Where to eat Chinese food in Houston.

Ocean Palace calls itself Houston's largest dim sum restaurant and serves dim sum daily until 5:00 PM. It has a banquet hall for up to 1,000 guests, so it handles big tables better than the small plaza counters.

Build an order. From the dim sum menu, build a table around shrimp dumpling (har gow), shrimp and pork shu mai, rice noodle roll with BBQ pork, steamed BBQ pork bao and sticky rice in lotus leaf. Add one fried item such as pan fried turnip cake. If you want a dinner-style dish, the kitchen menu lists Peking duck (2 course), Ma Po tofu and walnut shrimp.

Before you go. Open daily 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM per the operator site. It runs a Toast waitlist and an event booking form; catering and banquet menus are listed. Delivery and takeout terms are not stated on the operator pages.

No delivery listed No delivery listed on the operator's ordering page as of 2026-09-29; confirm by phone. The site links a Toast online ordering page, which blocked our fetch, and a Toast catering page.

This is the Sichuan noodle counter inside Dun Huang Plaza, in the middle of the Bellaire Blvd strip. The ordering page opens at 7:30 AM, so it works for an early bowl as well as dinner.

Build an order. Get Sichuan dan dan noodles, Sichuan wontons in red oil and a plate of xiaolongbao or potstickers to share. Add mapo tofu or Sichuan cold noodles for a cooler contrast. Vegetarian options on the menu include vegetarian mixed sauce noodles, eggplant with garlic sauce and stir fried green beans.

Before you go. The online ordering page lists 7:30 AM to 9:30 PM, with pickup at 10-20 minutes and delivery at 20-30 minutes. Park in the plaza lot; the Bellaire Blvd district has no METRORail line.

Delivery: direct The operator's own ordering page offers Delivery with a 20-30 minute estimate alongside Pickup; the delivery provider, radius, minimum and fees are not published on the page.

Fung's Kitchen describes itself as a Chinese restaurant with dim sum daily, live seafood, banquets and weddings. It is the pick for a large-table seafood dinner or a dim sum lunch away from the Bellaire Blvd plazas.

Build an order. Start with Peking duck rolls and steamed pork or vegetable dumplings, then add roast pork belly and a lettuce wrap. The vegetarian route is steamed or pan fried vegetable dumplings, vegetable egg rolls and mou shu vegetable wrap. Ask the server about live seafood.

Before you go. Open Tuesday to Sunday 10:30 AM to 9:00 PM and closed Mondays; holiday hours may vary. The site lists catering, events and an online order link. Reservation rules are not published on the operator page.

No delivery listed No delivery listed on the operator's ordering page as of 2026-09-29; confirm by phone. The site has an Order link (Toast), which blocked our fetch.

Wanna Bao calls itself a hearty Chinese bistro and dumpling house. It is in Midtown and covers soup dumplings, pan-fried buns and spicy cold plates on one menu.

Build an order. Order pork or shrimp xiaolongbao and crispy bottom bao, then add red oil dumplings and the garlic cucumber salad. The menu flags vegetarian dishes, including vegetarian Shanghai sticky rice shumai, okra salad and garlic cucumber salad.

Before you go. The ordering page lists 11:30 AM to 9:30 PM. Pickup is listed at 10-20 minutes. Reservation rules are not published on the page.

Pickup only The operator's ordering page shows Pickup at 10-20 minutes and Delivery as Closed at the time of the 2026-09-29 check.

North China sits on the Katy Freeway in the Energy Corridor and says it has served Mandarin-style Chinese food in west Houston since 1976. It suits a family table that wants familiar entrees plus a few less standard plates.

Build an order. Start with pot stickers or water boiled dumplings, then split a Beijing buns plate, yu shing (yuxiang) eggplant and chef's prawns. Vegetarian pages list vegetarian appetizers, entrees and rice and noodles, including a vegetable pot sticker and veggie yu shing eggplant.

Before you go. Monday to Friday 11:00 AM to 2:30 PM and 4:30 PM to 9:00 PM; Saturday and Sunday 11:30 AM to 9:00 PM. Lunch menu runs Monday to Friday until 2:30 PM and weekends until 3:00 PM. The site has a catering menu and a Book Your Table button.

Delivery: via apps The operator's own ordering page shows Pickup at 10-20 minutes and Delivery as Closed, while the operator's home page links DoorDash and Uber Eats store pages for this restaurant (those platform pages were not fetched).

Xi Hot Pot describes its cooking as authentic Chongqing flavor and runs one branch in Katy and one in Sugar Land. This is the Katy branch, for a group that wants to cook its own dinner at the table.

Build an order. Pick a spicy beef tallow pot base or the split two-and-a-half pot, then add sliced beef, shrimp slippery and offal items such as beef tripe.

Before you go. The ordering page listed Tuesday hours of 11:00 AM to 9:30 PM on 2026-09-29 and showed online ordering as paused. A notice on the page states a $125 minimum for hot pot takeout including the base. Call before you go for table availability.

No delivery listed No delivery listed on the operator's ordering page as of 2026-09-29; confirm by phone. The Chowbus page showed online ordering as paused and mentions a $125 hot pot takeout minimum.

Chang's is an American-Chinese kitchen in Sugar Land with pickup and delivery on its own ordering site. Use it for General Tso's, kung pao and egg foo young when you are not driving to Bellaire Blvd.

Build an order. Order steamed or fried dumplings, cheese crab puffs, hot and sour soup and one entree per person with rice. The menu has separate Vegetables Entree and Special Diet Dishes sections for vegetarian orders.

Before you go. Takeout hours are Monday to Sunday 11:00 AM to 9:00 PM. A lunch menu runs 11:00 AM to 3:00 PM. Egg foo young is listed for weekdays 11:00 AM to 5:00 PM.

Delivery: direct The operator's ordering site advertises Pickup and Delivery for this branch; provider, radius, minimum and fees are not published on the page.