Restaurant Awards 2023: The Best Chinese Restaurants in Vancouver

In this extremely competitive category, five restaurants came out on top.

The Best Chinese Restaurants in Vancouver 2023

Gold: Chef’s Choice

It’s a three-peat for Chef’s Choice: for the third year in a row, its landed gold in this ultra-competitive category. The restaurant is one of the few places in Vancouver (and possibly North America) executing restrained, Hong Kong-style Cantonese cooking at the highest standard. Don’t miss the sticky chicken rice: boneless chicken is layered with toothsome sticky rice and deep-fried to perfect-crisp tenderness.

955 W Broadway, Vancouver
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Chef’s Choice. Photo: Tanya Goehring.

Silver: The Fish Man

A newcomer to these awards, The Fish Man slays the competition with silver, winning our judges over with chef Bo Li’s take on pairing B.C. seafood with traditional Sichuan flavours. The menu is full of winners, but one judge called the sour cabbage fish hotpot—ultra-thin slices of ling cod in a spicy soup—“worth celebrating alone.”

8391 Alexandra Rd., Richmond
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Photo: The Fish Man

Bronze: Dynasty

Broadway mainstay Dynasty takes bronze, both for its excellent service and for showstopping dishes like the tower of crab with spicy garlic and sticky rice (coming to an Instagram feed near you).

108–777 W Broadway, Vancouver
dynasty-restaurant.ca

Dynasty Seafood Restaurant

Honourable Mentions: iDen and Quanjude Beijing Duck House and Mott 32

iDen and Quanjude Beijing Duck House
2808 Cambie St., Vancouver

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Mott 32
1161 W Georgia St.,Vancouver
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