We found this little dim sum restaurant around the corner from our Airbnb. Cash only when you go!…read moreThey do reserve tables so make one or get there between 5-630. They are only open for dinner. It is a cozy spot with wonderful dumplings and Shumai. There are vegan options for the filling as well as things for the carnivores. We got soup dumplings and a variety of others. My friend ordered a delicious wood ear filled dumplings and some small plates as apps. Do not walk past this one. It is worth the stop. Our dumpling baskets were stacked 2 foot tall when we were done.

As asian dim sum lover I have to disagree with the great ratings for this place. Maybe because this…read morearea has less options for dim sum? Anyways the dim sum is mediocre and we left very disappointed. Taste, portion, everything. If you are looking for authentic good dim sum, you'll find asian locals eating at Aroma restaurant in Kantstrasse (West Berlin). Sorry! Besides the Prenzlauer Berg and Young Generation vibe.. thIs place is nothing for me.

There is no shortage of Asian restaurants in this area. But I'm here about once a week. My better…read morehalf is Asian and is very conscious about good food. Good honest food (for the fancy stuff with abalone and gold glitter you have to go elsewhere), great dim sums, friendly service, well located, ... 'Nuff said.

Review from stil in Berlin: Dan's Dim Sum…read moreWith no lesser intent than to bring the best Dim Sum to the capital, this place has been recommended to me by a very trusted source on all things Chinese, Ash Lee. While she was also quick to admit Dan's isn't that great for vegetarians, I am still hooked enough to travel north to find out what Dan means with "best". Dan's Dim Sum, Gleimstrasse 17, Prenzlauer Berg

Goji serves truly amazing food! The duck was delicious. The dumplings! The Fried Rice. One dish…read moremore delicious than the other. Add to that a super attentive owner and you have the perfect recipe for a great meal. Great job GOJI!!!

+: location is easy to find, friendly staff who speak the dialect from Hong Kong…read more -: they offer German Chinese food (at least for the main dishes), with which I mean most of the food is adapted to German flavoring, and only a few of them tastes like local Chinese/Hong Kong food.

We stopped here New Years Day Eve to enjoy a 2025 celebration. They had a 3 and 4 course menu and…read morewe chose the 3 course. It started off with the mushroom and chicken soup. Delicious flavor and presentation. Cooked perfectly, broth could have used a bit more depth in flavor but I rounded it out with a touch of ground pepper. The dumpling with side sauces were absolutely wonderful and nicely prepared. Assortment of meats and vegetables all loaded and steamed to perfection. The entree deserves top billing as it was arranged beautifully which mirrored the delicious flavor of the meat and accompanying vegetables. Loads of flavor, cooked perfectly and married with a nice sauce. The highlight was a glass of champagne offered at the start of the meal. Bubbly, not overly sweet and it was a great way to start the meal. Highly recommended. Beautiful location, very clean and nicely decorated for the holidays. Wir haben am Silvesterabend hier angehalten, um eine Feier für 2025 zu genießen. Es gab ein 3- und 4-Gänge-Menü und wir haben uns für das 3-Gänge-Menü entschieden. Es begann mit der Pilz- und Hühnersuppe. Köstlicher Geschmack und Präsentation. Perfekt gekocht, die Brühe hätte etwas mehr Geschmackstiefe vertragen können, aber ich habe sie mit einer Prise gemahlenem Pfeffer abgerundet. Die Knödel mit den Beilagensaucen waren absolut wunderbar und schön zubereitet. Auswahl an Fleisch und Gemüse, alles perfekt geladen und gedünstet. Die Vorspeise verdient höchste Anerkennung, da sie wunderschön angerichtet war, was den köstlichen Geschmack des Fleisches und des dazugehörigen Gemüses widerspiegelte. Jede Menge Geschmack, perfekt gekocht und mit einer schönen Sauce gepaart. Das Highlight war ein Glas Champagner, das zu Beginn der Mahlzeit angeboten wurde. Sprudelnd, nicht zu süß und es war ein toller Start in die Mahlzeit. Sehr empfehlenswert. Wunderschöne Lage, sehr sauber und schön für den Feiertag dekoriert.

Food - yummy! If you are in the museum island area and craving for Chinese cuisine, i recommend…read morethis. Their egg, chicken, and shrimp fried rice was really good! Their shrimp dimsum and pork siomai are yum too! Then of course, how can you go wrong with their Jolly half peking duck! All good! Service - meh. There were only 4 servers to an almost full restaurant at 1pm. But you just make eye contact and smile and they will notice you. Ambiance - nice! Like those nice chinese restaurant, no smell of their cooking. I was surprised. Before you raise your eyebrows on my comment, I just want to point out that I have been to those that smells like their food, sometimes its off-putting, sometimes its not. Overall, highly recommend. :)

Dish was salty so I pivoted to dim sum on my next visit. I concluded that restaurants in Mite are…read moregenerally saltier than the American palette is accustomed to. Three stars for the salty gung bao chicken, four stars for the dim sum and the service.

Casual dining, Chinese restaurant located a short walk up the road from the Friedrichstraße rail…read morestation in Mitte (~5min walk). Menu includes a range of typical Chinese dishes, but the real attraction is their 'hot pot' specials where they set up a simmering pot of soup (you can get the soup as mild or spicy as you like) on a burner in the middle of the table with a variety of seafood, meats, vegetables and noodles to cook at the table. It's the perfect way to warm up on a chilly day! Prices for the hot pot combinations are very reasonable, making this a good value and fun way to share a meal with a group I have not tried many of the items from the regular menu, but did order their noodle soup for lunch once - I was not particularly impressed by it. Stick to the hot pot if you feel like a warm soup/noodle type of meal. They also have a small range of dim sum that are quite tasty bites. I like making a meal of it by ordering a few different items. Depending on how hungry I am, I can order more or less. My favorite here is the har gaw (steamed shrimp dumpling) with a nice dip in chili sauce before popping into my mouth.

This hole-in-the-wall is a beloved part of the restaurant scene in Berlin, if the long lines…read more(pre-Covid) I've waited in are anything to go by. (I once saw a person pick up their food and promptly enter the apartment building right next door, and envy him for having this place as a neighbor.) I literally stumbled upon Lon Men's for the first time when I was staying at a hotel a few blocks away on Uhlandstraße and made the quick decision to grab an early lunch there. (Pro tip when life returns to normal: this place gets crowded for lunch or dinner, so swing by during the off-peak hours if you're eating in.) Frigid Berlin winter or not, anything Lon Men's serves up will warm your heart right up. The first time I ate in, I was left in such a cozy food coma that I accidentally left my bag behind... only for the server to quickly rush out to return it to me just mere seconds after I walked out the door. How's that for friendly and attentive service, like previous Yelp reviews have mentioned? And yes, as a SF native living in Berlin, sometimes I did crave comfort food other than döner... the sautéd duck with noodles and vegetable hit the spot for those moments of homesickness.

Curiosity got the better of us and we stopped by an Asian restaurant (Taiwanese) to be exact to try…read morehow Taiwanese food was interpreted in Germany. The proprietor is a boss-looking Taiwanese guy who speaks Chinese, English, German and presumably more. Food was served hot and fast -- we got dim sum, hot oil wontons, crispy duck noodle soup and some tea. Dim sum and wontons were honestly nothing special (the shrimp dumplings had chicken filling combined with the shrimp, which was a big miss in my opinion) but the crispy duck was quite tasty and definitely the highlight of the meal. It's clear that they've had to make modifications to accommodate the mostly German clientele that they serve. Hence, not the most authentic of places but pretty good food nonetheless. If I wanted to try Asian food in Berlin again, I'd probably go to Goji or maybe one of the handpulled noodle restaurants.

I am a dumpling lover so I had to try this restaurants as it is listed as one of the best in…read moreBerlin! I am a pescetarian and I'd say the prawn dumping was by far the best. We had to have a second helping. The price was fair for the amount of food but I missed having a bit of sauce on the side for some of the dumplings.

This food is delicious! Never heard of such a place before, but was simply walking by as I had to…read morewait an hour for my appointment at the Zullasungstelle down the street. Walked in, met a very friendly staff that recommended me the Beef dumplings, and I also ordered the pumpkin/pea dumplings. I'm literally just through the pumpkin/pea dumplings right now and realized I had to write in Yelp asap about these guys. In the picture is the beef dumplings only (b9 on the menu I believe) as I was starving and chomped on the pumpkin/pea set immediately. Highly recommended and I'll be back here even without an appointment at the Zulassungstelle! :-)

Har gow tasted right and had good texture, not mushy. I like that it arrived in a steamer stop my…read moreother item, the shumai. Food-wise that's all I ordered that I'd consider good or worth ordering again. Shumai appeared freshly made but wasn't authentic. It did contain a generous amount of ground meat but lacked ginger and scallion and a rich, complex enough flavor in general. Tapas I ordered were also a bit lackluster. Fried tofu was definitely better than the coconut shrimp - avoid coconut shrimp at all costs if you want to taste any coconut,l. But if you want simply fried shrimps without any spice it's not bad. Tofu could use more salt, pepper, and other spices. They really tried with that one though. As other noted the environment is pretty chill and trendy. No issues with service. They also have lunch specials.

I came here for my birthday! My food averaged 3-8 euros per dish…read more I recommend the avocado salad, the spicy calamari dish (this is not the exact name), the shrimp spring rolls, and of course the dim sum. I really like the atmosphere of the restaurant + they play American hip hop and R&B!

Stop the world: there's finally an authentic restaurant in Berlin that whips up a proper Chinese…read morebreakfast. While there's a bit of a markup because we aren't in New York, San Francisco, or Los Angeles (read: hubs for good Chinese food), I think it's still worth stopping by this tiny little restaurant in Wilmersdorf over the weekend if you're craving some dim sum, baos, or youtiao. (It's conveniently located on four U-Bahn lines: the U1, U2, U3, and U9, so you don't really have much of an excuse.) Sadly, I wasn't able to order the xiao long bao because I no longer eat red meat -- what a time to live in Germany, right? -- but every other party in the room had at least one native Mandarin speaker who took the initiative to order xiao long bao for their tables. From my eavesdropping, they all seemed pretty pleased. I ordered a single youtiao (€1), a vegetable bun (€1.50), an order of four ha gow (€3.50), and a glass of hot homemade soy milk (€2.50). For those who aren't already familiar with Chinese cuisine, the menu lacks item descriptions and is a little barren. For example, the highlight of my meal was hands down the vegetable bao, but the menu only describes it as a "steamed bun" auf Deutsch. I don't think that does the savory combination of mushrooms, cabbage, and carrots justice. €1.50 is also a very reasonable price, seeing as a bao goes for $1.50-2 in San Francisco. The ha gow was a little pricier and a bit smaller than what it would've been in San Francisco, but there was still a decent amount of shrimp inside and it tasted delicious, so no complaints!

Packs a punch, a large one. Given the audience and locals might not have an appetite for so much of…read morethe numbing spice, I was pleasantly surprised at Liu's throwing caution to the winds and just going for it. I thought it was as good as some of the dan dan noods I've had in the san francisco bay area. Good on them!

Surprisingly good Sichuan noodles in Berlin Mitte. I mean,…read moreberlin is probably the world capital of "good but not great" food - everything is good, but you are very rarely blown away. And there is this place - which is, genuinely, amazingly, great. The noodles have the right tooth, the broth is unctuous and umami laden, the meats/veggies/tofu/... are done just right - I mean, this is amazeballs! And yeah, you can get all the ma-la fix that you want - just be wary of the lunch rush...