Let me tell you, this just about revived me when I was in a bad way. Food was so good - the service…read morewas fast and lord knows I needed to eat stat since I had been fasting for over 16hrs. Genuinely one of the best dim sum experiences in Boston I've ever had - loved that it felt communal. Folks of all ages were inside, so I could tell it's a neighborhood gem. Shoutout to the manager who cut the wrapped shrimp food item with scissors automatically (thank you!) so I could eat it easier!

I saw a lot of recommendations for Dynasty, so I came in with pretty high expectations, but…read moreunfortunately the experience was disappointing The pineapple BBQ pork bun was served cold. After we mentioned it, the staff reluctantly took it back to reheat, but it came back extremely hot and soft, with a very obvious microwaved texture The custard bun was also unusual. After removing the paper underneath, the bottom of the bun was noticeably white instead of yellow. I can't say what caused it, but it definitely looked strange The rice noodle roll, spare ribs, and chicken feet were okay, but nothing special

Clay Pot Cafe is one of my favorite spots in Chinatown! The food is flavorful, comforting, and full…read moreof authentic taste. Their clay pot dishes are delicious, with generous portions and perfectly cooked ingredients. Everything came out fresh and satisfying, and the service was friendly and efficient. I typically come here for my lunch break and it's always hits the spot! I have no complaints and the staff is super friendly and service is great. The chicken sausage clay pot was delicious too!!

This spot serves authentic Cantonese claypot rice that genuinely feels like a comforting, homemade…read moremeal. The rice is well-seasoned and achieves that perfect, crispy layer at the bottom of the pot. ​The sautéed water spinach is an excellent side dish to add to your order, and the fresh lemon tea is balanced and refreshing. Your meal also comes with a pot of complimentary hot tea. ​The establishment is clean and sanitary--with the added convenience of a clean customer restroom - which I feel is rare for Chinatown. The staff was friendly and helpful.

Food: dim sum as follows:…read more Hai gao, chives dumpling, lobo gao, tso yong bing, chicken and vegetable crispy noodles. All had good flavor although the lobo gao could be crispier and crispy noodles are better at Dynasty. Service: efficient. They brought out shrimp crispy noodles when we ordered chicken and they quickly corrected the order. Ambiance: large space with crystal chandeliers and covered chairs. When back in town, we'll try Dynasty for dim sum to compare.

Took my adult kids to Hei Ma Moon today. The ha how and siu mai were so good! The rice noodle with…read moreplump shrimp remind of the ones my grandma and I used to make on rainy days. The real surprise was the steamed gai lan with oyster sauce--tender sprigs that were hot and easy to manage without cutting them. Service was very good! As veteran dim sum fans, give Hei Ka Moon six thumbs up!

Our family came here on Labor Day at 2pm. The restaurant was empty as it is after lunch rush hour…read more The server was very friendly saying they don't close between lunch and dinner. We ordered a lobster in ginger scallop sauce. Tung Choi with fermented bean curd. Beef with black pepper sauce on iron plate. Calamari in five spice salt. All food came out fast they are very authentic. Like the old days Chinese food. I will definitely come back to try others.

Early weekend lunch, half a flight up, low key space spread across two rooms. Deep menu of…read moreCantonese dishes. -- Clams in Black Bean Sauce: Smallish portion and small clams, especially compared with South Garden in Quincy, who makes a stellar rendition. Tasty sauce, with a little heat to it thanks to red and green peppers. Well cooked and solid enough dish despite the size issues. -- Beef Filet with Black Pepper Sauce (rice plate): In the beef world, the word "filet" connotes tenderness, which wasn't present here. Very chewy meat, well coated with a slightly peppery sauce that seemed fairly tame relative to the name. Hefty pile of rice and medium pile of meat. Not a bad meal. Not a bad price. Just a little underwhelming. Maybe it depends what you order.

I have been dreaming of duck so I had to go here. This did not disappoint. There was so much meat,…read moreand I was so so full. I honestly couldn't even finish everything, AND I was starving. Meats were very juicy and flavored well and honestly no complaints. Very crispy and just what you expect. Service was very fast. You can order in person or at a kiosk. They give you a number and u just wait for that. One of the few places that you can pay with card without any hidden details. There's about 10 seats inside but it's on a first come first serve basis. If you go for an early lunch, there's a good chance you can eat inside. Also has one of the cleanest bathrooms in Chinatown!

Chinese BBQ place in Chinatown Boston. Mainly a takeout place but they have about 4 tables inside…read morefor seating. Ordered some n the kiosk. They have a window where you can see the butcher cutting up all the Chinese BBQ meats. I got the 3 plate combo which was about $15. I got the roast pork, BBQ pork, and roast duck. The roast pork was on the salty side. Had about 6 pieces but only 2 had the crispy skin on it. Told the server and she was able to get us more and apologized that some was missing due to the cut. Skin was crispy. The roast duck and bbq pork was average. Would prefer if it came with more bbq sauce.

The name Wings Kitchen was a little deceiving because I was expecting chicken wings, but it's…read moreactually a small, traditional Chinese restaurant. We only ordered one dish to share - the chicken and Chinese sausage with black mushroom casserole. It took a little while to prepare, but when it arrived, the server mixed everything together and served it into our bowls. This was unexpected for an Asian restaurant in Chinatown. The dish was very tasty, warm, and comforting. It was definitely a generous enough portion to share. The service was friendly but not especially attentive. The restaurant itself is very small, with only a limited number of tables, so we had about a 10-minute wait. Looking around, the other dishes coming out of the kitchen looked delicious and were very generous portions as well. I'll definitely be back to try some of the other dishes.

A unsuspecting hole in the wall downstairs in the basement of a chinatown building offering some of…read morethe best Chinese food with the typical mediocre/borderline rude service. Their best dishes are the emperors chicken and braised tofu. Like many restaurants there are some hits and misses, but the empires chicken and braised tofu are home runs.

I've always wanted to try Hainanese chicken rice, so after browsing all the available food stalls…read morein Novo Marketplace, I decided to try this place. Food came out pretty quickly, and the chicken is nice and tender and not dry. I don't really like the yellow rice that they use which is kind of dry. The chicken comes with some green gingery sauce that goes well with it. I guess I just kind of expected this dish to be more mind blowing as it's always hyped on social media and at hawker's stalls in Singapore, etc. but it was still quite enjoyable and I might come again to try their other offerings.

We made a reservation ahead of time for our large group of 12 people at Baby Cafe. They have a tiny…read moreparking lot with 3 narrow spaces in addition to street parking. Our food came with a complimentary drink so we had to try the "Ice Baby Milk Tea" drink which came with a frozen "baby chef" that later melted---the milk tea was absolutely delicious that tasted just like the milk tea I've had in Hong Kong. Favorite dishes of the evening: The hand-shredded chicken. Our cousin orders this every time they come and I can totally see why. It was tender and so flavorful! String Bean w/Ground Pork--it's diced up pretty small and my daughter loved this dish. Popcorn Chicken--crispy crunchy and so flavorful--I like that these aren't spicy Sour/spicy fish and pickled mustard greens stew--this was my favorite dish of the night. The pickled mustard worked so well with the tender flaky fish!

This small but quaint restaurant in the heart of Boston's Chinatown blends in among the other…read morerestaurants around it but once inside it's bright and colorful and once you choose your meal you will enjoy every bite! Food was Presented hot and super tasty. Take a look what I ordered and see its generous and full of flavors! The shrimp and noodles with bean sprouts and eggs and more was so delicious! I would come back to try other dishes that were recommended to try! Parking can be tricky but you have parking garages near by!

For a weekday work lunch, I stopped by Shoyu to try out their Cantonese BBQ. The establishment had…read moreits seating area blocked off into a Covid-era style makeshift take-out setup. I ordered a 3 item BBQ plate for $16 (the 1 item plate is $12 and 2 item plate is $14) and opted for char siu, roast duck, and soy sauce chicken. I paid at the counter and received my take out box after about 5 minutes. This proved a filling portion size - 4 pieces of duck, 4 pieces of chicken, more than a dozen smaller chair siu pieces, 2 pieces of bok choy, and ample rice. The butcher did not cheap out and give out bony pieces of duck. The duck was was overly soy sauced and the skin not fatty. The chicken and chair siu remained juicy. I don't know if the restaurant has take-out service for dinner, and also don't know why they call themselves Shoyu when they don't serve Japanese food. The paper menu lists the BBQ rice plate, but I can't remember if it enumerates the various protein options. A piece of cardboard next to the cash register has the options written in Mandarin w/o any English translation (on brand for this sort of establishment).

We arrived in Boston and decided to stay in this busy neighborhood in the middle of everything. I…read morestopped by this bakery early morning before 9am. Restaurant was not open. I ordered what was available. Baked sweet breads were good. Particularly like the sticky rice with dry shrimp, roasted peanuts and sausage in the tin foil; it was really good. The ladies spoke Chinese, with minimal English but they were sweet and accommodating.

The food and service here went downhill. The restaurant used to be packed. There was no line at…read morelunch time and many empty tables. Soy sauce chow mein ($13.95) - it was not authentic. It tasted like regular plain noodles. It was supposed to have a strong soy sauce flavor. The dim sum menu price was misleading. It was marked as small dish but they charged for more. Roasted pork and wonton noodles ($12.95) - the pork inside the wonton was black and had a terrible smell. The boneless spareribs also looked dark and not fresh. The server refused to cancel it on the bill. She insisted it was freshly made and said it was just the way they marinated the meat. It was not edible. Who would take the risk of food poisoning?

I call my Mom Grandma Ding because she's a little ditzy. And she likes to tag along on family…read moreoutings like a dinghy attached to a bigger boat, sometimes in front, sometimes in the wake, so when we found this place on Yelp it was fate. We came for a family dinner and of course Grandma Ding was with us in her wheelchair. We only smashed into a few chairs in the big, crowded dining room. And fortunately other customers were understanding while the staff was helpful and accommodating. The small, curious child running around the dining room without parental supervision didn't get hurt when I ran him over. The menu was huge so it took a long time to order with Grandma asking questions about every item. I could see that the waitstaff was used to quick orders and rapid food delivery to the table, but the waiter remained kind and patient. He also repeated his answers loudly when she couldn't understand his English and because she didn't have her hearing aides turned up. We finally ordered a giant wonton soup, eggplant with garlic sauce, a shrimp dish, and orange chicken; all to share. Everything was fresh, hot, tasty and delicious. Grandma Ding did have to ask for the soup to be heated up because she likes it to be scalding. The dining room is worn and dishes were flying in and out as items were served and cleared. It's definitely a place for family meals, not one for an engagement proposal or romance. Perfect for our evening. Portions are generous and prices competitive with other restaurants in the area. Parking on the street is the only difficulty, particularly when you have a nonagenarian to get into the restaurant. We will definitely be back.

We chose Ding's on the spur of the moment - the reviews were pretty good. We ordered scallion…read morepancakes and vegetarian potstickers to start, followed by sauteed eggplant-tofu casserole and chicken with cashews. The scallion pancakes were excellent - the winner of the evening. The potstickers weren't what is typically referred to as potstickers, but the small gyodza that one buys by the bag in Chinese and Korean markets. These were poor and flavorless (we've bought MUCH tastier ones in H-Mart and the 88). The eggplant was very tasty, not too garlicky, and was an enormous portion. It was a bit greasy, but not too bad. The chicken with cashews was bland and boring. We dined there with a good friend and commented about the great service - fast and efficient. As I mentioned, the portion size was significantly larger that most restaurants these days. The prices were a bit high, especially considering the barebones atmosphere - but this is Newton Center, and we expected this. In short, I won't return to Ding's - there are lots of better choices.