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15 Best Chinese Restaurants in Montreal

The 15 best chinese restaurants in Montreal, sorted by rating and curated by TastyPals editors.

The best chinese restaurants in Montreal are Mai Xiang Dumpling Mont-Royal, The Dumpling Hut, Gon Bui Resto-Bar – Brunch, Souper & Cocktails Asiatiques à Laval, and more. Start with Mai Xiang Dumpling Mont-Royal if you want the strongest overall first pick.

By Sophie Laurent•14 ranked picks•Published July 14, 2026•Updated July 14, 2026
Methodology•Editorial team
Mai Xiang Dumpling Mont-RoyalThe Dumpling HutGon Bui Resto-Bar – Brunch, Souper & Cocktails Asiatiques à Laval
15 Best Chinese Restaurants in Montreal
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Top picks at a glance

#1Mai Xiang Dumpling Mont-RoyalChinese • Plateau • value#2The Dumpling HutChinese • Montreal • value#3Gon Bui Resto-Bar – Brunch, Souper & Cocktails Asiatiques à LavalChinese • Montreal • value

Who this guide is for

This guide covers the highest-rated chinese restaurants in Montreal. The picks are sorted by Google rating and review volume to give you a reliable shortlist. Picks span Plateau, Montreal and Chinatown.

Quick picks

Mai Xiang Dumpling Mont-Royal
Chinese • Plateau
Mai Xiang Dumpling Mont-Royal is an easy chinese option in Plateau in Montreal to suggest without needing a long explanation.
The Dumpling Hut
Chinese • Montreal
The Dumpling Hut is a chinese restaurant in Montreal that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.
Gon Bui Resto-Bar – Brunch, Souper & Cocktails Asiatiques à Laval
Chinese • Montreal
Gon Bui Restobar has landed on a concept that most of Laval's dining scene hasn't quite caught up to: a Hong Kong-inflected dim sum kitchen running in the same room as a cocktail program that actua…
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Published: July 14, 2026
Last updated: July 14, 2026

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  1. 1. Mai Xiang Dumpling Mont-RoyalView →
  2. 2. The Dumpling HutView →
  3. 3. Gon Bui Resto-Bar – Brunch, Souper & Cocktails Asiatiques à LavalView →
  4. 4. Liuyishou Fondue / Liuyishou Hotpot MontrealView →
  5. 5. Sammi & Soupe Dumpling - (Chinatown)View →
  6. 6. Nouilles de Lan ZhouView →
  7. 7. La Maison de Mademoiselle DumplingView →
  8. 8. Cuisine AuntDaiView →
  9. 9. Qing Hua Dumpling - (ChinaTown & Boul. St-Laurent)View →
  10. 10. Restaurant Mon NanView →
  11. 11. Restaurant VipView →
  12. 12. Restaurant Dobe & AndyView →
  13. 13. Beijing RestaurantView →
  14. 14. Restaurant Keung KeeView →

How the restaurants compare

Editorial restaurant image stand-in for Mai Xiang Dumpling Mont-Royal
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Mai Xiang Dumpling Mont-Royal
Plateau • Chinese
9.9/10
TastyPals Score
Price
value
Best for
dumplings
Mood
Plateau
The Dumpling Hut
Montreal • Chinese
9.9/10
TastyPals Score
Price
value
Best for
dumplings
Mood
Casual
Editorial restaurant image stand-in for Gon Bui Resto-Bar – Brunch, Souper & Cocktails Asiatiques à Laval
Google
Gon Bui Resto-Bar – Brunch, Souper & Cocktails Asiatiques à Laval
Montreal • Chinese
9.9/10
TastyPals Score
Price
value
Best for
dinner
Mood
Casual
Editorial restaurant image stand-in for Liuyishou Fondue / Liuyishou Hotpot Montreal
Google
Liuyishou Fondue / Liuyishou Hotpot Montreal
Montreal • Chinese
9.9/10
TastyPals Score
Price
$$$$
Best for
date night
Mood
Special occasion

How we chose

We looked for restaurants that feel like a strong fit for the guide topic, not just the most obvious names in the city. The shortlist favors rooms with clear mood, dependable pacing, and enough distinction to help someone decide faster. Read our full methodology →

Room tone

Lighting, pace, and general energy all need to support the reason someone clicked this guide.

Food fit

We favored restaurants that feel best suited for the moment, not just restaurants with broad reputation.

Useful range

The final list tries to give readers enough variation in neighborhood, price, and style to compare real options.

14 ranked picks

Gon Bui Resto-Bar – Brunch, Souper & Cocktails Asiatiques à Laval — Gon Bui Restobar has landed on a concept that most of Laval's dining scene hasn't quite caught up to: a Hong Kong-inflected dim sum kitchen running in the same room as a cocktail program that actually encourages you to stick around. This isn't fusion built on novelty — the menu reads like it was designed by people who understood that Cantonese comfort food and a leisurely weekend buzz have always belonged together. The crowd, by most accounts, runs young, bilingual, and deliberately low on formality. The price point sits at the accessible end of the dial, which means the calculus on ordering an extra plate almost always tips toward yes. The menu centers on a handful of dishes that have developed consistent followings. The Ha Gao de Fortune is the dim sum anchor — the classic steamed shrimp dumpling format that regulars reportedly order without deliberating. The Siu Mai Frits take the traditional open-topped pork-and-shrimp bite and run it through hot oil, a variation that diners describe as the kind of decision that makes obvious sense once you encounter it. Chou-Fleur Bang Bang has a reputation for carrying its heat with more staying power than the typical bang bang preparation — building rather than just sitting on the surface. The Hong Kong Curry is known as the bowl-format option for anyone who wants something substantial and fragrant rather than small-plate snacking. Canto Churros close things out on what sounds like a genuinely Cantonese-adjacent riff on the dessert — reportedly the reason people don't skip the final round. Weekend brunch and late lunch are the windows most commonly cited for catching the kitchen at full tilt. If you're mapping out an order, the Ha Gao, Hong Kong Curry, and Canto Churros form the sequence that comes up most often. Bar-side seating is the move if you want cocktails timed to your food. View restaurant →

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Nouilles de Lan Zhou — Nouilles de Lan Zhou occupies a specific and underserved corner of Montreal's Chinatown — the one dedicated to hand-pulled Lanzhou beef noodles, the street food of Gansu province that has fed millions across China and remains genuinely rare in this city. This is not a concept restaurant or a hype destination. By all accounts, the room draws the Chinatown regular who eats lunch at noon sharp, the student who has done the math on the dollar-to-bowl ratio, and the occasional noodle obsessive who made the trip on word of mouth. Price level one means you leave full and surprised at your receipt, and from what diners consistently report, that equation is the whole point of the place. The menu centers on the Special Nouilles De Boeuf Lanzhou, and it's the dish that defines the room's reputation. The broth is described as clear and amber, built from long-simmered beef and bone, with chili oil that reportedly adds warmth without overwhelming. The noodles are hand-pulled — a technique known to produce an elastic, slightly irregular texture that takes broth differently than extruded or machine-cut pasta. The Nouilles Dandan and Nouilles de Zhajiang round out the noodle program: the former is known for sesame-and-chili depth, the latter for savory fermented richness. Both are consistently mentioned by regulars as legitimate alternatives, not afterthoughts. Start with the Concombre Épicé — smashed cucumber with heat and acid, reportedly almost nothing on the bill — and the Edamame with Preserved Vegetable, which diners describe as salty and funky in the way preserved things tend to be. The practical case for Nouilles de Lan Zhou is straightforward: arrive before the lunch rush, order the Special Nouilles De Boeuf Lanzhou, add the Concombre Épicé alongside, and let the preserved edamame keep things interesting while you wait. This kitchen is most focused doing what Lanzhou has been doing for over a century. View restaurant →
Qing Hua Dumpling - (ChinaTown & Boul. St-Laurent) — Qing Hua Dumpling on St-Laurent is not trying to impress you, and that's precisely why it has developed the kind of reputation that actually means something in this city. On a boulevard where restaurants routinely price-in the ambiance and underdeliver on the plate, Qing Hua has apparently decided that dumplings are the whole conversation — and from everything diners and critics consistently report, it wins that argument with ease. The room is utilitarian by design, the menu a laminated act of confidence, and the lineups at peak hours are not ironic. This is the kind of place Montrealers drag visiting friends to when they want to show off the city's unglamorous best — a Chinese dumpling house operating at a price point that, by all accounts, makes you suspicious right up until the moment it doesn't. The menu centers on a focused selection of dumplings, and the Crevettes tigrées and Porc et Poireau are consistently cited as the backbone of the operation — reportedly built on thin skins and fillings that taste like what they're supposed to be, without fuss. The Dumplings au beurre d'arachide (Crevette) are widely flagged as the entry point for newcomers: shrimp dumplings slicked in peanut sauce that, according to returning regulars, carries enough depth to reframe the rest of the meal. The Salade d'algues marinées is known for cutting through the richness of everything else — briny, cold, sesame-forward — and diners who skip it are reportedly told to go back and order it. The Bœuf au curry rounds out the menu and signals the kitchen isn't playing a single note, though the pork-and-leek is the order most purists seem to defend. Go mid-afternoon on a weekday if you want to avoid the shoulder-to-shoulder situation this place is known for. Bring cash, order the peanut shrimp dumplings, add the seaweed salad. Budget around twenty dollars and plan to walk out full. View restaurant →
Restaurant Vip — Thirty-five years on Rue Clark, and Restaurant Vip appears to run entirely on its own schedule. No brunch pivot, no redesigned menu card, no gesture toward the current moment — the room opens at three in the afternoon and closes at eleven, a rhythm that longtime regulars have organized their evenings around for decades. The décor is reportedly unapologetically 1970s banquet-hall geometry, the kind that stopped being fashionable before most of its current clientele were born and now reads, if you're paying attention, as a form of institutional confidence. This is a place where Montrealers who grew up eating here remain the primary audience, and where the room functions as a working part of Chinatown rather than a representation of it. The dishes that have built its reputation are the ones that demand real technique. The General Tao Chicken is consistently described by regulars as their benchmark for every other version in the city — the standard against which other rooms get measured. The Ginger Lobster is reportedly the room's anchor preparation, the kind of dish that requires fresh product and precise timing, and the one that draws diners back specifically. The Hunan Dumplings have developed a following for their structural seriousness; the Rouleaux du trésor are known for arriving genuinely crisp rather than oil-heavy, which at price level one is not something to take for granted. The Boeuf avec Brocoli, often treated elsewhere as an afterthought, is reportedly executed here without shortcuts — the kind of result that reflects a kitchen applying consistent standards across the whole menu, not just the showcase items. Practical note from those who know the room: arriving closer to the 3PM opening than to the dinner rush tends to mean a quieter kitchen and a more attentive pace. The Ginger Lobster is a table-commitment order — flag it early rather than adding it as an afterthought. Order from the verified list without the instinct to play it safe; at this price point, caution is the only real error available to you. View restaurant →

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