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Recommended authentic Chinese food to taste in Kyoto

[2023] 7 Recommended Authentic Chinese Restaurants in Kyoto

We have selected 7 Chinese restaurants where you can enjoy authentic taste. We will introduce you to authentic Chinese cuisine prepared by Chinese chefs and deep restaurants found in Kyoto's Little Chinatown. You're sure to discover local flavors you never knew existed!

1. [Chinese Cuisine Gaki] / Kitashirakawa

[Chinese Restaurant Goki], which mainly served Lanzhou ramen, will be renovated on January 1, 2023 with chef Chiang in the kitchen. The à la carte menu offers Sichuan cuisine, which he trained at a star hotel on the mainland, as well as dishes from Chiang's hometown of the Northeast. Taste traditional Sichuan cuisine flavored with Chinese chili peppers and deep Northeastern cuisine.

Chinese cuisine Goki's Sichuan-style pork and vegetable stew

Sichuan-style pork and vegetable stew 1080 yen. In addition to vegetables such as Chinese cabbage, cabbage, fungus, bamboo shoots, and thick vermicelli, it is filling.

Inside view of Chinese restaurant Aki

Chinese food Aki

  • Chinese food cow
  • 106-2 Ichijoji Tsukamotocho, Sakyo Ward, Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture
  • 4-minute walk from the bus stop "Kamisucho/Uryuyama Gakuen Kyoto University of the Arts"
    11 minutes walk from Eiden “Chayama Station”
  • Tel.080-5635-6332

2. [Kyokaen] Affordable authentic menu / Yamanouchi

[Kyokaen] was opened in front of Randen Yamanouchi Station in 2020 by Mr. Wu, a chef who built his career at a restaurant in Kyoto, and Mr. Son, the owner. Mainly home-cooked dishes from the Tohoku region of China, but also dishes that are familiar to Japanese people, such as sweet and sour pork and chinjao loin, and all menu items are reasonably priced at less than 1,500 yen.

Refreshingly stir-fried seafood from Kyokaen

Freshly stir-fried seafood for 1,100 yen. A simple yet luxurious dish made with ingredients such as shrimp, broccoli, scallops, and squid stir-fried with salt.

Interior view of Kyokaen

Kyokaen

  • Today's school
  • Yamayasu Building 1F, 49-3 Yamanouchi Nakahatacho, Ukyo Ward, Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture
  • 1 minute walk from Randen Yamanouchi Station
  • Tel.075-754-6838

3. Try authentic street food at [Ina Kokuriya]/Kuinahashi

A street food restaurant where Mr. and Mrs. Aoyama warmly welcome you. It's popular with international students attending nearby schools and Chinese people looking for a taste of their hometown, and the wife says, ``99% of the customers are Chinese,'' and it's nice to know that they speak Japanese. You can casually enjoy authentic flavors such as spicy duck dishes and liangpi as if you were at a food stall.

Yina/Kochuri's Liangpi

Handmade noodles are smooth and chewy ryanpi (special Chinese cold noodles) 680 yen. It goes great with the spicy sauce and once you eat it, you'll be addicted to it.

Interior of Ina/Kochuri

Ena/Kochuri

  • Ina Kitchen
  • 50-32 Fukakusa Kanjinbashicho, Fushimi Ward, Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture
  • 10 minutes walk from Kuinabashi Subway Station
  • Tel.075-756-3573

4. You can casually enjoy skewered hot pot [Authentic Sichuan skewered hot pot Gyuka Hachiba] / Kiyamachi

The owner, Mr. Chou, brought the Sichuan street food ``kushi-nabe'' to Kyoto, saying, ``I want Japanese people to know about it,'' which is a Sichuan street food that is still relatively unknown in Japan. After selecting your favorite hot pot soup, choose your favorite skewers and put them in the pot. Enjoy the stewed skewers with the special sauce full of condiments.

Authentic Sichuan skewer hot pot Gyuka Hachiba course

Course starts from 3,850 yen per person. The most popular soup is the combination of traditional soup and tomatoes. About 50 kinds of ingredients are ready for skewers

Interior view of authentic Sichuan skewered hotpot Niuhua Yaba

Authentic Sichuan skewered hotpot Niuhua Yaba

  • Honbashi Senku Shinabe Gyuukahachiba
  • SAKIZO Kiyamachi Building 3F, 215 Nabeyacho, Shijo Agaru, Higashikiyamachi-dori, Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto-shi, Kyoto
  • 1 minute walk from Hankyu "Kyoto Kawaramachi Station"
  • Tel.075-585-5225

5. I want to stuff my cheeks with a big mouth [Old Gun Pork Manju] piping hot steamed bun / Kuinabashi

Peking pork buns are made by an experienced chef who has been working in mainland China for over 30 years. Beijing-style pork buns are quite rare in Japan, and are characterized by their easy-to-eat size of about 5cm. Enjoy the authentic Beijing traditional way of eating pork buns with stewed liver and offal dishes.

Beijing pork buns from Laohou pork buns

The inside is filled with juicy pork bean paste that has been thickly cooked with Chinese soy sauce. 120 yen per piece of Beijing pork bun

old gun pork bun

old gun pork bun

  • Watanabe buns
  • November 30, 2022 open
  • 19-6 Takedakubo-cho, Fushimi-ku, Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture
  • 4 minutes walk from Kuinabashi Subway Station
  • Tel.075-279-0678
The information is subject to change. Please contact each store or facility directly for the latest information.
All prices include tax.
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