I came to Chinatown to pick up my clothes that I left at my rehearsal space, and I was looking for some cheaper food that I wouldn't have to sit down and wait for. It was also raining and I wanted to eat near where I parked and along comes Ding Ho I found exactly what I was looking for. 750 for a platter with a good amount of rice noodles delicious chicken curry and steamed broccoli. Not overly greasy. If I was here on a nice day I would totally stop hereAnd take my food to a park or something. read more

HA no wonder no one has reviewed this place yet! It's a closet that squirts out Chinese Take-out! I can walk you through this: You stand in line, usually out the door, because I'm not kidding, the place is the size of a walk-in closet. You take three steps and you miss it. You go inside and they have three choices of slop: Broccoli Slop, Weird Chicken-gravy Slop (avoid this one), and Nice Spicy-Looking Chicken Slop. You point at the slop you want, point at your choice of rice/lo mein, and they ladle it in. Say please and be courteous or they charge you more. I'm not joking! Say something to the effect of "Hello, could I get a combo, please?" and smile, then point. I've actually seen one of the women who works there dump this guys' food into a smaller container, much to his protest, because he was being ansy. They only give chopsticks to Chinese people, so if you want some and you're not, you'll have to ask. All this magic for $3.25!! I wish I could capitalize numbers! And there's enough for two meals! Incredible! The food tastes pretty good, not the best I've had but $3.25! Go there just for the experience, you will seriously die when you see it. I'm laughing at my desk thinking about it. Oh man read more

This place is magical. Picture the Soup Nazi environment w/ simpler (and lower quality) food, but better prices. I go to Tufts Med, so the 1/2 block walk and the deep discount ($3.25 for a 3 compartment styrofoam container) both appeal to me. Weekly, I ignore the fact that the MSG and fat in Ding Ho's food will sooner make me a patient than a doctor. :) read more

I used to think I had a cast iron stomach... I am the leftover king, and fear nothing in the fridge, no matter how fuzzy or wilted. Until I met my match at the Ding Ho. Man, this place is just not right. Don't get me wrong, they're not mis-advertising or anything... it is just what it looks like: a sterno buffet of sketch Chinese food pretty much a foot from the sidewalk. And for $2, how bad could it be? If you find yourself asking that question, you deserve to find out... read more

SO cheap, and not disgusting (actually pretty solid) Grabbed the small combo with lo mein and broccoli for $2.50. Unbeatable. They also have some dumplings, chicken and onions, fried rice, and some other random things. My food was fine. Wasn't as greasy as I thought it would be, but really the reason for going here is CHEAP. Cash only. read more

Whenever I need a quick bite in Chinatown in a hurry, I'll stop by Ding Ho. My go to item has always been their steamed rice noodles (cheung fun) with lots of hoisin and peanut sauce. Let's not forget to add some Sriracha! You can't go wrong when it's only costing you $1.50. I've had a handful of their other dishes and they are decent to say the least. They don't necessarily have the best Chinese food in Chinatown but it'll satisfy your belly and your wallet will be happy with you. I've come for many years and I'll continue to come back for many more. Now if only I could somehow get my hands on that peanut sauce recipe of theirs... read more

This place is a hidden gem of Boston Chinatown! We got oyster sauce chicken with fried rice. The rice was incredibly flavorful, and the chicken was very well seasoned and moist. We couldn't believe the plate with two entrees was $5 flat. Next time, we're in Boston, we'll be sure to return. read more

Ding Ho freaking rocks! ironically in a way that plays well with their name. Ding Ho is that hot girl that puts out even on a cheap date but with her you really have to wrap it up I know some of my friends have been there before Hell I've even told friends about her a couple of times I have made snide remarks when I have passed her on the street whenever I have her I just have what satisfies me and leave the rest I know people that went to her often and suffered from it every once in a while I want to go back to her read more

I used to work at the bank across the street and was told by one of my coworkers 'don't eat anything there but the spicy peanut chang fen', but those were really good, so I used to order double portions of them (I think they were like, $1.25 at the time for a portion) After a week or two of this, the lady behind the counter got pissed at me for always eating the chang fen and told me that she would only sell me one portion at a time! She is a real character, and I wish her the best of luck and give her restaurant 2 stars on the basis of the awesome cheapo chang fen and 1 star based on the boss lady's crazy behavior, which is actually quite funny --- everyone please go there and order as much chang fen as you can! read more

This place is SKETCHY!!! It's the creepiest place from the outside, even though it's on a well-lit corner of a major street. But, you walk in the "in" door, and your butt's against the glass and you're about 12 inches from the steam table. The loud, bustling little woman behind the counter puts together your order, and like $4 later, and three steps to the right, you're out the "out" door with a super greasy, filling meal. I don't even know what I ordered in there, and I keep staring at my meal obsessively to make sure nothing's crawling around, but the curried chicken is tender at least, and the dumplings (some people know just how much I love dumplings) are a little stale, but taste good and the chili sauce is delightful. Definitely an adventure... read more

This little corner spot is one of the hidden gems of Chinatown. No matter where you look, you're not going to find another place in this area that will give you a full-sized order of chow mein, stir-fried broccoli and curry chicken for $4.50. The menu is simple. You first pick the size. Small order includes 1 starch (chow mein, fried rice, or Shanghai noodles) and 1 side (sautéed onions & chicken, curry chicken, tofu + veggies, broccoli). Smalls are great for a quick lunch--and it's only $2.50! Large order lets you pick a starch and 2 sides. If you're a white rice type of person, you can ask for that too (it's great with some curry chicken over it!) The place is CASH ONLY. My advice--if you don't know what to order, look at what's most fresh. They're constantly making more of each item throughout the day but usually if I see that something was JUST refilled and it's piping hot, there is no doubt in my mind I will enjoy it that much more! Add that Sriracha they have out too before you leave. My only gripe, however, is that I think they dilute the Sriracha a little bit so they spend less time refilling it. Meh. read more

I'm giving this place 5 stars, not for being a nice sit-down restaurant, but for being a tiny 15"x10" take -out joint. $1.50 steamed rice noodles (my personal favorite since I was a little kid) and either 2$ small or 4$ large protein + rice plates. Cheap, dirty (not really), and delicious. CASH ONLY. read more

This place is RIDICULOUS. It's literally $4.50 (no tax) for a giant bowl of rice/noodles and two sides. I'm a 200+lb man and I had to split the meal into lunch and dinner, and was still fully satisfied. The dishes themselves were nothing special - I had a side of the onion chicken (teriyaki?) and the curried chicken. Both were adequate. But for the ridiculous amount of food you get, there really is nothing better. I paid $2.25 for two meals. It's crazy. The space is extremely dingy and tight - there is no space to eat there and can only do carry out, but who cares when you're paying so little. By the way, did I mention that this place was cheap? read more

Food is mediocre, but what really sells this place is their price. It's a really small take out place located in Chinatown. You literally can only fit probably 4 customers max side by side in there. I don't remember the last time they raised their prices in the past 5 years. For under $5.00 you could get an order of lo mein and curry chicken. Small change gets you far at this place. They have a wide assortment of pre-made Chinese food. Aside from the aforementioned, they also have fried rice, stir fry vermicelli, stewed beef and more. My favorite is the "cheung fun," which are those rice flour crepes that you get at dimsum except without shrimp rolled up inside. But for cheung fun that's less than $2, I can live without the shrimp! read more

STEAMED RICE NOODLES FOR $1.50? YES! I've been coming to Ding Ho since I was a little girl. Twenty years later, the food is still dirt cheap! And... it actually tastes the same. Full of memories, noodles, rice, grease, soy sauce, hot sauce, and MORE grease! The quality isn't the greatest, but for the price, what do you expect? The portions are gigantic too, so I really can't complain. You could easily get better Chinese food elsewhere, but that's at an actual sit-down restaurant for nearly double the price! If you're expecting a fine dining experience, think again. This is truly a fast food, hole-in-the-wall restaurant. There aren't any seats. You get some cheap Chinese food and go on your way. read more

Quick? Yes. Oily? Yes. Dirt cheap? Also yes. What exactly do you expect paying $2 for a box of noodles? Their staples are lo mein, rice noodles, fried rice, stir fried chicken, and stir fried veggies. There's one single line that goes in one end and immediately out another door making the takeout process even faster. In terms of how the food tastes, it really depends on which day you come. I've noticed there are two chefs who rotate. There's also a sriracha bottle handy on top of the counter. It's fast and MSG is yummy, but eat at your own caution. read more

Love it or hate it, that's basically what it boils down to at the very end. You will find the CHEAPEST Chinese takeout food (and most decent lo mein) in all of Chinatown, and the food is good and edible enough to sustain hunger. But definitely eat here at your risk, I've heard some terrifying rumors of the Ding Ho...however, if you have confidence in your stomach, I'd give it a shot! Food: 1-5 stars Price: 5 stars Seating: non-existing, with barely enough place to move through the lines. read more

Tiny, simple, fast, easy, and cheap.$2 small box, $4 big box, cash only. Choice of; white/fried rice, Lo mein, or rice noodles, and 2 of what I assume is teriyaki chicken, Tofu, curry chicken and broccoli. Sometimes they throw in other items. I feel as though the portions, and how much of what you get is dependant upon which person is working. It isn't white meat chicken, but its not bad, tidy is good, fresh big pieces of broccoli. Food is Always hot and does taste great, especially for the price. Sometimes I just go in for the noodles and veggies and add my own chicken at home. I never paid attention to the name of this place before searching for it so I could review it. I have always recommended this place to my friends, usually giving the street intersection and "purple awning" as my directions. I think its funny its called ding Ho restaurant, it should be called ding Ho in and out, because you literally walk in 3 feet, get your food and walk out 5 feet, all in a matter of 2-3 min if no one is in front of you. It's good, fast, dirt cheap Chinese, and I've never felt sick after eating there which is more then I can say for some other establishments in Chinatown. read more

When you need grease and you need it fast this is the place. Cheap Chinese fast food that is a bit more on the Chinese side then the Americanized side. This place is ONLY take-out. I use to come here as a kid and it hasn't changed except for the prices, which are still cheap. It hits the spot when you are in the mood. read more

My stomach turns a little every time i think of this place. Its a place for CHEAP chinese. and i mean dirt cheap. something 6 or 7 dollars at the mall is 3.50 here. Dayum thats cheap. But, sometimes things can get iffy. Super greasy sometimes and its worse when i think of the curry chicken i think it is. Ive had better but not for the price. Price is not beatable. Food, could be better. The place is also barely big enough to squeeze in Stop by if ur in a megafuck rush or like me, a little on the broke side. read more

I remembered the "cheurng fun" I used to have here with the hoisin and some type of sesame seeds on it. It was good, but everything is good to me. I haven't been here in many many many years so today, Davel and I came here for a mid-day snack/dinner. We got an order of noodles and the two types of chicken they offered. They had 6 different choices of what we could have gotten; vegetable lo mein, rice noodles, fried rice, tofu, soy sauce chicken and chicken with onions. The fried rice looked like it has been sitting out all day, the vegetable lo mein looked extremely oily so we settled for the rice noodle. The lady preparing it was cutting up carrots when we came in and it felt like all she wanted was us out, so she could resume cutting up her carrots. She seemed a bit impatient with us but we just couldn't decide what we wanted due to the (insert sarcasm) vast selection of things we could choose from. But it was overall, good. Maybe it was just the time of the day that we went, but I felt like it could of been better if there were more selections. It was indeed really fast service and I will potentially come back for round two, and hopefully, there'd be more than just 2x noodles, 2x chicken, tofu that looked like chicken and dried up fried rice. Yaaaay! read more

What can I say about this little "hole-in-the-wall" takeout joint in Chinatown (next to a live poultry store)? Do they have food? YES. Do they have great food? NO. Do they give you a ton of food for a few bucks? YES. Let's just get down and dirty about Ding Ho. It's tiny. It consists of a steamer table with enough room to walk by the front and the servers cramped in the back. Supplies fill the space below the steamer table. A couple of woks cooking up the foods at one end and a giant rice cooker at the other end. Tell them you want a rice plate and they scoop out a soup container full into your Styrofoam box. Point to want you want with your rice plate - good choices are: tofu with daikon, curried chicken, or soy sauce chicken. The choices change daily. You can get fried rice or lo mein instead of white rice. I usually stick with the white rice to absorb the sauces that come with the tofu or chicken. Not a bad meal for $4.00. They also have steamed rice noodles with soy and peanut sauce, hot and sour soup or Chinese rice soup for $1.50. The food is good, but it's not great. It's filling and cheap! Check out the variety of people that get food from here - medical students from Tufts Medical Center, business people from around Chinatown, elderly Asians from Chinatown, taxi drivers that pull into the fire hydrant area. They can't be all wrong! It's nothing to write home about but worth the visit if you are in the area and in search of a quick takeout meal. read more

Ding. Ho. It's a fast food, to-go place where you choose your food, it gets dumped in a container, and you're sent on your way in about a minute. I like to stop by here when I'm low on time or money. Brag: Really, really, cheap. I usually get a heaping takeout container with broccoli, chicken with onions, and lo mein for 4 bucks. Can't really beat that price. Beats: The quality is... not the greatest. At the end of the day, sometimes the broccoli is kind of brown looking. Everything is super greasy. Sometimes there are miscellaneous garlic clove shells and other crappy vegetable parts in the food. Also, the selection is pretty limited to about 6-7 choices. Variance: Everything is pre-made, so while it does take about 8 seconds to get your order, you have no idea how long the food has been sitting there. TL;DR: Fast and cheap, but slightly sketchy and greasy. read more

The beef chow foon is great. However, this is a take out only hole-in-the-wall that closes at 6/7pm. Great food, if you can get there in time. read more

Quick service. Very cheap. I really like the steamed rice noodles. They make it fresh, and it comes with yummy soy sauce and peanut sauce, and spicy if you want. Only $1.50! The curry chicken is also good. Juicy thighs and wings. read more

This place is getting 4 stars for 2 things. 1) The steam rice noodles that come with soy and peanut sauce. Sriracha hot sauce aka cock sauce (because it has a male chicken on the bottle and because I'm immature) is optional. 2) It's only $1.50, which includes tax! This is a absolute no frills place. You come in order, and in two minutes, you are out the door with your food in a bag, a couple of forks and napkins. I've never had any of the other dishes, but I can see that they stuff each box to the max. Ok, that's a lie, I've had the dumplings before. They were ok. It's the same dumplings that every single restaurant(except King Fung Garden and Dumpling Gourmet) in Chinatown and some suburban takeout places buy from that dumpling and noodle factory in Chinatown. It's the same dough and filling. I am a sucker for Peking Raviolis and end up ordering them almost every time. Anyway, it's the same dumplings, but Ding Ho gives you 4 for $2. Every other place is like $5 for 6. I don't know how the math works out, but that's an incredible value! read more

Definition of Chinese comfort food! Come here for assorted choices of fast food on the go; fried rice, lo mein, rice noodle rolls, and more. I got the rice noodle rolls with peanut sauce and soy sauce. Perfect for old weather and on the go meals. Slightly more oily than I expected but STILL delicious. read more

very cheap and fast! The taste also very good! Noodles and rice are large enough and two other sides also great.

Seating: no. Character: no. High-quality food: no. Amazing lo mein: yes! Amazingly low-priced: yes! Best deal in Chinatown: yes! More comments above, but grab a five-pound bag of to-go treats for about $8.00 HOW can you miss??? read more

The epitome of a hole in the wall Chinatown joint and I absolutely love it. Litrelly the size of about 2 normal office cubicles. Walk in one door and leave out another, no seating space, barely enough room for you to walk through. You can get a 2 entree + 1 side meal for $4.25 which is unbeatable. Not a ton of choices but then again, you're not expecting much variety when you come here. I had their pork dumplings and Lo Mein. The pork dumpings were generous in size and the filling tasted great. Had lots of flavor and not very greasy. The Lo Mein was very typical, nothing special. Looking forward to coming back here in the near future to try more of their entrees. read more

What you see is what you get. Sketchy Chinese food- very cheap, very quick. Not very clean establishment, but I've eaten there a few times and never got sick read more

Wow, this is a hidden gem in Chinatown! The store may not appear particularly pleasing, but you can get a great deal for lunch! For $4.50, I got a huge, tasty meal that allayed my hunger. I plan on returning. read more

love love love this place. so amazingly cheap! i remember coming here as a kid with my parents and they'd get boxes of "chang fun" ( steamed rice noodles). So good for 1.50!!!! the other stuff they have is good too, the fried rice, noodles, chicken. I love the ppl there.. so cute and friendly. read more

At Ding Ho it's all about economy of motion and words. You have to go here enough times to develop a simpatico. I like the curry chicken (slop) I get the thin rice sticks (vermicelli) and have them pour the "gravy" on it. The chicken with onions is only spicy if you splash it with the Vietnamese "ketchup". If you get both it's a whopping $4, not $3.25. I always say no to veggies but the lady gives me a stern motherly look and puts some broccoli and cabbage in my box anyway. I get the chop sticks without asking about 47% of the time. If there is not a line, and you walk in, a line will form within 60 seconds, two Asian women will walk in the other door and jump the queue, You will be served according to the pecking order, don't complain or make a scene. The food is better at 68 Chinese but DH is closer to my office. read more

Simply for their rice noodle with that sauce they throw on it! Only $2 and you can add more sauce if you want. Lots of bang for your buck. I've tried their shanghai noodles and chicken - a little on the greasy side but I'll be returning for their rice noodles. read more

Fact: Chinese fast food will always be greasy, but may or may not be delicious or cheap. Greasy? Yes. Delicious? Yes. Cheap? YES. $3-$5 for a box literally packed with deliciously greasy food is definitely worth it. I eat about 3-4 slices of pizza to be full and a small box of lo mein from here is enough to fill me. If you eat more than that, the big $5 box will probably be good for you. You get your money's worth at Ding Ho. Keep in mind that this is just a super small takeout place so there's no seating. I usually eat at New England Medical Center whenever I get food from here. read more

Ding Ho is the stuff of legends. When I tell my friends there's a place at the heart of Boston where you can get a meal for $2.50, they don't believe me. Granted, it's a smallish meal, and the options are limited: rice with your choice of two viands from a steamtable that has looked the same for at least twenty years. There's no rotating menu, just the usual: chicken in black bean sauce, chicken in curry sauce, black bean broccoli, curry tofu, and something with pork. Rest assured that the pint-size $2.50 box contains enough carbs and grease to keep you full for a long time. In the morning, there are unequivocally delicious $2 steam rice rolls and congee. Completely empty calories and completely perfect. read more

I'm guilty of coming here a few times a week when I started working in the area. However, after a while, I noticed how greasy the stuff is compared to other places, and I stopped going. I also did a taste test and compared their spring rolls to another place close by and found their's to be somewhat bland. It is very cheap. I'll give it that. So, if you're looking for quick, cheap, Chinese to go, this is it in Chinatown. If you're open to non-Chinese, I'd suggest going to one of the Vietnamese sub shops for a quick and cheap lunch. read more

There are nearly 300 languages spoken in China, and I am certain that "Ding Ho" translates into "Dirty Prostitute" in at least one of these languages, because I feel filthy and cheap every time I visit this place. To begin with, it's adjacent to one of Chinatown's live poultry markets, which means that one of two equally repulsive scenarios may play out before your eyes while you're waiting in line to enter Ding Ho. First, a poultry distributor may be parked immediately in front of Ding Ho while they deliver a truck-load of unhappy, squawking fowl who were probably duped into believing that their final destiny was a pet store near the corner of Harrison and Kneeland Streets in Boston. Sorry Chicken Little...this time the sky is truly falling. Alternatively, the delivery may have already occurred and the poultry have long since made their way into the hands and pots of the hungry masses. At this point, a worker emerges from the live (misnomer, I know) poultry shop dressed in rubber boots and a vinyl apron. With a high pressure garden hose, he washes all the feathery bits and pieces that are left over from the day's massacre out of the shop, onto the sidewalk, and into the gutter. If you happen to be standing there at the time, well, let's just hope that you aren't wearing open-toed shoes. If I haven't given you enough reason to stay away from Ding Ho, then be my guest and enter. What you'll see is an 8' x 12' shop with a few choices of starch and protein in a steam tray behind a glass counter. The starches typically consist of vermicelli rice noodles sautéed with cabbage and broccoli, vegetable lo mein, and fried rice. The protein options are usually tofu and mushrooms, pan-fried boneless chicken and onions, and a braised bone-on chicken in a brown sauce. In addition, you may find congee, hot and sour soup, or pork dumplings. Two items with a starch will run you approximately $4, which must be the cheapest meal in Chinatown. The problem I have with this place is that the quality of the ingredients, and the ingredients themselves, are dubious at best. Then there are the questionable food handling and storage techniques, and the steam trays that provide the perfect environment for the growth of all sorts of nasty and dangerous little bugs. Whether Ding Ho realizes it or not, they are essentially replicating the primordial soup from which primitive life on this planet emerged. I anticipate that one day a new and yet undiscovered life form will crawl out of Ding Ho's steam table and colonize Chinatown. Though I can't specifically pin it on Ding Ho, I had the misfortune of contracting a gastrointestinal illness that coincided with a visit to this fine purveyor of mystery meat and MSG. If only they offered a 10 day course of Ciprofloxacin as a side option, I might consider a return visit. read more

I only come here for the rice noodles. It's just the regular rice noodles that w you can buy from the market but they steam it for you and add some peanut sauce, soy sauce and hot sauce. They used to add sesame top but now they are too cheap to even provide that and it makes a big difference.... =( read more