Best Chinese restaurants in Vancouver

Over 100 Cantonese dishes; birdcage chandeliers.

• Canada's 100 Best #47Source ↗

  Praised for standing out among Vancouver's many Chinese restaurants, with a dark industrial-chinoiserie room, a large sharing menu of modernized Cantonese cooking with Sichuan touches, and local B.C. ingredients. The wine director's B.C. bottle selection also earns notice.

  Standout dishes: black truffle, ibérico pork and quail egg siu mai, crispy Chongqing chicken, whole B.C. Dungeness crab

• Elite 30 #1Source ↗

  Cooking, service, drinks and design all given equal care, on a Cantonese base that draws on other regional Chinese traditions under Executive Chef Sing Lee. The applewood roasted Peking duck is the centrepiece.

  Standout dishes: applewood roasted Peking duck, barbecue Iberico pork with Yellow Mountain honey, hot and sour Shanghainese soup dumplings, soft quail egg siu mai

Crisp roast duck, gold decor; branch of an 1864 Beijing original.

• MICHELIN 1 MICHELIN StarSource ↗

  A heritage tracing back to an 1864 original in Beijing, in a gold-accented dining room that mixes traditional grandeur with modern design. The kitchen is known for its signature duck and also handles luxury ingredients and simpler dishes well.

  Standout dishes: duck, sea cucumber, whole king crab, abalone and matsutake broth

• Elite 30 #12Source ↗

  A century-old Beijing name with a refined take on northern Chinese cooking, built around its hanging-oven roast duck. The reviewer also valued the design, the presentation and the cocktail program, and sees it as suited to important gatherings.

  Standout dishes: Peking duck, duck soup, jellyfish salad with cucumber and cordyceps flower

Richmond Cantonese room, open since 1963, known for geoduck stir-fried with scrambled eggs.

• Elite 30 #6Source ↗

  Well-executed Cantonese cooking from Chef Ming Yeung, with control of timing and heat at the wok and ingredients left to speak for themselves. An intimate, welcoming room that has operated since 1963.

  Standout dishes: pork stomach and ginkgo long-boiled soup, stir-fried geoduck with scrambled eggs, fried herbed lamb chop, stir-fried pork liver with ginger and green onion

Cantonese dining room on West Broadway, unique and classic dishes alike.

• MICHELIN Bib GourmandSource ↗

  A copper-and-wood dining room that takes second place to a kitchen turning out distinctive classic dishes, many rarely seen elsewhere. Lunch is a bargain, and the pricier signature truffle chicken lives up to its reputation.

  Standout dishes: steamed spare ribs with garlic and pumpkin, blistered green beans with minced pork, marinated chicken with black truffle sauce

• Elite 30 Top 50 Honouree

Chinatown barbecue counter for char siu, crispy pork belly and roast duck.

• Elite 30 Top 50 Honouree
• Signature DishSource ↗

  Made to order, the pig is roasted until the skin is thin and blistered, with juicy meat beneath. Orders need to be placed at least five days ahead.

  Standout dishes: roast suckling pig