Chinatown Café

Chinatown Café is an unassuming dine-in and carry-out restaurant in Boston’s Chinatown with a varied menu and sizable servings of Chinese fare. The kitchen covers familiar dishes like General’s chicken, Mongolian beef and shrimp with lobster sauce alongside plates such as ginger and scallion chicken, spicy salt shrimp or scallops, and mussels in black bean sauce. Pork or chicken dumplings and house wonton soup round out the starters.

Noodle and rice dishes make up a large part of the menu, including Singapore-style or Ha Moon-style rice noodles, ginger and scallion egg noodles, and pan-fried noodles or chow fun in seafood, vegetable and deluxe versions. Vegetables get their own section, with baby bok choy, Chinese broccoli and Chinese spinach sauteed with garlic, string beans in garlic sauce, and tofu with mixed vegetables. Many dishes can be made with pork, chicken, beef, shrimp or vegetables.

What to Know

• Combination dinners pair dishes like Peking duck, General’s chicken and spicy house fried rice.
• Mock chicken with cashew nuts is on the menu for diners who skip meat.
• Seafood mains include salmon with black bean or ginger and scallion sauce and steamed shrimp in garlic soy sauce.
• Baby pork chops come seasoned with spicy salt or Peking style.