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The 16 Essential Chinese Restaurants in Las Vegas

Drunken noodles, hot and sour soup dumplings, and fried rice every way under the sun

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Las Vegas has its fair share of Chinese restaurants, from dim sum dumplings to char siu pork, and fried rice, with many take-out and delivery options among the bunch. Upscale places such as Wing Lei at Wynn, Mott 32 at the Palazzo, and Ping Pang Pong at the Gold Coast; Chinatown favorites like Chengdu Taste; and more dot the landscape. Here is a look at 16 great Chinese restaurants in Las Vegas.

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Chinglish Cantonese Wine Bar

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For more than 45 years, from Hong Kong to Beijing to San Francisco, Chef Lam has served his Cantonese food. At this family-run restaurant, sample wok-fried dishes like Mongolian beef, clams in black bean sauce, and chow fun. OTher favorites include Peking duck and braised tofu.

Great Wall Chinese Restaurant

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For styrofoam take-out containers piled high with chow mein, oversized egg rolls, and egg foo young, this lunch and dinner restaurant has you covered. The lunch special is just $8.40 and includes an entree, plus sides — and most menu items go for about $10.

Orchids Garden

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Some of Vegas’s top dim sum comes from this busy Chinese restaurant off the Strip. Open daily, the carts rove through the dining room all day long, dispensing small plates of chow mein, shrimp balls, and dumplings — all for around $5 to $9 each.

In a space sparkling with a 27-foot dragon made of 90,000 individual crystals, chef Jimmy Widjaja puts a spin on Chinese and other Asian flavors. The restaurant’s drunken noodles earned a feature on the Food Network’s Best Thing I Ever Ate, while dim sum like shu mai, har gow, and steamed barbecue pork buns; a Cantonese barbecue plate with roasted duck, barbecued pork, and red spare ribs; and more make for a varied menu.

Drunken noodles at Wazuzu in a bowl with chopsticks.
Wazuzu’s drunken noodles were featured on the Food Network’s Best Thing I Ever Ate.
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ShangHai Taste

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This Chinese restaurant serves elevated takes on Shanghai street food, serving more than 3,000 xiao long bao soup dumplings every day. Order the dumplings with traditional filling, or with vegetables or crab. Also on the menu is beef noodle soup, egg fried rice, and scallion pancakes.

Wing Lei

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It’s no surprise that Wing Lei can claim the first Michelin star ever awarded to a Chinese restaurant in the U.S., with a crispy-skin Imperial Peking duck carved tableside in a golden-hued dining room planted with a couple 100-year old pomegranate trees. Chef Ming Yu also serves truffle soup dumplings, wok-fried Maine lobster, and a Peking duck tasting with the delicacy served six ways. For a casual option in the same casino, visit Wynn’s Red 8 for Cantonese noodle dishes, dim sum, and Hong Kong-style barbecue, all served in a dining room decked out in rich reds just off the casino floor.

Imperial duck presentation at Wing Lei
The Imperial duck presentation at Wing Lei is a lavish affair.
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Yummy Rice

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Yummy Rice in Shanghai Plaza specializes in sticky “glutinous rice” dishes served in clay pots, a Cantonese-style of preparation its owners claim is unique to Las Vegas. Diners can choose between Chinese sausage, chicken and mushroom, beef and eggs, “vegetarian,” or minced pork and eggs.

Dagu Rice Noodle

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Headquartered in Shanghai, Dagu Rice Noodle planted the flag for its first U.S. location at Shanghai Plaza in 2019 with a menu of specialty soups, fried chicken cutlets, marinated beef shank, and the sliced ox tendon in Sichuan chili sauce. Diners can choose between boiling rice noodle soup served in a stone bowl, prepared with a choice of proteins including shrimp, satay beef stew, and shredded chicken, or the Crossing the Bridge option, with ingredients provided separately for customers to drop, mix, and dip into their meals.

Xiao Long Dumplings

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As the name suggests, this Chinatown restaurant specializes in fresh and steaming hot soup dumplings. These xiao long bao are available with fillings of pork, chicken, vegetables, and seafood and all feature a supple dumpling wrapper and savory broth. Also available are vegetable dishes, bowls of noodles, and stir-dried entrees.

Chengdu Taste

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Look for Chengdu's homegrown specialties of bang bang chicken, couple's sliced beef, green chili chicken, diced rabbit with younger sister's secret sauce, and the "sorrowful" mung bean noodles. As always, skip the proverbial "water boiled" proteins and go straight for the various "mao cai", a symbolic spicy Chengdu casserole, typically shared family style, that is a dish of pride to many Chengdu city locals.

A spicy dish from Chengdu.
Chengdu restaurant specializes in dishes from the Chinese city of the same name.
Chengdu

Mott 32

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This opulent, burgundy-hued restaurant in the Venetian has Hong Kong roots, with a mix of Cantonese, Sichuan, and Beijing influences on its roster of Chinese dishes. The restaurant serves a dizzying number of duck dishes like Peking-style spicy crispy duck rack. Dim sum includes traditional Iberico pork Shanghainese soup dumplings, a soft quail egg and Iberico pork siu mai, sand more.

Hot and sour soup dumplings at Mott 32 Vegas.
Hot and sour soup dumplings are one of Mott 32’s signature dishes.
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Noodle Asia

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The menu at Noodle Asia at the Venetian features large portions of noodle dishes, vegetarian specialties, rice and congee dishes, and soups. Bonus, it's open until 3 a.m. every day of the week.

The interior of Noodle Asia.
The interior of Noodle Asia.
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Ping Pang Pong

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With a menu that trots across China, this off-strip Chinese gem at the Gold Coast serves up lauded noodles, rice, and vegetable-based dishes, as well as dim sum for lunch. It’s open from 10 a.m. to 3 a.m. daily.

The interior of Gold Coast’s Ping Pang
The interior of Gold Coast’s Ping Pang, where diners tuck into dishes from across China.
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Mr Chow

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Bathed in milky white with black accents, this Beijing restaurant at Caesar’s Palace presents diners flutes of Champagne upon arriving at elevators that take guests up to the second floor with a view overlooking the Garden of the Gods. In the 250-seat dining room, a suspended centerpiece kinetic sculpture that moves and changes colors as diners tuck into duck, chicken satay, green prawns, and hand-pulled Mr Chow noodles, all served family-style. A 50-seat terrace overlooks the pools.

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Shang Artisan Noodle

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The chefs at Shang Artisan Noodle pull springy noodles in an open kitchen as diners perch at counter seats (or sit at tables along the wall) with plates of Peking wonton soup, stir-fried tomato and scrambled egg with noodles, and chicken sesame cold noodles. According to the restaurant, the noodle technique comes from Shan-Xi, a landlocked northern province where wheat cultivation thrives.

 

Shang Artisan Noodle noodle dish.
Shang Artisan Noodle pulls noodles in an open kitchen.
Shang Artisan Noodle [Official Site]

Red Plate

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This restaurant at the Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas is intimate and understated, with beautifully made Cantonese dishes and tea-inspired cocktails. The menu features starters such as fried soft shell crab, crispy tofu with fried garlic, and abalone with cold sake. Diners can pre-order a whole suckling pig or whole roasted duck, or go for roast pork with a honey glaze or roasted chicken.

Evening dim sum selections span pork potstickers and quail egg sui mai, black truffle xiao long bao, and delicately crispy caviar taro puffs. 

Chinglish Cantonese Wine Bar

For more than 45 years, from Hong Kong to Beijing to San Francisco, Chef Lam has served his Cantonese food. At this family-run restaurant, sample wok-fried dishes like Mongolian beef, clams in black bean sauce, and chow fun. OTher favorites include Peking duck and braised tofu.

Great Wall Chinese Restaurant

For styrofoam take-out containers piled high with chow mein, oversized egg rolls, and egg foo young, this lunch and dinner restaurant has you covered. The lunch special is just $8.40 and includes an entree, plus sides — and most menu items go for about $10.

Orchids Garden

Some of Vegas’s top dim sum comes from this busy Chinese restaurant off the Strip. Open daily, the carts rove through the dining room all day long, dispensing small plates of chow mein, shrimp balls, and dumplings — all for around $5 to $9 each.

Wazuzu

In a space sparkling with a 27-foot dragon made of 90,000 individual crystals, chef Jimmy Widjaja puts a spin on Chinese and other Asian flavors. The restaurant’s drunken noodles earned a feature on the Food Network’s Best Thing I Ever Ate, while dim sum like shu mai, har gow, and steamed barbecue pork buns; a Cantonese barbecue plate with roasted duck, barbecued pork, and red spare ribs; and more make for a varied menu.

Drunken noodles at Wazuzu in a bowl with chopsticks.
Wazuzu’s drunken noodles were featured on the Food Network’s Best Thing I Ever Ate.
Wynn/Facebook

ShangHai Taste

This Chinese restaurant serves elevated takes on Shanghai street food, serving more than 3,000 xiao long bao soup dumplings every day. Order the dumplings with traditional filling, or with vegetables or crab. Also on the menu is beef noodle soup, egg fried rice, and scallion pancakes.

Wing Lei

It’s no surprise that Wing Lei can claim the first Michelin star ever awarded to a Chinese restaurant in the U.S., with a crispy-skin Imperial Peking duck carved tableside in a golden-hued dining room planted with a couple 100-year old pomegranate trees. Chef Ming Yu also serves truffle soup dumplings, wok-fried Maine lobster, and a Peking duck tasting with the delicacy served six ways. For a casual option in the same casino, visit Wynn’s Red 8 for Cantonese noodle dishes, dim sum, and Hong Kong-style barbecue, all served in a dining room decked out in rich reds just off the casino floor.

Imperial duck presentation at Wing Lei
The Imperial duck presentation at Wing Lei is a lavish affair.
Jeff Green

Yummy Rice

Yummy Rice in Shanghai Plaza specializes in sticky “glutinous rice” dishes served in clay pots, a Cantonese-style of preparation its owners claim is unique to Las Vegas. Diners can choose between Chinese sausage, chicken and mushroom, beef and eggs, “vegetarian,” or minced pork and eggs.

Dagu Rice Noodle

Headquartered in Shanghai, Dagu Rice Noodle planted the flag for its first U.S. location at Shanghai Plaza in 2019 with a menu of specialty soups, fried chicken cutlets, marinated beef shank, and the sliced ox tendon in Sichuan chili sauce. Diners can choose between boiling rice noodle soup served in a stone bowl, prepared with a choice of proteins including shrimp, satay beef stew, and shredded chicken, or the Crossing the Bridge option, with ingredients provided separately for customers to drop, mix, and dip into their meals.

Xiao Long Dumplings

As the name suggests, this Chinatown restaurant specializes in fresh and steaming hot soup dumplings. These xiao long bao are available with fillings of pork, chicken, vegetables, and seafood and all feature a supple dumpling wrapper and savory broth. Also available are vegetable dishes, bowls of noodles, and stir-dried entrees.

Chengdu Taste

Look for Chengdu's homegrown specialties of bang bang chicken, couple's sliced beef, green chili chicken, diced rabbit with younger sister's secret sauce, and the "sorrowful" mung bean noodles. As always, skip the proverbial "water boiled" proteins and go straight for the various "mao cai", a symbolic spicy Chengdu casserole, typically shared family style, that is a dish of pride to many Chengdu city locals.

A spicy dish from Chengdu.
Chengdu restaurant specializes in dishes from the Chinese city of the same name.
Chengdu

Mott 32

This opulent, burgundy-hued restaurant in the Venetian has Hong Kong roots, with a mix of Cantonese, Sichuan, and Beijing influences on its roster of Chinese dishes. The restaurant serves a dizzying number of duck dishes like Peking-style spicy crispy duck rack. Dim sum includes traditional Iberico pork Shanghainese soup dumplings, a soft quail egg and Iberico pork siu mai, sand more.

Hot and sour soup dumplings at Mott 32 Vegas.
Hot and sour soup dumplings are one of Mott 32’s signature dishes.
Mott 32/Facebook

Noodle Asia

The menu at Noodle Asia at the Venetian features large portions of noodle dishes, vegetarian specialties, rice and congee dishes, and soups. Bonus, it's open until 3 a.m. every day of the week.

The interior of Noodle Asia.
The interior of Noodle Asia.
Venetian

Ping Pang Pong

With a menu that trots across China, this off-strip Chinese gem at the Gold Coast serves up lauded noodles, rice, and vegetable-based dishes, as well as dim sum for lunch. It’s open from 10 a.m. to 3 a.m. daily.

The interior of Gold Coast’s Ping Pang
The interior of Gold Coast’s Ping Pang, where diners tuck into dishes from across China.
Gold Coast

Mr Chow

Bathed in milky white with black accents, this Beijing restaurant at Caesar’s Palace presents diners flutes of Champagne upon arriving at elevators that take guests up to the second floor with a view overlooking the Garden of the Gods. In the 250-seat dining room, a suspended centerpiece kinetic sculpture that moves and changes colors as diners tuck into duck, chicken satay, green prawns, and hand-pulled Mr Chow noodles, all served family-style. A 50-seat terrace overlooks the pools.

Amelinda B Lee

Shang Artisan Noodle

The chefs at Shang Artisan Noodle pull springy noodles in an open kitchen as diners perch at counter seats (or sit at tables along the wall) with plates of Peking wonton soup, stir-fried tomato and scrambled egg with noodles, and chicken sesame cold noodles. According to the restaurant, the noodle technique comes from Shan-Xi, a landlocked northern province where wheat cultivation thrives.

 

Shang Artisan Noodle noodle dish.
Shang Artisan Noodle pulls noodles in an open kitchen.
Shang Artisan Noodle [Official Site]

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Red Plate

This restaurant at the Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas is intimate and understated, with beautifully made Cantonese dishes and tea-inspired cocktails. The menu features starters such as fried soft shell crab, crispy tofu with fried garlic, and abalone with cold sake. Diners can pre-order a whole suckling pig or whole roasted duck, or go for roast pork with a honey glaze or roasted chicken.

Evening dim sum selections span pork potstickers and quail egg sui mai, black truffle xiao long bao, and delicately crispy caviar taro puffs. 

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