Lao Peng You is a busy BYOB spot in Ukrainian Village with great handmade noodles and dumplings.

Duck Duck Goat is a high-end Chinese restaurants that’s always fun with excellent and interesting food.

Qing Xiang Yuan is a restaurant in Chinatown that specializes in broth-filled dumplings.

Head to Sun Wah for Chinese BBQ in general, but mainly just go for the duck.

Memoir is a stall inside the Richland Center food court in Chinatown with build-your-own Szechuan dry hot pot.

Happy Lamb is a restaurant in Chinatown with great hot pot.

The original spot of Tony Hu’s fleet, and our go-to Chinese restaurant.

Little Bad Wolf is a gastropub in Andersonville serving upscale bar food in a cool and relaxed environment.

Tank Noodle is a casual Vietnamese restaurant that serves great pho, among other traditional dishes.

D Cuisine is a Chinese restaurant in Lincoln Park that serves great dim sum all day.

Furama offers classic family style Chinese entrees and dim sum all day, all the time.

A trendy, high-end Chinese restaurant in River North that serves good soup dumplings and lamian noodles, but falls short everywhere else.

Chef’s Special is a very good Chinese restaurant from the team behind Giant.

Great Sea is a Chinese restaurant in Albany Park with excellent chicken wings.

Joy Yee’s is a restaurant in Chinatown with tasty boba tea.

Moon Palace is a quiet BYOB restaurant in Chinatown. Order the soup dumplings.