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STAY_5TRAPPED@reddit

The more important question is, is this place legit? Ive lived in Dallas County my entire life and all my friends who’ve become Texans in the recent years all tell me our Chinese is $**t.

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ALaccountant@reddit

Chinese food is not shit in DFW, wtf are you going? Plano and Richardson (in that order) have great, authentic, Chinese food

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STAY_5TRAPPED@reddit

Please, enlighten me. Genuinely looking for good, quality Chinese food.

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ALaccountant@reddit

Okay, so there’s several places.

Sichuan Folk - good sit down place on Legacy in Plano. Authentic food. Or at least used to be, I haven’t been since they moved to their new location.

Ztao on Coit and Park has a food court that I highly recommend. There’s a guy that makes his own noodles by hand every morning. There’s another place next to that one that sells Northern Chinese food (get the sweet pork loin, it’s basically an authentic version of orange chicken but WAY better).

There’s quite a few other places but I only know them by their location lol. Sorry.

Honestly, just search Chinese food in Plano. If it has Chinese characters in the name and decent google reviews, you won’t be disappointed. There’s a huge Chinese population there so anything mediocre or bad goes out of business quickly.

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sienrfsh@reddit

This is a terrible list. You need to review what people say on Xiao Hong Shu.

Sichuan Folk recycles their mala broths

Ztao food court is very dirty. I’ve seen the back kitchens

First BBQ buys their skewers frozen

Bamboo House is alright but more catered to white people’s tastes

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tronj@reddit

Happy to hear your suggestions if you want to contribute any

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ALaccountant@reddit

Yeah, my born and raised Chinese wife, her Chinese friends, don’t know what they are talking about. Go complain somewhere else troll - just complaints no alternative suggestions from you

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mattgoldey@reddit

Dumpling House, maybe?

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STAY_5TRAPPED@reddit

THIS is a great place to start. Thank you !!!

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rimjob_steve@reddit

Don’t forget wu Wei din in Plano too.

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ALaccountant@reddit

Re-read my comment. I just added a few other places

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STAY_5TRAPPED@reddit

You’re doing The Lord’s work!

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ALaccountant@reddit

This is just the tip of the iceberg, but there’s a LOT here in Plano and Richardson that I think will satisfy you.

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STAY_5TRAPPED@reddit

Oh, more than satisfied. Sounds like I’ve got a ton of new places to try.

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IveGotAFork@reddit

It depends what you’re looking for and if you’re willing to go outside of Dallas Proper. Chinese American food here like orange chicken or general tso’s can be good if you know where to go but on average its pretty subpar.

If you’re talking about authentic Chinese food its actually very good and we’ve got a ton of restaurants in Plano/Richardson that are top-notch for regional Chinese food like Cantonese food, Shanghainese, Sichuan, and even Uyghur and Taiwanese

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STAY_5TRAPPED@reddit

Oh, I’m sure you’re right! Even in the Greenville/635 area there are MANY regional Chinese restaurants, but I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t apprehensive, or downright intimidated to try them.

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IveGotAFork@reddit

I implore you to give Imperial Feast in Plano a try. They focus on Taiwanese cuisine which is extremely approachable. Mostly known for slow cooked braised pork belly over rice, and fried chicken cutlet or fried pork cutlet over rice which you can think is their version of a chicken fried steak

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STAY_5TRAPPED@reddit

Thank you! Will def look into Imperial Feast!

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STAY_5TRAPPED@reddit

Wow, getting downvoted for a question? Lmao. Reddit be like. Some people with lower comprehension ability must think I was trashing DFW Chinese food, when I’m simply stating what others have stated.

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belladonna_81@reddit

Omg no it’s BAD.

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STAY_5TRAPPED@reddit

I’d like to think I’ve a discerning palate, and outside of pre-pandemic BoBo China, I’ve not eaten quality Chinese since the late 90’s in the Dallas/Irving/Coppell area that I’ve spent a huge part of my life in.

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irad1111@reddit

Yeah it’s not the best

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Mar16celino@reddit

Interesting location choice. It's decent with a large portion maybe a lil pricey

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foppishmanabouttown@reddit

Not pricey at all. Portions are great and food is always tasty and fresh!

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jdjs44@reddit

I agree! This has been my go-to spot ever since they opened in 2008

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Stevenshy@reddit

Been around longer than that next to the fiesta

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Glass-Treat3319@reddit

Man I wish he had a meet and greet!

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ScottyMo1@reddit

Doesn’t he speak like 10 languages ?

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Cansum1helpme@reddit

Yeah I don’t know how he does it. If it’s Legit that’s pretty amazing

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tcappas@reddit

He’s very good at having basic conversations in a bunch of languages which is way more than I can claim. His mandarin is his best tho I’ve seen native speakers say it’s still just okay.

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scorched03@reddit

His mandarin is pretty good hence the surprised looks. The hardest is the accents which he seems to have gotten down too. He is also using the formal ways of talking to people i.e. the formal 'you' to customers so he knows enough.

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icywing54@reddit

Still probably better than a lot of English-speaker’s english

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Cansum1helpme@reddit

I know Spanish, a lil German and some French, but the non-Romance languages like Hindi, Chinese or Telugu are on another level!

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HashKing@reddit

He was talking to the line cooks in Spanish!

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James-the-Bond-one@reddit

18 languages, according to his channel's intro.

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exanthem@reddit

Who?

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KM964@reddit

Not Mike Jones.

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yaba01@reddit

Who?

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KM964@reddit

MIKE JONES

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lurkerlurking123@reddit

I was impressed by this guy like 4 yrs ago before youtube started shoving it down my throat

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BadGolferDallas@reddit

Ha. Saw that and had no idea it was in Dallas.

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UDMN@reddit

Wat

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SoggyBiscuitVet@reddit

He's speaking Chinese to the customers, and Spanish to the kitchen staff.

I'm slightly amused by the reality of this as I would expect it to have been fully staged, and if it is they definitely added texture to the background characters.

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EightEnder1@reddit

His channel is great, he speaks like 300 languages. The really touching videos are when he learns an obscure dying language and then surprises the older generations who are struggling to keep the language alive after they are gone.

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eventualist@reddit

300? I can barely do one.

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mtfw@reddit

Imo it's only staged in the sense that they got a ton of footage and only used the good stuff. He seems like a 100% genuine dude.

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Distinct-Hold-5836@reddit

Love this guy's YT channel

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indiestitiousDev@reddit

holy shit i didn’t recognize the guy at all... good for him.

he’s been chillin with Nikocado Avocado.

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2Old2BLoved@reddit

Who?

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FreeChickenDinner@reddit (OP)

Anybody here watch Xiaoma's channel? He was working the drive-thru at China Bowl Express in Dallas.

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Geoffrey-Jellineck@reddit

I watched it but had no idea that was in Dallas.

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DCJustSomeone@reddit

Wtf. I saw the video and it tripped me out when talked to the cook in Spanish 😂

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mattgoldey@reddit

Same. I figured it was in NJ.

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Virtual-Lobster1566@reddit

Everyone seems to ignore the fact that there’s a bunch of Mexicans cooking in the back.

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biscuitz23@reddit

It's the area, where this restaurant is, there's lot of hispanics. Which isn't a bad thing at all but explains why they would get a job there though. I use to go to this spot a lot when i was younger and they've always had hispanics cooking. Not a bad place either cause the food was at least consistent. But if you're trying to come to this restaurant for "authentic" asian food then... its not it.

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Amazing-Jump4158@reddit

That’s why it’s ignored, because that’s life in Texas. 30% of our population speaks Spanish. It’s who we are 👍👍

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Virtual-Lobster1566@reddit

I don’t ignore it it makes me question why there aren’t a bunch of Asian people cooking my Asian food. When I go to a Mexican restaurant I don’t see a bunch of Asians cooking my food. However I’ve seen in buffets it’s both Asians and Mexicans cooking the food.

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CatteNappe@reddit

Dallas is 42% Hispanic and 4% Asian. You do the math on how many of each are likely to be working in any food service establishment.

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Amazing-Jump4158@reddit

Wow. I’m not even going to attempt to engage with that….

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Virtual-Lobster1566@reddit

Idc about the color or ethnicity in a bad way. I just wonder why it is and how it changes things.

That lady was Asian and even though there were a bunch of (Hispanic) people working the food, it must be tasty enough for her to keep coming back.

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FreeChickenDinner@reddit (OP)

This video was posted on 10/23/2025, but he doesn't say when it's filmed.

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_ze@reddit

This used to be our spot when my wife and I lived in Lochwood. How random to see Xiaoma there! I love that he featured the owner, as well.

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gretafour@reddit

This guy is so obnoxious. And I’m also a white guy that speaks Chinese