Best Restaurants Chicago Chinatown

Best Restaurants Chicago Chinatown

The Chinatown neighborhood in Chicago, is on the South Side (located in the Armour Square community area), centered on Cermak and Wentworth Avenues, and is an example of an American Chinatown, or ethnic-Chinese neighborhood.
Chicago's Chinatown is home to a number of banks, Chinese restaurants, gift shops, grocery stores, Chinese medicine stores, as well as a number of services that cater to people interested in Chinese culture, including those speaking Chinese, especially the Cantonese dialect. It is a community hub for Chinese people in the Chicago metropolitan area, a business center for Chinese in the Midwest, as well as a popular destination for tourists and locals alike.
 

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Lao You Ju

Located at the same Chinatown complex with other Laos, Lao You Ju is a new concept restaurant and lounge that delivers guests an extraordinary dining atmosphere with superior service. Just like its name defines, Lao You Ju is a place for "Friends to gather up"; all luxurious experiences at a reasonable price. By offering delicious tasting Chinese Tapas, Lao You Ju significantly differentiates itself from other Chinese restaurants. Extensive popular Chinese food and well prepared cocktails make Lao You Ju a perfect place to go in Chinatown.

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Lao Ma La

“Ma La” in Chinese means “Numbing Spicy”, which is complex tingling sensation that resulted from eating Sichuan peppercorns and chilis, and Chef Tony’s new restaurantLao Ma La is mostly about that. Lao Ma La features young and hip decoration and serves four main signature dishes: House Special Hot Pot w Skewers, Grill Fish in Pan, Hot &Spicy Pot and Charcoal Grilled skewers. These escalated street food from Chengdu, Sichuan have attracted numerous patrons that are craving for the authentic New Style Sichuan Cuisine.

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Phoenix Restaurant

The Essentials of Chinatown: Weekend Dim Sum.  This restaurant is very popular and includes upstairs rooms (which are a bit more formal), and a downstairs cafe called the Phoenix Dumpling House (which is less formal and serves a younger set). The menu includes everything from traditional offerings like shrimp dumplings and orange beef, to more innovative ones like shark fin soup and jellyfish.
This 17-year-old Dim Sum mainstay serves up delicious barbecue pork buns and deep-fried taro dumplings, but the pièce de résistance is the Peking duck, carved and served tableside.

 

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Triple Crown Restaurant

Triple Crown Restaurant was established in 1996 amid the bustling backdrop of one of Chinatown’s oldest streets, 22nd Place. Since then, Triple Crown has served traditional Cantonese cuisine to a diverse clientele, specializing in eclectic seafood made from ingredients and spices native to southern China.
In 2009, we moved to the main street of Chinatown Chicago, directly across from Pui Tak Center and adjacent to the Chinatown Gate.

China Place Liquor City
2105 S. China Pl.
The four-year-old liquor mart carries more than 50 blends of baijiu (stiff white liquor), rice wine, and sake, plus the usual California cabernets
Perfect for a pit stop before a BYO at Triple Crown

 

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Lao Beijing

Lao Beijing features famous Northern Chinese cuisine and serves classic Northern style breakfast special with extensive famous items such as Fried Dough, Soymilk and Northern Pancake, etc


Lao You Ju

Located at the same Chinatown complex with other Laos, Lao You Ju is a new concept restaurant and lounge that delivers guests an extraordinary dining atmosphere with superior service. Just like its name defines, Lao You Ju is a place for "Friends to gather up"; all luxurious experiences at a reasonable price. By offering delicious tasting Chinese Tapas, Lao You Ju significantly differentiates itself from other Chinese restaurants. Extensive popular Chinese food and well prepared cocktails make Lao You Ju a perfect place to go in Chinatown.


Ten Ren Tea & Ginseng Co of Chicago Ltd

TenRen.Com features products from Ten Ren Tea Company, the largest and best known tea manufacturer in the Far East. Owned and operated by third generation tea producers for over 40 years, Ten Ren's goal is to promote the art of Chinese tea to discriminating consumers worldwide.
The International Teashop stocks more than 100 flavors, from the everyday to the eclectic: Jasmine and Green share shelf space with Chrysanthemum and Genmaicha


Cai Fine Dinning

Chef Xi Xin Lin transfers 30 years’ experience cooking Dim Sum in Hong Kong and Toronto to Chicago, doling out juicy shumai (pork dumplings) and creamy egg yolk buns at the upscale 250-seat spot.


Lao Ma La

“Ma La” in Chinese means “Numbing Spicy”, which is complex tingling sensation that resulted from eating Sichuan peppercorns and chilis, and Chef Tony’s new restaurantLao Ma La is mostly about that. Lao Ma La features young and hip decoration and serves four main signature dishes: House Special Hot Pot w Skewers, Grill Fish in Pan, Hot &Spicy Pot and Charcoal Grilled skewers. These escalated street food from Chengdu, Sichuan have attracted numerous patrons that are craving for the authentic New Style Sichuan Cuisine.


Lao Sze Chuan

The menu features Szechwan dishes ranging from the more mainstream (like moo shu pork and beef with oyster sauce) to the more authentic (like whole fish casserole soup and double-cooked spicy pork intestine). Hot pots (swish swish) are also a specialty; look for three bubbling bases multiple meat and vegetable options to dunk and swish.


Phoenix Restaurant

The Essentials of Chinatown: Weekend Dim Sum.  This restaurant is very popular and includes upstairs rooms (which are a bit more formal), and a downstairs cafe called the Phoenix Dumpling House (which is less formal and serves a younger set). The menu includes everything from traditional offerings like shrimp dumplings and orange beef, to more innovative ones like shark fin soup and jellyfish.
This 17-year-old Dim Sum mainstay serves up delicious barbecue pork buns and deep-fried taro dumplings, but the pièce de résistance is the Peking duck, carved and served tableside.

 


Triple Crown Restaurant

Triple Crown Restaurant was established in 1996 amid the bustling backdrop of one of Chinatown’s oldest streets, 22nd Place. Since then, Triple Crown has served traditional Cantonese cuisine to a diverse clientele, specializing in eclectic seafood made from ingredients and spices native to southern China.
In 2009, we moved to the main street of Chinatown Chicago, directly across from Pui Tak Center and adjacent to the Chinatown Gate.

China Place Liquor City
2105 S. China Pl.
The four-year-old liquor mart carries more than 50 blends of baijiu (stiff white liquor), rice wine, and sake, plus the usual California cabernets
Perfect for a pit stop before a BYO at Triple Crown