# Chinese Restaurant Website Example: Jade Lantern

This Chinese restaurant website belongs to Jade Lantern, an invented dining room with weekend dim sum, noodles pulled to order and roast meats carved by the door. It prints every dish with a price and a Contains column, offers three ways to book a round table, and ends with a request form that asks about allergies before anyone sits down.

Live sample: https://aiwebmaker.co/sample-websites/chinese-restaurant-website-sample

Families choose a Chinese restaurant for the table as much as for the food, so the page has to show both before anyone picks up a phone. Jade Lantern opens on a photograph of three generations around a turntable crowded with steamer baskets, while three paper lanterns sway beside the headline. The weekend dim sum sheet follows straight away, printed as a table with a short description of each dish, its price and the allergens it holds. Next comes the noodle window, where a cook stretches dough to order, and a second table of noodle bowls and roast meats from the carving board. Round tables and banquets get their own section, with a price for each guest and the notice the kitchen needs. Good Chinese restaurant website design puts the menu and the table side by side in this way, because a family settles both in the same few minutes.

Allergens get unusual care on this page, because soy sauce, oyster sauce and wheat wrappers carry them into dishes where guests rarely expect them. Every row of both menu tables names what the dish contains, and a section further down lists the ten allergens the kitchen uses and where each one hides. It explains that lo mai gai contains molluscs because of oyster sauce, and that the soy sauce in the woks is brewed from wheat. It also admits that woks, steamers and the fryer are shared, and points anyone with a severe allergy to the duty manager. Photographs, a request form, six answers and three example reviews then lead down to the street door. Written this plainly, the page earns the trust of the parent who has to check every basket.

## What is on this sample website?

| Page | What it is for | Sections |
|---|---|---|
| First screen | Weekend dim sum, noodles pulled while you watch | Book a round table; See the dim sum sheet; Dim sum until 15:30; Three swinging lanterns |
| Dim sum sheet | The weekend dim sum sheet | Nine dishes with prices; What each basket contains; Oyster sauce and wheat in soy sauce |
| Noodle window | The noodle window | Dough rested overnight; Thin, regular or wide; Bowls pulled to order |
| Noodles and roasts | Bowls from the window, meats from the hooks | Beef noodle soup; Roast duck by the quarter; Char siu and siu yuk; Greens and fried rice |
| Round tables | Round tables and family banquets | Dim sum table; Family banquet; Celebration banquet |
| Allergens | Allergens we cook with every day | Ten allergens and where they hide; Shared woks and steamers; Dishes without meat or seafood |
| Photographs | A weekend at the round tables | Har gow and siu mai; The carving board; A birthday on the turntable; Egg tarts |
| Table request | Ask for a table | Kind of table; Day, time and guests; Name and phone; What the kitchen should know |
| Questions | Asked at the door on a Sunday | Booking dim sum; Meals without meat; Banquets; Roast meats to take home; Prams and step access; Smaller parties |
| Example reviews | From families who came back | An eightieth birthday; Watching the noodles; A peanut allergy at the table |
| Finding the room | Find us upstairs | Ring the front desk; When the steamers are on; Arriving as a big group |

## What a family checks before it books yum cha for twelve

### A dim sum sheet that reads like the one on the table

Weekend guests already know the paper sheet they tick at the table, so the page prints its dim sum the same way. Each dish has its Cantonese name first, such as har gow or cheung fun, followed by a plain description for anyone who has never ordered it. Prices sit in their own column, and most plates are described by how many pieces come in a basket. The intro explains how the sheet works, from ticking the dishes to baskets arriving as they leave the steamer. A visitor who reads this on a Friday night arrives on Saturday knowing exactly what to order. That familiarity is what turns a first visit into a weekly habit.

### Allergens beside each basket, with the hidden ones explained

Chinese cooking carries allergens in sauces and wrappers, so a Contains column beside every dish matters more here than on most menus. Jade Lantern lists crustaceans in har gow, fish in the roe on siu mai and molluscs wherever oyster sauce is used. A separate section explains that the soy sauce in the woks is brewed from wheat, which surprises many guests who avoid gluten. It also says plainly that woks, steamers and the fryer are shared, so traces can move between dishes. Rules on allergen labels are not the same in every country, and a real kitchen should check its list against local law and update the page whenever a recipe changes. Kept this current, the column protects the guests and the kitchen's good name together.

### The turntable itself, offered as something to book

Big families need a round table more than any single dish, so the page treats the table itself as the thing to book. Three arched cards set out a weekend dim sum table, a family banquet and a celebration banquet, each with a price for every guest and the notice it needs. A button on each card fills the first field of the request form, so nobody has to describe a banquet in their own words. The form then asks for the day, the time, the number of guests and any allergies in the party. On AI Web Maker the request reaches the restaurant, which accepts it, offers another time or declines it, and the bill is paid at the restaurant with nothing passed to the platform. Families who can see the table they want are far more likely to ask for it.

### The noodle window as a reason to come at lunch

Hand pulled noodles are theatre as well as food, and the page gives the cook at the window a section of its own. A wide photograph shows dough being stretched into strands, beside two short paragraphs on how the noodles are made. Guests learn they can choose thin, regular or wide noodles, and that each bowl is pulled only when it is ordered. The same paragraph warns that bowls for a big table may arrive a few at a time, which heads off a complaint before it happens. A real kitchen should describe its own method honestly, including the flour it uses and anything else in the dough. Showing the craft this openly gives a quiet weekday lunch a pull of its own.

### Roast meats over the counter, kept apart from the tables

Many Cantonese kitchens sell roast meats over the counter as well as in the dining room, and the page makes room for that trade without letting it crowd the tables. Roast duck, char siu and siu yuk appear in the menu table with plate prices, and an answer below explains that they are also sold by weight to take home. Because Jade Lantern books tables rather than taking food orders, its counter trade stays at the carving board and on the phone. A restaurant that also runs a busy Chinese takeaway website should keep the two paths clearly apart, so diners and collectors never land in the wrong form. Mixing them on one page usually confuses the guest who only wanted a table on Sunday. A simple counter keeps the booking path clear for everyone.

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## Frequently asked questions

### Is Jade Lantern a dining room anyone can visit?

No. Jade Lantern, its cooks, its banquet prices and its phone number are inventions. Someone on the AI Web Maker team typed out each dish and each answer by hand, imagining a family run Cantonese dining room on a crowded weekend, and every photograph was created with the platform's image engine. A real restaurant's site starts as a builder draft from the owner's own short description, and any word or picture can be changed before it goes live.

### What should a website for Chinese restaurants show first on a phone?

The dim sum hours, the menu with prices and allergens, and the button to request a table. Most families look on a phone while putting their coats on, so Jade Lantern keeps its menu as real text rather than a photographed card, and each table row folds into a short card on a narrow screen.

### Should dish names stay in Cantonese or be translated?

Keep the names guests will say at the table, such as har gow or siu mai, and add a plain description beside each one. That respects the cooking and helps a first time guest order with confidence. Skip jokey translations; one clear line about what is in the dish does the job.

### What does hosting cost once the round tables can be requested online?

Writing and previewing the dim sum page carries no bill at all. The bill begins when Jade Lantern's tables open to requests: $19 for every month on air, or $119 for a whole year settled up front, plus whatever the chosen domain ending costs among roughly 400 on offer.

Updated 11 November 2026 · AI Web Maker