This place gets a five-star rating if you're looking for a break from chimichurri and steak…read more Honestly, surprisingly good Asian food, considering this is Argentina. The ambience is absolutely adorable and designed like an Asian Street market. Service was quick and friendly and the green curry was excellent, nix e and spicy if not the most authentic iteration of Thailand's national dish. The bao weee disappointing though.

Just opened a couple of weeks ago. Ostensibly setup like a Singapore hawker market, it may bear…read moresome resemblance, but only superficially. So, the setup is, you walk in, there's a bar where you can get your beer, soda, or water, and you also buy monedas for 100 pesos apiece - tokens, that you can then redeem for food at one of the four stands at the far back. The things along the walk that look like they're food carts are just places to sit. At the back, you've got a Japanese yakitori stand, a Korean dumpling stand that also serves rice bowls, a Japanese ramen stand, and, a Taiwanese guabao stand. Dumplings and yakitoris run 1 moneda, all the rest run 2 monedas. With few people there, the system works smoothly. I imagine that if the place is packed, it could get a little annoying, or at least require planning, because you're going to have to stand in line to get your monedas and drinks, and then again, at each stand. Then again, local food festivals, like Masticar do much the same with tickets. I'd say the average person is going to need anywhere between 3 and 5 monedas for a decent meal, depending on how hungry you are, who you're with, sharing, and all that. I, of course, am always hungry.... Started off with kimchi dumplings and a bottle of beer (somehow I missed that they also have craft beer on tap). Delicate, with that lovely crisp fried side. The kimchi inside lacking punch, so kind of cabbage dumplings, but they bring hot sauce to the table, and when the one they brought was still a bit weak for my tastes, the manager brought over two additional ones, a housemade one that was very good, and also a small dish with just about a demitasse spoonful of a fiery red liquid that with one drop on the tip of a chopstick set my mouth on fire. Mostly I used the housemade one, which was hot, but didn't overwhelm the food. Very good chicken yakitori, and a decent portion for the price. Nice char on the grill, but still juicy. Good marinade with a nice balance between salty and sweet. I wouldn't say that this is my favorite guabao ever.... The pork belly is sliced really thin and then grilled, so rather than being unctuous and packed with flavor, it was kind of like semi-crispy bacon without the smokiness, and piled with chopped raw cabbage and green onions. There just wasn't a lot of flavor going on. And the steamed buns, which look like albino hamburger buns, aren't done to order, so they're cold, and a little dense as they've... settled. I decided to finish up with one more round of dumplings. I was going to get the classic pork ones, but thought I'd ask the dumpling guy. He said that while that was what everyone orders, because they're the classic, the real killer dumplings were the curry chicken ones. And damn, he was right. Noted, early on, see the photo earlier, when there were few people there, the dumplings were presented nicely lined up - once there were more people lined up to get stuff, they're just kind of dumped on the plate. All in all, I like the space and the decor, it's just kind of fun. The music, however, really turned me off - it's all Asian gangsta' rap, with way too much cursing for my tastes. I mean, I don't mind someone throwing out an occasional four letter word, but when virtually every line of the lyrics in every song seems to include some version of fuck, motherfucking, shit, and more, at high volume (the place is, according to my sound meter, running just shy of 75dB steadily - about the level of standing next to a vacuum cleaner that's running continuously), it's a bit irritating when you're trying to eat, and it's too loud to really tune out, and would be really hard to hold a conversation. The food, two very good dishes, one good, and one mediocre. Mostly fair prices - 100 pesos for 5 dumplings is actually quite reasonable, as it is for 2 yakitori skewers. On the other hand, 200 pesos for a single bao (even if I'd have liked it) is a bit much, when you can get them at places like Bao Kitchen for 140, Fukuro for 175, or Koko for 150, and all better than this one. I mean, it's just about a dollar to a dollar and a half difference, but we're talking bar/street food, so it's a difference worth noting.

From the owner: 來這裡必奌的：小籠湯包，燒賣，煎包，水煮牛肉，京醬肉絲，大腸煲，家常豆腐，醬鴨。read more

hoy lo considero uno de los mejores restaurantes de Buenos Aires. De la misma dueña de Cantina…read moreSunae, situado en el barrio de Chacarita en auge ahora. Todos sus platos son una delicia y una experiencia gastronómica de otro nivel. El lugar es difícil, no reservan, las mesas son chiquitas así q recomiendo ir de a 2, máximo 3 . En grupo puedo ser un poco más incómodo. Vayan a las 12:30 o a las 7:30 para no esperar una mesa porque la espera puede ser larga! Today I consider one of the best restaurants in Buenos Aires. From the same owner of Cantina Sunae, situated in Chacarita, very popular nowadays. Every dish is delicious, a gastronomic experience at another level. The place is difficult, they do not make reservations, the tables are really small so I would recommend to go only 2, max 3 pax. In group it can be uncomfortable. Go around 12:30pm or 7:30pm so you can get a table because the waiting can be long!

First of all this place is called Asian Cantina so don't let name Cantina Sunae fool ya. It was so…read moregood that we came back 2 nights in a row. Hot take: I think it's better than Nino Gordo. There was literally food on my face but the food was so good that the bigger concerns was getting another bite in mouth so I didn't wipe it off. - Drinks (basil lemonade and gin gimlet) - 12/10 - Roti - packed a punch of flavor and was also a little spicy (which we have been missing in this city). Wish I could put this in my pocket and eat it later back in the US. I got a little mad at my boyfriend cuz he ate most of it the second night but it's okay cuz we ordered a second one because it was that good. - 13/10 - Tempura Pao - Good but not great 7.5/10 - Khao Soi - very spicy but also very good! 10/10 - Tuna salad - more like ceviche 11/10

Came here on our trip to Buenos Aires once we started craving a different cuisine. We arrived at…read moreopening so it was pretty empty and the staff was friendly. My husband and I both ordered the Khao Soi and were glad to see it was vegetarian. It was delicious but so so spicy! We can handle Asian spice but this was next level. May be worth asking this to be made to your spice tolerance for this dish. The decor and ambiance was excellent, the food was tasty! Recommend overall.

We order from here all of the time!!! we are addicted.. the flavors are spot on, chicken and tofu…read moreis super crispy and the kimchi is really nice. If you get the spicy sauce, be prepared.. it is spicy and quite lovely!!! all in all really good solid flavors!

Bad dough from the dumplings. The fillings are also a problem. The ramen also misses - there is no…read morebalance in the flavor. We were disappointed. But the service is excellent - it's true.

While I don't recall my mother ever saying it, received wisdom is that if you have nothing nice to…read moresay, don't say it. On the other hand, if a picture is worth a thousand words, the following five photos are spewing out a 5k monologue that ought, at least in brevity, be stood up to. This place is dedicated to the world of dumplings, and offers up a quartet of different ethnic types, plus a few random other dishes. Anemic, flavorless, oily, chicken wings, and hey, only 40 pesos for 3 of them. Chinese - they look pretty, they're folded beautifully. They belie the unseasoned pork and green onion filling. The mound of shaved raw cabbage with some sort of creamy dressing drizzle has more flavor. Actually, the cabbage without the dressing has more flavor. 180 pesos for 8. The Thai style have almost no filling. What there is, does taste of ginger. There's more cabbage. Oh, condiments... they have soy sauce, and salt. 180 pesos for 8. The Korean "spicy"... surely there will be... no, no there's not. Did I mention that all the dumplings are undercooked so that the edges where they're pinched together are basically raw pasta dough? More cabbage. 180 pesos for 8. Perhaps the vegetable momo, which doesn't list an ethnicity, but that would typically be somewhere around Tibet or Bhutan. The filling here, of mushroom and tofu, actually has some decent flavor, but there's so little of it in relation to the whopping steamed bun - maybe two tablespoons inside a 5″ ball of dough tastelessness, that it may as well not be there. Again, more cabbage. 180 pesos for 1. With four of us, we were still hungry, and, at least, keeping in the same general theme, I suggested we head a block north to Bao Kitchen, where I'd been, but the others hadn't. One of our number suggested that it would at least get the taste of the dumplings off our palates - I beg to differ, there was no taste to get rid of. 'nuff said about Dumpling House.

Way back, many moons ago, like November 2005, I had stumbled upon BuddhaBA, a pan-asian spot that,…read morewhile never having the quality or variety of fare that I later found at Captain Cook (no longer open) or Cantina Sunae (not open at the time), always had a classy elegance about it, and I particularly liked the tea garden for after lunch sipping. Sadly, it closed last year, it had been limping along for awhile. It sat vacant for a bit, and then suddenly, about two months ago, underwent a rapid renovation and flung its doors open as Yüt, in Barrio Chino. While still pretty, it's not near as elegant as it used to be - they've gone for more booths than tables, and for soft, neutral colors. On their website, they tout that they are a truly classic Taiwanese restaurant. On their menu it says they're a Cantonese restaurant. And, about a third of the dishes are identified as Sichuan. So, a mix, like most Chinese spots here. The menu itself is interesting - it's a beautiful, photo-laden, spiral bound affair. Each dish has a letter rather than a price next to it. And on each table, there's a price card that tells you how much dishes with that letter cost. It's a little tedious to zip back and forth, though basically, the further along the letter in the alphabet, the higher the price. It's also smart on the restaurant's side for ease of changing prices - something that given the handwritten changes on the price card already noted, in the six weeks they've been open, they've already done at least once. One of the best hot and sour soups we've encountered in BA. Packed with flavor and had a kick to it, and a really good texture. Most hot and sour soups we've had tend to have those wood ear or black mushrooms in them, this didn't, which was noted, but didn't take away from how good the soup was. A steal given that six of us split this, for 490 pesos. A simple stir-fry of green beans and pork. Good flavors, it might have been better if the pork was a bit more distributed, given that it was ground pork - it was all in clumps. But other than that, we really liked this one. 390 pesos. A little disappointing on the "super spicy" Sichuan beef dish. Almost no chili in it, and only maybe a couple of scattered szechuan peppercorns. The beef was a little chewy, too. Meh. 490 pesos. Mixed reactions to this one. It was billed as crispy fried oysters, but turned out to be simply stir-fried oysters topped with a pile of "crunchy bits" of really crispy sort of tempura batter, peppers, and fermented black beans. I think some of the negative reaction was that we were all expecting individually battered and deep fried oysters, but that may simply be a bad translation of the Chinese dish. The flavors were great, the oysters were fresh. I personally loved the dish. Quite pricey at 880 pesos, though there were a good number of oysters on the plate, and they're not cheap here. Oddly, the last dish to come out, we'd expected it first... I mean, dumplings. Good, but not anything special. Filled with a nice pork and chive filling, good wrappers, but a bit oily. 390 pesos for a dozen of them isn't bad though. Add in a big bowl of rice (320 pesos, or individual ones at 80 pesos each, so we saved over getting six individual portions, and it was more than we ended up eating), and drinks, and it was still a pretty reasonable outing at 670 pesos apiece with tip, or around $11. Oh, and the tea garden is gone - replaced by Yüt Express, a quick eats and takeout counter - that I'll check out at some point to see how different the fare is there.

One of my worst if not the worst experience ever. We sat down and almost an hour later the two…read moresmall appetizers arrived to the table. Not even an asian inspired sauce for them. On top of that, our main dishes were not even being prepared yet. No apologies from the server, nor management. I'm very disappointed.