中華
Japan's own Chinese food: Yokohama Chinatown, Kobe dumplings and the gyoza and mapo tofu locals crave.
Chinese food in Japan is its own cuisine, adapted over a century: lighter, less oily, built around ramen's cousins and dishes like mapo tofu, gyoza, fried rice and tenshinhan. Yokohama's Chinatown is the largest in Japan and Kobe's Nankinmachi the second, and in both the Tabelog rankings are the only way to pick the few great kitchens out of hundreds of near-identical storefronts. Town Chinese (machi-chuka) diners are a beloved budget genre of their own.
Yokohama Chinatown has over 200 restaurants across a few blocks and the quality gap is enormous. Tabelog's ratings point to the handful of Cantonese and Shanghainese kitchens locals book for banquets, the best steamed-bun stands, and the all-you-can-eat places that are worth it.
Chinatown · Kannai · Motomachi
Nankinmachi, Kobe's Chinatown, is smaller and older than Yokohama's and famous for butaman pork buns eaten standing in the street. The sit-down restaurants are rated harshly on Tabelog; the ones above 3.4 are a safe bet for a banquet-style dinner..
Motomachi · Nankinmachi · Sannomiya
Lunch sets with a main, rice, soup and a small side are the best value. At Chinatown restaurants, share dishes family style. In machi-chuka diners order a ramen plus a half portion of fried rice or a plate of gyoza.
Chinatown menus are usually in Japanese, Chinese and English; machi-chuka diners rely on photo menus.
Chinatown restaurants are rated very harshly; 3.5 there is a top-tier kitchen. Machi-chuka at 3.4 and above have lines of locals.
Lunch sets with a main, rice, soup and a small side are the best value. At Chinatown restaurants, share dishes family style. In machi-chuka diners order a ramen plus a half portion of fried rice or a plate of gyoza.
Lunch: ¥900 to ¥1,500. Dinner: ¥2,500 to ¥6,000 shared, more for Cantonese tasting menus.
Chinatown restaurants are rated very harshly; 3.5 there is a top-tier kitchen. Machi-chuka at 3.4 and above have lines of locals.
Reserve for banquet-style dinners; everything else is walk-in.
Yokohama, Kobe each have a dedicated page. Yokohama: Yokohama Chinatown has over 200 restaurants across a few blocks and the quality gap is enormous.
Open TabeDog, pick chinese, and see Tabelog's top-rated shops around you with hours, prices and payment methods in English.
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