This friendly spot on Williams Boulevard near the airport has a massive menu of darn good traditional Chinese fare. Get the salt and pepper oysters if they’re on special or try the Peking duck, a rare find at most New Orleans Chinese spots. (The pancakes are bun style, not the thin kind, but very good). Avoiding fried? Try the chicken lettuce wraps, a light dish that satisfies.

Tucked away by a Lakeview shopping center, this Cantonese restaurant is open, airy, and offers outside seating. There are well-priced traditional lunch specials but chef and owner Ming Joe has a few tricks up his sleeve. Besides the usuals for dinner, try the crawfish velvet, a riff on shrimp with lobster sauce and a sultry moo shu pork, with five pancakes.

喜歡冒險的食客愛這個Metairie熱點。如果bean curd skin, tripe with special sauce, and fried pork intestines aren’t your jam, crispy duck, orange beef and other traditional dishes more than suffice. The appetizer platter is a bargain, overflowing with egg rolls, wontons, fried shrimp, shrimp toast, crab ragoon, and barbecue ribs. Ask for the secret menu and get the soup dumplings.

Excitingly, this newcomer to the Metairie Chinese food scene focuses on Mandarin cuisine, with some Cantonese-style dishes also on the menu — bao, spicy soups, soy beef short ribs, and a specialty called dragon eye meatballs — pork and beef meatballs wrapped around whole boiled egg. It’s a cute and welcoming family-run spot right by the mall, great for fueling up after shopping or stopping by for takeout on the way home.

A Metairie standby for classic Chinese takeout, Egg Roll House is in its fourth decade and can still count on a loyal slew of regulars to keep it going. The throwback, diner-like interior and 80s fixtures is part of its charm.

New Orleanians love Five Happiness, a sprawling restaurant on Carrollton since 1979. Named for the Chinese tradition of five kinds of happiness: longevity, wealth, health, virtue, and peaceful death, Five Happiness adds a full belly to the list. The crispy whole fish with black bean sauce is a winner, ditto the Peking duck, which comes with ten thin crepes for bundling.

The joy of having spicy Sichuan food in the French Quarter is boundless for fans of the chili-driven fare from the province in southwest China. Absolutely try the xiao long bao, or soup dumplings, made with ground pork, ginger, and garlic swimming in a searing hot broth — best to coddle the dumpling in a spoon and gently poke it with the chop stick to let the steam out, and make it easy to slurp. Also say yes to pan fried pork dumplings and shrimp wonder in garlic chili sauce.

This family-run restaurant is a newcomer to the French Quarter, serving a full menu of both Chinese and Thai specialties right by Cafe du Monde on Decatur Street. It’s a pretty, modern space, with great cocktails, lo mein, peking duck, and the hot wok, a Sichuan-style dish of meat, onion, green pepper, cauliflower, jalapeno, and garlic tossed with spicy brown sauce. Cool down with the mango sticky rice.

Jung’s is a popular spot Chinese-American fare, with a few Korean and Thai dishes thrown into the mix. A fixture in New Orleans for close to four decades, Jung’s keeps prices low even for specialty items on their Chinese menu, which offers the likes of boiled fish in hot sauce, spicy pan-fried chicken, and fiery ma po tofu. For the more conservative of palate go-tos include shrimp with lobster sauce and pork fried rice.

Chef Hao Gong elevates everything he touches to another level, and while his mastery with sushi isLuvi’scalling card, his Chinese dishes, both hot and cold, are fantastic as well. The menu changes often, but usually features heavenly curried favor dumplings — beef and caramelized onions wrapped in the featherweight dough and swimming in a lightly curried broth — as well as Shanghai baby back ribs and crispy spring rolls.

Right off the freeway tucked behind a Best Buy on the Westbank, Hong Minh has an excellent menu of Chinese specialties, alongside some traditional Vietnamese and Asian fusion dishes. It’s a hidden gem for takeout, with menu highlights that include the Mongolian beef, Peking duck, wonton soup, and beef with broccoli.

The only place around that serves traditional dim sum from push carts, Panda King on the West Bank has always drawn hordes to the Hong Kong brunch of steamed dumplings, baked buns, roasted duck, and pork. It’s still serving authentic dim sum off the menu for dining in and for takeout, and with rigorous safety precautions in place, cart service is offered on weekends.