Where a pizzeria once held down the corner of Broadway and Ellsworth Avenue, one of Denver’s most unusual restaurants has taken over. Chubby Cattle combines traditional Japanese and Chinese fare with high-tech gadgetry to deliver a unique experience in a gorgeous setting. The restaurant added sushi and ramen at the beginning of 2019 and changed […]
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This southeast suburban eatery’s exterior is strip-mall boring, but it belies a recently remodeled dining room that evokes 1920s Shanghai with its dark wood and brickwork. The menu covers a range of American Chinese favorites, but there’s also a Chinese menu (with English translations) that features other dishes less familiar to typical takeout customers. Traditional […]
Chef Jack Mok and his crew have essentially created two menus: one full of sesame beef, orange-peel chicken, pork dumplings, wonton soup and mu shu everything, and a secondary lineup that subtly pushes the more authentic cuisine of China and Shanghai, including excellent Peking duck. The staff is friendly and the room is big, comfortable […]
Like many of Denver’s best Asian restaurants, Star Kitchen is tucked into a strip mall and doesn’t look very inviting. But step through the front door and you’ll find yourself in one of the best dim sum joints in town, where the carts – back after a pandemic hiatus – roll out of the kitchen […]
Sunflower Asian Cafe’s owners hail from Jiangsu Province, but ask a server what to order from the traditional Chinese menu (you’ll need to request it), and she’ll point you to dishes originating in Sichuan. Heed her advice, because the kitchen does masterful work with tingly Sichuan peppercorns and spice, and its less-spicy Sichuan fare is […]
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A cluster of dim sum houses surrounds the intersection of Federal Boulevard and Alameda Avenue, and all of them have their strengths – but the most consistently excellent is Super Star Asian, a bare-bones cavern whose back wall is lined with seafood tanks. When the carts are parked, takeout is an excellent option, but make […]
Szechuan Chinese has been a Lakewood institution for decades – and its dumplings attract fans from around the city. The focus here is on cuisine from the Sichuan area of China, but Szechuan also offers the usual suspects – egg-drop soup, crab Rangoon, and those potstickers stuffed with a spiced pork mixture that defies description […]
Szechuan Tasty House often looks closed, but it’s worth a walk up to the doors to see if they’re locked. The no-frills spot serves excellent cuisine, with Sichuan specialties like Ma Po tofu and Chongqing-style la zi ji (translated here as “Chong Qing style deep fried spicy chicken”) – cozying up next to Imperial fare […]
Formerly a Thai Basil outlet, Thai Garden is now an independent operation, but it still serves the same sweet-sour chicken, coconut-milk chicken soup, uncomplicated curries and rice mounded into pyramids to curious diners unfamiliar with authentic Thai food. For those with no taste for these introductory versions of the Thai dishes offered here, there are […]
Tommy’s Thai straddles the border between real Thai cuisine and what those who’ve never had the real thing expect it to be. As a result, some of the offerings can come off tame by traditionalists’ standards – but that just means the kitchen has the freedom to experiment more. The dumplings, the curries and the […]
Before it closed in 2023, Twin Dragon was a staple for Chinese eats in Englewood for nearly fifty years. The space sat empty for just over a year before another locally owned Chinese restaurant debuted – but this one specializing in Szechuan fare alongside American Chinese classics. Opt for the enormous cumin-lamb bao buns, crunchy […]
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Denver has hundreds of Chinese restaurants and a healthy portion of Korean restaurants, too, but for a culinary collision of the two, you’ll need to go to Yong Gung – an Aurora eatery that features dishes that originated in China but evolved in Korea, thanks to Chinese settlers there. The waiting area is strewn with […]
If you haven’t been following chef Penelope Wong’s scarlet-and-black food truck, you’d better start – stat – because you’re missing out on some of the best food in Denver. The chef loads steamers full of dumplings and pans full of potstickers, and garlic-chile wontons, pan-fried soup dumplings and adorable bao in the shape of pigs […]
Hungry diners in Denver fell hard for Penelope Wong’s take on Asian comfort foods including, yes, plenty of wontons and other dumplings, when she operated a food truck for several years, including through the pandemic. Since moving into a brick-and-mortar space in Park Hill, Wong and her team have pivoted to mainly lunch and happy […]
Most Denver diners now realize that the orange chicken of their youth was about as Chinese as Barack Obama. But when Edward Zoe rolled out Zoe Ma Ma in Boulder, he showed that the dishes of his own youth were the real thing. So was the cook: His mother created noodles, dumplings and rice bowls […]
Zoe Ma Ma’s Denver outpost, opened in 2014, flanks the southwest side of Union Station’s plaza. Its menu is modest in size – just two types of shumai, a trio of bao, a handful of noodle dishes and soups and a pair of rice plates – but the kitchen turns out big, big flavors using […]
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