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The next 10. #UnitedStates

Together, these 20 restaurants are your starting point for discovering and rediscovering Chinese dining across America — from regional traditions and neighbourhood favourites to a new generation of chef-driven restaurants.

Selected by our United States Taste Advisors, the inaugural Top 20 Honourees bring together different expressions of Chinese and Taiwanese cuisine today. A recommended list of what to order at each restaurant is included to make exploring even easier. Swipe through for more.

Here are the remaining 10, completing our Top 20 Honourees in alphabetical order:

Mister Jiu’s — San Francisco, CA ｜ Modern Chinese / American Chinese

MOTT 32 — Las Vegas, NV ｜ Modern Chinese

Red Sorghum — Long Island City, NY ｜ Sichuan & Hunan

Riverside Seafood Restaurant — San Francisco, CA ｜ Cantonese seafood

Shu Jiao Fu Zhou — New York, NY ｜ Fujianese

Sumiao Hunan Kitchen — Cambridge, MA ｜ Hunan

The Happy Crane — San Francisco, CA ｜ Modern Chinese

Wenwen — Brooklyn, NY ｜ Taiwanese

Yingtao — New York, NY ｜ Modern Chinese / Tasting menu

Z & Y Peking Duck — San Francisco, CA ｜ Northern Chinese / Peking duck

From these 20 honourees, the inaugural Elite 12 United States will be revealed on September 23 in Vancouver.

20 restaurants to discover. 12 to be named to the inaugural Elite 12.

Where Taste Leads. UNITED STATES.

#Elite12UnitedStates #ChineseRestaurantAwards #ChineseCuisine #ChineseFoodUSA

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#UnitedStates

For the first time, the Chinese Restaurant Awards arrives in the U.S. with the Elite 12 United States Awards — our independent guide to Chinese and Taiwanese restaurants worth discovering across America.

Consider these 20 restaurants your starting point for discovering and rediscovering Chinese dining across America.

From long-established dining rooms to a new generation of chefs and restaurateurs, the inaugural Top 20 Honourees reflect the many ways Chinese cuisine is being cooked, interpreted and carried forward today in America. Every good table can shine at Chinese Restaurant Awards.

Selected by our United States Taste Advisors — a panel of serious diners bringing different perspectives, experiences and knowledge of Chinese cuisine — these 20 restaurants are the finalists for the inaugural Elite 12 United States.

Here are the first 10, in alphabetical order: (also swift for the extra - recommended dishes by our taste advisors)

Array 36 — San Gabriel, CA ｜ Northern Chinese

Birds of a Feather — Brooklyn, NY ｜ Sichuan

Bistro Na’s — Temple City, CA ｜ Imperial Chinese / Beijing cuisine

Dian Xin — New Orleans, LA ｜ Northern Chinese & Cantonese dim sum

Dumpling Home — San Francisco, CA ｜ Shanghainese / Northern Chinese dumplings

Four Kings — San Francisco, CA ｜ Cantonese-inspired

Fu Hui Hua — San Francisco, CA ｜ Shanghainese / Jiangnan Chinese / Japanese

HK Lounge Bistro — San Francisco, CA ｜ Cantonese dim sum

Kato Restaurant — Los Angeles, CA ｜ Taiwanese-inspired tasting menu

Lei — New York, NY ｜ Contemporary Chinese / Wine bar

On September 23 in Vancouver, the inaugural Elite 12 United States will be revealed from these 20 honourees.

10 more Top 20 Honourees in next post.

Where Taste Leads. UNITED STATES.

#Elite12UnitedStates #ChineseRestaurantAwards #ChineseCuisine #ChineseFoodUSA

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The menu said “23 Years of Quince,” but the dish I kept thinking about wasn’t on it: four ravioli that looked like sunflowers weathered by a summer without rain, sitting in a shallow but potent pool of corn jus, with its foam gathered around them. Then the chef Michael Tusk lays a flattened husk over the pasta, christening it with one last charge of corn.

The ceremony of it all might have seemed a bit much if the ravioli hadn’t been so good.

But they were. Their flavors built steadily: dark caramel first, then something toastier — likely the browned edge of a cob — before settling into the milky sweetness of raw kernels followed by aroma so relentlessly buttery it recalled the popcorn stand at a state fair.

I can count on one hand the corn dishes that have moved me as a food writer. The first cob I ate in Hokkaido, hot enough to melt the cold butter I kept pressing onto it; Cosme’s corn-husk meringue; Jean-Georges’s sweet-corn ravioli in basil fondue; and now these four, which evaded both the printed menu and my camera as I ate them quickly, without ceremony.

My dinner that began in their renovated dining room before it moved to the kitchen felt at times like a brisk overture of their greatest hits, including the (rightfully) vaunted beetroot spaghetti, stained red to its core and topped with a mound of caviar. It’s through this sequence that the prologues, a smoked almond custard brightened with slivered coins of kumquat and geoduck clam crowned over a mound of carosello melon — the cleanest and most precious of the dishes — stand in contrast with the later dishes, which more loudly trumpet Tusk’s style. Because as dinner progressed, so too did his rustic instincts, deepening into dishes like asparagus fished tableside from a cauldron of herbed bouillon (a revelation) and that hypnotically aromatic Watson Farm lamb, cooked at the hearth.

Yes, old signatures will always arrive with their reputations intact, but the better news is that Tusk does not seem especially interested in dining out on them.

Thank you @theandrewcheng for paving the way, @michaeltusk for the meal (to remember), and @davidefra86 for the hospitality.

📍@quince_sf
🍽️ June ‘26

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Well the search is over, we @chef.richardlee @molibuuuu have truly found the best restaurant in the USA, daaaamn @turkeyandthewolf thanks @theandrewcheng for the enlightenment

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I’m Texan now.. can’t handle the SF cold 😂 thankful for this team @californiossf for keeping me warm, fed, and inspired. Proud of yall for consistently innovating for over a decade and still going strong. Thank you for the hospitality @valmcantu @carolyn_cantu @_kaylin_denise @jgeiskopf and the entire team ❤️❤️❤️

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@barminibyjose for birthday week cocktails last month 🎉 🍹

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Tremendous hospitality. Thank you, chef @alexandre_couillon! 📷 by @emma_couillon

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‘Grain de Café’ ☕️☺️❤️🤤😋
Neo Classic @odetterestaurant
Soba Cha/Pecan pralin/Rio Brilhante
HAPPY MONDAY PEOPLE
☺️☺️☺️🤩🤩🤩
#odetterestaurant
#thewords50bestrestaurants
#dugoutdugoutdugout
#oneteam
#textymures
@lesgrandestablesdumonde
@theworlds50best
@michelinguide
@laliste1000

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A snapshot from @theandrewcheng of a recent Snack Tray. Our panisse accompanied by crispy eggplant tempura with pickled onions and local honey, Bluefin tuna tartare, rehydrated radish with apple cider and chimichurri, and summer squash with pickled peanuts, smoked buttermilk, and carrot juice.

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I’m so inspired by the restaurant and farm that @james_edward_henry_ has built, just an hour outside of Paris at @le_doyennerestaurant_.

As a chef, making vegetables sexy is one of my passions, and this was truly a meal to remember. Bonus points for bumping into two friends and former coworkers from my time working in France. It’s amazing how small and cozy the world can feel.

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Rubia gallega chuleton

#asadoretxebarri

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Grilled caviar and pig’s fat.

#asadoretxebarri

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