Hong Kong cooking, the kind where high-heat wok technique meets unexpected pairings. The Michelin Guide gave it a Bib Gourmand, and the chef picked up a James Beard nomination for Best Chef: Mid-Atlantic.

1. James Beard Awards 2025 · Nominee · Best Chef: Mid-Atlantic · Henji Cheung
2. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand
3. Time Out #9 · Best restaurants in Washington, D.C.

A resident tea master walking the room with rare selections like Tongmuguan Jinjunmei sets the register here: this is a formal Cantonese restaurant that takes the whole meal seriously, not just the food. The kitchen, led by a chef with four decades in the trade, holds a Michelin star and turns out classics plated with quiet precision. Tucked into the lower level of the Kowloon Shangri-La, it draws the crowd that knows to book ahead.

1. Michelin Guide 1 Star
2. South China Morning Post 2026 · 100 Top Tables

Crystal chandeliers and starched tablecloths set the tone on the fifth floor of the Island Shangri-La, where Summer Palace has been doing polished Cantonese fine dining for long enough to feel like a civic institution. The menu runs dim sum, roasted dishes, seafood, and clay-pot rice, with the occasional Peking duck or quinoa fried rice slipping in without derailing anything. It holds a Michelin star.

1. Michelin Guide 1 Star
2. South China Morning Post 2026 · 100 Top Tables

Tucked into the basement of the Eaton Hotel in Jordan, this Michelin-starred Cantonese restaurant has been around forever and shows it, the retro dining room prompting creative explanations involving Wong Kar-wai. Regulars don't much notice; they're too busy with the honey-glazed barbecued pork and slow-cooked soups that have kept the place packed for decades. A devoted crowd fills the room on any given lunch service, and the dim sum menu has seen recent updates for good measure.

1. Michelin Guide 1 Star
2. South China Morning Post 2026 · 100 Top Tables

1. Michelin Guide 1 Star

1. Michelin Guide 1 Star

1. Michelin Guide 1 Star

1. Michelin Guide 1 Star

1. Michelin Guide 1 Star

The fish tanks near the entrance set the tone: this is a grand Cantonese seafood restaurant where the crab you're eyeing is still very much alive. The dining room runs to white tablecloths and banquet-scale celebrations, but the kitchen handles a casual dim sum lunch with equal care. Vancouver Magazine named it Restaurant of the Year, and it holds a Michelin Guide selection. Regulars know to call ahead for off-menu specials that never quite make it onto paper.

1. Chinese Restaurant Awards #1 · Elite 30 Canada
2. Vancouver Magazine 2026 · Restaurant Awards: Restaurant of the Year
3. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

Glass cabinets lining the walls hold vintage wines and prized edible rarities, which tells you something about the clientele before you've seen the menu. This is an old-school Cantonese institution in Wan Chai, the kind of place that hosts VIP banquets on the upper floors and still draws regulars who don't need to open the menu downstairs. A Michelin star. The cooking runs from delicate broth noodles to showier seafood and rich meat dishes.

1. Michelin Guide 1 Star
2. The 50 The 50 Discovery

1. Michelin Guide 1 Star

1. Michelin Guide 1 Star

The camel-and-neutral dining room reads calmer than most Kaohsiung evenings, which suits the cooking: a Michelin-starred Cantonese restaurant where the Hong Kong chef, with decades in Hong Kong and Beijing kitchens, pulls classic technique in a quietly modern direction. Set menus run at a few price tiers, or there's à la carte. The crispy young pigeon, sourced from southern Taiwan and basted to a lacquered crackle, is the detail people mention on the way out.

1. Michelin Guide 1 Star

1. Michelin Guide 1 Star

1. Michelin Guide 1 Star

1. Michelin Guide 1 Star

A Michelin-starred Cantonese dining room in Motoazabu where the kitchen treats congee as seriously as the hot pots of longtooth grouper that follow it. The prix fixe menu runs through a wide sweep of dishes kept deliberately small in portion, so you land somewhere between a proper feast and a tasting menu without quite committing to either. The cooking bridges Hong Kong and Japan through fermented condiments and layered sauces, which sounds fussy on paper and quiet on the plate.

1. Michelin Guide 1 Star

1. Michelin Guide 1 Star

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2. Forbes Travel Guide Forbes Four Star

1. Michelin Guide 1 Star

1. Michelin Guide 1 Star

1. Michelin Guide 1 Star

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1. Michelin Guide 1 Star
2. The 50 The 50 Discovery

1. Michelin Guide 1 Star

The dining room sits inside a modern Chinese garden within The Ritz-Carlton Millenia, which makes lunch here feel vaguely like eating inside a very expensive terrarium, in the best sense. This is formal Cantonese fine dining, Michelin-starred, with hand-painted crockery and a kitchen that treats abalone as a given. The wine list and specialty tea selection are both taken seriously, which is a rare thing to say without irony.

1. Michelin Guide 1 Star
2. The 50 The 50 Discovery

1. Michelin Guide 1 Star

1. Michelin Guide 1 Star

A terrace with a bird's eye view over Victoria Dockside sets the scene at this Michelin-starred Cantonese dining room on the fifth floor of the Rosewood. The CEO built it as a tribute to her billionaire grandfather, though the moody lighting, house music, and closely packed tables read more like a glamorous night out than a family memorial. The crowd skews young and gilded, which is somehow exactly right.

1. Michelin Guide 1 Star
2. The 50 The 50 Discovery

Floor-to-ceiling windows look out over a swimming pool and Lake Geneva, which sets the tone for what follows inside: a Michelin-starred Cantonese dining room done in red, black, and gold, where the cooking runs from classic dim sum to Peking duck served in two courses. The wine list leans into Swiss producers, which surprises most people in the best way. Dress accordingly; this is the kind of room where the service notices everything.

1. Michelin Guide 1 Star

1. Michelin Guide 1 Star

1. Michelin Guide 1 Star

1. Michelin Guide 1 Star
2. The 50 The 50 Discovery

1. Michelin Guide 1 Star

1. Michelin Guide 1 Star

1. Michelin Guide 1 Star

1. Michelin Guide 1 Star

1. Michelin Guide 1 Star

A dim sum shop that rose from a literal fire, HK Lounge Bistro landed in SoMa after its beloved predecessor burned down in 2019, and the regulars followed. The carpeted, low-key room inside an office building asks you to ignore the setting and focus on the food, which isn't hard. Shanghai soup dumplings, baked pork buns with a crackly top, and shrimp wontons in peppery sesame sauce do most of the persuading. The Los Angeles Times named it one of the 101 Best Restaurants in California.

1. Chinese Restaurant Awards Elite 12 United States
2. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
3. Los Angeles Times The 101 Best Restaurants in California

The dining room looks out over Marina Bay with the kind of view that makes first-timers forget what they ordered. This is a Cantonese fine-dining room inside the Parkroyal Collection, where the kitchen turns classic Chinese cooking toward something a little more composed and contemporary. The chef has been doing this a long time, and the plating shows it. A good pick if you want dim sum to dress up for.

1. The 50 #78 · Asia's 50 Best Restaurants
2. Chinese Restaurant Awards Top 30 Honourees · Elite 15 Asia

The dining room takes its shape from a traditional siheyuan courtyard house, which gives a Cantonese restaurant inside a Venetian-themed casino a calm it has absolutely no business having. The chef trained across Hong Kong and Paris and leans on classic recipes without leaving them exactly as he found them. The result is polished, unhurried Cantonese cooking in a room that makes you forget the slot machines are roughly fifty meters away.

1. Forbes Travel Guide Forbes Four Star
2. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
3. South China Morning Post 2026 · 100 Top Tables

The Peking duck gets carved tableside, which is either theatre or tradition depending on your mood. Mei Wah is an old-school Chinese restaurant that has never softened its flavours for local taste, with a third-generation chef making chilli oils and broths in-house and sourcing ingredients nearby when he can. The Michelin Guide selects it, and the Lekker 500 lists it at 94. Dim sum, wok dishes, wine, or sake round out the picture.

1. Lekker 500 2026 · #94 · Lekker 500
2. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

Chinese lanterns and dark wood set the mood at this Cantonese restaurant inside Hotel De Keyser, where the kitchen's calling card is an extensive roster of house-made dim sum. The menu runs from Xiao Long Bao to Sichuan pepper duck to a classic hotpot, the last requiring a reservation, which feels appropriately ceremonious. The cooking skews traditional with just enough modern adjustment to keep things from feeling like a history lesson.

1. Le Fooding Le Fooding Guide
2. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

The half Peking duck, ordered two days ahead and served in two courses, tells you everything about this relaxed Cantonese neo-bistro in the 11th. The chef spent years at Shang Palace before opening something looser and louder, with aproned servers who actually talk to you and a deliberately short menu that resists the urge to cover every province. The room is convivial in a way that feels earned rather than designed.

1. Le Fooding Le Fooding Guide
2. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

Calvin Eng's Cantonese restaurant and bar sits on a nondescript east Williamsburg corner, close enough to the BQE that you'll feel the trucks. Inside, it reads like a retro Hong Kong diner, but the kitchen runs modern interpretations of regional Cantonese food, and the MSG Martini earned a spot on Esquire's national list. The Michelin Guide gives it a Bib Gourmand, and the James Beard Foundation named Eng an Emerging Chef nominee.

1. Esquire MSG Martini · The Best Martinis in America
2. James Beard Awards 2022 · Nominee · Emerging Chef · Calvin Eng
3. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand

Spago is a business-casual fine-dining room at Bellagio, and its patio has a front-row view of the fountains, which is why you'll be humming Sinatra whether you meant to or not. The menu sits between luxurious and familiar: pizzas, pastas, and a thick cheeseburger with charred onions. The chinois chicken salad has been on since the early eighties, the culinary equivalent of a band that still plays the hits.

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2. The Las Vegas Review Journal The Hall of Fame
3. The Infatuation The 16 Best Brunch Spots In Las Vegas

Hakkasan is a five-story Cantonese restaurant and nightclub in the MGM Grand, so dinner and the dance floor share a building and a dress code. A set menu keeps the bill friendlier than most Strip showpieces, and the dim sum arrives in colors that photograph better than they have any right to. The peking duck comes with caviar, which tells you how the evening is meant to end: upstairs, with a DJ and a bottle.

1. Forbes Travel Guide Forbes Recommended
2. AAA Three Diamonds
3. The Infatuation Where To Eat & Drink On The Las Vegas Strip

A nondescript Katy strip mall is doing a lot of work here. Inside, the dining room runs to sleek fixtures and lazy susan-fitted private rooms, and the menu reads like a focused edit of Hong Kong classics rather than the usual encyclopedia. Congee, wonton soup, and candied walnut shrimp anchor things, with weekend seafood specials worth asking about. The Michelin Guide has it on their list, and the Houston Chronicle ranked it among the city's top restaurants.

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
2. Houston Chronicle #19 · Houston’s Top 100 Restaurants
3. Houstonia Houston’s Best Restaurants

A Cantonese master and a French-trained young chef walk into a kitchen together, and somehow it works. This modern Cantonese restaurant in Central pairs a deep classical foundation with technique borrowed from fine dining, producing dishes that slide between obvious fusion and something harder to categorize. The Chinese wine list, drawing from Ningxia, Yunnan, and beyond, is the thing sommeliers here actually want to talk about.

1. Chinese Restaurant Awards Top 30 Honourees · Elite 15 Asia
2. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
3. South China Morning Post 2026 · 100 Top Tables

The dining room on the eighth floor of the Grand Hyatt is dressed to suggest a 1930s taipan's mansion, all tall windows and balustrades with harbour views to match. It's a formal Cantonese restaurant that could easily coast on the room, but the kitchen keeps the cooking sharp: refined, classical, and updated just enough each season to give regulars a reason to open the menu.

1. Forbes Travel Guide Forbes Recommended
2. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
3. South China Morning Post 2026 · 100 Top Tables

1. Time Out The best Chinese restaurants in America

A tasting menu restaurant in a quiet Providencia house where each course arrives paired with a different tea, from Chinese oolong to Taiwanese red. Chef Nicolás Tapia built the whole project around the Cantonese ritual of drinking tea, and the room, fewer than 20 seats, takes the premise seriously without taking itself too seriously. Pescatarian, calm, and ranked 28th on Latin America's 50 Best Restaurants list. Reservations are not optional.

1. The 50 #28 · Latin America's 50 Best Restaurants