Absolutely fabulous soup dumplings and everything else we had was solid too. (hot and sour soup, egg rolls, smoothie, fried chicken)

The food here is decent. However, the workers and the boss are not grateful people. They decided to call the cops because of "not enough tips" and being really disrespectful. read more

I come here for the soup dumplings! Only place I know of in Chinatown that has them. If you know of a better one, pls lmk! Otherwise this place hits the spot for my frequent soup dumpling cravings. An added bonus is their variety of cheap noodle soups that taste both homey and delicious in cold weather read more

Dear sweet Jesus, when are the asians of Chicago going to get it together and make some decent pan fried noodles? Or how about decent food? Do I really have to get on united.com, book a flight out west, order up some noodles and break out my mom's food saver and seal up my take out air tight and fly it back to Chicago like I did when I lived in Indiana? Ugh. I was disgusted. Thank goodness the sauce was not gloppy like at furama last year. ALMOST but not gelatin like just yet. I'm glad they held back on the corn starch. They put too much ginger in the sauce it was a little overwhelming. There were large chunks of ginger in it. Also veggies with the noodles means just chinese brocolli. Dousing it with siracha helped a little. I had a taste of their pho because my friend ordered that and don't even get me started on that one. I had the strongest urge to just walk back into the kitchen and slap the cook on both sides of his or her face and tell them to Wake Up!!! Do NOT order that unless you feel like taking out some money and putting a lighter to it. I should have known from a place that serves chinese, thai, japanese, vietnamese and korean. ::shudders:: Asians of Chicago, it's time to pray to your ancestors and have them teach you how to cook from beyond the grave. Or better yet, go befriend an Asian from the west coast and have them teach you how to cook and bring your new talent back to Chicago. It's really clean though so it's perfect for skiddish non asians. Dissed and DISMISSED. Next!! ..ugh. read more

Came in here for the crab and pork soup dumplings. Although I thought they were pretty small for $9 they tasted good. We actually had to flag down a waiter several times to even have them take down our order and give us our check when we were done, which was pretty annoying. The fruit smoothies were in a huge beer cup and tasted fresh. Might be coming back only if I can't find another soup dumpling place! read more

Hing Kee Restaurant - Crab and Pork Soup dumplings - Vietnamese Near Me - Chicago, Illinois

Came on a busy sunday for lunch with my family. Did not like the service but food was good. Fish with rice noodle dish and the dumplings were very good. Rest were so so but their menu is huge so I would recommend visiting if you do not feel like waiting for some of the other popular places in the area read more

This restaurant has it all. From soup dumplings to sushi to ramen noodles. One stop for all your cravings. The soup dumplings here are amazing, definitely a must. The service is quick and efficient too! read more

First yelp review: After living in Chicago for one year, Hing Kee remains one of my most frequented restaurant for the simple fact that they make very consistently good soup dumplings. Strongly recommend the crab and pork version! read more

I've forgiven dis place since the moldy bamboo steam tray. I been hur too many times to leave dey rating at 1 star. Newayz, got dey watercress n cold Sichuan chizkin n soup dumpling. Errthang wuz aiite. Da chizkin cold, I didn't enjoy as much as I had hoped. Mayb I jus ain't like cold chizkin, but iz spose ta b cold. Watercress wuz decent, can't really mess up stir fry vege. If u can b ok wid possibly eating mediocre possibly less than mediocre sanitation, dey soup dumpling is nomz. I'm a bit scarred frum previous experience after a multitudez of great experiences (c previous review to find out da horror). Holla atchyo gurl. read more

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servers full of attitude, soup dumplings are falling apart from the bottom. while i was eating there was a staff clipping their nails right where we can hear it. for these and many other reasons, we wont be back read more

Isn't this where everyone goes on thanksgiving? We had the spicy Szechuan chicken noodles (soup), which were amazing, and shrimp/pork/chive dumplings. They were also good but the noodles were exceptional. The rest of the fam had tofu, plain buns, green beans and scallion pancake. My only complaint is that things are not as vegetarian as they seem. The pancake was cooked with chicken. Also they were out of vegetarian dumplings by noon, which was disappointing. Still, great food and shorter wait than neighboring restaurants while being equally as good food. read more

Hand down favorite Xiao long bao I've found in chicago. There's an art to picking them up and be careful when they first come out because they're hot and fresh read more

Good, cheap chinese food (wonton noodle soup for like 1.99 or something absurd)! I had that and a couple of rice dishes which were great and what I expect from chinatown, although they weren't like 4 or 5 bucks, more like 7 or 8, it was good. Definitely going again... read more

The food was good but The service was a toss up. The wait staff was a bit short in replays and since we didn't really have a designated waitress we just had to see whose attention we got. It was Russian roulette depending on who got to our table. I will say that this, the scallion pancakes are a must! The spring rolls were ok but I would have rather tried something else. The dumplings where good but I was hoping for mind blowing dumplings since I was in Chinatown. read more

The handmade noodles and the Shanghai soup noodles are delicious! The sushi and spring rolls are not.

Horrible food horrible service! The udon soup does not come with any vegetables, it's just noodles and clear broth. Teriyaki beef is soaking in onions and tastes fowl. Spicy tuna role is saturated in mayo and tastes disgusting. Finally crab Rangoon's are cold and flavorless (just chunky cream cheese). Food arrived 20 min late and was cold. Restaurant did not provide extra ginger as requested and only a tiny soy sauce... WHAT A WASTE! When I called to complain they said didn't care at all that they sent crap out as a representation Just avoid this place all together! read more

Have you ever had Chinese food that makes you happy?? It warms you on the inside, reminds you of home and that life is good??? Yah, well this place made me sad. The soup dumpling (xiao long bao) are handmade.... I watched the lady make them. But when they came to my table, they were overcooked, sticky and they all broke. I didn't get to slurp any soup from the dumplings....they all broke and leaked to the plate below. And the egg rolls didn't taste good either.... Crunchy but bland. Yuck. So now I'm sad and need to find another food to make me happy.... I didn't come to Chinatown to eat sad food.... Wtf! read more

I give the soup dumplings here 3.5 out of 5 here. For the service, I would give it a negative 3 out of 5. It is horrendous. The staff makes you feel inferior to them as if they were doing you a favor coming to their restaurant. I've been going here for a year now and last time was the cherry on top. I suggest to anyone who has a short temper not to come to this venue. If you feel like being treated a cheap hooker, you're most welcome! read more

The specialty for Hing Kee are their lanzhou lamian (chinese hand made stretch noodles in clear beef broth, its a specialty from Lanzhou a city in the middle of China). If I'm not mistaken there are only 2 restaurants in the entire midwest that has this. In response to Trina S. review, actually that's what properly made xiao long bao is supposed to be like. The skin is supposed to be very soft & fragile and basically breaks at the touch of a chopstick. read more

Service: It is a dive restaurant and the service really stinks. The lady that waited on us was rude and rushed us to order our food. Bad service. The dumplings were good but not the best. read more

Came here with some friends and experienced the most embarrassing moment of my life! After we finished eating we asked to split the check. I paid for my part of the food which was $20. I wrote on the tip section " I left cash" and wrote in the amount due. On the table, I left $5 cash and as I was about to leave and the waitress rushes to the door with the receipt and says I need to tip 15% in front of everyone. I told her I left cash and she kept saying I need to tip her 15%. Now I'm the center of attention and she didn't believe me. I honestly believe she can't read English when I wrote on the receipt "I left cash" I'm never coming here again! And hopefully no one has to ever experience this embarrassing moment, ever!! read more

We stopped in to this restaurant while in Chinatown in Chicago. My husband loves Asian food, so of course we needed to eat something Asian in Chinatown! We ordered the won ton noodle soup, pan fried egg noodles with chicken, and saimin. They also gave us tea to drink with our meal. I must say, this place is DELICIOUS! The Saimin was amazing. Not only because it was freshly hand made noodles, but the soup was not salty. It had the perfect amount of flavor. I really miss eating Saimin. From Hawai'i, we can eat Saimin at McDonalds, so having Saimin in Chicago was amazing. The pan fried noodles, one of my favorite dishes in Asian cuisine, was also very yummy. A little burnt around the edges, but still, the crispy noodles on the outside and softness on the inside was perfect. Now, the won ton soup, it was also very good. Made of different noodles than the Saimin, the texture was good, the soup was a little more on the salty side, but the won ton was excellent. My favorite thing here? I must say the Saimin. Will come back here for Saimin the next time I am in Chicago. read more

All you can eat hot pot for $18/person. Food was fresh, beef, shrimp, watercress, etc. Nothing like eating to your hearts content and still feeling good after. I love hot pot and it's done well here. read more

This is our Chinatown old reliable when we are looking to have a wide mix of stuff at a decent price. They make great homemade noodles, their soups are wonderful and their sushi will suffice in a pinch. We love their spicy fried tofu! Service is always friendly and efficient. We always get their dumplings too which are made fresh at the front counter. If you sneak off into the bathroom in the back and peek into the kitchen you can usually catch a glimpse of a little dumpling station in the back as well. The last time I was here I watched the guy making the smoothies and they could not have been fresher. read more

My friends and I were standing around Chinatown Square one night not knowing where to go for a late night dinner. We are quite the indecisive group. We finally narrowed it down to Joy Yees and Hing Kee (both which are right across from one another) and we chose Hing Kee. We should have chose Joy Yees because the service and Hing Kee was horrible. As I said before we were qutie the indecisive group and me and my friends didn't know what to order. I understand getting a little frustrated at us for not ordering quickly, but the waiter (who also seemed like the manager) came up to our table the second time and stood there till we said what we wanted to order. Note the restaurant was not full at all. We wanted the fried squid appetizer plate, but they were out and considerbly we needed time to think about what else we wanted to order. We wanted to split a couple of dishes and the people I was sharing the food with one could not eat beef and one did not like seafood (except for fried seafood of course). This made choosing dishes we would all like a little bit harder. He stood there with his notebook pad and big attitude like a big looming cloud. The waiter/manager rushed us and when we asked about splitting the bill he promptly said we needed to pay by credit card. Helpful ... I think NOT! WE decided to order this chicken curry dish. When the food arrived we noticed the waiter didn't bring a bowl of rice. The waiter then told us that rice was an addition 50 cents. We were not that appaled by the price, but a curry dish that doesn't come with rice. That is just wrong! Bad service, okay food, okay price. Definetely not worth it. Next time we are indecisive and picking between Hing Kee and Joy Yees I am definetely voting for Joy Yees. Not coming near this place again. Interesting Note - This interesting note is more like a thought. Shouldn't the manager treat his customers with respect if he wants customers to come back? I would understand if a regular waiter would treat us with bad service, but a manager treating his customers badly that is just not acceptable. read more

Big fan. Simple, fast and delicious. The place is slightly disorderly, but who cares when the dumplings are so good. After awkwardly standing for a couple of minutes we were sat down in a little corner where we could people watch. Friend and I got 15 chicken dumplings and teas. The waitress was not particularly friend, but as we were not here for pleasantries, I can't complain much. read more

The first time I ate at Hing Kee was several summers ago. A friend attending UIC directed me this way for their cheap and delicious lunch special, a huge bowl of mild broth with homemade seafood dumplings, chives, and a heaping side of a seasonal vegetable topped with oyster sauce. ...All for about $6. Their bubble tea fruit freezes, too, are excellent, chock full of fresh fruit and awesome tapioca, and deserve recognition. So... why the single star? I've gone back to Hing Kee a few times since that initial amazing experience and have been, well, less than wowed. The first time, the Chinese-American dishes my friends sought were merely poorly executed. Chalk it up to poor entree choices. Last night, though? Service was so unbearably bad that I get annoyed just mulling it over. My dining companion and I each ordered an appetizer and an entree. For me, the scallion pancakes and an old standby, shrimp tempura udon. For her, the pork, shrimp, and chive dumplings and peppered beef cube hot stone pot. Within a few minutes, our pancakes arrived, gummy, oily, and short on their namesake's sharp green onions. A side of the spiced soy sauce usually served with these (and featured in the menu pictures) also never arrived, although we remedied it with a mix of the provided table condiments of chile oil and soy sauce. About ten minutes later, my dining companion's beef hot pot arrived. The cubes of beef were tender and beautifully butchered, appearing cooked melt-in-your-mouth medium and velvety. The sauce was peppery, sweet, and coated the other components-- cabbage and rice-- in the pot to create a gluttonous, crunchy, beefy fried-rice-like delight. However, this is where the good experience ends. I, initially, wasn't too concerned about my friend's entree coming out before the rest of the dishes because Asian restaurants tend to serve dishes as they are ready. However, forty minutes then passed. The neighboring table, who arrived minutes after we did, received their dinners, paid their check, and left. To the other side of us, a large Chinese family cooked platter after platter of tabletop food... and my simple soup dish nor her dumplings showed. It even seemed like every staff member in the restaurant ate at least two meals while we patiently waited and then futilely attempted to catch ANY server's attention. Finally, we were able to catch our waitress. I asked her to check on the status of my udon-- she cleared and wiped down a table before addressing this task, though-- and then assured me it was, "On the way." Twenty minutes passed before it eventually made its way to the table. For those keeping score, that's an hour for a bowl of fried shrimp and noodle soup. The shrimp's batter had, at this point, become soggy, although the broth was flavorful and the noodles were tender. This said, Arlington Heights's Mitsuwa Market serves up a comparable for the same price in about seven minutes. By this point, my dining partner was picking at her completely cold pot of food. We watched order after order of dumplings come out of the service area. Grabbing some kind of floater host/server, she, normally unflappable, plaintively said, "We ordered dumplings." Another twenty minutes and those arrived too, tender skins, beautifully spiced meat mixture, chives, and all. Neither of us are sure where the miscommunication happened. Our server wrote down both of our orders and repeated them back to us. Yet only 50% of them, for some reason, ever made it to the kitchen. No one ever bothered to check up on us or wonder why we were lingering for an hour and a half over a single entree and one quickly devoured appetizer. And maybe it's just a cultural thing-- but no apologies were offered and we were not comped any of our dishes. Hing Kee's food is really great. Their menu is diverse and all of the items-- from Japanese sushi to Vietnamese pho-- are well-executed. But that level of service is unacceptable in any establishment. Especially in an avenue so full of other great restaurants. read more

This place is pretty cool. Price is cheap and they have a variation of food. Sushi isn't bad. I normally don't expect sushi restaurants in Chinatown is all that great, but this place isn't too shabby. When they first opened, they screwed up my order three times. I guess they were new and didn't know their menu well enough. And for some strange reason, they keep having grand openings after several months. Weird. read more

Spicy dishes barely registered on my spice radar. It was average quality. The soup dumplings were pricey compared to others and just ok. The shrimp dumpling noodle soup was decent. read more

They accepted our GrubHub order but never completed it. Two hours later they said they never received it but GrubHub confirmed that they did. They were very rude on the phone and would not make it right. We will never order from here again. read more

Hing Kee has reinvented themselves so many time. Used to be pho place, then a version of Joy Yee... The service is a little slow. The bf's noodles came and left before my rice dish! But the beef and mushroom rice in a hot stone bowl is pretty awesome! Especially the crispy browned rice! The food is not as heavily salted like other places in Chinatown! read more

Got the Singapore noodles and the mango lychee drink. Excellent food and big portions and it was very affordable. If you are looking for a cheap place with good food this is it. They have plenty of variety from sushi to noodle bowls and the regular Chinese food. Service is alright not the greatest most attentive service read more

Growing up i never really ventured into Chinatown. Something about the novel-like menus and fried ducks hanging from windows just didn't make the neighborhood too attractive to me. Now as an adult, thanks to my good friend Aapple (who is born/raised in China/Taiwan), I have been recently introduced to the yummy goodness Chicago's Chinese corridor has to offer. Hing Kee is the closest thing to traditional Chinese food in our city limits, says Aapple. Last time I went with her we tried the soup dumplings and Korean style short ribs. I truly have never eaten anything like the soup dumplings. They are soft, pick them up carefully or they'll break and you'll ruin the magic, place it in ur spoon - bite off the top, slowly drink the soup inside (CAUTION: SOUP IS SUPER HOT) then let some steam out and eat the remaining piece of dumpling. The inside is a chunk of crab meat and the handmade dumplings basically melt in your mouth. Everything i've tried here is straight fire and it's extremely reasonably priced. The price for four heads was roughly $55 {^_^} read more

Hing Kee Restaurant - the most delicious dumplings i've ever had - Vietnamese Near Me - Chicago, Illinois

The soup dumplings (xiao long bao) are very very good. They are made right in the corner of the restaurant in full view by true masters of their craft. The shu mai (shrimp and pork) dumplings are also excellent. read more

I had to pick up a few things for a friend and my mom in Chinatown, and missing out on my regularly fill of pho struck my mind so I entered this place. I was slighlty hesitant because I was afraid the food would be more on the Chinese side as opposed to the Vietnamese side. It was more on the Chinese side, and the spoken Chinese should have been an indication. Ok, so I might be stereotypical but you think each ethnicity is just going to make it's own food better. Well, you can't expect too much if you are in Chinatown looking to eat Vietnamese food. Then again, what can really be said about the Hispanic cooks in some of the Chinese restaurants?! I sat down, and ordered one of the combination meals, in which I easily substituted items for. I had the number 3 I think and I got the cooked beef noodle soup, spring roll, and an iced coffee - which are all typical Vietnamese food standards. Interestingly, enough a guy sits at the table next to mine at the window and asks if I wanted something to read because I was sitting alone. I was able to get some reading on Perspectives and Sports section done while I ate my food. I wasn't impressed by the food at all, but it did fulfill my craving for pho. I'm starting to think Vietnamese coffee is just naturally too damn strong. The spring roll didn't have any real merit or meat in there, and was kind of plain. I'd say that I really wouldn't come here again, but hot guys sharing their newspapers don't seem to come by too often. I'd give it 3 stars if he had the guts to ask me out... Ha! read more

This is by far the best Chinese restaurant I've been to in all of Chicago. You have to get the XLB - you will not regret it.

3.5 new restaurant now. of course, every will be drawn to the handmade pulled noodles chef in the window. thus we went in for dao xiao mian, and la mian. had the beef and the spicy versions. the hand cut noodles were a bit on the thin side, but worked out pretty well with the broth. since they are calling it "ramen" they put an egg in there, but it doesn't belong. the food is ok, but the menu is still having an identity crisis. in any case, just come for the fresh noodle (though other restaurants on the same block advertise that they make it too) read more

Pork belly with chinese bread + watercress veggie dish + beef with broccoli on fried chow mein = pure yummy nourishment!

I ordered from this place tonight using Grubhub and I paid 9.99 for the Korean BBQ Plate and CFR. Well the CFR showed up but for some reason they gave me chicken with broccoli instead of the Korean bbq. Seriously? On top of that the restaurant is closed. -__- Stay away from this place. I mean how do you get an order wrong from Grubhub it's right there on paper. There's really no excuses to running a business like this. Unacceptable! The driver took hella long too, even the Grubhub guy was like wtf seriously? On a side note the name of the restaurant sounds like kinky. Maybe that's why they got my order wrong? read more

Great noodles for around $5! The noodle chef looks very OG! The only place in Chicago that offers dao xiao mian, and la mian. Good Deal! read more