Blackbrick in midtown serves the Chinese food you’ve been waiting for. There are classics such as salt-and-pepper shrimp, Sichuan vegetables with hot oil fried rice, and steamed red snapper with soy, ginger, and scallions. The dessert menu is also extensive, with ice cream from Calle Ocho’s Azucar and an assortment of cakes. Stop by the […]
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Chef Philip Ho in Sunny Isles Beach shines with some of the best dim sum and Chinese fare in the city. Ho is no stranger to Asian fare with flair: He worked as the dim sum chef at the Setai for several years before opening this place of his own. The dim sum selections are […]
The pigs are sweet inside this opulent Chinese spot adorned with pictures of gilded dragons and glistening lacquer paintings of intricate zodiac symbols. These are no normal pigs. A bite into one reveals not flesh, but fluffy steamed dough wrapped around a warm, slightly sweet egg custard. It’s an ideal dessert after assaulting your body’s […]
Located in the same West Miami-Dade shopping plaza as long-standing Asian grocery Lucky Oriental Mart, Kon Chau has been disproving the slander that you can’t get decent dim sum in Miami since 2011. Rolling carts steam forth from the kitchen stocked with all the usual small-plate suspects – lotus leaf-wrapped sweet sticky rice, sauce-slick chicken […]
Proprietors Purwan and Irene Cheung have cooked and waited tables here since they opened Sang”s 19 years ago. Nowadays, the unchanged, basic-Chinese-restaurant décor is tired, but two important details stand out: Most of the seats are filled with Chinese people, and most of the plates are filled with rewarding Cantonese fare. There are two menus […]
The difference between Westernized and typical Chinese cuisine is crystal clear at South Garden Chinese, which serves both. One side of the menu offers Americanized goodies such as crab Rangoon, egg drop soup, and General Tso’s chicken. Flip the menu over and do as the Chinese do, with more complex traditional dishes. The crisp fried […]
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Nearly four decades into its existence, Tropical Chinese is still going strong. The dinner menu is chock full of offerings, from the traditional to the exotic. Appetizers include wok-fried, salt-and-pepper-style calamari, and the Peking duck is prepared daily. What’s more, this unassuming spot in a West Miami-Dade strip mall remains a go-to for the best […]
Zitz Sum chef/owner Pablo Zitzmann’s mash-up of Asian, Mexican, Latin American, and Italian influences earned him a Michelin Bib Gourmand designation in 2022. Previously famed in Miami for his now-closed restaurant No Name Chinese, the chef brings together all these flavors in dishes like lobster and shrimp har gow (dumplings) and pork-belly potstickers with a […]