There used to be a Chinese place of this name along Av. Las Heras that offered up a selection of…read moredim sum, one of the only spots around that did. And a far bigger offering than either Hong Kong Style or Canton did or do. I never liked the physical space, but the food was excellent, and as a delivery option, it was a weekly call. When they closed up in 2012, I was not pleased. What I didn't know, is that they'd simply been priced out of the neighborhood, and decided to try for fame and fortune in the more relaxed and residential area in the northwest of the city. But here, they've been apparently happily plugging away for the last five years. They still have the same old multipage menus packed with Cantonese and Szechuan dishes, though a large percentage of them are now not available, without an advance phone call. As the owner, who still cheerfully attends every table says, most of her customers don't order anything but stir-fried noodles or fried rice, so stocking all the ingredients for the rest of it isn't tenable. But anything on the menu is available with a day or two's notice - or at least that was the offer. I've been twice now, once solo, once with a friend. Potstickers - Some of the best of these around - well seasoned, packed with pork, green onions, and more, and just look at the hot sauce, which is, as it used to be, a blend of fresh chilies, garlic, and szechuan peppercorn. 60 pesos. Steamed BBQ Pork Buns - Again, excellent, and with the classic slightly sweet barbecued pork instead of the more common simple stewed pork that so many places here offer. 50 pesos. Shumai - I don't know that I've ever seen shumai without any kind of wrapper, but honestly, after trying these, who cares about the wrapper. Huge, delicious pork meatballs infused with flavors of orange and tangerine peel and white pepper. 50 pesos. Kung Pao Calamari - On the plus side, laden with calamari, a mix of vegetables, and when informed "bien picante", happily made so, with a good amount of fresh chilies sliced and stir-fried into the dish. I also like that it was fresh chilies, not dried. Toasted whole almonds were served on the side rather than tossed in with the dish - I do still prefer peanuts with my kung pao, and the menu does specify peanuts, but nothing to complain about, unless you have an allergy to almonds. Though again, on the side, so you could just not add them to the dish. 158 pesos. Ma-Po Tofu - Easily the best version of this spicy tofu and pork dish that I've had in Buenos Aires, and among the best I've had anywhere. We slurped this down so fast that I'm not sure she'd made it back to the kitchen by the time we were done. 158 pesos. Cute little place, about a quarter the size of the old one. Great service. Excellent food. Really reasonably priced. It's a bit of a pain to get to from Recoleta, but this one's going to be a fairly regular trip for me - it's worth the effort. Easily moves to the top of my "Casual Chinese" list.

A group of 6 of us ate here one afternoon to get a taste of China town and we were all pleased! We…read morehad prompt service, the menu offered many different Asian cuisines besides Chinese food, and everything we saw leaving the kitchen looked great! Our table unanimously ordered the chicken curry and everyone in the group was pleased with the flavors and presentation. This is not the best chicken curry I've had, it lacked a little in the spices category but otherwise I was pleased with the dish. I could confidently recommend this place to anyone looking for an easy lunch spot with an excellent reputation and rating!

Very good fried rice with egg. Excellent langostinos kung pao, not spicey ;(. Fair spring rolls…read morecon carne. Nice place, i would return.

Hubby has been ordering and eating at this place since he was a young boy. He loves this place…read more Best place ever to spend a nice evening dinner when walking Cabildo (to or from an ice cream place for example) or a nice place to wait out the rain and have lunch or have an early dinner - any excuse to eat at Tao Tao, is a legit reason I'm saying. I love their sweet and sour soup (no meat). Vegetable fried rice and vegetable house noodles. We always get a Stella Artois to drink. Hot tea was extremely helpful one rainy day. The waiters are extremely nice, helpful and appropriately attentive. Waiters are old-schooled. Never too intrusive but asking if we need anything at a perfect time. We love the fact that it is so accessible to us and it is just a few blocks away from any place you are on Cabildo. Will definitely make this regular drop ins to Tao Tao. Very good Chinese food and excellent service.

The best chineese food of all. An old-fashioned resto that has been working for many years…read more The receptionist and the waitresses are excellent helpers at te time of picking from the long menu. It has an excellent quality of food and cuisine. Very good plates. During the week is very quiet and is not usually too busy. During the weekends better get early or prepare to wait! They have a good delivery service too. The place itself is quite strange, decorated as if you are in china, it is also very big. Age promedy: +50

Came to Chinatown and did some research on where to eat, this one looked pretty authentic and it…read morewas! I had: - beef tripe which came with beef meat and tripe, mixed in soy sauce: the tripe was delicious, wish there were more of it and without the beef meat. - spicy and sour beef noodles (5B): noodles were chewy and plentiful, came with minced beef, pickled veggies, bean sprouts, fried tofu, and beef. The beef was terrible, it was coated with flour and it had a weird texture, I couldn't eat it. Everything else was tasty, really enjoyed it. - steamed dumplings: I thought it would be vegetarian as they usually are in this style. The wrapping was fresh but a bit thick, and it was tasty. Pricing was fine, came out to be 15000 ARS and two people could've eaten this meal. Would recommend, it's quite authentic Chinese food.

Moved and improved, from its former hole-in-the-wall digs at Mendoza 1725 (it's now at 1629, I've…read moresubmitted the change to Yelp). The posted menu is still just in Chinese. It's somewhat expanded from the former menu. And, they now offer a Spanish version of the menu, something they adamantly refused to do for years in the old spot. Clued in on a first visit by Allie from Pick up the Fork, on a solo visit I ordered "#5B". I was thinking about dumplings too, but the waitress opined that that would be a whole lot of food. And, she was right, because I couldn't even finish this. A huge bowl of delicious, agripicante, hot and sour, broth, with slippery tapioca (yuca) starch noodles, vegetables, and a mix of roasted pork and beef. I can see why it's her favorite. 420 pesos. Doesn't mean there's not more to try, and a second visit with a friend... So, he ordered the same one I'd had on the previous visit. After spending a bit of time figuring out the menu (the Spanish version gives pretty basic names, like "noodle soup with beef", and some of them are just plain wrong, so I'd gone through and spent some time on the Chinese to figure out just what each dish was). I decided on the Putien Lor Mee (Putien braised noodles) "#11" hoping that they made it really traditionally - silky noodles, pork belly, prawns, and clams. What came out was good, but only a shadow of a traditional Putien dish - it had maybe three prawns, a few pieces of calamari, some shredded fake-crab stick, and, basically, plain wheat noodles. It was good, the broth was delicious, but it was no Putien Lor Mee. 400 pesos. We also split an order of xiaolongbao, soup dumplings "#27" (which in the Spanish version are just listed as "steamed pork empanaditas". Tasty, very tasty. Lacking a bit in quantity of soup inside, but great flavor. 220 pesos. And, a third visit, solo.... Fried pork bun (fried empanada on the menu), "#25" - filled with a large, lightly spiced pork meatball. A little chewy, but delicious. 70 pesos. Spicy, sweet, salty, chicken gizzards "34A" - served cold. I should have asked to have them warmed, although cold is the traditional way to serve these. Perfectly cooked, just a little chewy, but mostly tender and tasty. 220 pesos. Who doesn't love cold, or warm, sesame noodles "#22". Usually, they're more peanut than sesame, and these are no exception, in fact, the menu actually says they're noodles with peanut butter and soy sauce. And, that's pretty much all they are. The noodles are fine, they've been lightly slathered with peanut butter, doused in soy sauce, and a bit of sauteed chinese cabbage is added to it. As this dish goes, not a particularly great version. Oh well. 200 pesos.

Amazing food really authentic as previous reviewer's have said do not judge by the look by the look…read moreof the place. The service is typical China in did you get the food as the chef prepares. The hot and sour soup is one of the best I've had in many years. It oozes of cilantro and there is so much tofu that one could be tempted to make a meal of it only. The greens beans were perfect. The right crunchiness and tenderness when bitten. The burst of Sichuan Pepper gave the bite back as required. I wish I had uncovered this place way before.

Brand, spanking new spot that just opened downtown, I think it opened the second week in February…read more Inside, it looks like an old pub, and they haven't done much in the way of decoration, of any sort. Until recently, it was apparently a small Peruvian restaurant, Angry Fish BA, which I'd never even heard of. I don't think I ever saw the place even open, though their Facebook page was active until last July - maybe it was only open at night. Somewhat extensive menu, and only about 2/3 of the menu is translated from Chinese into Spanish. Why? Because the other dishes are "really traditional" or "too spicy" for Argentines to appreciate. I think these guys will need to adjust that thinking. Why not offer it and see, it doesn't take that much effort to translate the dishes - something I made the waiter do right down the line. [Edit: Revisits over time - they've redone the menu to a multi-page one with pictures, and Spanish translations for almost all the dishes. Strangely, they still reserve one page with maybe 8-9 dishes on it that they don't translate and that are much more obscure dishes - a couple of them excellent!] Potstickers - Really well made lightly crisped dumplings. The filling, pork and chive, and a little underseasoned, though the hot sauce they brought on request was fiery and with a dash of soy sauce, was just perfect. Spicy Pork Belly - This was one of the non-translated dishes. I mean, these days, who doesn't dive into a pork belly dish? Beautifully flavored, sweat-inducing spicy with fresh chilies throughout the dish, and just absolutely delicious blend of slightly sweet pork belly, green onion, peppers, chilies, and Chinese celery. A very happy camper was I. [On those revisits - they have a couple of stunning, spicy chicken dishes - both a bang-on Szechuan peppercorn chicken, and in that untranslated section at the back, a fiery chicken hot pot. Prices have gone up a bit, but not significantly as of early 2018.] And, fairly reasonable - both dishes plus a bottle of water and tip came in at 375 pesos, or $24. The place is open for lunch and dinner seven days a week, which is unusual for that neighborhood, but gives a great option for those who like "real" Chinese food.

This is a very simple Chinese restaurant in Buenos Aires small Chinatown area. It is a bare bones…read moreplace. Just basic food service. Definitely not an upscale experience. On a warm January day, it seemed the air conditioning was off or malfunctioning, so the place was uncomfortable. The service was fast and friendly. We shared a simple plate of spring rolls and the Chop Suey. The spring rolls had a minimal filling though came piping hot. The chicken chop suey was fresh, but there was very little chicken. The meal was about US$7, so we can't say there was an unfair exchange. It's just that B.A. has such great food choices all over, this one was underwhelming -- even at this price point.

Three kinds of dumplings on offer, gave a shot at the potstickers and, lo and behold, soup…read moredumplings, but turns out that they don't actually have soup dumplings, "except by special advance order, so they have time to make them". Something to keep in mind. So we went with boiled and fried "regular" dumplings, both quite good, wrappers nice and delicate, cooked right, and the filling a well seasoned blend of pork, cabbage, and garlic chives. I'd heard that their smoked pork noodles were excellent, so ordered up a plate of those (rice noodles, choice of thin or wide, these are the wide ones, or also sauteed with white rice). The pork could use a little more smokiness, but the dish was good. I wouldn't call it excellent, but I'd eat it again. A vegetable dish of sauteed mushrooms and bamboo shoots was overshadowed by more onion than anything else, and a bit too much ginger. Big issue with timing. I know they were busy, but it's not that big of a place, and more than half the people in their had already eaten. The fried dumplings took 35 minutes to come out, were followed by the pork noodles at 45 minutes, the boiled dumplings at the one hour mark, and the vegetable dish at an hour and ten minutes. It seems like they push the orders in the dining room back in order to fulfill delivery and takeout orders, which were streaming out steadily. I'd probably avoid the place if it looks busy.

Sat down and we were like only 5 tables. Ordered our food. Took 20 minutes for an order of…read moredumplings. And other 20 minutes for the fried wontons. Another 15 for our fried rice, sweet and sour pork and general tso chicken. And waited and waited and turns out he missed 4 of our dishes. Terrible service.

Love their front door! Probably will return…read more Tour bus stopped at Chinatown, and many riders were leaving. Why not, we haven't have lunch yet. It's a short walk from the bus stop to the arch, which I think is the best looking Chinatown: trees lined pedestrian only street, and it's clean, and hip. Street food shops. Most people are not Asians. And most of them are young: A good hang out place. According to the tour bus recordings, Buenos Aires saw rush of Chinese immigrants, from Taiwan began to arrive 1980s, and followed by the main land in 1990s. One thing we noticed quickly, neither Yelp nor Google can keep up with the changing pace here: a couple of restaurants we thought we'd like to go (such as Cantina China) are no longer in business. So we went to Royal Mansion. A young Chinese couple just came out and the man was still beautifying his tooth with a toothpick. A very promising sign... but unfortunately they don't take credit card. It's a substantial establishment, at least two floors. Oh well. So we ended up here, at China Rose. We actually passed by it and didn't see any Asians were dinning, the first time around. Oh well, we became the Asian -:) The only two places I saw are busy in Chinatown, with many Asians are supermarkets. At Rose: high ceiling. Clean and modern decor. Menu has English as well as Chinese, aside from Spanish. A lovely patio at the back - it's not open at the moment when we went. Full bar. No chopsticks were offered. Very good service. We've two dishes, both tasted ok, too heavy with corn starch and NOT sweet: braised tofu 家常豆腐, pretty good; but the sesame oil isn't too appetizing shredded pork with fish flavor 鱼香肉丝: the size of the pork is huge, like French fries. Gosh. And they added vinegar... But it beats out sweet -:) The tofu was hot, which meant they cooked the pork first and served them together. Chinese dishes are served one by one, is the norm. But I noticed it, the US, especially at banquets, dishes are served simultaneously. Oh well! Little Irene can't fight the huge tide. Regarding Chinatown, I enjoyed reading this one Discover Barrio Chino.  I asked our server for nail salon and she went back with the recommendation, which I went: Thank You.

The only authentic dim sim and cantonese foods you can find in Buenos Aires, they have so many…read moreoptions, and most of them are really tasty, you can also find different types of tranditional chinese tea, very classic yum cha style. The ambiance is also clean, comfortable and modern stylish.

Surprisingly legit dim sum place in Buenos Aires Chinatown. Came with a large group to celebrate…read moreCNY and had lots of dumplings, XLB, buns, veggies, etc. all were really good. Reasonably priced too, especially considering all we ate. Would return if I'm in Chinatown again, as I've visited some other Asian restaurants here in BA that were not good.

Was expecting so much more. Had heard great things about this place. Was a bit disappointed it was…read morejust very ordinary Chinese food. The dumpling offered dim sum style at lunch were not a great variety and no vegetarian offerings. Soup was excellent but again, not all that exciting

Completely overpriced.. Dumplings were decent but main plates do not even come with rice. They…read morecharge 4 dollars for a tiny cup of white rice. Food was no better than your average Chinese take out restaurant.

It's a nice place. Easy to order yummy and good quality food. The bao was ok. The bread was cold…read moreand a bit too dense but the chicken and flavors were really nice.