Asian in Dallas

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9 Rabbits Bakery

2546 Royal Lane Northwest Dallas

Bakery, Asian

1 article
Bambu thai Asian Cuisine

1930 N. Coit Rd. #100 Richardson & Vicinity

972-480-8880

Asian, Thai, Best Of

Thai food at Bambu isn't the sloppy affair it sometimes becomes at greasy pad Thai joints: The best dishes at this neighborhood nook are startlingly sophisticated, reflecting a respect for top-notch ingredients and a steady command of the grill. The restaurant hews to the Isaan style of cooking associated with Thailand's northeastern region, and the Laotian influence shows in smoky slivers of beef jerky, bowlfuls of sticky rice and wonderfully marbled beef, grilled and served with a soy-scallion dipping sauce. Don't leave without sampling the fabulous black rice pudding with coconut cream, a two-day ordeal for the kitchen and a boon for comfort-food seekers.

8 articles
Bubble Jipangi

2640 Old Denton Rd. Carrollton/Farmers Branch

Asian, Dessert, Tea

3 articles
Caravelle Chinese & Vietnamese

400 N. Greenville Ave. Richardson & Vicinity

972-437-6388

Asian, Asian Fusion, Chinese, Vietnamese, Recommended, Best Of, Menu

If you're looking to feed a crowd of people something other than the usual Tex-Mex or Italian, consider Caravelle. Its modest strip mall location conceals a massive high-ceilinged dining room decked out in entirely too much pastel pink, accented with giant chandeliers and gold dragons. The extensive Chinese-Vietnamese menu offers a little something for everyone, from expected dishes like Peking duck and an especially delicious version of orange chicken to slightly more exotic offerings such as cheese lobster and green bean tofu (don't miss the addictive deep-fried shrimp balls). The bring-your-own-booze policy makes it an especially attractive option for large groups. Service is definitely authentic -- that is to say, somewhat sluggish, with definite potential for a language barrier -- but it's a small price to pay for huge platters of food this tasty.

2 articles
Carrollton Town Center

2540 Old Denton Rd Carrollton/Farmers Branch

832-768-3722

Asian, Asian Fusion, Bakery, Bar Food, Barbecue, Bars and Clubs, Cafe, California, Chinese, Coffee Shops, Dessert, Fast Casual, Grill, Grocery, Ice Cream, Indian, Japanese, Korean, Ramen, Restaurants, Retail, Sushi, Taiwanese, Vietnamese
Catbird

1401 Elm St., Thompson Hotel Downtown/Deep Ellum

469-726-4115

Asian, Asian Fusion

Catbird, helmed by chef Jeramie Robinson, offers Asian-influenced fare that one might expect from someone who spent time at Uchi (hint). In addition to working with Tyson Cole, Robinson also worked with Jason Maddy at The Mansion on Turtle Creek and worked under the tutelage of John Tesar for years.

This spot is perched nine stories up inside The Thompson Hotel at The National at Akard and Elm in downtown Dallas. Stepping out of the elevator, the space is a lush Art Deco den with dazzling glossy finishes and marble. It's just missing a Champagne toast from Leonardo D'Caprio.

Perhaps most notable, Catbird sports wrap-around outdoor balcony seating that gives nice views of the city complete with comfy couches and gas-powered fire pits. On the weekends after dinner service, a DJ sets up.

The dishes at Catbird are intended to be served for the table in small plates to be enjoyed by all. Start with Texas beef bao buns, made with smoked brisket, sweet chili, and dressed with Thai-inspired herbs and shallots.

Brussel sprouts come with a slightly charred crunchiness, micro herbs, and a light honey-lime sauce. Their crab rangoon dip comes with snow crab, pimento cheese, bell pepper jam, all served in a skillet along with crispy wonton crackers.

4 articles
Char’d Southeast Asian Kitchen

3661 N. Plano Rd. Richardson & Vicinity

972-803-6455

Asian, Menu
Chow Asian Street Food

3309 Dallas Parkway Plano

972-608-1883

Asian, Restaurants, Recommended

Like the mythical phoenix, Chow Asian Street Food was reborn from the ashes of Chow Thai Pacific Rim with better value and more customer-friendly prices. Asian minimalist decor, complete with lamps resembling soda straw dispensers. All-day bar specials include $2 draft beers and $5 mai tais. Dishes we tried presented a clean flavor profile with very little fire, and are drawn from several different Asian cuisines. Delightful presentations, such as shrimp cheese straws stacked to resemble a miniature fort. Their taste was reminiscent of crab rangoon. Chicken udon stir-fry expertly combined thick wheat-flower noodles, shittake mushrooms, baby bok choy, Napa cabbage, bean sprouts, baby corn and green onions. Braised ham hocks were fatty, but the sweet chile sauce was excellent. Sweetly gracious service.
Chow Thai Restaurant

5290 Belt Line Rd. North Dallas

972-960-2999

Asian, Asian Fusion, Sushi, Thai, Recommended

Owners Sam and Vinnie Virasin's initial foray into offering upscale Thai cuisine to the masses has been a hit for more than a decade. The restaurant's success has allowed the Virasins to open Mango Thai, a fast-casual eatery. However, Chow Thai's popularity has hardly waned. The most lauded menu selection offers customers a sampler of the kitchen's offerings, taking its cue from a Japanese lunch form, the bento box. The lunch combos -- because, really, that's what they are -- come with ice cream. The appetizer sampler offers a concise overview of the restaurant's starters, and can be seen on many tables during dinner service. Naturally, pad Thai is a frequently requested entrée, but so is the more authentic white pepper and garlic seafood platter (pan-seared shrimp and scallops with jasmine rice or udon noodles, broccoli and snow peas).
Churn and Bake

2707 W.15th St. Plano

469-277-6098

Ice Cream, Asian, Best Of

Churn and Bake has 20-plus flavors of ice cream. A list of top five flavors is displayed outside the parlor’s front doors. With flavors like Vietnamese Rocky Road, ube coconut crunch and Thai tea, we’re not sure if the list is meant to guide you or make the choice harder.

The Vietnamese Rocky Road here is a must-try. The ice cream base is infused with Vietnamese coffee beans for a deep coffee flavor. This top-selling flavor comes with a condensed milk ribbon and chocolate-coated cookies for a satisfying crunch in each bite. We found another favorite in the creamy PB&J, which comes with a sweet cream base studded with peanut-flavored crunchies. A grape jelly swirl and chunks of a homemade sandwich transport you back to the days of kindergarten lunchtime.

Ice cream isn’t the only art that Churn and Bake has mastered. The second part of the parlor’s name merits a taste of the baked goods here. Start with the ube cookie, a purple-yam flavored cookie that comes with chunks of Oreos buried inside.

Other unique flavors include chocolate chip sesame, a matcha-cranberry and even brown-butter miso. Ask for these to be warmed up, if you prefer your cookies hot. They’re gooey on the inside and crunchy on the outside: a deathly addicting combination.

2 articles
Dal Dong Nae

11445 Emerald St. Northwest Dallas

972-484-2994

Asian, Korean, Critics' Pick, Essentials

If your parents were Korean and supported your drinking habit by cooking enormous meals for your returns home from long nights out, your house would probably look a lot like Dal Dong Nae. This late-night staple of Dallas Korea Town serves enormous, family-style platters of pork, bowls of raw oyster kimchi, huge simmering pans of stew, fried kimchi pancakes and other excellent ways to blunt the effects of the restaurant’s $12 soju and $4 beer.

Top pick: The seafood pancakes are very good here, as is the bit-of-everything budae jjijae (army stew) served bubbling hot.

Fun fact: Dal Dong Nae is open, and bustling, until 2 a.m. every night but Monday.

1 article
Five Sixty By Wolfgang Puck

300 Reunion Blvd. Downtown/Deep Ellum

214-571-5784

American, Asian, Fine Dining, New American, Sushi, Critics' Pick, Best Of, Menu

Wolfgang Puck's Dallas outpost is as brilliant as you would hope an acclaimed chef's restaurant could be-creative fare, professional service, and great views from the rotating tower. Of course, the big guy doesn't man the kitchen. That job is handled by Jacob Williamson. His presentations are modern Asian, from surprisingly subtle curries to crispy suckling pig. There are even a few touches of Texas fusion, as found in the "General Tso"-style crispy Texas quail. A must visit.

7 articles
Happy Day Cafe

2560 Royal Lane Northwest Dallas

972-488-2560

Asian, Korean, Recommended

5 p.m.-2 a.m. Sun 10 a.m.-2 a.m. Mon-Sat
Hawkers Asian Street Food

2800 Main St. Downtown/Deep Ellum

214-271-8111

Asian, Best Of

Hawkers is a trip. Literally. Here you'll find street food that is "hawked" across Asia. An order of the Korean twice-fried wings is almost enough for two people but you'll likely want to eat the whole thing. Seoul hot chicken steamed bao are stuffed with a piece of spicy fried chicken and a pickle (a cute take on the trending sandwich). But the star of the show - aside from their highly entertaining bathrooms and sake bombs - is the roti canai.

6 articles
Imperial Cuisine

101 Coit Rd. Richardson & Vicinity

972--707-0696

Asian, Noodles, Critics' Pick

The specialty here is extraordinary noodles, handmade to order. Place an order for beef noodle soup or minced pork noodles and the chef appears at a long, prominently placed counter, forming dough and flamboyantly teasing it out to great length. He slams the dough against the counter, spins it out mid-air and tugs it all apart with the obvious joy of a performer playing to a captive audience. The noodle dishes are stellar, but don't overlook the xiao long bao, or soup dumplings, the famous bit of culinary magic in which each dumpling contains both meat and piping hot broth. Pork belly and oddly, for a Chinese restaurant, full sushi bar help round out a menu that also has the usual Chinese American favorites.

3 articles
Japan House

300 W. Plano Parkway Plano

972-633-8000

Asian, Japanese, Sushi, Menu
Kaiyo

2014 Greenville Ave. North Dallas

214--484-1888

Japanese, Asian

Kaiyo has the 90's Japanese vibe you've been waiting for in a sushi restaurant. With expert chefs willing to answer your every question, and even make suggestions based off what you like, you can give the California rolls a rest tonight. The perfect time to grab some friends and get experimental with your seafood.
Krio

233 W. 7th St., #100 Oak Cliff/South Dallas

214-253-9311

Asian, Cajun

3 articles
Little Sichuan Cuisine

240 Legacy Dr. Plano

972-517-1374

Asian, Chinese, Recommended, Slideshow

There’s something about devouring a whole fish — truly devouring it, leaving nothing but bones — that feels victorious, like climbing a mountain peak or getting through downtown on Interstate 35 without hitting traffic. That’s especially the case at Plano’s Little Sichuan, where the whole tilapia comes buried in an avalanche of potatoes, cauliflower, lotus root, hot peppers and numbing peppercorns. It’s a spectacular centerpiece that requires group effort. Underneath all those vegetables, the tilapia is cooked perfectly fork-tender and served with the escalating heat of chili oil, which enters into partnership with the fish’s natural sweetness. Whole fish is a must, but otherwise ordering at Little Sichuan can be intimidating. There are three menus. First and easiest is the standard menu, divided neatly into appetizers, noodles, beef, pork and other expected categories. In here, Americanized Chinese dishes like General Tso’s chicken mingle with Sichuan staples like tea-smoked duck, beef and Napa cabbage in spicy chili sauce, ma po tofu and konjac with pickled cabbage.

1 article
Loro

14999 Montfort Dr. Addison

214-894-5676

Asian, Asian Fusion, Barbecue

This is Loro's second location in Dallas, near Addison. Here the menu is primarily pan-Asian with touches of Texas brisket. If it sounds like an awkward marriage, it's not. It's beautiful. Try green curry hushpuppies with a coconut chili ranch or a smoke prime bavette served with a shishito salsa verde. The sandwich selections here are reliably fantastic as well. We love the Loro Cheeseburger with a red onion brisket jam. Ge it during happy hour for a sweet deal. And the coconut rice with the bits of brisket is amazing.

4 articles
Loro

1812 N Haskell Ave. East Dallas & Lakewood

214-833-4983

Barbecue, Asian, Critics' Pick, Best Of, Essentials

Texans certainly hold their barbecue opinions close to their hearts, and it’s risky business to attempt to fuse barbecue with Asian fare and not upset fans of either cuisine. Under the guidance of Uchi’s Tyson Cole and Franklin Barbecue’s Aaron Franklin, the food at Loro soars. Menu options hopscotch between Asian influences like Karaage chicken and char siew pork belly to more traditional barbecue hits like succulent brisket or smoked turkey breast. For those who have never stood in line at Franklin’s in Austin or lack the financial wherewithal to spring for dinner at Uchi, Loro’s resplendent fare is the ideal alternative.

Top Pick: It’s only available during lunch and happy hour, but Loro serves one of the best smashed burgers in the city, topped with Muenster cheese and a decadent brisket jam.

16 articles
Ly Food Market

4440 W. Illinois Ave., Suite 400a Oak Cliff/South Dallas

214-330-9616

Thai, Asian, Market, Critics' Pick, Best Of, Menu, Essentials

An Oak Cliff hole-in-the-wall situated behind a potholed strip-mall parking lot is the source of some of Dallas’ best Thai and Lao food, including superbly fiery drunken noodles that might be among the best, and most basil-packed, in the whole state of Texas. If you’re tired of sweet, samey-tasting pad Thai and mild-mannered curries, the Southammavong’s family recipes are a hugely flavorful, brilliantly balanced antidote. Dishes get served from a small window in the back of the market, but customers order at the cash register in the front grocery section. The family that runs Ly Food Market is Laotian, not Thai, in origin, which means menu items like larb have an extra spicy-sour kick.

Top pick: Grab an order of Lao sausages and chop them up for a surprisingly great addition to eggy breakfast tacos.

4 articles
Mango Mango

2205 N. Central Expressway Plano

Asian, Dessert

1 article
Monkey King Banana Stand

3014 Main St. Downtown/Deep Ellum

Dessert, Asian, Ice Cream

2 articles
Monkey King Noodle Co.

2933 Main St., Dallas / Fort Worth Downtown/Deep Ellum

469-206-3658

Chinese, Asian, Critics' Pick, Best Of, Menu, Readers' Choice

Deep Ellum needed something like this. Monkey King Noodle Co. is an off-the-beaten-path Chinese street-food restaurant that brings big flavors on the cheap. The spicy beef noodle soup is exceptional and by far the best way to get to know the Monkey King’s handcrafted noodles. A subtle version of dan-dan noodles isn’t that spicy, but the ladle of hot chicken broth dumped over the top will soothe you. Try the wontons to see the best of what the dumpling ladies are capable of. The tender, pork-stuffed wrappers are dressed in chile oil that smacks of vinegar. They’re at once bright and spicy. Or get the pouty soup dumplings, which explode with broth when you take a bite, or the regular pork dumplings, which seem almost as juicy. Even the vegetarian dumplings, loaded with finely minced mushrooms, are surprisingly flavorful. Vegetarians should also take notice of the noodles dressed in a slightly fermented bean paste, with potatoes and fresh, julienned cucumber. Omnivores should take notice, too.

21 articles
Mr. Wok

2600 14th St. Plano

972-881-1888

Asian, Chinese, Critics' Pick, Best Of, Menu, Slideshow

Mr. Wok is absolutely the best thing that could have happened to a defunct Pizza Hut. Since 1989, the Kang family has been using the remodeled space in Plano to serve some of the Dallas area’s best Peking duck. You’ll notice the old relic in the rooflines, but walk through the front door and any notions of deep-dish pizza will evaporate quickly. The beggar’s chicken is another popular dish involving a bird that’s stuffed with sticky rice and slowly roasted for 20 hours. You’ll need to call two days ahead to order the chicken, and one day ahead for the duck. Both are worth the effort.

7 articles
Next Bistro

5003 Colleyville Blvd., Colleyville Grapevine

682-325-4046

Asian

Since 2008 Chef Ying Aikens has been pleasing discerning palates in the heart of the DFW Metroplex at Next Bistro. Using the freshest ingredients brought in daily, her fusion of Mediterranean, French, Asian and Texas-style cooking, make every day and any day, worth celebrating. Enjoy the eclectic works of commissioned art that line the walls while toasting to an unrivaled, award-winning wine and spirits collection curated by Tom Aikens. You can even make your own special event with Next Bistro’s personalized catering services to create an unforgettable experience. To make a reservation, call 682-325-4046.
Noodle Nexus

325 N. St. Paul Downtown/Deep Ellum

214-871-7222

Asian, Italian, Pasta, Recommended

Since 2001, this downtown slurp castle has been at the confluence of Asian and Italian pasta dishes. Spaghetti Bolognese, anyone? Why not cheesy ravioli? The décor may seem ultra-modern to the point of space-age sleekness but really it's just in keeping with the style of Asian cafés. (This café is in the Republic Tower.) The counter service is as prompt and efficient as the noodles are steaming. The udon bowl comes with spinach, tofu and shitakes, while the kimchi noodle soup is a mix of kimchi, shrimp, scallops, imitation crab legs and tofu. A pantheon of noodles joins these options, including Korean chap chae, lo mein and pad Thai. Yes, Vietnamese pho is on the menu, along with noodles, appetizers like spring rolls and edamame, and salads like the Vietnamese vermicelli.

1 article
OneZo

4060 Highway 121, No. 128 Carrollton/Farmers Branch

469-900-8049

Asian

1 article
Onēsan Dim Sum and Sushi

12300 Inwood Rd. North Dallas

469-580-6838

Asian, Dim Sum, Sushi

The restaurant, located in a strip shopping center, is inviting from the moment you approach. You’re greeted by a covered outdoor patio that connects to the main bar through a large window that is open on nice weather days.
Step inside and you’ll find yourself in a more sophisticated, yet still casual dining area and bar
If you can, stop in during happy hour , which is Tuesday through Saturday from 4 to 6 p.m.
Go for the wild mushroom Rangoon, which came with five crispy and crunchy bites served atop a Szechuan chili and spicy mustard sauce. The filling was a bit of a surprise as it was more of a wild mushroom cream cheese sauce than a filling, but still tasty. The hot and sour beef dumplings, beef-filled pockets of love served with a spiced black vinegar sauce. This was our favorite dish on the happy hour menu.
The Katana Crunch caught our attention and ended up stealing the show. The presentation of this dish is spectacular. It's served with five bite-sized pieces of crispy fried rice tucked neatly into a wooden box, accompanied by a bowl of spicy tuna, shisho and avocado and a soup spoon filled with a spicy ponzu. It was a DIY adventure for assembling the perfect bite.

1 article
Pho Bac Restaurant

153 N. Plano Rd. Richardson & Vicinity

972-231-9205

Asian, Vietnamese

1 article
Pho Is for Lovers

5521 Greenville Ave., No. 105 East Dallas & Lakewood

972-708-1028

Asian, Vietnamese, Readers' Choice

8 articles
Pho Is for Lovers

1551 E. Renner Rd., Ste. 820 Richardson & Vicinity

469-620-3910

Asian, Vietnamese

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