We were looking for a dinner option close to our hotel and happened upon Futo. The food was all…read morereally delicious and the staff was friendly at working through our inability to speak the local language. We were really pleased with the taste and quality, but were a bit floored at the prices compared to what we are used to back home. However, they seem to be aligned to typical Swiss prices, so it was something for us to get used to. May want to look into making a reservation if you plan to go during busy time as it is a popular spot with only a few tables.

Good food. Good prices. Friendly staff. As the german yelp says for 4 stars: "Genau so sölls si!".read more

Sweet little spot on the way to Basel Minster! Stopped by for a mid day boba bevvy + they have a…read morefull menu. Couldn't decide between the dumpling options + wouldn't you know... they had a combo dumpling dim sum option :)

This has to be the worst experience any traveller can experience. Period, full stop. Not worth it…read moreat all. Food portion, for for a 5 year old who isn't hungry. Food quality, again a 5 year old can do it. Price, 65 Swiss francs. Wallstreet fat cat much? Overall experience. Prfttttttttt zero stars!

What a homey feeling tea house: Mei Mei and friends visiting up front while Ma Ma juggles tables…read morewith a smile! The menu is very limited but tasty and portions are filling. The only sad thing is no weekend service is available. Thank you for taking the time to explain your delicious noodles and sharing your advice on the tofu pudding for dessert. We'd love to visit again. Xie xie!

#1 Yelp rated Chinese restaurant in Lucerne -of course there is only 3 Chinese restaurants listed…read morein Yelp in this Swiss city. Place specializes in spicy hot noodle soups. However, it was in the 80s, and I wasn't about to eat soup on a hot day. Our CHF22 chicken dish came with spicy chili chicken, with ear mushrooms and rice. As in most Swiss restaurant, dish comes with rice, but only half a small bowl for the two of us. The chicken was fresh and fell off the bone, using a chopstick in each hand to peel off. Excellent dish, but could use more white rice. Seven steamed shrimp dumplings came with our CHF18 shrimp dumpling dish. Standard presentation in a steamed bamboo pot, with the shrimp tasty and not rubbery. Had to pay CHF4, or $4.28, for two glasses of tap water. Will remember next time to bring my own water to guzzle down prior to stepping into a restaurant in Switzerland. Authentic Chinese food served here. How do I know it's authentic? Any time they serve meat dishes with the bones still in them, in a sauce, it's authentic, as Americans don't want to mess around with bones in sauces. Also, only Chinese eating here.

I was craving dim sum and was excited to try this place out! I saw several groups of Chinese…read morevisitors, so I figured it would be authentic. I think this restaurant may specialize in entrees (not dim sum), which is what other people ordered. I got the shiu mai and char siu bao, which were okay. They tasted similar to a reheated version from the supermarket, and didn't quite have the quality I hoped for. The dishes took 45 minutes to come out, which I also wasn't too stoked with. However, the staff was super friendly.

This is the! best! Chinese! restaurant! in! Freiburg! Not only because their dishes are fresh,…read morehomemade, and delicious, but also because they serve Cantonese cuisine, as opposed to the other places in Freiburg which serve Thai or Vietnamese variations. It's better to make a reservation, as it gets very crowded, but the staff is kind and will try to accommodate you if you show up at rush hour unexpected. You might get a tiny table against the wall, but you will still be served efficiently. The dim sum is out of this world. They come close after the best dim sum places we've been to in Chinatown in New York, Montréal, and Ottawa. No exaggeration. The portions are generous, the food is clearly homemade (no frozen dim sum or microwaved rice here!), and the ingredients fresh. They have a better choice and better prices for drinks than the other Asian-fusion places mentioned earlier (€2.50 for a delicious mango, litchi, or goyava drink, as opposed to €3.80 for watered down versions elsewhere.) Some reviewers have mentioned the decor negatively. We loved it. The restaurant is covered in carved wood panels from the 50s, which I like much better than cold, black & white emptyish designer spaces which seem to sprout everywhere recently. There are always Chinese students for dinner, which is a good sign! The manager speaks English and is very friendly.

Update: we've become regulars, and it hasn't let us down. We brought several groups of friends, and…read moreeverybody is converted!

The bf and I stopped by here for a quick lunch and to our surprise it wasn't horribly busy. The…read morewaitstaff was quick and polite. A soup or salad was complimentary with the lunch entrees (yessss), so I tried the chicken noodle- Chinese style. It was a nice way to warm me up. We decided to share Sweet and Sour Chicken and Chicken Curry with Rice. Both were quite yummy and not too big. I didn't have to feel guilty throwing any away or force feeding myself! I wonder how much longer I'll complain about this to-go box thing... Anyway. The portions were nice. the Chicken Curry was spicy but very good, and the Sweet and Sour chicken was really flavorful! Maybe even a little toooo sweet and sour ish for me, but not bad. The decorations were also very sweet. I wouldn't mind coming here again. German! Es ist eine gut Ort fur ein schnell oder langsam Mitaggsessen. Wir haben nicht gewartet und wir hatte kein reservation! Das Essen ist gut und die Preis ist nicht so schlect. Ich mag die Poulet Curry!

The dim sum debacle…read more Wife knows what I like, and mentioned a dim sum place when we were walking from the train station dragging our wheeled carry-on to our hotel, half a mile away, in old town Zurich, Switzerland. We walked back, and right across the street from the Bahnhoff was a vendor spot with a sign "Dim Sum". Aluminum roof with three tables and five chairs. We go up to the counter, and immediately get what the previous couple had gotten: an order of pot stickers and dumplings. "Kleine order Grosse?" asks the vendor, a middle aged white dude, with his Chinese wife working in the background on making more potstickers or dumplings. Large order of course, and before I can get my credit card out, one large plate of pot stickers, and another plate of dumplings is served. Not piping hot, only warm, as if the meals were stored in a pizza heating container. "CHF38, bitte" says the vendor. $38 for two dishes from a food truck!? Now, you know why Zurich is the most expensive city in Europe. Credit card will cost a additional swiss franc. I'm absolutely famished, after last eating at 6am, with it now 130pm, after a 9,000 mile trip from San Jose, via Atlanta to Zurich earlier that morning. I'm eating like it's my last meal, devouring everything in front of me. Wife doesn't like the dumplings, saying it's too salty. So I finish up the dumplings, and she the pot stickers. As we finish up, the vendor asks us to pass the soy sauce to the next customer, as if the items were not salty enough! Seems that the food served here does taste familiar to me. My ex was infamous for discretely bagging pot stickers and dumplings from Chinese buffets. Those leftover reheated food buffet items! Three stars because service was so outstanding, and the vendor was considerate and kind. And we did finish our plates.

Do not go here unless you want shouted at and possibly attacked! I didn't go here for the food and…read moreI'm glad I didn't with the staff/owners of the establishment. Last day of a 4 week trip around Europe and I have never been spoken to the way I did here. I spotted a shaded part of ground to quickly spray some sun cream before continuing my walk. I spray on my cream and am about to go on my way when I remember I better put my factor 50 on my legs. I have my bag on the bench outside this place that has no sign on it to say it belongs to the fast food kiosk. So I put my foot on the bench and quickly spray my legs with cream. BIG MISTAKE! Over comes an angry looking German man with a moustache and sprays my leg with the detergent. I think he's joking because I don't hear him as I have my headphones in. I laugh and remove my headphones. He then shouts saying I'm silly doing this here as people sit here. I look confused and say pardon? He says 'go over there, people sit here!' He then pushes me out of the way with his shoulder. At this point I have removed my sunglasses and headphones and I'm shocked at what's happening. I say 'oh I'm sorry but I came here because it was in the shade and all you had to do was ask me nicely not spray me with detergent and push me, that was very rude!' (It gets worse) Now out comes an Asian woman shouting at me in German, right in my face about which I assume is that people basically sit there and I shouldn't have my feet there. Which I totally understand but just tell people this in a nice way. I say there's no need to shout and you couldn't just politely asked me to move and I would've. She then screams something, gets in my face and actually kicks the bench with her feet. I mean what on Earth is going on!!! I say to her I don't know why she's shouting and she's only making herself angry. I'm sorry but this is a ridiculous way to treat someone. What an aggressive couple to own a food kiosk in the public industry. I would avoid this place at all costs as you may be shouted at and beaten if, god forbid, you have a genuine complaint about the dimsum. I say visit here at your own risk. If there were no stars I would give it such. Horrible people.

Same as the owners at Ach'i, but with more touches in its decor and also located in the seedy,…read morered-light district area right in front of the Militär-/Langstrasse bus stop, across the street from Gregory's Pub. A perfect stop before Friday night karaoke, one would say? ;-) Fun times ahead! There are lots of similarities in the offering vs Ach'i (to keep this simple pls look at my review for Ach'i), but then I'd say that this menu, unlike Ach'i, sticks to mainly the authentic Chinese food dishes (Northern inspired). Also there are a few dishes that they offer here that I don't see on the Ach'i menu, like the spicy noodle soup with minced beef that was suggested and it turned out to be pretty good. Quite spicy so if you have a sensitive stomach, save it for something else! Also the menu is a bit hard to follow here, haven't really figured out the classification system to efficiently find things (I.e. where's the fried noodles section? Where's the soup noodles section? Where's the stir fry section?). That was a bit annoying vs at Achi I felt I could find things easier. Prob also at Ach'i the menu had photos and this place being more upscale style, doesn't showcase photos of food. The decor here is also a bit more risque than Ach'i. I'd like to say it's more upscale than Ach'i, while a bit meeting borderline kitschy. Last time I was here, they have the best servers from Ach'i now working here, so I guess this is a place they are investing their best resources at.

The food is quite good here. Surprisingly good, not 100% authentic but close enough. And obviously…read moreyou don't have other choices for Chinese food in this area.

Went there for a hot pot with some friends. It was not the best hot-pot at all. All the meat was…read morefrozen, so the seafood. The amount of meat was also somewhat on the meager side. At least the service was friendly. I also glanced at the neighbor's table. They had dim sum, which looked pretty good. I wished I would have ordered some dim sum.

How did I miss this? Finally a Hongkong style kitchen restaurant in Zurich. In heaven :)…read moreDim Sum, Chinese hot pot (pre-order) and more

Wonderful sunset setting! Had a great happy hour moment! Staff was fast and helpful! Sat us fastread more

The view can't be beat. At the top of the city looking over the other rooftops. A glass half wall…read morelets you truly enjoy the view from anywhere on the patio. Swanky atmosphere and music. Great place for some drinks and maybe some snacks too. There are quite a few Asian fusion type appetizers. Not a place for dinner. Servers are friendly and hard working. I've been here a couple times and will be back.