Chinese food in Las Vegas: the Strip and the street
Las Vegas has been a Chinese food city since the casinos began courting Asian high-rollers in the 1980s, and the result is unusual: a handful of the most opulent Chinese dining rooms in America on the Strip, and three miles of Spring Mountain Road — Chinatown — where Cantonese, Sichuan, Taiwanese, Shanghainese and Northern Chinese kitchens cook for a local community and stay open until the small hours. The Strip rooms cost five times as much; the street has the better dumplings. This guide covers dim sum, the regional cuisines, hot pot, noodles and the late-night question, with 2026 price ranges. Menus change and Chinatown hours shift; check each restaurant's site or social feed.
Dim sum: where to go and how to order
Chinatown dim sum is served from late morning to mid-afternoon, mostly from menus you tick rather than carts. Ping Pang Pong inside the Gold Coast casino, a mile west of the Strip, is the city's consensus best — cart service at weekends, a long Cantonese menu, and a room that fills with Chinese families by 11am. Chuan's and Harbor Palace on Spring Mountain are the traditional banquet-hall options. Yummy Rice and Niu-Gu cover the modern, smaller-plate end. On the Strip, Mott 32 at The Palazzo does the most refined dim sum in the city at dinner, and Wing Lei offers a small selection.
Ordering: har gow, siu mai, char siu bao, cheung fun, turnip cake, egg tarts; add a plate of greens and a congee. Budget $20–35 per person in Chinatown and $60–100 at Mott 32. Arrive before 11:30am at weekends or expect a wait.
The Strip's grand rooms
Wing Lei at Wynn — the first Michelin-starred Chinese restaurant in America — is the most beautiful, with a pomegranate-tree courtyard and the Strip's best Peking duck. Mott 32 at The Palazzo is louder, more modern and equally serious about the duck and the barbecue. Red 8 at Wynn and Blossom at ARIA are the resorts' more casual Chinese rooms, open late and good for a bowl of noodles after a show. Genting Palace at Resorts World is the newest of the grand rooms and among the most authentically Cantonese. Hakkasan at MGM Grand is the London brand's glamorous dining room attached to its nightclub. Expect $80–200 a head at Wing Lei, Mott 32 or Genting Palace with drinks; $40–70 at Red 8 and Blossom.
Sichuan, Northern, Taiwanese and Shanghainese
The regional cooking is Chinatown's real strength. Chengdu Taste on Spring Mountain is the Sichuan benchmark — toothpick lamb, boiled fish in chilli oil, mapo tofu — and worth the wait. Shang Artisan Noodle hand-pulls its noodles to order in a small shop that always has a queue. Xiao Long Dumplings and Shanghai Taste cover soup dumplings. Big Wong does Cantonese roast meats and wonton noodles cheaply and late. Mian Sichuan Noodle is the Sichuan noodle specialist. Dumpling House and the Northern-style places along the western end of the street do lamb skewers, cumin beef and hand-cut noodles. Plates run $12–25 and two people eat well for $40–70. For the full street see our Spring Mountain Road guide.
Hot pot and Korean-Chinese crossover
Hot pot has exploded in the last few years. Chubby Cattle on Spring Mountain runs a conveyor-belt Mongolian hot pot with premium wagyu options; Haidilao, the Chinese chain famous for its service and noodle-dancing, has a large branch nearby; Xiao Long Kan and Liuyishou do the fiery Chongqing style. Budget $35–70 a head, more with wagyu, and book at weekends because tables turn slowly. The same street holds the city's best Korean barbecue, a useful backup when hot pot is full — see the Chinatown guide.
Late night: Chinese food after midnight
This is where Chinatown beats the Strip outright. Big Wong, several congee-and-noodle houses and the hot pot rooms serve until 1–3am; Red 8 at Wynn and Blossom at ARIA run late on the Strip for a resort-priced bowl of noodles; and the 24-hour Noodle Asia at Venetian is the Strip's reliable all-night option. For the full picture see late-night eats. Order congee, wonton noodles, roast duck over rice, or a plate of salt-and-pepper squid; the kitchens are fast and the bill is small.
Prices, tips and mistakes to avoid
Ranges as of 2026, subject to change: Chinatown dim sum $20–35 per person, regional plates $12–25, hot pot $35–70; Strip Chinese rooms $80–200 per person with drinks, Peking duck $100–130 per bird at Wing Lei or Mott 32. Tips are 18–20% at sit-down restaurants. Mistakes: booking Wing Lei for the duck and forgetting to order it in advance; arriving at dim sum after noon on Sunday; ordering "mild" at Chengdu Taste and being disappointed (medium is correct); treating Chinatown as a single restaurant rather than a street to walk; and skipping it altogether because the Strip has a Chinese room — it is a different and better experience.
