Chinese Restaurant Recommendation in Houston
I will be visiting friends in Houston next month and I am curious to explore Chinatown/Chinese shopping centers in and around Houston. Can you recommend a few Chinese places that are popular there? Also, if there are restaurants that serve Taiwanese food, pleease also let me know. Thank you!
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Some of my recommendations in the Bellaire chinatown area:
Hong Kong Food Street - HK cuisine, seafood
Fu Fu Cafe - dumplings! soup dumplings!!
Central China -- a little harder to find, but worth it.
HK Dim Sum -- not related to HK food street, TTBOMK
Chinese Cafe -- decent Chinese 'fast food'I know of a nice Shanghainese place, also in the same area, but can't think of its name - it is a small hole-in-the-wall spot.
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Central China Restaurant
9390 Bellaire Blvd, Houston, TX 77036Fu Fu Cafe
9889 Bellaire Blvd, Houston, TX 77036›2 Replies -
Houston has 2 distinct Chinatowns, Old Chinatown, east of downtown, and New Chinatown, which is larger by far and located all along Bellaire between Hwy 59 (Southwest Freeway) and Beltway 8 (Sam Houston Tollway). There are a lot of good Chinese lunch buffets in Old Chinatown. In New Chinatown, the massive Fung's Kitchen at 7320 SW Frwy is one of our favorites, especially for Peking Duck. And they have Dim Sum all the time. But really, there are literally hundreds of Chinese (and other regional) restaurants in this area that I've never been to. Try googling Chinatown Houston. Local bloggers are prolific in their posts on this area.
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Fung's Kitchen
7320 Southwest Fwy Ste 115, Houston, TX 77074›1 Reply -
DoobieWah
Oct 12, 2010 05:16 AM
Since I'm apparently up the earliest this morning. I'll say Welcome to Houston, and recommend the Hong Kong Market Mall, (if it has another name, I don't know what it is). It is located on the southwest corner of Bellaire and Boone.
At one end you have Ocean Palace that's been my go-to dim sum place for many many years.
At the other end you have Tay Do, and while I've never eaten here, we used to frequent another location at Hwy 6 and Westheimer. It's Viet/Chinese and very good. In between you have dozens of stores like Hong Kong Market which is at least a monthly stop for me, as well as Pho shops, music shops, liquor stores, bakeries, clothing, an herbalist, etc., etc., etc.
From there, just drive east or west on Bellaire for hundreds of more groceries, shops, services and restaurants.
I can't help with the Taiwanese, but if you find a good place, please let us know. That would be new to me, (I think).
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Ocean Palace Restaurant
11215 Bellaire Blvd Ste D-01, Houston, TX 77072›2 Replies-
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air
Oct 12, 2010 08:40 AM
Tay Do is one of my favorite Vietnamese/Chinese restaurants. I love their clay pot dishes (specifically fish in clay pot).
Fung's Kitchen or Ocean Palace are both good for dim sum.
Taiwanese food, see this thread:
http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/7107...And I have a question: Lai Lai's dumplings have slipped based on my recent experiences with them. Anyone else know a good place to go nowadays?
One thing that I'm curious about (and I hope this doesn't derail the thread):
I see OP is from New York, so any particular reason why you seek Chinese food in Houston? Just saying that since I imagine the quality is far better where you are from.-----
Ocean Palace Restaurant
11215 Bellaire Blvd Ste D-01, Houston, TX 77072Fung's Kitchen
7320 Southwest Fwy Ste 115, Houston, TX 77074-
re: air
Ha.. Thanks for asking.... Actually, I am seeking Chinese food because I will be visiting non-Chinese friends during Thanksgiving and I will really miss Chinese food by the end of my trip! (Omg.. roast turkey for more than 1 meal is a death sentence to me!) Also, I have heard that Houston has a large Chinese population so I was curious about the quality of Chinese food there. I am sure with the reco's here I will find something good :)
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