4-course menu at Café Wu in Amsterdam-Oost — This modern Chinese bistro and listening bar serves soulful cooking with vinyl on the turntable

What does a Chinese bistro look like in Amsterdam? At Café Wu, it’s a warm-lit dining room where records spin as brothy wontons and chili crisp-topped bone marrow hit the table—and a forager’s weekly deliveries shape what’s coming next.

In the kitchen, the flavors of Cantonese and Sichuan cuisine meet a Parisian bistro mindset. Cheung fun is bathed in XO sauce and finished with crisp potato chips. Sweet-and-sour BBQ pork neck arrives alongside egg fried rice. Pollack meatballs swim in a deeply savory dashi with goji berries, shiitake, and eel fat. Dessert rounds out the evening with a sticky rice cake layered with chestnut ganache and vanilla ice cream.

Rooted in nostalgia yet entirely fresh, Café Wu is carving out a niche all its own.