🥟 Best Chinese & Dim Sum in San Diego
16 chinese & dim sum spots in San Diego, scored and ranked for 2026.
🍽️ Open Interactive GuideTop 10 Chinese & Dim Sum Spots
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Meet Dumpling
Meet Dumpling makes Chinese dumplings on Shelter Island Drive in Point Loma, with fillings like scallop, shrimp and pork, mushroom with chicken, and carrot with beef. Sides such as Shredded Potato Sal...
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2
Steamy Piggy
Casual Chinese fusion on Convoy Street, Kearny Mesa's Asian-food corridor, plating handmade-from-scratch cooking that honors Chinese tradition while borrowing from Korean and Japanese classics. The ki...
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3
Jasmine Seafood Restaurant
Kearny Mesa Cantonese banquet-style restaurant — dim sum carts on weekends, live seafood tanks, Peking duck and salt-and-pepper shrimp, and the kind of family-sized Cantonese dinner format SD's Chines...
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4
Din Tai Fung — UTC
The Taiwanese soup-dumpling global institution's Westfield UTC location — 18-fold xiao long bao, a visible dumpling-making kitchen, and the kind of wait that tells you everything. SD's destination dum...
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5
China Max
The Convoy Street Cantonese room that San Diego's Chinese families book for the actual milestones — weddings, banquets, reunions large enough to need the round tables. Live tanks at the back, Peking d...
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6
Dumpling Inn
Kearny Mesa's no-frills Shanghainese dumpling house — soup dumplings, hand-pulled noodles, and a tiny dining room off Convoy Ct that has been SD's Shanghai-style reference for years. A Convoy hidden-i...
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7
Spicy City
Mira Mesa's Sichuan-specialty dining room — numbing-and-hot preparations, a dry-fried chicken the regional community benchmarks against Chengdu, and a strip-mall format that quietly made Mira Mesa an ...
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8
24 Suns
24 Suns is a contemporary Chinese restaurant on Mission Ave in Oceanside, running an ambitious menu that spans regional traditions. Plates like Dongpo Pork Belly, Dan Dan Noodles, Five Regions Half Du...
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9
Boxing Monk Sichuan Kitchen
Point Loma's chef-driven Sichuan — numbing-hot mapo tofu, dan dan noodles done to Chengdu spec, and a Rosecrans St dining room that raised the ceiling on what Sichuan cooking looks like outside of Con...
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10
Sam Woo BBQ
Convoy's Sam Woo BBQ — the multi-state Cantonese-BBQ brand's SD location, with roast duck and char siu hanging in the window, and a format that the SD Cantonese community has protected as one of the d...
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All 16 Chinese & Dim Sum Spots in San Diego
Mom Kitchen
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Chin's Szechwan Cuisine
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Feast
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Shan Xi Magic Kitchen
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Chef Fei
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Fortunate Son
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