Since 1988 — a Chinese-Mexican-Jamaican-Caribbean fusion counter that operated 20 years before 'fusion' was the word for it. Quesadilla with jade red chicken, jerk-chicken stuffed burritos, and a cult...
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Gourmet House of Hong Kong
Chinese / Cantonese · Coronado
McDowell Road Cantonese running since 1983 — formica tables, a menu the size of a phone book, and salt-and-pepper chicken wings serious Phoenix Chinese-food eaters have been quietly working through fo...
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Mekong Palace
Dim Sum / Cantonese · Mesa Asian District
The East Valley's serious dim-sum destination — cart service on weekends, Cantonese seafood through the week, in the Mesa Asian District strip where the Asian Market anchors the plaza. Har gow, siu ma...
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China Chili
Chinese / Szechuan · Midtown
A Midtown Phoenix Szechuan anchor running since 1983 — a Flower Street corner where the Central Avenue office crowd has been ordering the hot-and-sour and the Chengdu chicken for four decades. One of ...
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C-Fu Gourmet
Chinese / Seafood / Dim Sum · Chandler
A Chandler Chinese seafood-and-dim-sum house — live-tank seafood pulled fresh-killed to the wok, cart dim sum on weekends, and a Cantonese menu the East Valley's Asian-food obsessives have ranked abov...
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Little Szechuan
Chinese / Szechuan · Tempe
An ASU fixture since 1976 that has watched 40 years of undergrads discover moo shu. The moo shu pork still comes with the actual pancakes rolled table-side, the spicy noodle soup shows up on November ...
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Kungfu Noodles
Chinese / Noodles · Tempe
The hand-pulled noodles are pulled in front of you, which is the point. Customizable cuts (wider, thinner, whatever you ask for), beef noodle soup with the right marrow depth, dumplings worth ordering...
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Lovebite Dumplings
Chinese / Dumplings · Downtown Phoenix
A grab-and-go dumpling shack on Roosevelt that charges half what it should for the quality. Pan-fried pork stickers with the right crust, soup dumplings that hold their soup, and a noodle menu that go...
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Sing High Chop Suey House
Chinese · Downtown Phoenix · Established 1928 — Phoenix's oldest continuously-operating Chinese restaurant
A 1928 Downtown Phoenix Chinese restaurant on Madison — one of the oldest continuously-operating Chinese restaurants in the Southwest, a preserved Chinese-American chop-suey-era menu, and a family-run...