A beginner’s guide to what to order at dim sum, from steamed har gow and siu mai to sweet egg tarts, plus how the meal works and how to order like a regular.

The best Asian food in Las Vegas is off the Strip, in the Chinatown strip malls along Spring Mountain Road, from Shanghainese soup dumplings and Isan Thai to a fifteen-year-old ramen counter.

The best Hmong food in the Twin Cities is in St. Paul’s two great markets, Hmong Village and Hmongtown Marketplace, where the papaya salad is pounded to order and the sticky rice comes purple.

The best Asian restaurants in Boston reach well beyond Chinatown, from a Fields Corner banh mi bakery to Allston tofu stew and Quincy pho. Here is where to eat right now.

The best Vietnamese restaurants in Philadelphia run from the cash-only pho counters of South Philly’s Washington Avenue to Chinatown banh mi and a modern room on East Passyunk.

Buford Highway is metro Atlanta’s great immigrant food corridor. Here are the Vietnamese, Chinese, Malaysian, and Korean restaurants worth building a crawl around right now.

Five places in Honolulu serving the local food locals actually eat — from a James Beard-honored Hawaiian institution to the classic plate-lunch counter that’s been on the same corner since 1961.