Hot pots are a house specialty. Designed for two or more to share. Thinly-sliced meats, tofu, napa cabbage, noodles and bean threads are cooked at the table in a communal pot of bubbling broth. Read more.
The truly-great-granddaddy of Japanese restaurants. Stuffs savory "doughnut-holes" with bits of octopus, sprinkled them with bonito flakes and called it tako-yaki. Read more.
Ever gargle molten lava? If so, the fire-brew burbling in Sichuanese Cuisine Restaurant ‘s notorious hot pot will taste familiar. There’s other Sichuan fare at this International District institution: Read more.
Get beyond the entry, with its clutter and its crab tanks—the room looks unchanged since the ’40s, which is odd since it opened in 1981—and you’re in for some of the most authentic... Read more.
The workingman’s cafe with the bistro sheen may look like a Chinatown storefront (this block’s a bit dodgy), but inside, the clattering and brightly lit 663 is really a Hong Kong–style cafe— Read more.
If it’s a cliche to adore this Jackson Street find—for carving a classy tropical destination out of a derelict strip mall, for making authentic Vietnamese food available to everyone, Read more.
Not even the cruelly fluorescent lighting in this Chinatown throwback diminishes its affable welcome nor the hold it has on the legions of fans who live for its bubbling hot pots and smoked duck. Read more.
This storefront treasure isn’t fancy, but it serves unheralded specialties from around the old royal capital of Huê, the epicenter of Vietnamese cuisine Read more.
Scarlet lanterns reading “Izakaya” light up the doorways of Tokyo snack bars, beckoning wary workers with early-evening belts and bites Read more.
A clothes closet feels spacious by comparison, but Samurai Noodle ’s “ramen-ya” is a near-perfect rendition of the tiny noodle shops of Japan Read more.
It does not get more old-school in Seattle than the century-old Maneki, a homey haunt of homely delights kept in line Read more.
Under the China Gate on King sits a cozy eight-table homage to the warming home-style pork dishes, noodles, and stinky tofus of Taiwan Read more.
The history of a transplanted culture is still wonderfully fragrant in ID places like Kobo, the Panama Hotel, and hole-in-the-wall mom-and-pop joints like Tsukushinbo. Read more.
Order the bone soup - it's not on the menu, so you'll feel like an insider.
