Researched Chinese restaurant shortlists for 12 California cities: exact branches, what to order, menu prices and which places list delivery. Each guide is unranked and sourced from the restaurants' own pages. Most recent check: October 1, 2026.
| City | Places | Delivery | Soup dumplings from | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arcadia | 7 | 2 | $13.99 | |
| Cupertino | 7 | 2 | $10.99 | |
| Fremont | 7 | 5 | — | |
| Irvine | 7 | 6 | — | |
| Los Angeles | 7 | 3 | $8.99 | |
| Milpitas | 7 | 3 | $10.95 | |
| Oakland | 7 | 3 | — | |
| Sacramento | 7 | 1 | — | |
| San Diego | 7 | 3 | — | |
| San Francisco | 7 | 3 | $12.00 | |
| San Jose | 7 | 4 | $17.50 | |
| Sunnyvale | 7 | 5 | $8.99 |
Soup dumpling prices are per order as listed on each restaurant's menu or ordering page; order sizes differ. 7 of 12 guides include a listed soup dumpling price. Full data and per-piece prices are in the price index.
110 listed soup dumpling, har gow and siu mai prices are compared across cities in our dumpling price index. Compare prices
Arcadia has no Chinatown. Wikipedia puts Asian residents at 64.9% of the city's 56,681 people in the 2020 census, and the Chinese kitchens here are spread across South Baldwin Avenue (including The Shops at Santa Anita), West Duarte Road, Huntington Drive and First Avenue.
Open the Arcadia guideCupertino has no Chinatown that any page fetched for this guide names; its Chinese restaurants are spread along Stevens Creek Boulevard, De Anza Boulevard and N Wolfe Road (Cupertino Village), with single stops on Homestead Road, Richwood Drive and East Estates Drive. These seven kitchens cover Sichuan noodles, Sichuan and Hunan home cooking, dim sum and roast duck, Taiwanese stir-fries, Shanghai-style buns and a Hong Kong cafe.
Open the Cupertino guideWikipedia's Fremont article names no Chinatown. The kitchens in this guide sit on Warm Springs Boulevard and Mission Boulevard in the Warm Springs district, in Mission San Jose, on Grimmer Boulevard in Irvington, on Thornton Avenue in Centerville, and on Fremont Boulevard next to 99 Ranch Market in North Fremont.
Open the Fremont guideIrvine has no Chinatown in Wikipedia's list of villages and commercial districts. The kitchens in this guide are on Walnut Avenue, at Irvine Spectrum Center, on Culver Drive, on Campus Drive, and on Jamboree Road in ZIP 92602, which is not the Alton Parkway block OpenStreetMap calls Diamond Jamboree.
Open the Irvine guideChinese food in Los Angeles splits into LA Chinatown on North Broadway and the San Gabriel Valley (Monterey Park, Alhambra, Arcadia, Rowland Heights), where most of the regional cooking is. This shortlist has seven restaurants with menus checked on 2026-09-29.
Open the Los Angeles guideNo page fetched for this guide names a Chinatown in Milpitas. The densest cluster in the sources is Milpitas Square on Barber Lane and Barber Court, with single stops in this guide on Calaveras Boulevard, Jacklin Road and North Milpitas Boulevard. These seven kitchens cover Cantonese dim sum, Sichuan noodles, Hunan home cooking, Shanghainese soup dumplings, Guilin rice noodles and halal Northwest dishes.
Open the Milpitas guideOakland Chinatown is in downtown Oakland, centered on 8th Street and Webster Street. These kitchens are on 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, Webster and Franklin in that neighborhood, not in San Francisco or San Jose.
Open the Oakland guideThe restaurants verified for this guide are not grouped in a downtown Chinatown. Two share 6821 Stockton Blvd in south Sacramento, which Hao Bao Dumplings calls Little Saigon. A dim sum bakery is on Freeport Boulevard, Xi'an dishes are on Crocker Drive, a second dumpling house is in midtown, and Elk Grove's Bruceville Road has Yunnan rice noodles and a Cantonese kitchen.
Open the Sacramento guideSan Diego's Chinese food is concentrated on Convoy Street (ZIP 92111) in Kearny Mesa: dim sum carts, Cantonese roast duck, Sichuan, Shaanxi noodles, Taiwanese noodle soup and spicy hot pot within a few blocks. Point Loma's Rosecrans Street adds a Chinese tapas bar with a full wok menu.
Open the San Diego guideChinese food in San Francisco is Chinatown (Waverly Place, Kearny and Jackson Streets) for banquets and Sichuan, Stevenson Street south of Market for daytime dim sum, and the Richmond and Sunset districts for dim sum, halal northern cooking and dry-fried chicken. This shortlist has seven restaurants with menus checked on 2026-09-29 and 2026-09-30.
Open the San Francisco guideSan Jose's Chinese food is spread across the South Bay: Barber Lane and Barber Court in Milpitas for dim sum, Sichuan and hot pot, Stevens Creek Boulevard in Cupertino and at Valley Fair in Santa Clara for noodles and soup dumplings, downtown Sunnyvale for Hunan, and Brokaw Road in North San Jose for Taiwanese beef noodles.
Open the San Jose guideNo page fetched for this guide names a Chinatown in Sunnyvale. These seven kitchens sit on separate streets: El Camino Real and Hollenbeck Avenue, Murphy Avenue downtown, Wolfe Road, and Lawrence Expressway and Tasman Drive. They cover dim sum to go, hand-folded dumplings, Sichuan and Taiwanese dishes, Cantonese clay pots, congee and roast meats, noodle soups and Chengdu hot pot.
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