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Chinese cuisine has been woven into Manila's culinary DNA for centuries, shaped by the historic Binondo district — widely regarded as one of the oldest Chinatowns in the world — and by generations of Chinese-Filipino families whose cooking has quietly influenced how the whole city eats. At street level, that means siopao from a sidewalk stall, a bowl of goto at dawn, or pancit canton tossed fast over a high flame. Sit-down Chinese restaurants here span a wide range: roomy Cantonese dim sum houses where carts circle on weekend mornings, Hong Kong-style seafood places in Quezon City, and old-school Hokkien noodle shops that have barely changed their menus in decades. The Chinese-Filipino table is a category of its own — familiar but distinct — and it remains one of the most satisfying ways to eat in Metro Manila.