Apple's Hometown Eats Asian
Cupertino is Apple's hometown but it's also Silicon Valley's best Asian food city. The Chinese and Taiwanese restaurants here are exceptional — brought by a community with extremely high standards and the knowledge to enforce them.
Cupertino's dining scene concentrates in the Vallco/Main Street Cupertino area and along De Anza Blvd. The city's predominantly Chinese and Taiwanese population has created a food landscape that mirrors the best of the San Gabriel Valley in Southern California — serious, authentic, and demanding.
The Taiwanese boba tea culture in Cupertino is extraordinary — dozens of shops competing for the most sophisticated tea-drinking population in the South Bay. Chinese hot pot, Sichuan restaurants, and Shanghainese dumpling specialists complete an Asian food scene of genuine depth.
Chinese & Taiwanese Excellence
Cupertino's Chinese and Taiwanese communities have established the South Bay's finest Chinese restaurant scene.
Boba Tea Capital
The Taiwanese community has created a boba tea culture in Cupertino that is arguably the best in the Bay Area — dozens of quality shops with sophisticated tea-forward menus.
Shanghainese Dumplings
Outstanding xiao long bao and pan-fried pork buns from Cupertino's Shanghainese restaurants.
Sichuan Food
Genuine Sichuan restaurants serve the city's Chinese community with mala hot pot, mapo tofu, and water-cooked fish.
Must-Try Dishes
Hand-shaken oolong milk tea with choice of tapioca or fruit jelly from Cupertino's boba specialists.
Shanghainese soup dumplings with paper-thin wrappers — Cupertino's best rival the original in Shanghai.
Silken tofu in fiery Sichuan mala sauce with minced pork — numbing, spicy, and compelling.
Sichuan spiced broth for table-cooking premium meats and vegetables — the Cupertino winter ritual.
Soy-sesame-rice wine braised chicken with basil — a Taiwanese classic executed brilliantly in Cupertino.
Japanese-style mild curry over steamed rice from Cupertino's Japanese restaurants near the Apple campus.
Neighborhoods & Food Districts
The primary Asian dining hub with boba shops, Chinese, and Taiwanese restaurants.
The main commercial street with the broadest range of Asian casual dining.
Additional shopping and restaurant corridor with Korean and Chinese options.