PHILADELPHIA
ASIAN FUSION
Buddakan Philadelphia
Asian Fusion · Eclectic · Center City East
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Stephen Starr's pan-Asian flagship has been an Old City destination since 1998 — a dramatic, double-height room with a massive golden Buddha presiding over the dining floor, serving a menu that ranges across Chinese, Japanese, and Southeast Asian traditions with the kind of theatrical staging Starr is famous for. The edamame dumplings and the duck are signatures. More scene than purist Asian, but the scene is genuinely good. For pan-Asian dining in one of the most cinematic rooms in Philadelphia.