Madam Zhu’s Kitchen 汉舍中国菜馆

Sporting thoughtful and stylish decor featuring a series of amusing portraits showing the proprietor and her friends playing with their favorite ingredients, this CBD restaurant serves food that is as delicious as it is memorable. Madam Zhu – founder of popular Sichuan chain Yuxiang Renjia – has branched out with this venture, staffing her kitchen with chefs from Sichuan, Shanghai, Guangdong, Zhejiang and beyond. The result: confident updates of classic regional Chinese, like luscious black pepper tenderloin (黑椒牛柳粒, RMB 88), delicate "lion's head" meatballs with crab roe and freshwater bass (蟹粉鲈鱼狮子头, RMB 38) and a lazi ji (RMB 38) that expertly balances the complementary flavors of spicy chillies and numbing peppercorn.