Chinese Food in Miami (2025)
A Miami institution since 1984, this family-run spot still rolls pushcart dim sum and carves tableside Peking duck. Frequently cited by Miami New Times and The Infatuation, it remains the county’s reference point for Hong Kong–style cooking.
Beloved for all-day dim sum in a humble Bird Road strip mall, Kon Chau turns out excellent har gow, turnip cake, and lotus leaf sticky rice. Named Best Dim Sum by Miami New Times and praised in The Infatuation’s dim sum guide.
On any given night at King Palace, you’re bound to find large round tables of people gathered around a lazy susan full of Chinese-style barbecue, which can be hard to find in Miami. This is definitely the place to get great char siu and Peking duck, along with crispy pork belly and soy sauce chicken. However, if you’re looking for more than just an endless supply of roast meats, the drunken chicken or jellyfish salad (both served cold) is an ideal way to start the meal. The stir-fried scallops with lily bulbs and sliced lotus root with Cantonese sausage, bacon, and ham are also two excellent things to order alongside your barbecue feast. Food Rundown Sliced Lotus Root With Preserved Meats This dish is under the chef’s specials section, which is where all the best stuff here is hiding. The term “preserved meats” actually just means Chinese ham, bacon, and sausage. The crunchy discs of pale pink lotus root, which look like flower cut-outs, and the crisp bits of salty cured pork work so perfectly together. photo credit: Tasty Planet Walnut Shrimp The shrimp are fried with a light batter that is crispy and almost airy like a meringue shell. Inside, the little crustaceans are plump, juicy, and savory from brining. We’d happily eat those shrimp on their own, but this dish gets even better once it’s tossed with crunchy walnut halves that have been almost pralineed in honey. And then everything gets smothered in a sweet, creamy white sauce. photo credit: Tasty Planet BBQ Roast Pork & Roast Duck Combo Of course, “BBQ” is in this place’s name, and it’s one of the best places in Miami for Chinese barbecue. The roast pork and duck combo is an affordable and delicious heap of tender meats. The duck is cooked nicely and the pork is sweet and not too fatty. photo credit: Tasty Planet
This Kendall Cantonese restaurant serves dim sum every day from 11am to 3pm, but Sunday is the best day to come for the full push cart experience. The big dining room has a 3D wall installation of two phoenixes looking over the lacquered dark wooden tables, where you’ll see a mix of abuelitas who lunch and aunties meeting for a cup of tea, a few bao, and some gossip. South Garden serves great baked roast pork buns with a generous amount of char siu filling, along with solid fun gor, which features a smooth, chewy skin concealing a crunchy pork and vegetable filling. But do not leave here without getting an order of steamed lava buns filled with salted egg yolks. It strikes a perfect balance between savory and sweet.
Westchester’s wallet-friendly dim sum destination with a deep Cantonese menu and lunch bargains. Highlighted by local critics and community guides; a straightforward room where the focus stays on dumplings, noodles, and congee.
A newer West Miami pick applauded by The Infatuation for Guangxi dishes, tableside noodle tosses, and banquet-style sharing. Eater Miami also added it to its best Chinese roundup, signaling real momentum beyond the city core.
Double Luck is already a party at 5:30pm on a Wednesday, the very start of dinner service. They come from as near as El Portal and as far as South Miami to bask in the red glow of the fun Chinese restaurant Miami has been collectively manifesting. That glowing dining room feels sexy for the couple celebrating an anniversary, exciting for the kids who were promised pyrotechnics with their orange chicken, and familiar to those who have a deep affection for their neighborhood Chinese restaurant. photo credit: CLEVELAND JENNINGS / @EATTHECANVASLLC video credit: CLEVELAND JENNINGS / @EATTHECANVASLLC video credit: Cleveland Jennings / @eatthecanvasllc photo credit: CLEVELAND JENNINGS / @EATTHECANVASLLC Pause Unmute Since Double Luck is from the same team behind Tâm Tâm, fun is like the free space in a bingo card—a given. You’ll bounce to the Cantopop playlist and spend a socially unacceptable amount of time browsing around the bathroom like it’s a PAMM exhibit. But please do come back to the table because the food is even more impressive. Ordering too much means you’re doing it right. The white tablecloth should be splattered with chili oil from the mapo tofu, sweet and sour sauce from the crab leg rangoons, and grains that managed to escape your fourth serving of crab fried rice. You won’t finish it all. You’ll leave with several brown paper bags of leftovers, looking like an international family after a three-hour shopping spree at Sawgrass Mills. photo credit: CLEVELAND JENNINGS / @EATTHECANVASLLC video credit: CLEVELAND JENNINGS / @EATTHECANVASLLC photo credit: CLEVELAND JENNINGS / @EATTHECANVASLLC Pause Unmute Miami already had great restaurants serving regional Chinese dishes long before Double Luck came to the scene. But this restaurant’s unique fingerprint is undeniable. Here—and only here—you’re getting a tingly mapo tofu next to flaming Hennessey orange chicken while a Cantonese rendition of “Take Me Home, Country Roads” plays in the background. You’re just as excited to come back as you are about reheating your leftovers the next day. Food Rundown Crab Leg Rangoon This dish is to crab rangoons what AI is to free will: a revolutionary turning point from which we can never go back. Grab onto a claw, joust with a friend, and aggressively dunk it in their sweet and sour sauce. You might burn the hell out of your mouth, but your fingers remain unscathed. photo credit: CLEVELAND JENNINGS / @EATTHECANVASLLC Mapo Tofu Mapo tofu fans, stand up and head straight to Double Luck. Every chunk of tofu soaks up the spice from the Sichuan pepper. It leaves your mouth with an addictively tingly sensation that feels like TV static. Use the perfect ice cream scoop of rice it comes with to soften the spice (and absorb the oil). photo credit: CLEVELAND JENNINGS / @EATTHECANVASLLC Hunan Steamed Fish The fish, softer than a Rupi Kaur poem, is filleted tableside with a spoon. The kick from the chili is just right and the fish dissolves like a disappearing text message. photo credit: CLEVELAND JENNINGS / @EATTHECANVASLLC Crab Fried Rice Every single crevice of this fried rice is impaled with chunks of crab meat. Not only are we grateful, we’re also a little in love. photo credit: CLEVELAND JENNINGS / @EATTHECANVASLLC Char Siu Ribs The five spice rubbed on the ribs gives them a perfume more enticing than anything at Sephora. And the char siu glaze hardens to create a crunchy crust. photo credit: CLEVELAND JENNINGS / @EATTHECANVASLLC Hennessey Orange Chicken The fact that they light this on fire is only 20% of the reason you’re ordering the sweet, boozy chicken. The other 80% is because it’s objectively delicious. photo credit: CLEVELAND JENNINGS / @EATTHECANVASLLC Tea Smoked Duck The duck arrives inside a porcelain duck. It’s an appropriately climactic arrival for a duck that’s beautifully pink in the center and tender as a marshmallow. photo credit: CLEVELAND JENNINGS / @EATTHECANVASLLC Three-Bean Bun It’s less a bun and more like a giant profiterole (they use choux pastry). The piped ring of cream is like a curtain, and once you split it, a sweet flood of red bean paste emerges. PlayMute video credit: Mariana Trabanino
Chef Pablo Zitzmann’s intimate dumpling-driven kitchen channels Chinese techniques through a global lens. Recognized with a Michelin Bib Gourmand and named among America’s best by The New York Times; a hallmark of Miami’s creative wave.
The acclaimed Toronto import brings regional Chinese cooking—Hunan spice, Cantonese char siu, and a theatrical four‑foot belt noodle—to South Beach. Covered by Miami New Times and included on Eater Miami’s 2025 best Chinese map.
About half the space in this tiny Chinese restaurant is dedicated to glistening ducks and crispy slabs of golden pork hanging on hooks behind plexiglass. Consider this foreshadowing for the wonderful meal you’ll have here—or at home, since King Duck runs a very efficient takeout operation. Any platter or family meal combination can feed your household, thirteen cats, or just you for a solid three days. But let the siren song of the meat window guide you to the assorted barbecue platter or the excellent Peking duck. photo credit: Cleveland Jennings / @eatthecanvasllc Food Rundown Siu Mai Plump, chewy, and wrinkly as a South Beach elder who doesn’t believe in sunscreen—a fantastic warm-up plate. photo credit: Cleveland Jennings / @eatthecanvasllc Scallion Pancakes King Duck’s scallion pancakes are crisp, not too saturated with oil, and have defined, flaky layers. Pile some pork or duck on top and make a little open-faced sandwich. photo credit: Cleveland Jennings / @eatthecanvasllc Assorted BBQ Platter This segmented box comes with portions of roast duck, honey roast pork, and cubes of pork crispy enough to use as sandpaper. Picking a favorite is a fun game you can play with friends at home to distract them while you sneak in more bites. photo credit: Cleveland Jennings / @eatthecanvasllc Pickle Combo Your giant box of rich, fatty meats needs pickles like a marathon runner needs a baby cup of Gatorade every three miles. King Duck has a whole section of the menu dedicated to Cantonese pickles. Get the combination, which comes with cucumber, green papaya, and daikon.
Locally owned and kosher‑certified, Bambu serves a broad menu with many Chinese staples—lo mein, General Tso’s, and dim sum—alongside regional Asian dishes. Noted by Eater Miami’s 2025 map as part of the city’s expanding Chinese options.
