PRESS
Press, portraits and history
Since 1989, China Sichuan Restaurant at Donaupark has been part of Vienna’s dining scene. Explore coverage of our restaurant, the Urban family and Chinese food culture in Vienna.
Restaurant coverage
The history of Chinese restaurants in Vienna – Part 2
Wien Museum Magazin · 5 May 2026
Jakob Lehne and Andrea Ruscher place our restaurant’s 1989 opening within the history of Chinese dining in Vienna.
How authentic Sichuan cuisine came to Austria
DER STANDARD · 29 May 2025
Kevin Recher explores our beginnings at Donaupark, Chunah Urban-Chao and the restaurant’s influence on Sichuan cuisine in Austria.
A garden in the park
Lust & Leben · Issue 101
Wolfgang Schedelberger introduces the Urban family, the restaurant’s beginnings, its architecture and its Chinese garden.
Dining by the water: Sichuan at Donaupark
Gastro.News · 10 August 2025
Marko Locatin reviews the cuisine and garden, with a look at Tim Urban’s wine selection.
Soberl’s review: Sweet and sour in Donaustadt
dbz – Donaustadt im Blick · Winter 2023
A restaurant visit with photographs and insights into the restaurant’s history and Chunah Urban-Chao’s work.
A Chinese dragon at Donaupark
MeinBezirk · 7 March 2022
David Hofer writes about the garden, kitchen team and Chinese wines, including comments from Chunah Urban-Chao.
First place in the 2022 freizeit community vote
KURIER / freizeit · 18 February 2022
Coverage of our restaurant’s first place in the publication’s 2022 reader vote on Chinese restaurants in Vienna.
Chrysanthemum fish, dragon balls and more
ORF Ö1 · Broadcast: 2 October 2020
A radio feature on Chinese cuisine in Austria, including our restaurant and Chunah Urban-Chao’s work with professional Chinese chefs.
Supporting Chinese cuisine in Austria
Die Presse · 18 October 2019
Marlies Eder reports on professional Chinese chefs in Austria and speaks with Chunah Urban-Chao.
Tim Urban and the family in the media
The articles about Shanghai document an earlier hospitality project of the family.
Two cultures at once
Lust & Leben · Issue 101
Wolfgang Schedelberger interviews Tim Urban about his background, regional Chinese cuisine and his approach to hospitality.
Where Vienna’s restaurateurs go for sausages
DER STANDARD · 24 August 2025
Michael Hausenblas and Kevin Recher ask Vienna restaurateurs, including Tim Urban, about their favourite sausage stands.
How restaurateurs handle online reviews
DER STANDARD · 14 June 2024
Tim Urban contributes to a feature on how restaurateurs respond to online reviews.
Bachl’s restaurant of the week: Shanghai
Falstaff · 28 February 2022
Alexander Bachl’s historical review of the former Shanghai restaurant and the work of Chunah and Tim Urban.
Stark and Urban: Shanghai’s new chapter
Falstaff · 5 October 2021
Bernhard Degen covers a hospitality project involving Tim Urban, Robert Stark and Chunah Urban-Chao at that time.
Shanghai in Vienna’s first district: A new beginning
DER STANDARD · 1 October 2021
Severin Corti’s historical feature on the former Shanghai restaurant, the Urban family and Tim Urban’s role as sommelier.
Chunah Urban-Chao and our restaurant’s history
More chefs, greater culinary variety
Die Presse · 3 January 2015
Marlies Kastenhofer covers Chunah Urban-Chao’s support for professional Chinese chefs and the careers of former employees.
Austrian business leaders with migrant backgrounds
Die Presse · 16 November 2017
A photo feature with a short portrait of Chunah Urban-Chao and her path from piano studies to hospitality.
Sichuan cuisine in Vienna, the city of music
旅游界 · Sohu · 27 July 2017
Coverage of a Sichuan food and tourism event at our restaurant on 26 July 2017, featuring cooking demonstrations and Chunah Urban-Chao.
A gold honour for Chunah Urban-Chao
奥国那些事儿 · Sohu · 7 October 2018
A Chinese-language report with photographs of Chunah Urban-Chao receiving a gold honour from Vienna’s hospitality sector.
Chunah Urban-Chao: Chinese food culture in Vienna
餐饮世界 · Issue 4/2021 · Online: 25 May 2021
An in-depth Chinese-language portrait covering her music studies, translation work and the restaurant’s development. Republished on 参考网.
Auenhammer and Trumler – Vienna’s rivers
Austria-Forum · 2020
A book review that also mentions Sichuan and a conversation with Chunah Urban-Chao.
Culture and historical mentions
The spice of Zen
DER STANDARD · 17 August 2007
Severin Corti’s review of ON includes a brief mention of Sichuan among Vienna’s Chinese restaurants.
A convivial dinner in Vienna
Chaîne des Rôtisseurs · Event: 23 March 2019
Werner Scheibenpflug’s French-language report on a Chinese New Year dinner hosted by Chunah Urban-Chao.
Ikebana exhibition at China-Restaurant Sichuan
Ikebana International Vienna · 16.–19 June 2011
Photographs of the Vienna chapter’s 25th-anniversary exhibition, hosted by Chunah Urban-Chao at our restaurant.
More than Mozart and Mao!
Alice Schmatzberger · Buchschmiede · 2021
The book includes a chapter on Chunah Urban-Chao starting on page 217. The linked sample provides the table of contents.
Bibliographic references
A life in a Chinese restaurant
Die Presse · Martin Stuhlpfarrer · 31 December 2005
A bibliographically documented article. The original text is not currently directly available; the link leads to its citation in an academic study.
The sky in my country has a different colour
Edith Binderhofer · Edition Roesner · 2005
Conversations with Asian women in Vienna, including Chunah Urban-Chao. The association profile provides a bibliographic reference, not the book’s full text.
Press contact
For press enquiries, interviews and image requests: info@sichuan.at · +43 1 2633713
China Sichuan Restaurant
Arbeiterstrandbadstraße 122, 1220 Wien
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In the restaurant guide
Our restaurant in the Falstaff Restaurant & Gasthaus Guide 2026:
