11 Favorite Chinese Restaurants in Sonoma County

We all have a favorite neighborhood spot that makes the perfect hot-and-sour soup or mu shu chicken. Here are some top choices in Sonoma County.


General Tso chicken is not Chinese food. Nor are fortune cookies, walnut-pineapple prawns, the pupu (or po-po) platter or, well, pretty much anything else you’d order at a Chinese restaurant in Sonoma County. Even the little folded boxes with the red pagodas aren’t Chinese. They’re all American inventions.

That doesn’t mean we love our Friday-night sweet-and-sour pork, fried rice and crab wontons any less. In fact, Chinese American food is the No. 1 takeout food in the country, just edging out Mexican and Italian, according to the National Restaurant Association. Most of us eat it at least once a month.

We all have a favorite neighborhood spot that makes the perfect hot-and-sour soup or mu shu chicken, whether it’s a nondescript hole in the wall or a cozy little pan-Asian bistro. Sichuan (spicy), Cantonese (sweet) and Hunan (hot and sour) dishes are the most common types of Chinese American cuisine in Wine Country. Click through the above gallery for a few of our favorites.