Cafe Chin Chin
Cafe Chin Chin is a Chinese restaurant located on the Tustin side of the marketplace. The cafe, part of a four-restaurant chain located in the greater Los Angeles area and also in Las Vegas, focuses on fresh ingredients for meals prepared individually by order. While the menu includes Chinese food, it also offers a variety of Asian dishes including dim sum and Chinese chicken salad, restaurant specialities. Dim sum varieties include Chinese dumplings, Vietnamese summer rolls, bao, har gow and shui mai. Take-out and delivery service are available. Attire is dressy casual and parking is free in the shopping center lot. Reservations are not required.
Cafe Chin Chin
2945 El Camino Real
Tustin, CA 92782
(714) 689-3131
chinchin.com
China Palace
The China Palace Restaurant opened at the Newport Avenue location more than 25 years ago, as of early 2010. The dual dining rooms offer a choice of quiet seating within view of a large fish tank or the room with large-screen television entertainment. The food is fresh and meals are made without the use of monosodium glutamate. Restaurant dishes include duck, seafood and poultry dishes, and kung pao chicken and moo shu pork are house specialities. Peking duck is available with an advance order. Mixed drinks are available from the restaurant bar. The eatery also includes take-out service. Complimentary parking is available both in front and to the rear of the restaurant. Reservations are suggested, but are not required for both lunch and dinner service. Attire is upscale casual.
China Palace
13444 Newport Ave.
Tustin, CA 92780
(714) 544-7167
chinapalacetustin.com
Dumpling & Noodle House
The Dumpling and Noodle House, located on the Irvine side of Jamboree in the Tustin Marketplace, serves Chinese, Japanese and Korean dishes. The eatery moved to a stand-alone restaurant from a storefront in the main food court in the original part of the marketplace. Menu items include noodles with seafood, poultry dishes and also hot pots and dumplings for dining in or taking out. Complimentary parking is available in the marketplace lot. Reservations are not required, but the restaurant is small and seating is difficult during the lunch and dinner hours. Seating is also available on the outdoor patio during nice weather. No alcohol is served. Attire includes business casual.
Dumpling & Noodle House
13256 Jamboree Rd.
Irvine, CA 92602
(714) 508-8989
About The Author
Lee Grayson is an ethnographer and freelance writer. She has written for both Oxford and Harvard University presses and research publishers, including Facts On File and ABC-CLIO. She holds certificates from the University of California campuses at Irvine and San Diego.
