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The best Chinese food in Shanghai, according to the experts: The 50, the Michelin Guide, and the Chinese Restaurant Awards have all weighed in, and their honors are what rank this list. Ling Long comes out on top.

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T'ang Court and Yi Long Court hold the next two places. The Michelin Guide shows up on more of this list than any other guide, with The 50 next.

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  1. Rank 1. Ling Long

    Contemporary Chinese

    White tablecloths, gloved service, crimson walls hung with avant-garde Chinese art, and a menu that gets progressively weirder as the night goes on. Ling Long is a fine dining restaurant on the Bund built around the concept of umami, with an eight-course set that traces a cross-China journey through regional terroirs. It holds a Michelin star and ranks on Asia's 50 Best list. The room is formal; the cooking is decidedly not.


  2. Rank 1. T'ang Court

    Cantonese

    The awards


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    99 Ma Dang Lu, Huang Pu Qu, Shang Hai Shi, China, 200021 · Shanghai
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    Closed now, opens 11:30 AM

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

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  3. 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.


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  5. An elegant white villa in Changning where dinner requires advance planning, because many dishes must be pre-ordered before you arrive. This is refined Chaoshan cooking, the kind built on poaching, steaming, and braising, with light, precise seafood and vegetarian preparations served across five private rooms. There is no walk-in crowd, no open dining room, and no sense of hurry. The restaurant holds two Michelin stars.


  6. Rank 5. Bao Li Xuan

    Cantonese

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  9. Rank 5. Ji Pin Court

    Cantonese

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  10. Rank 5. Tou Zao

    Cantonese

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  11. Rank 11. 102 House

    Cantonese

    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.


  12. Rank 12. Canton Table

    Cantonese

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  15. Rank 12. Fu 1015

    Shanghainese


  16. Rank 12. Fu 1039

    Shanghainese

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  17. Rank 12. Gastro Esthetics at DaDong

    Contemporary Chinese

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  19. Rank 12. Lao Zheng Xing

    Shanghainese

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  24. 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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  26. Rank 12. 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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  28. Rank 12. Seventh Son

    Cantonese

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  30. Rank 12. Sole

    Cantonese

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  32. Rank 12. 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.


  33. Rank 12. Yong Fu (Huangpu)

    Ningbo Zhejiang Seafood

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  34. Rank 12. Yue Hai Tang

    Cantonese

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  36. 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.


  37. 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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  38. Rank 40. 157 Shi Fang

    Shanghainese

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  39. Rank 40. Blossom

    Teochew

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  40. Rank 40. Cong's Kitchen

    Shanghainese

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  44. Rank 40. Hao Sheng

    Shanghainese

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  45. Rank 40. He Shan Mian Jia

    Shanghainese Noodle Shop

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  46. Rank 40. Ho Hung Kee

    Chinese Noodle Shop

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  47. Rank 40. Jingmei Wuxi Noodles (Yanping Road)

    Wuxi Jiangsu Noodle Shop

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  48. Rank 40. Lan Xin (Jinxian Road)

    Traditional Shanghainese

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  49. Rank 40. Lu Bo Lang

    Shanghainese

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  50. Rank 40. Mao Long

    Shanghainese

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  52. Rank 40. Ning Hai Shi Fu

    Ningbo Zhejiang Seafood

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  53. Rank 40. Ou Yue Zun Xian

    Wenzhou Zhejiang

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  57. Rank 40. Tan

    Sichuan

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  59. Rank 40. The Taste of Huzhou

    Zhejiang Noodle Shop

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  64. Rank 66. Bai Rong

    Shandong Seafood

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  67. Rank 66. Dining Room

    Zhejiang

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  69. Rank 66. Fucheng

    Minnan

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  70. Rank 66. Gongxi Gongxi (Pudong)

    Zhejiang Seafood

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  72. Rank 66. Hakkasan

    Modern Cantonese

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  73. Rank 66. Hang Yuen Hin

    Cantonese

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  76. Rank 66. Hui Ji

    Anhui

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  78. Rank 66. Les Nuages

    Contemporary Shanghainese

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  80. Rank 66. Lin Jiang Yan

    Creative Huaiyang

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  84. Rank 66. Shanghai

    Shanghainese

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  85. Rank 66. Shanghai Club

    Shanghainese

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  86. Rank 66. Sui Tang Li

    Contemporary Chinese

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  87. Rank 66. Summer Palace

    Cantonese

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  90. Rank 66. Trine

    Sichuan

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  91. Velvet tufted chairs, vintage blue bricks, and art collected from assorted corners of the world set the mood at this Hui cuisine restaurant inside the Jin Jiang Cypress Hotel. The kitchen sources most of its ingredients directly from Anhui, including mouldy tofu, a regional staple that sounds alarming and tastes like a revelation. The braised pork trotter simmers in a marinade that's been going for decades, which is either dedication or stubbornness, possibly both.

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  94. Rank 66. Xin Yuan Lou

    Cantonese

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  96. Rank 66. Yè Shanghai

    Shanghainese

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