This busy Chinese restaurant off the Strip serves some of Vegas’s top dim sum, with carts roving through the dining room all day long with bites like pork shumai, shrimp har gow (shrimp dumpling in rice flour wrapping), and chicken feet. At dinner, crab claw and roasted duck ($9.28 each) make the most expensive items on the menu. Open daily from 10:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. In a more residential neighborhood, the same restaurant family owns Dim Sum Cafe (3700 South Hualapai Way) with a menu of dumplings and more with prices starting at $3.15. The stuffed eggplant and pan-fried chive dumpling are among the most requested dishes.

Chinatown’s ShangHai taste threw open its doors in December 2019, just a few months before the pandemic restrictions shut down dining. In its cozy dining room, a pristine open kitchen turns out fresh xiao long bao (pork-and-crab soup dumpling) and more. For the best view of the action, book one of the six seats in the kitchen.

At Chinatown’s Hong Kong Garden, diners can indulge in line-up of over 300 dishes spanning traditional Chinese cuisine to more Americanized versions, including pig’s liver congee, Zhao-style fish filet congee, turtle soup, frog congee, and Chinese doughnuts. Live seafood in on-site tanks and tableside prep for some dishes makes for a fun experience. The popular spot is open Monday through Thursday from 9 a.m. to 11 p.m., and Friday through Sunday from 9 a.m. to 1 a.m.

True to its name, this Chinatown restaurant has plenty of soup dumplings to offer, like crab and pork, chili, and chicken soup dumplings. There are other dumplings, too, and small plates of cucumber salad, scallion pancakes, and noodle soups.

The short dim sum menu at Red 8 is served in a lavish dining room drenched in rich reds. Priced between $7.88 to $20.88, items include everything wild lotus to fried crab claws and steamed chicken feet. Opening hours are Sunday through Thursday from 11:30 a.m. to 10 p.m., and until midnight Friday and Saturday.

In this 350-seat dining room at the Rio, KJ Dim Sum's rolling carts deliver egg custard buns, steamed chicken feet, lotus leaf rice, and salty duck egg yolk. Shrimp, lobster, crab, and giant clam dishes have made KJ Kitchen a local favorite. Open daily from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.

Just west of the Strip at one of Las Vegas’s most beloved Chinese restaurants, classic dim sum fare like barbecue pork buns, shrimp cakes, and steamed pork ribs roam the dining room on pushcarts from 10 a.m to 3 a.m. The dining room feels contemporary and fresh with dark walnut screens, a Chinese pergola, and silk lanterns with red tassels.

It wouldn’t be Vegas without the buffet. At Bacchanal Buffet, quality dim sum is there for the taking as carts roam through a 25,000-square foot dining room. As the largest buffet in Vegas, there are plenty of choices for those not in the mood for dim sum as well. Plus, the service is impeccable. Open hours are Monday through Thursday from 4 p.m. to 10 p.m., and Friday, Saturday, and Sunday from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.

After a two-year hiatus, the Palms reopened in April 2022 along with Tim Ho Wan (which has the distinction as the world’s least expensive Michelin-starred restaurant) and a dim sum menu that leaps from the traditional with fried shrimp toast with black truffle and foie gras sauce, steamed wagyu bundle with green apple, alongside barbecue pork buns and sticky rice in lotus leaf. Open hours are Sunday through Thursday from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m., and until 10 p.m. on Friday and Saturday.

This small, intimate restaurant serves roasted meats, Chinese hot pot, and handmade dim sum. Order a number of dishes to share with the table like whole Peking duck, Chinese soup dumplings topped with black truffle, and stir-fried lobster. Wash it down with the Golden Lotus cocktail, which combines gin and lychee with a blooming jasmine flower tea.

This lauded Taiwanese chain, with a Vegas outpost on the Strip, specializes in xia long bao, Shanghai-style soup dumplings filled with Kurobuta pork and wrapped in 18 paper-thin folds. Be prepared to wait. Opening hours are 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday through Thursday, and until 11 p.m. Friday through Sunday.