Best Authentic Cantonese

Rainbow Seafood Restaurant

With the opening of our newest, non-buffet, Cantonese restaurant, Austinites can now experience Chinatown cuisine without having to travel to southwest Houston. Rainbow's weekend Dim Sum brunch mixes traditional Cantonese - Roast Duck with Plum Sauce, Shu Mai, Fresh Shrimp Cheung-fun, Duck or Chicken Feet, Rice Congee with 1,000-year-old eggs, Snowballs, etc. - with nouveau offerings like Deep Fried or Panfried Chicken Dumpling, and Baked Barbecued Pork Buns. The dinner menu offers a variety of authentic noodle dishes, Cantonese soups, and entrées in addition to the more familiar dishes available locally. Bonus points for being one of the few places in town where you can get dishes with soft tofu. Rainbow is a magnet for the Asian community celebrating family banquets, so you may find the restaurant only serving take-out orders, but they take reservations for as few as two.