Best Asian Restaurants in DC

Chinese
Sinchuan Pavillion
Highlight: Tea smoked duck 

Tea Smoked Duck, Sinchuan Pavillion

Peking Gourmet Inn

Highlight: Peking duck.

Peking Duck, Peking Gourmet Inn 

Hong Kong Peal Seafood
Highlight: Dim sum on weekends. Try the jackfruit cake and pork short ribs.

Jackfruit Cake, Hong Kong Pearl Seafood

Indian
Rasika
Highlight: Palak Chaat and curries.

Rock-fish and lamb curry

Japanese
Kotobuki
Highlight: Chirashi deluxe (sashimi platter) and unadon set.

Chirashi Deluxe Platter and Unadon Set, Kotobuki

Sushi Capitol
Highlight: Sashimi Gold Platter.

Sashimi Gold Platter, Sushi Capitol

Temari
Highlight: Grilled fish belly (not a sushi place).

Fried oysters, grilled mackerel and tonkatsu

Rens Ramen
Highlight: Miso ramen with egg.

Miso Ramen. Rens Ramen

Izakaya Seki
Highlight: Grilled fish.

Ara yaki

Daikaya (Izakaya style, on the 2nd floor)

Highlight: Grilled avocado 

Grilled avocado

Toki Underground
Highlight: Ramen.

Lao
Bangkok Golden
Highlight: Crispy rice salad.

Crispy Rice Salad, Bangkok

Thip Khao
Highlights: Lao sausage, pork laab and tongue.

Pork laab

Myanmar
Mandalay Restaurant
Highlight: Tea leaf salad and coconut sticky rice (dessert).

Tea Leaf Salad, Mandalay Restaurant

Sri Lanka
Shakthi
Highlight: Mutton rolls.

Mutton Rolls, Shakthi

Taiwanese
A and J
Highlight: Fried chicken and pig ears.

Fried chicken, pig ears and beef noodles soup

Taipei Cafe
Highlight: Taiwanese burger.

Thai
Elephant Jumps

Highlight: Gang Hung Lay with sticky rice. I'm looking forward to try the whole fried fish, my favorite Thai dish.

Gang Hung Lay, Elephant Jumps

Thai Taste by Kob
Highlight: Whole fried flounder.

Whole Fried Flounder, Thai Taste by Kob

Bua Thai
Highlight: Kao Pad Sapparos (shrimp with coconut rice).

Kao Pad Sapparos, Bua Thai

Rabieng
Highlight: Appetizers. 

Lao sausage, nam prik ong, lychee sa koo moo dumplings and mieng kham

Vietnamese
Pho Viet
Highlight: Pho (Beef special).

Beef Special, Pho Viet

Pho 75
Highlight: Pho.

Pho #4

Doi Moi
Highlight: Appetizers.

Rice cakes with pork, Doi Moi