The Barrington Oaks Chinese restaurant focuses mostly on juicy dumplings, from soup dumplings to steamed pork and chive dumplings to fried vegetable dumplings. Other items include fried rice and lo mein and Chinese-American plates like General Tso’s chicken. The menu also ventures into Japanese dishes like ramen and udon. The restaurant has reopened for dine-in service and offers takeout and delivery through Favor.

Among the wide-ranging Asian menu of the North Austin strip mall restaurant, the mapo tofu and spicy fish are the standout dishes along with a soft eggplant with ground pork. Then there’s the Chinese food array at the grocery store’s small restaurant as well. Place pickup orders in person.

Rice and noodles are the heroes at Cantonese North Austin restaurant Rice Bowl Café with huge portions and fast delivery. The pork noodle soup is a standout dish: spicy and crunchy with fresh, handmade noodles. The restaurant has reopened for dine-in service and offers Grubhub pickup and delivery.

A Chinatown Center staple, First Chinese BBQ’s wide Cantonese-style menu includes everything from noodle soups, hot pot, to barbecue. Online ordering available for takeout.

This Chinese restaurant focuses on Sichuan fare, from pepper jumping fish to spicy boiled beef to mala fish with soft tofu. Pickup orders can be placed online and there are third-party deliveries.

The North Austin Chinese restaurant has lots of dumplings and hand-made noodles. Order online or in person.

The Taiwanese restaurant with two locations (the other just south of campus) is open for pickup orders and third-party deliveries, including bubble teas, noodles, rice, and meat-/vegetable-centric entrees, and more.

The Highland Chinese restaurant features plenty of great Sichuan specialities, from fish fillets drenched in chili oil to spicy Chongqing chicken to double cooked pork belly to a particularly great vinegar napa cabbage. The restaurant is open for dine-in or order online for pickups. There are two other locations: one by the University of Texas and another by Northcross Mall.

For hearty Chinese hand-pulled noodles and noodle soup dishes, Xian is the answer, especially those red-braised beef noodles. Both the Mueller and Domain locations of the Chinese noodle restaurant are open for pickups and deliveries placed online, and the restaurants have reopened for dine-in services.

Xian’s sibling shop Bao’d Up is dedicated to handmade Chinese steamed buns, with fillings from meaty and juicy (pork, brisket) to vegetarian and sweet (veggie, red bean, egg cream). There are five locations (the others in Sunset Valley, West Campus, Burnet Road, and Riverside). The restaurants are open for dine-in and accept online orders for pickups and deliveries.

Tso focuses on delivery and pickup Chinese-American food, with items like fried rice, pan-fried noodles, and tofu lettuce cups.

The founding dim sum chef of Wu Chow, Ling Qi Wu, opened her own Clarksville restaurant featuring plenty of her hit dumplings (including soup dumplings), alongside other noodle and rice dishes, plus meat and veggie entrees. There’s also Sunday dim sum.

The Clarksville restaurant is open for dine-in and pickup orders placed online.

With two locations in Austin, Chinatown is a blend of American and classic Chinese, dim sum, and even sushi. Chef specialties like the special beef are the stars. Chinatown is open for dine-in services, and online ordering for pickup or delivery is available.

Wu Chow boasts some of the best soup dumplings in Austin housed in a buzzy downtown destination. The cocktails are seriously good, as are the wide variety of menu items from braised eggplant to beef hugging scallions to Sunday dim sum. The restaurant has reopened for dine-in service, or order online for takeout.

Chen Z is all about Chinese noodles, naturally, from spicy beef noodle soup to fried rice noodles, paired with excellent scallion pancakes. (Look for and sibling restaurant Chen’s Noodle House up in Spicewood too.) The Oak Hill restaurant is open for takeout and delivery orders, and has reopened for dine-in service.

Find great Sichuan food in South Austin with Sichuan River, full of hot and dry pot, noodles, excellent mapo tofu, and more. The South Austin Chinese restaurant is open for pickups and deliveries (within a three-mile radius), and orders can be placed over the phone or via third-party apps. The restaurant has reopened for dine-in service.

The Taiwanese food truck at the Thicket is open for walk-up orders or advanced pickup orders placed through the phone, text messages, or its website. On deck are a variety of bento boxes and meals, featuring pork belly, pork chops, and chicken.