Madison, WIChinese

A long-running west-side Chinese dining room with a huge menu of favorites, from chicken pot stickers and sizzling rice to treasure seafood and crispy duck, per its Isthmus location listing. It took gold in the 2025 Best of Madison readers' poll's East Asian category, and most dishes can be made gluten-free or low sodium.

Hand-cut, Shanxi-style noodles made in house, in a former Knoche's butcher shop space on Madison's west side. Isthmus's year-end dining roundup notes this location opened as a second Taigu storefront, and the original Middleton location on Elmside Boulevard has since closed; the 2025 Best of Madison readers' poll gave the restaurant bronze in the East Asian category.

A State Street Sichuan kitchen known for a hot and spicy fish fillet with pickled pepper and a rich twice-cooked sliced pork with fried peppers and onions, per its Isthmus location listing. The restaurant also runs a hot pot menu in the evenings, adding a communal option to its regular Sichuan dishes.

Cantonese and Mandarin cooking with all the expected dishes, plus ho fun thick flat soft noodles, a steamed health and diet section, and a nine-item vegetable section, per its Isthmus location listing. It also keeps a separate, more Chinese-centric menu alongside the familiar American-Chinese lineup on South Park Street.

Daily dim sum on the west side, ordered pen-and-placemat style: write a quantity next to each selection, as when ordering sushi, and the menu is whisked away to be replaced with real versions of the small dishes, per its Isthmus location listing. It is one of the few daily dim sum rooms in the metro.