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Sampan Cafe serves authentic Cantonese-style cuisine and all day dim sum using fresh and quality ingredients. We offers a wide variety of dishes that showcase the flavors and cooking techniques of Cantonese cuisine including dim sum (small, bite-sized dishes), roasted meats (e.g., roast duck and crispy pork), fresh seafood, and stir-fried vegetables. We offer family-style dining in our spacious restaurant along with private VIP party rooms that can accommodate all occasions (with a karaoke set in each room)!
Chinese dishes from Sichuan, Hunan & Canton, including dim sum, in low-key, compact quarters.
Address and Contact Information
Address: 6116 Franconia Rd, Alexandria, VA 22310
Phone: (703) 971-5405
Website: http://www.sampancafeva.us/
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Reviews
Sweet Kitty
A traditional Cantonese restaurant with pleasant and comfortable decor. The restaurant features several private party rooms of various sizes, which is a great touch. It’s perfect for friends’ gatherings or business dinnings, offering privacy and even karaoke for added fun.
The food here is a feast for the senses, with an impressive presentation, aroma, and taste. There are quite a few dishes featuring high-end ingredients, which elevate the dining experience.
If you’re looking for a restaurant to enjoy a cozy meal with friends or colleagues, with top-notch ingredients and a prestigious atmosphere, this place is an excellent choice.
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Hope this meets your needs!
… moreThe food here is a feast for the senses, with an impressive presentation, aroma, and taste. There are quite a few dishes featuring high-end ingredients, which elevate the dining experience.
If you’re looking for a restaurant to enjoy a cozy meal with friends or colleagues, with top-notch ingredients and a prestigious atmosphere, this place is an excellent choice.
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Hope this meets your needs!
leo ouyang
Went here with a good friend of mine today – ordered honey walnut shrimp, beef + tofu casserole, and roast pork belly. Amazing food, good service, good portions and price. I highly recommend this spot for anyone who wants authentic Cantonese food, even if the atmosphere can feel quiet at times.
… moreShelley Dao
Tasty food. Large portions. Reasonable prices. One of my favorite Chinese restaurants
… moreJohn
I was skeptical about this restaurant serving dim sum when the restaurant’s name was unusual. We decided to give it a try. It was a legit dim sum or a Chinese restaurant. The dim sum may not be the best comparing other dim sum places in the NoVa, but it was good and expensive.
Update: We had a big party and were able to book a private room for 22 people. It was amazing to enjoy a big family gathering and dinningexperience.
… moreUpdate: We had a big party and were able to book a private room for 22 people. It was amazing to enjoy a big family gathering and dinningexperience.
Chris Yen
THE best dim sum in America! I have lived and been all over Cali, as well as TX, and I am from New England. Tried them all. What a pleasant find as I’ve been missing my native Canto dishes recently. Picked up their signature roast duck on the way out for tonight’s dinner and can’t wait to try. Service was amazing and chatted with the server and owner. They were such sweethearts- warm, friendly & great, fun energy. Looking forward to returning soon. And to the duck!:)
… moreVincent Meli
I was craving some dim sum and had heard Sampan Cafe was worth checking out. I went for an early dinner and while there was a lot of takeout, I was the only dine-in.
Started with the sticky rice in lotus leaf, beef rice noodle roll, and shrimp dumplings. The sticky rice was delicious, with a piece of Chinese sausage and chunks of chicken inside. The rice roll was very tender with plenty of sauce. The filling on the shrimp dumplings were good, though the dumpling skin was a bit thick, so it ended up a little chewy.
For my “main” I got the shrimp dumpling noodle soup. Broth was clean, but not much seasoning. I used some chili oil and soy sauce to give a little kick. Noodles and veggies were good. The shrimp dumplings were just kind of “eh”. I’d probably go with a different topping next time. The waiter was extremely nice and even brought out an extra, smaller bowl of broth.
Because I was tempted, I ordered some beef and Chinese broccoli with pan fried noodles to go. The bag was big, so I was confused at first. In a good serving technique, they fry the noodles and put them in a foil-lined container so they stay crisp. Then the beef/Chinese broccoli/sauce is in a separate, quart container. This let me dish out portions the next day with fresh, crispy noodles.
Overall, I’d like to try more of the menu and will be back.
… moreStarted with the sticky rice in lotus leaf, beef rice noodle roll, and shrimp dumplings. The sticky rice was delicious, with a piece of Chinese sausage and chunks of chicken inside. The rice roll was very tender with plenty of sauce. The filling on the shrimp dumplings were good, though the dumpling skin was a bit thick, so it ended up a little chewy.
For my “main” I got the shrimp dumpling noodle soup. Broth was clean, but not much seasoning. I used some chili oil and soy sauce to give a little kick. Noodles and veggies were good. The shrimp dumplings were just kind of “eh”. I’d probably go with a different topping next time. The waiter was extremely nice and even brought out an extra, smaller bowl of broth.
Because I was tempted, I ordered some beef and Chinese broccoli with pan fried noodles to go. The bag was big, so I was confused at first. In a good serving technique, they fry the noodles and put them in a foil-lined container so they stay crisp. Then the beef/Chinese broccoli/sauce is in a separate, quart container. This let me dish out portions the next day with fresh, crispy noodles.
Overall, I’d like to try more of the menu and will be back.
Quartz padd
Sampan Cafe is such a gem!
I came here many times and food always delicious!
They also have the best dim sum in town!
Very fresh and tasty!
I love this place 10/10
… moreI came here many times and food always delicious!
They also have the best dim sum in town!
Very fresh and tasty!
I love this place 10/10
Kenneth Gregory
Great food. The general TSO chicken was flavorful. The crispy spicy pork chops are my new favorite. The egg rolls were large and in charge. It was nice to eat at a classic family style Chinese restaurant. The servers were delightful. Only complaint was I ate to much.
… moreVictor
Delicious Chinese restaurant serving classic traditional dishes done well. The best stir-fried beef and wide noodles that I’ve had in the surrounding area. Cooked to perfection with the noodles have a nice springy texture, pieces of beef that melt in your math and great balance of sauce and flavors. The roast duck was tasty as well with the dipping sauce served on the side. Fried tofu was a surprise and surprisingly tasty.
While I thought the crab fried rice was ok, it definitely wasn’t the highlight. The fried pork I could have passed on, quite dry and the texture wasn’t great.
… moreWhile I thought the crab fried rice was ok, it definitely wasn’t the highlight. The fried pork I could have passed on, quite dry and the texture wasn’t great.
J Hamilton
Dont do it!! I ordered egg roll appetizer $4, duck entree $14, and chinese donuts $6 and after delivery fee was $30+ total.
When the order arrived it was a VERY small bag. I was surprised because the other chinese place I normally order from I get a large bag for that price.
I recieved one egg roll, I am accustomed to getting 2 in an appetizer order but I thought ok well not a deal breaker and it was a standard egg roll, nothing special but not bad either.
Then I looked for the box of chinese donuts, and there wasn’t a box just a little bag with what looked like naked Churros in the bag, not chinese donuts. They were gross little hard sticks like churros, but completely bare, no sugar no nothing just cold fried dough sticks .
If your used to the delicious little light pillows of soft bread with a dusting of finely ground sugar … your going to be massively disappointed like I was. Don’t buy the Chinese donuts, I don’t know what they put in the bag but it SUCKED! Tasted stale, old, and bland, worst thing I have ever eaten.
ON TO THE DUCK. I opened the box (it was a small 4×6 inch box) and thought ok, this is good, it looked like a good amount of duck, with a crispy looking skin, and plenty of it, over white rice. I picked up a chunk, went to bite it and nearly broke a tooth.
It was a greasy peice of skin wrapped around a peice of bone. No meat in that chunk at all, it was just a layer of slimy fat and skin on bone. What looked like crispy skin turned out to be just over seasoned and slimy.
When I looked at first it looked like lots of 1 inch chunks of meat but it wasn’t, turns out it was only one duck leg, chopped 1 inch pieces bones and all, so once I pulled all peices of bone away from the actual meat there was hardly anything there, and went to eat it I kept biting into little shards of crushed bones in my food, it was horrible. It was also cold.
Everything was cold on arrival. And the sad part is the restaraunt is 2 tenths of a mile from My house. I could literally walk there in 5 minutes but it was raining so I decided to order delivery. NEVER AGAIN!
This was the MOST disgusting and horrible chinese meal I have ever eaten. Do yourself a favor and order from somewhere else. This is the worst!!
The first picture is what it looked like at first, in the second picture the bottom section is the actual meat on the rice, and the bones and skin in the top section. None of what is in the top section is really edible, maybe some people like that skin with a 1/4 inch of fat attached but to me that was gross, slimy and cold. The third and fourth pictyres are the supposed donuts, four chunks of bland hard cold dough sticks.
… moreWhen the order arrived it was a VERY small bag. I was surprised because the other chinese place I normally order from I get a large bag for that price.
I recieved one egg roll, I am accustomed to getting 2 in an appetizer order but I thought ok well not a deal breaker and it was a standard egg roll, nothing special but not bad either.
Then I looked for the box of chinese donuts, and there wasn’t a box just a little bag with what looked like naked Churros in the bag, not chinese donuts. They were gross little hard sticks like churros, but completely bare, no sugar no nothing just cold fried dough sticks .
If your used to the delicious little light pillows of soft bread with a dusting of finely ground sugar … your going to be massively disappointed like I was. Don’t buy the Chinese donuts, I don’t know what they put in the bag but it SUCKED! Tasted stale, old, and bland, worst thing I have ever eaten.
ON TO THE DUCK. I opened the box (it was a small 4×6 inch box) and thought ok, this is good, it looked like a good amount of duck, with a crispy looking skin, and plenty of it, over white rice. I picked up a chunk, went to bite it and nearly broke a tooth.
It was a greasy peice of skin wrapped around a peice of bone. No meat in that chunk at all, it was just a layer of slimy fat and skin on bone. What looked like crispy skin turned out to be just over seasoned and slimy.
When I looked at first it looked like lots of 1 inch chunks of meat but it wasn’t, turns out it was only one duck leg, chopped 1 inch pieces bones and all, so once I pulled all peices of bone away from the actual meat there was hardly anything there, and went to eat it I kept biting into little shards of crushed bones in my food, it was horrible. It was also cold.
Everything was cold on arrival. And the sad part is the restaraunt is 2 tenths of a mile from My house. I could literally walk there in 5 minutes but it was raining so I decided to order delivery. NEVER AGAIN!
This was the MOST disgusting and horrible chinese meal I have ever eaten. Do yourself a favor and order from somewhere else. This is the worst!!
The first picture is what it looked like at first, in the second picture the bottom section is the actual meat on the rice, and the bones and skin in the top section. None of what is in the top section is really edible, maybe some people like that skin with a 1/4 inch of fat attached but to me that was gross, slimy and cold. The third and fourth pictyres are the supposed donuts, four chunks of bland hard cold dough sticks.