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Best Asian Restaurants in Winnipeg - Top Picks!Here are the Top Eight for 20011-2012:Charisma of India This is another choice for authentic East Indian cuisine, this one just west of downtown, with lunch buffet Monday to Saturday, Dinner buffet every day, a good selection of vegetarian and vegan offerings and belly dancers every second and fourth Saturday of the month. Also has take-out. Reservations aren’t required. 83 Sherbrook (at Wolseley). Foon Hai This small Chinatown restaurant with a vast menu (190 choices, almost all under $15) deserves to be better known. Especially recommended: the hot sour soup, moo shu crepes with roast duck, cabbage and hoisin sauce, salt-and-pepper pork chops, juicy steamed pork dumplings and the deep-fried chicken or the pan-fried shrimp. 329 William Ave. (at Adelaide), 943-5032. Water Lily Hidden gem for Indian cuisine east of the river. Recommended: aloo tikki patties, eggplant bharta, shrimp korma with cashews and raisins. In St. Vital at 166 Meadowwood Dr., 255-2973. Naru Sushi In Osborne Village, this is the former Miyabi, now with new owners and décor. Mostly Sushi, also small plates and some notable dishes you won’t find elsewhere. Recommended: shrimp gyoza (more like crepes than dumplings), salmon cakes (order the “salmon gateaux”) and the seafood misonaise. Also especially good – the nagiri shshi with salmon topping, maki rolls – ask for the California with real crab, the Butterfly rolls the Ohana roll and the Osborne roll – all generous with the fish. They also have a selection of Japanese beers. 159 Osborne Street. Lan May Up until recently, Taiwanese specialties have been hard to find in Winnipeg. But here they are, in a plain little family-run restaurant where the nicest seats are in the small private dining rooms, mostly with tables for two. What’s wonderful here – the big Mandarin shrimp, crunchy Taiwanese fried chicken, and the fantastic house chicken. A bit oddly (given that this isn’t a Korean restaurant) kimchi is offered, and so is bulgogi (on the menu it is “Palace Beef”). For more authentically Taiwanese choices, ask for the boiled pork dumplings or the delicious crepes or the hand-pulled noodles or the Taiwanese meatball soup – all delicious! 1373 Portage Ave., 783-6772. Yougot Chinese Restaurant Tiny restaurant (just 24 seats) in a plain little house right on Pembina – blink and you’ll miss it, but it’s worth the search because here you can find specialties from NorthEast China, portions are large enough to share and they come at budget-minded prices – most dishes are under $15. Seven spice shrimp, deep fried octopus, ox tongue and boiled dumplings are all good. For dessert, request the deep fried sweet potato (sounds odd, but very good). Reservations recommended at 284-6618. 1521 Pembina. T. H. Dang On the busy Pembina Highway south of downtown, this is a small but eye-popingly green little place with delicious Vietnamese offering including shrimp, pork and jellyfish. Also recommended, the flattened fried chicken (ask for Nuber G118) and the banh xeo stuffed crepe. 1425 Pembina Highway, 415-5588. Lao Thai Small (you’ll need reservations) restaurant offering a lot that’s incredibly good, including Thai shrimp, seen hang port, or have the souk gai broth with chicken. 763 Selkirk Ave., 589-0065. Best Asian Restaurants in Winnipeg -- More Best ChineseThere are SO many very good Chinese restaurants in Winnipeg! A family favourite is Sun Fortune Restaurant at 2077 Pembina (the same plaza as Jysk). Unassuming from outside, like so many Chinese restaurants it opens to one spacious but very attractive room inside. Gracious service and well-prepared food from an extensive menu. Dim sum at lunchtime on weekends. We always order extra to enjoy again reheated, a quick easy meal at home, working out to less than $10 per plate! Another really good choice is Hung’s Gardens Chinese Food 1B-1565 Regent Street West, which is near Club Regent Casino. Try their Special Beef; they also have a delicious sweet and sour pork and a really good buffet. Four Seasons Chinese Food 10-35 Lakewood Blvd., which is east of downtown, is just as delicious, but only does either take-out or delivery: 254-2221. My mouth waters just thinking about their lemon chicken (they usually only offer it on Saturdays) and wonton. Also recommended if you want take-out or delivery and are north of Downtown is Golden Dragon Home Delivery 341 Henderson Highway, 668-2647. A great little place, an excellent choice for lunch, with table service but a cafeteria atmosphere, is Noodle Express in Chinatown at 107-180 King Street.
Nearby, larger, much fancier and better known, is Kum Koon Garden. Not far from Winnipeg's City Hall, this is where you are likely to spot politicians and business leaders, particularly weekdays at lunch time. Kum Koon serves up delicious dim sum and a buffet weekdays at lunch and switches to equally delicious Cantonese cuisine later in the day. They are also open on Sundays. Kum Koon Garden is at 257 King Street. We also really like the food at Golden Terrace, pictured at the top of this page, at 245 King Street. Sumhay is a good place to go after the theatre or the bar—it’s open until 2 a.m. Just at block north at 225 Logan. Dim Sum Garden is another one of those modest little places that look like nothing outside, but the dim sum is delicious. 277 Rupert Ave. Best Asian Restaurants in Winnipeg -- More Best KoreanBe One owned and run by a Korean family, is attached to a Korean bakery and grocery also worth a browse and does have the authentic table BBQ, open for lunch and dinner Mondays to Saturdays, 1811 Portage Ave. Nou Eul Tor is a bit further from Downtown but worth the effort to get to for both good food and service, with the table top grills, kimshi, garlic dumplings and big potato pancakes. 726 Sargent Ave., 779-1855.
Best Asian Restaurants in Winnipeg -- More Best ThaiThe neighbourhood is iffy (don't venture here alone after dark) and the place looks like nothing special, but lock up and ignore all that because the food is fantastic at Magic Thailand Restaurant just north of Downtown at 842 Logan. Best Asian Restaurants in Winnipeg -- More of the Best Vietnamese
There are several Vietnamese restaurants in Winnipeg, best known of which is Dalat, tucked into a non-descript stretch of Taylor Blvd. West of downtown, very reasonably priced and open daily for lunch and dinner at 2-1170 Taylor Ave. Pho Kim Tuong Looking for an attractive place to eat close to downtown, offering large portions of delicious food, where two can dine well (with appetizers) for under $30? This popular Vietnamese cuisine restaurant fills the bill. If you know your way around a Vietnamese menu, you’ll come here for the pho, available in many variations. (If you don’t, it’s a spiced beef broth with steak and many possible combinations of veg and rice vermicelli). Also recommended: mango salad with shrimp – or try the grilled meat balls with crepes or the shrimp stir fry. Here’s the incredible deal meal: barbequed beef platter for two with crepes and veg, currently priced at $15.95. There are no desserts, but they do have fruit smoothies and sweet iced coffee. Pho Kim Tuong does have wheelchair access; does not have a liquor license; can be busy at dinner. West of Downtown at 856 Ellice Ave. Reservations: 661-8888.
Best Asian Restaurants in Winnipeg -- More of the Best East Indian
If you don't want to venture beyond downtown, ask any Winnipegger and you'll hear that the ONLY place for East Indian fare in the heart of the city is East India Company Eatery & Pub near Winnipeg Convention Centre. Decorated with ornate art, ceramics and tapestries, it’s a sensuous place, lovely for dinner for two, and the food is outstanding. East India has a lunch buffet weekdays, dinner buffet daily at 349 York Ave. If you are west or south of town (and these two restaurants give you an excellent reason to be), one of our family favourites for birthdays and celebrations is Clay Oven with two locations: west of Downtown at 1825 Inkster Blvd. and south of Downtown at 240-1600 Kenaston Blvd. Authentic cuisine beautifully presented in an urban contemporary setting. Open daily except the Inkster location is closed Mondays and the Kenaston restaurant is closed on Sundays.
Best Asian Restaurants in Winnipeg -- More of the Best Sushi
Sadly, the founding father of sushi in Winnipeg has retired and so Edohei has closed and its former location now demolished to make way for a new medical centre. However, Winnipeg is still a city where you can find good sushi. Umi Sushi 3-1659 Kenaston Blvd. is praised for its excellent food, big portions, very reasonable prices and relaxing ambiance. And Sushi N Suite D-726 St. Anne’s Road east of Downtown in St. Vital, where the service is always fast and the food is highly praised, but portions tend to be small (which is reflected in the prices) so order more rolls. If you like your sushi to be a true work of art, Sushi Cushi is for you, at 1045 St. James Street. Or try Blufish in The Exchange at 179 Bannatyne Ave. Yujiros Japanese Food also has good sushi and daily specials, 580 Academy. IGI BBQ and Sushi It’s noisy. There are line-ups to get in. You can make reservations, but only on weeknights. And don’t plan on a long, leisurely meal here – there’s a two-hour limit because this place is always busy. The food? Half Korean, with table BBQs, and half Japanese. Here are some suggestions: sunomono salad with octopus, the spider roll (real crabmeat), and any of the generous-sized sashimi (don’t order too many – you’ll be charged $1 for each one you leave on your plate). The best sashimi seem to appear on weekends for dinner – albacore, yellow tail and big eye tuna are all very good. If you opt for grilling, you could do your sashimi, or there’s lots more choice -- beef, short ribs, lamb or tongue, pork, chicken, shrimp, fish, or squid. Reservations: 477-9909. At 1875 Pembina (hard to spot – tucked behind the A&W in a strip mall). Sushi GenHere’s the newest addition to the Asian food corridor surrounding University of Manitoba’s main South Winnipeg campus. Sushi Gen, just across from the UMb campus at 2425 Portage, and with a second downtown location just across from UW at 500 Portage, has all you can eat lunches and dinners daily. They also have a 130-item menu. Specialties are the lobster tempura, and two choices only at dinner: grilled jumbo shrimp and Sashimi.
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