5 Best Chinese Restaurants in Abu Dhabi (2026)

New Shanghai is a Chinese restaurant inside Reem Mall on Al Reem Island, running a full lunch-through-late-night menu of wok dishes, dumplings, and roast duck. It's one of the busier Chinese kitchens in the city, judging by review volume alone, yet diners describe service that stays unhurried even during the mid-afternoon rush. The kitchen leans into classics: Peking duck, wontons, and fried rice, rather than a tight tasting-menu format. Servers are named and thanked often in reviews, a sign of a team that's been together a while.

Mamafri is a pan-Asian restaurant in Al Bateen, with a menu that ranges well beyond Chinese: wagyu gyoza and mushroom bao alongside Vietnamese spring rolls, ramen, and Panang curry. It's built for sharing, small plates, a stylish dining room, and a bar program that leans into mocktails. The kitchen draws comparisons to Southeast Asian cooking as much as Chinese, so it's a fit for a group that can't agree on one cuisine.

Hakkasan Abu Dhabi is the Emirates Palace Mandarin Oriental's Cantonese fine-dining room, and it holds a Michelin star, the only one on this list. The kitchen is known for modern takes on dim sum, Peking duck with hand-wrapped pancakes, and a tasting-menu format built around small, sequential courses. It's part of the international Hakkasan group, alongside sister restaurants in London and Dubai.

Kopitiam by Chandy's is a Malaysian and Singaporean restaurant on Al Falah Street, run around a short, focused menu built on curry laksa, char kway teow, and kaya toast. It's a small, humble room by design, closer to a neighborhood kopitiam than a polished restaurant, and the chef is present enough that regulars know him by name.

Dragon Bao Bao is a Chinese restaurant on Electra Street known for bao buns and hand-pulled noodles, recently expanded onto a second floor to handle demand. It's a straightforward, casual room: no tasting menu, no Michelin ambitions, just made-to-order Chinese food at accessible prices.