The best Chinese food delivery restaurants have one common noble purpose, which is to come to your rescue when you don't have the energy to slog through the winter snow to get that egg drop soup. Aside from solving critical first-world problems, it's always nice to know that, when you have an attack of the munchies, you can either call these places up or order online (a ridiculously convenient option in this era of the Interwebs).

Is there anything more sweet to the ears than that doorbell sound, and knowing that a hot package of Kung Pao Chicken is ready for your salivating mouths? I've still yet to see those small white cardboard boxes commonly seen in American shows whenever they order Chinese, mind you, but I guess you can't have them all.

The best sushi takeout in Toronto is always ready to please you and your ravenous friends who are impatiently waiting at home for your return. While the places depicted here have physical locations almost as tiny as a TTC streetcar during rush hours, they more than make up for it with the quality (or price) of their food. Perfect for those birthday surprises or impromptu Wii gaming nights, nothing says "Let's eat!" like a white styrofoam box of maki with a little dollop of wasabi on the side and an always too-few amount of soy sauce packets.

Here are best options for sushi takeout in Toronto.

The best bubble tea in Toronto is, surprisingly, not exclusive to the suburban areas. While the frozen tundras of Chinatown North (inexplicably written in some maps as Markham and Richmond Hill) still lay claim to the largest number of people whose weekend nights consist exclusively of sipping a tapioca-laden milk tea and chatting animatedly with friends, there has been a largely unnoticed growth of excellent bubble tea shops in the city of Toronto proper.

This, coupled with the fact that many of these uptown cafes also have locations south of the 401, has meant a proliferation of places where you can sample this popular Taiwanese invention all across town.

The best dim sum in downtown Toronto has a few noticeable differences from its uptown counterparts. For one--much to the joy of purists and fans of middle-aged Asian ladies' shrill voices everywhere--some of the downtown places do offer traditional cart service, where you can immediately point and pick at your dish without knowing what the heck you've just agreed to consume. Secondly, the downtown restaurants edge their suburban cousins in their unparallelled variety, spanning a wide range of environments not usually found north of the city. From old hole-in-the-wall establishments to upscale harbour viewing dining experiences, there's something catering to every kind of dim sum preference on this list.

Here are the best dim sum restaurants in downtown Toronto.

Toronto has some of the best milk tea outside of Hong Kong. For those unfamiliar, milk tea is a fixture of Canto-Western (Hong Kong-style Western) cuisine. The milky beverage, made from a combination of black tea (and sometimes different kinds of teas), and evaporated/condensed milk using a discoloured filter that is often referred to as a pantyhose, is such an integral part of the Hong Kong coffee shop experience that it's really difficult (impossible, really) to imagine not finding it in any respectable Hong Kong cafe.

The best late night Chinese food in Toronto has never been, and will probably never be, about the frills. At 3 am on a Saturday morning, it's not exquisite ambience or knowledgeable servers that matter, but rather how quickly you can stuff steaming hot piles of Chinese food into your collective gullets. True to form, most of the restaurants on this list have little, if not zero, ambience, but what they do offer in abundance are heaps of crispy chicken, spring rolls, ginger beef and even the odd dim sum. Delicious, delicious late night dim sum. Put simply, these popular places ensure that you'll never be found wanting when it comes to late night gluttony in this humble city of ours.