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Nous allons dans un restaurant chinois.

Nous allons dans un restaurant chinois.
We are going to a Chinese restaurant.
From Lesson 34:Prepositions for cities and countries (à, en, au, aux)·French

Questions & Answers about Nous allons dans un restaurant chinois.

The current lesson is about using à, en, and au to say 'to' a place. Why does this sentence use dans?
While you use à, en, or au for cities and countries, going to a physical building using un or une (a/an) works differently. French uses dans (which literally means 'in' or 'into') to say you are going inside the building.
Could I say à un restaurant instead of dans un restaurant?
Native speakers rarely say à un for buildings. If you want to say 'to the restaurant', you would use au restaurant (because au combines à and le). But to say 'to a restaurant', you use dans un restaurant.
Why is it restaurant chinois instead of chinois restaurant?
In French, most adjectives come after the noun they describe. This is especially true for adjectives describing nationality, origin, or style, like chinois.
The word chinois ends in an 's'. Does that mean we are going to more than one restaurant?
No, we are only going to one (un restaurant). The masculine singular dictionary form of the word for 'Chinese' naturally ends in an 's' (chinois). It happens to look the exact same even when it is not plural!

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