The best Chinese restaurants in Mexico City to celebrate the Year of the Fire Horse

February successful Mexico City ever has the consciousness of Rafael Bernal’s noir novels and the aroma of saccharine and sour pork and luck cookies. As always, the Mexican superior goes each retired successful its celebrations for the Chinese New Year. We observe successful expansive benignant alongside the assemblage of accepted restaurateurs who person created absorbing fusions betwixt their ain culinary civilization and that which they learned here, successful the state we share.

Between dragons, fireworks and small reddish envelopes, the celebrations of the Year of the Fire Horse are conscionable astir the country this month. So, get your hot-pot belly ready! Here’s our digest of the champion Chinese restaurants successful Mexico City to observe Chinese New Year successful 2026.

El Dragón

El Dragón’s Peking duck is truthful good, each Chinese idiosyncratic successful Mexico City tin archer you astir it. (Paul Tseng/El Dragón Restaurante Chino)

Nowhere successful Mexico City volition you find a amended Peking duck. As you participate done the Chinese Imperial decorated gates, you tin odor the scent of the duck softly sizzling successful the backmost of the room. As it is their prima dish, they hired a idiosyncratic exclusively to instrumentality attraction of the roasted ducks — different than the chef, of people — which are near implicit the occurrence for astatine slightest 8 hours: it is arsenic if helium were a sentinel dedicated to ensuring the cleanable lacquer.

The portions are generous, truthful we highly urge booking a array for bigger parties. Besides the duck, the wonton crockery is excellent, and ordering atom noodles to stock is ever a large idea.

Where? Hamburgo 97, Juárez, Cuauhtémoc.

Cantón Mexicali (廣東墨西加利)

If you’re looking for an edgy premix of Mexicali-inspired cuisine and the Chinese finest dishes, Cantón Mexicali is your choice. (Sergio Téllez/Cantón Mexicali)

After a ample influx of Chinese immigrants to Mexicali successful the northwestern authorities of Baja California successful the aboriginal 20th century, a unsocial — yet fantastic — operation of coastal dishes and Chinese spices emerged successful the region. Cantón Mexicali, located connected the borderline betwixt the Condesa and Roma neighborhoods, was besides calved from this clash of cultures.

Although the portions aren’t arsenic ample arsenic successful different accepted Chinese restaurants, it’s ever worthy sharing. The three-mushroom outpouring rolls served with oyster fried atom transport you consecutive to the Canton portion successful confederate China, wherever dishes are steamed and not arsenic spicy arsenic successful different parts of the country.

Where? Av. Álvaro Obregón 264, Hipódromo, Cuauhtémoc.

Dong Zi Gongfu Te

There is nary spot successful Mexico City with a amended assortment of dim sum than the  Dong Zi Gongfu Te. (VTM Matsueda/Gong Zi Gongfu Te)

Also referred to simply arsenic “Hong Kong” among Colonia Narvarte dwellers, this is Mexico City’s dim sum sweetheart. As happens successful respective Chinese places successful the neighborhood, the paper is written successful Mandarin, and you often indispensable inquire for suggestions from the waiter. However! You tin spot a good Chinese edifice erstwhile each its customers are, well, Chinese. When you dine astatine Dong Zi Gongfu Te, you seldom perceive immoderate Spanish. Or immoderate Western connection whatsoever.

Their saccharine and sour chickenhearted is simply spectacular, ever with a broadside of fantastic fried atom with vegetables. If you’d similar to effort their specialized dim sum buffet, retrieve it’s a play special, and ever effort to get earlier noon. The work ends astatine 2:30 p.m. (officially, astatine slightest — diners usually gobble up everything earlier 1 p.m.). Also, delight enactment that the edifice does not judge recognition paper payments, truthful it’s champion to bring currency oregon beryllium prepared to marque a slope transfer.

Where? Dr. José María Vértiz 692, Narvarte Poniente, Benito Juárez.

Hong King

The seasoned pork ribs, Chow Mein chickenhearted and lotus crockery are must-haves astatine this place, located successful the bosom of Mexico City’s Chinatown. (Lalo Padilla/Hong King astatine Barrio Chino)

And last, but surely not least, we indispensable marque an honorable notation to this historical jewel successful the bosom of Mexico City’s Chinatown. The walls of this spot clasp the echoes of the archetypal Chinese migration to Mexico City, backmost successful the 1930s. Established successful the 1960s, Hong King edifice has established itself arsenic a awesome of accepted Chinese nutrient successful the capital.

And however could it not? The founders came from the Canton portion straight to Mexico City’s Chinatown to physique a concern that has been successful the marketplace for implicit 60 years now. With implicit 160 classical Chinese dishes, the nutrient present tastes of contented and the tireless enactment of generations who person passed the recipes from manus to hand. Although the spot is celebrated for its Peking duck, don’t miss the Kung Pao chickenhearted oregon the dumplings.

Where? Callejón Dolores 25 A, Centro Histórico, Cuauhtémoc.

Andrea Fischer contributes to the features table astatine Mexico News Daily. She has edited and written for National Geographic en Español and Muy Interesante México, and continues to beryllium an advocator for thing that screams science. Or yoga. Or both.