Where to eat Chinese food in San Jose.

Koi Palace's Milpitas branch is one of three Koi Palace locations (Daly City, Dublin and Milpitas); this profile covers the Milpitas one. It publishes separate dim sum and dinner menus, so choose it for a dim sum table where you want steamed dumplings, baked pastries and roast meats in the same order.

Build an order. Start with Shrimp Dumplings (Har Gow), Shrimp, Pork & Mushroom Dumplings (Shui Mai) and Shanghai Dumplings (5), then add Baked BBQ Pork Puffs, Pan Grilled Pot Stickers and Baked Portuguese Custard Tarts. The same menu lists Oven Roasted Duck and Freshly Roasted BBQ Pork Royale, so add one roast-meat plate for a table of four.

Before you go. Hours: Mon-Thu 11 AM-2:30 PM and 5-9 PM, Fri 11 AM-2:30 PM and 5-9:30 PM, Sat 10 AM-3 PM and 5-9:30 PM, Sun 10 AM-3 PM and 5-9 PM. The operator publishes a dim sum menu and a separate dinner menu. The site links a Yelp reservation page, which was not opened. No large-party policy is published.

No delivery listed Koi Palace's site links an order.online (DoorDash-run) ordering page, but it returned a bot check or error in a real browser on 2026-09-30, so delivery could not be confirmed; call the restaurant.

Chili Garden's online menu is organized by region: Northeastern cuisine, iron pot stews, Hunan, meat dishes, tofu, noodles and rice, plus a lunch special list. Come for a Chongqing and Sichuan dinner at a table of three or four, with a late closing time on weekdays.

Build an order. Build a table around Chong Qing Spicy Chicken, Mapo Tofu and Boiled Fish, then add Chong Qing Spicy Sauce Noodle or Sichuan Youpo Noodle as the starch. For one person at lunch, the menu has a separate Lunch Special section, such as Beef with Cumin at $16.50.

Before you go. Hours on the operator's site: Mon-Fri 10:30 AM-2:30 PM and 4:30 PM-12:00 AM; Sat-Sun 10:30 AM-12:00 PM as printed (likely midnight, so call to confirm the weekend close). The site says it offers takeout and that online ordering is enabled for pickup. No reservation policy is published.

Dishes to know. Mapo tofu

Pickup only The operator's site says it offers takeout and that online ordering is enabled for pickup; no delivery is offered on its site or ordering page.

Tasty Pot sells hot pot as one pot per person: you pick a numbered soup, such as Beef Hot Soup, Cheesy Milk Hot Soup or Stinky Tofu Hot Soup, and it arrives with the vegetables, meat and seafood already in it. Choose it for a hot pot meal without ordering by the ingredient.

Build an order. Pick a soup from the numbered list: Beef Hot Soup, Lamb Hot Soup or the Sichuan Flavor Hot Soup for heat. For a vegetarian meal, the list has a Healthy Veggie Hot Soup. Changing the soup flavor costs $1.00 more. The menu also sells hot and iced teas and milk teas.

Before you go. The site's structured data lists daily hours of 11:00 AM-3:00 PM and 5:00 PM-9:15 PM and places the restaurant in the Milpitas Square Shopping Mall on Barber Ct. It says to order online for carryout or delivery. No reservation policy is published.

Delivery: direct The operator's site says to order online for carryout or delivery, and its page data lists own-fleet delivery with a $15.00 order-volume figure; the delivery radius and fee are not otherwise published.

Liang's Village calls its food Taiwanese Juanchuan cooking and describes a casual, fast-paced, family-friendly dining room. Come for red-braised beef noodle soup, cold peanut noodles and wontons, with breakfast Friday to Sunday.

Build an order. Order Beef Noodle Soup or The Cow Noodle Soup if you want the tendon and beef combination, and add Cold Peanut Noodle and Spicy Red Oil Mini Wontons for the table. A Hand Wrapped Wonton Noodle Soup is the lighter bowl. The menu says complimentary beef bone broth is available with the beef noodle soups.

Before you go. Open daily. Dine-in runs 11 AM-8:30 PM; breakfast is 8-11 AM on Fri-Sun. The dine-in menu states an 18% gratuity is added for parties of six or more and a limit of three credit cards per table. The site links a waitlist page.

Delivery: direct The operator's own ordering site (order.liangsvillage.com) offers Pickup and Delivery order types and the home page labels the link Cupertino Radius; the radius and fee are not shown before entering an address. A separate Bay Area-wide delivery program (Tuesdays and Thursdays, order by 10 AM the day before) is fulfilled by Neon.

Din Tai Fung has several U.S. locations; this profile is the Westfield Valley Fair branch in Santa Clara. Come for hand-folded xiao long bao and steamed dumplings, and note that the menu has a separate vegan dumpling, bun, wonton and noodle set.

Build an order. Order Kurobuta Pork Xiao Long Bao (10) as the base, add Chicken Dumplings or Shrimp & Kurobuta Pork Shao Mai, and finish with Noodles with Sesame Sauce or Vegan Noodles with Spicy Sauce. Cucumber Salad and Hot & Sour Soup fill out a table of three.

Before you go. Hours: Mon-Thu 10:30 AM-9:30 PM, Fri 10:30 AM-10 PM, Sat 9:30 AM-10 PM, Sun 9:30 AM-9 PM. The location page links a Yelp reservation page, which was not opened, and a pickup ordering page. The restaurant is inside the Westfield Valley Fair mall.

Dishes to know. Soup dumplings

Delivery: via apps The operator's location page has an Order Uber Eats button for this branch, while the operator's own ordering page offers pickup; the Uber Eats page was not opened, so fees and radius are unknown and app prices may differ.

Hunan House describes its cooking as authentic Hunan cuisine and sizzling pot. Its online menu is arranged as New Dishes, Hot Sale, House Special, Classic Dishes, Flaming Pots, Not Spicy Dish, Fresh Veggies, rice and noodle, appetizers, sizzling pot and soups, with a Not Spicy Dish list for milder eaters.

Build an order. Start with House Special Sauteed Pork and Hunan Style Sauteed Beef, then add a Flaming Pot such as Braised Beef Combination or the House Special Spicy Grilled Catfish for a group. Changsha Stinky Tofu is on the menu at $10.99, and Steamed White Rice is $2.00.

Before you go. Ordering page showed Tue (checked day) hours of 11:00 AM-2:00 PM and 4:30-8:00 PM; it was paused for online orders when read, so call for other days' hours and for reservations. The site lists phone 408-481-9983. Dishes are marked with chili symbols; the Not Spicy Dish section lists milder options.

No delivery listed No delivery is listed on the operator's site or its Chowbus ordering page as of 2026-09-30 (the page said it was not accepting online orders when read); confirm by phone.

Flaming Ox calls its menu modern Taiwanese cuisine and lists three beef noodle soup broths: Traditional (soy-sauce base, mild), Mala (Sichuan-style, its spiciest) and Bone Broth. Choose it for a beef noodle lunch or dinner, or for a vegan noodle dish that is not an afterthought.

Build an order. Order Traditional Beef Noodle Soup or Mala Beef Noodle Soup, then add Spicy Shrimp and Pork Wonton, Popcorn Chicken with Basil and Firecracker Fries for the table. For a vegan bowl, Zha Jiang Mien is a mushroom and plant-based-soy noodle dish. Minced Pork Belly Rice Plate is the rice option.

Before you go. Closed Mondays; open Tue-Sun 11:30 AM-2:30 PM and 5:00-8:30 PM. A lunch special runs Tue-Fri 11:30 AM-2:30 PM, dine-in only, and its details are on an image on the site. Free parking is in a shared lot that can fill at dinner; the site suggests curbside pickup for takeout.

Delivery: direct The operator's Toast ordering page offers a Delivery option that asks you to confirm you are in the delivery range; the range and fee are not published, and the Family Value Pack is takeout only.