The Best Chinese Restaurants in Austin
Austin, Texas — updated August 22, 2026
Six Austin Chinese restaurants, ranked by how convincing their ratings are, from a north-side standby with more than 1,300 reviews to a noodle house still building its record.
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Austin's Chinese restaurants cluster north of the river, mostly in strip centers along Research Boulevard and Spicewood Springs Road, well outside the downtown restaurant circuit. That means a drive for most of the city, and it also means the ratings here have been built by people who went out of their way. The list below is ordered by how well each place answers the question, with review counts treated as evidence of how settled a rating actually is.
1. House of Three Gorges (三峡人家)
The strongest rating-to-volume combination on this list: 4.6 stars across 824 reviews, which is enough traffic to make that score hard to dismiss. It sits in a suite at 8557 Research Blvd, in the same north Austin corridor as several of the other restaurants here, so it is an easy pairing with a stop at the Asian groceries nearby. Parking is shared strip-center parking, which fills fastest at weekend dinner. There is no dedicated website in our records, so call ahead or check listings for current hours rather than assuming.
2. Asia Cafe
The most thoroughly tested restaurant in this guide: 4.3 stars from more than 1,300 reviews, a rating that has survived a very large sample. It is in the Spicewood/183 Center at 8650 Spicewood Springs Rd, a strip mall setting that has kept it a north Austin fixture rather than a destination for out-of-towners. A 4.3 with that many votes is a more reliable promise than a higher score from a hundred people. Expect a counter-service pace and a room that turns over quickly at lunch.
3. Bamboo House Austin
The closest thing on this list to a central option, at 7010 Easy Wind Dr near the Highland area rather than out on 183. It holds 4.3 stars from 915 reviews, a proven rather than promising figure, and it is the only entry here with its own website, bamboohouseaustin.com, which makes checking hours and menu straightforward before you drive over. Easy Wind Drive is a short hop off I-35, so this is the practical pick if you are coming from downtown or campus and do not want the north-side trip.
4. Mian & Bao
Noodles and buns, per the name, from a small storefront in a shopping strip at 4700 W Guadalupe St. The rating is 4.5 from 268 reviews: a good score with a moderate sample behind it, so treat it as well supported but not yet as settled as the two restaurants above. The Guadalupe location puts it within reach of central and north-central Austin without a highway run. Smaller rooms like this tend to get tight at peak lunch, so an early or late arrival helps.
5. Chen Z Noodle House
The only entry on the southwest side, at 6705 US-290, which makes it the reasonable choice if you live anywhere near Oak Hill and do not want to cross town. Its 4.2 stars from 302 reviews is the lowest rating here, though the count is large enough that the number is credible rather than noisy. Geography is the main argument for it: nothing else on this list is remotely close to that stretch of 290. Confirm hours before heading out, since we have no listed website for it.
6. Ten Seconds Noodle House
Thin evidence, stated plainly: 4.4 stars from 109 reviews is the smallest sample in this guide, so the score could still move in either direction. It earns a place because the rating is above the north Austin average and it sits at 9070 Research Blvd, a few minutes from House of Three Gorges, making it an easy alternative when that one has a wait. Worth trying if you are already in the 183 corridor rather than driving across town on the strength of the number alone.
What we left off
Two places from the previous version of this guide are gone. Perry's Steakhouse & Grille is a multi-location steakhouse chain, disqualified on both counts: it is a chain and it is not a Chinese restaurant. Gati Cafe on Holly Street is a coffee shop, and a well-reviewed one, but it does not belong in a guide to Chinese restaurants.