Downstairs at George Chen’s massive, multi-venue complex you’ll find a full menu of Chinese specialties, including customer favorites like crisp-bottomed sheng jian bao and Peking duck sesame pockets, while the more upscale Eight Tables upstairs serves a more expensive tasting menu. There’s also the swanky Cold Drinks Bar for cocktail fans, and don’t forget to peruse the marketplace’s selection of housemade condiments and snacks on your way out.

V.I.P. features the kind of eclectic menu that’s typical of a Hong Kong-style cafe: everything from baked pork chops over rice (or red-sauce spaghetti) and hot, sweet milk tea to stir-fried noodles and fried chicken wings. It’s also a bakery, with a full selection of cakes and pastries.

This Cantonese barbecue shop’s crackly-skinned roast pig and succulent, honey-brushed char siu make for some of most luxurious bites in the whole city. For most of Hing Lung’s existence, delivery was never an option, but to add another revenue stream, co-owner Eric Cheung finally signed onto Uber Eats under the moniker “Go Duck Yourself.” Old school Cantonese comfort food is the name of the game here: superlative roast duck and other barbecue meats, served either on their own or as part of a rice plate.

Chinatown’s most legendary egg tarts can be found at Golden Gate Bakery but since it’s still yet to reopen from its pandemic slumber (if it ever does), you can get your fix at Wong Lee Bakery, an itty bitty counter on Jackson Street. The egg tarts are everything you could want and more with a flaky crust — no soggy bottoms — and a smooth custard inside. If you’re particularly lucky, they’ll still be warm when you inhale them, which might be as soon as you step back out onto the sidewalk.

This Chinatown basement restaurant — whose history goes back some 90 years — serves some of the heartiest and most inexpensive Cantonese food in town. Customer favorites include old-school dishes like tomato-and-beef chow mein, salt-and-pepper fried pork chops, and steamed pork hash. The rice plates are an especially good deal, at just $9 or $10 a pop.

This is your prototypical Cantonese takeout deli with roast meats hanging in the window and big vats of prepared dishes sitting on the steam table. But the best reason to hit up New Golden Daisy is to get a big carton of its excellent fried chicken wings — drumettes, specifically.

This dim sum takeout joint is where you’ll find some of the longest lines in Chinatown. The main attractions are the giant steamers filled with every kind of bao (or bun) you can imagine, including a super-savory pork-and-vegetable bao and one of the best steamed charsiu (roast barbecue pork) buns in town.

The iconic, century-old restaurant is still open and serving its popular fish jook and barbecue pork rice rolls — including for takeout and app-based delivery. Those feeling a little more adventurous can go for the deluxe raw fish salad, with its mix of preserved vegetables and candied citrus rinds.

Capital remains a prime destination for large groups and rambunctious get-togethers in Chinatown. Whatever you do, don’t skip the salt-and-pepper fried chicken wings.

Known for its salt-and-pepper Dungeness crab and other elegant Cantonese dishes, R & G is a Chinatown staple, especially for seafood lovers and connoisseurs of Chinese-style roasted poultry. The dining rooms at this three-story restaurant are once again bustling, plus takeout and app-based delivery are available.

High-end places like Yank Sing and Dragon Beaux may get all the dim sum glory, but City View should share the spotlight for its very solid cart-style dim sum. The restaurant is open dine-in, with a wide selection of both classic dim sum items and larger entrées. For those not doing indoor dining, walk up, call in, or order online — with delivery available through all of the major third-party apps.