Food guides / Names on the menu

Know your order.

Choose the ingredient, format and preparation. These guides explain names with examples from restaurant menus and named culinary sources.

Public sources checked October 10, 2026

Noodles

Chow fun, lo mein, chow mein

Compare the noodle ingredients and menu names.

Preparation

Tossed or fried?

Cantonese and American uses of lo mein and chow mein.

Rice porridge

Congee & jook

Texture, topping names and the congee base.

Rice

Rice pots & fried rice

Read the difference between rice and casserole headings.

Small plates

A first dim sum order

Har gow, siu mai, buns and rice rolls.

Dumplings

Soup inside or outside?

Wontons, soup dumplings, steaming and pan-frying.

Roast meats

Char siu

Cantonese barbecue pork, buns and noodle orders.

Restaurant collections / New York

Choose a cuisine or a dim sum menu.

Chinese food / NYC

15 Chinese restaurants

Compare regional cuisines, food photographs, menus and branch addresses.

Manhattan & Brooklyn

Dim sum across NYC

Six addresses, menu portions and visiting details, with focused Brooklyn and Chinatown guides.

More dishes / New York menus

Rice rolls, tea and rice pots.

Cheung fun / NYC

Rice rolls

Fillings, preparation, stated portions and menu prices.

Milk tea in a Hong Kong cafe, photographed in 2011

Hong Kong drinks

Milk tea & yuan yang

Tea-only drinks, coffee mixtures and New York ordering examples.

Photo: T1NH0 (Sdee) · Hong Kong, 2011 · CC BY-SA 3.0 · resized, WebP; display cropped

Brooklyn & Chinatown

Clay pot rice

Toppings, prices and takeout pot conditions.

Beef wok-fried flat noodles from the E Noodle menu

Cantonese / New York

Choose a Cantonese dish

Six menus linked by dish family and neighbourhood.

Restaurant collections / New York

Pick a bowl. Or a small plate.

Japanese noodles

10 ramen restaurants

Broths, tsukemen, menu photographs and named branches.

Spicy and sour lamb dumplings from the Xi’an Famous Foods menu

Fillings & preparations

10 dumpling stops

Boiled, pan-fried, har gow, siu mai and wonton menu choices.

Colourful soup dumplings from The Bao gallery

Xiao long bao

8 soup-dumpling menus

Four- and six-piece orders, filling differences and source prices.

Molten egg custard steamed buns at Grandma’s Dim Sum

Queens / Flushing

Dim sum in Flushing

Five Cantonese menus plus a separate Jiangnan small-plate option.

Flaming duck presentation at Hutong New York

Duck / Shared orders

Peking duck in NYC

Half or whole orders, published inclusions and booking links.

Vietnamese noodles

Pho in New York

Broths, named meat toppings and published portion information.

Pork bun on the Nom Wah Chinatown website

Manhattan / Walking route

Choose a Chinatown meal

Five mapped stops, different orders and practical visiting rules.

Split broth with meat and seafood from the 99 Favor Taste group gallery

Hot pot / Group meals

Hot pot in NYC

Per-person formats, soup bases, supplements and branch prices.