The Best Chinese Restaurants in Israel (2026)

Chinese food has been part of Israel’s dining landscape for decades — long before the current Asian-food boom. For years it meant the neighbourhood Chinese restaurant: a reliable, family-run kitchen turning out sweet-and-sour, fried rice and a wok counter, often kosher, often the only “Asian” option in town. Some of those places are still going strong after forty years. Alongside them, a newer wave has arrived — hand-folded dim sum stalls, a dedicated Sichuan kitchen, gyoza and dumpling bars, and Hong Kong-style street snacks — pushing the scene well beyond the old template.

This guide is for anyone chasing the real thing: Hong Kong and Cantonese expats missing home cooking, mainland and Taiwanese diners, and Israelis who want genuine regional Chinese food rather than a generic “Asian fusion” menu. It is part of our guide to the best Asian restaurants in Israel, and sits alongside our companion guides to the best Vietnamese restaurants in Israel and Asian supermarkets in Israel. Every place below is a real, verified entry in our community directory — we have not padded the list with invented restaurants, and where our records are thin we say so.

Cantonese & dim sum

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Israel’s audience for this guide skews Hong Kong and Cantonese, so this is where we start — and, happily, it is also where some of the country’s most authentic Chinese cooking lives.

Long Sang

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One of the oldest authentic Chinese restaurants in Israel, Long Sang in Haifa has been serving Cantonese cuisine from Guangdong province for 41 years. If you want to understand how deep Chinese food’s roots in Israel really go, this is the address — a genuine Cantonese kitchen that predates almost everything else on this list. Worth the trip for anyone in the north, or anyone serious about the cuisine.

Yan Yan Chinese Restaurant

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Another Haifa veteran, Yan Yan has been operating for around four decades. It is run by a Chinese family who fled Vietnam and rebuilt their lives in Israel — their children now serve in the IDF. The food is classic neighbourhood Chinese, but the story behind the kitchen is part of what makes it worth knowing. Between Long Sang and Yan Yan, Haifa quietly holds two of the country’s oldest Chinese restaurants.

Hong Bao

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A hand-made dim sum stall inside Sarona Market in Tel Aviv, run by a Chinese chef who previously worked as a tour guide. The dim sum is folded by hand on site, there are vegan options, and it does delivery — a rare chance to eat genuine dim sum without a full sit-down restaurant. Open daily with shorter Friday hours. For a quick, authentic bite in central Tel Aviv, it is hard to beat.

Hong Kong Dim Sum

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A dim sum restaurant in downtown Tel Aviv built around dumplings, spring rolls and noodles, with vegan and gluten-free-friendly options. Where Hong Bao is a market stall, this is the closer thing to a sit-down dim sum meal in the city centre. Details beyond the menu are thin in our records, so check current hours before heading over.

HaAnoi HaSinit

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Despite the Vietnamese-sounding name, this is a Cantonese-style Chinese restaurant — in the Resco Shopping Center on Rager Boulevard in Beer Sheva. It does delivery and sits at a mid-range price point. For Cantonese food in the south, where Chinese options are scarce, this is the one to know.

Sunflower

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A Chinese and Asian restaurant in Rishon LeZion that flags itself as Hong Kong-style. It is a mid-range neighbourhood spot on Taramat Bet Street — a useful address for HK-leaning Chinese food in the Shfela area south of Tel Aviv.

Sichuan & regional

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Málà Sichuan & Dumplings

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The most exciting recent addition to Israel’s Chinese map. Málà, on Lilienblum Street in Neve Tzedek, is a dedicated Sichuan kitchen — dandan noodles, mapo tofu, Sichuan chicken and handmade dumplings, with the numbing heat the region is known for. It also runs Korean and Taiwanese dishes, and has vegan options. For anyone who has been waiting for proper regional Chinese food in Tel Aviv rather than generic wok fare, this is it.

Cafe Taizu

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The “Asiaterranean” delivery kitchen from acclaimed chef Yuval Ben-Neriah, whose original Taizu restaurant helped redefine fine-dining Asian food in Tel Aviv. This is the delivery-focused arm of that world — refined pan-Asian cooking with Chinese roots, at the higher end of the price scale. Not a neighbourhood Chinese joint; a chef’s take on the cuisine.

Dumplings & noodles

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San Mei

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A handmade gyoza joint in Carmel Market, on Yom Tov Street. The core is classic Chinese dumplings folded by hand, with a few unexpected fillings — Filipino adobo and Russian-style — reflecting the market’s mix. Affordable, casual and central. A great low-commitment introduction to fresh dumplings.

San Mai Gyoza

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Billed as the city’s first gyoza bar, San Mai sits on the same Yom Tov Street in the Carmel Market area. The whole menu is built around the dumpling — pan-fried, filled and served bar-style. A focused, mid-range spot for anyone who wants to make a meal of gyoza rather than treat it as a side.

Mian Noodles

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A Chinese noodle restaurant in Jerusalem, well rated by diners (4.3 on TripAdvisor across 144 reviews). It is an affordable, noodle-focused kitchen — a welcome thing in a city where genuine Chinese options are limited. For a hand-pulled-noodle fix in the capital, start here.

Neighbourhood classics & kosher Chinese

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The backbone of Chinese food in Israel: dependable local kitchens, many of them kosher, found in cities across the country.

The Chinese Wall

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A Tel Aviv restaurant on Mikveh Israel Street describing itself simply as authentic Chinese food. It is a mid-range neighbourhood kitchen — the kind of dependable Chinese restaurant every city should have. No website, so call ahead for current hours.

Furama

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A long-running Chinese restaurant in Tel Aviv, well established with a solid TripAdvisor track record (4.1 across 80 reviews). A mid-range, classic Chinese kitchen rather than a trend-driven one — reliable rather than flashy.

Sheyan and Take A Wok

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Two related Jerusalem addresses. Sheyan, on Ramban Street, is a higher-end kosher Asian restaurant; Take A Wok, on Sarei Yisrael Street, is its more casual, mid-range sibling. Between them they cover both ends of the kosher Chinese spectrum in the capital — a useful pair to know if you keep kosher and want Chinese food in Jerusalem.

Pikansin and Chinatown

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Two kosher Chinese restaurants in Tel Aviv. Both are mid-range neighbourhood kitchens listed under Chinese cuisine; our records are thin beyond that, so treat them as kosher options to call ahead and explore. We list them because kosher Chinese food is genuinely useful information in this city.

Cooking it at home

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If this guide leaves you wanting to stock a Chinese pantry — soy sauces, Shaoxing wine, Sichuan peppercorns, dried noodles, dumpling wrappers — Israel’s Asian supermarkets are the place to go. We cover them in full in our guide to Asian supermarkets in Israel, essential reading for anyone cooking Chinese food at home.

Chinese food in Israel runs deeper than it gets credit for: forty-year-old Cantonese kitchens in Haifa, a real Sichuan restaurant in Neve Tzedek, hand-folded dim sum in Sarona, and dependable kosher neighbourhood spots in between. If you know a Chinese restaurant we have missed — especially a Hong Kong or Cantonese place — tell us. This guide and our directory grow with the community.