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Category: Asian Fusion [Edit]
Neighborhood: Back BayHynes Convention Center (Green)
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Greasy! Cheap!
Wonderful!
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Its cheap, greasy, convenient and readily available Americanized food with a Chinese flavor to satisfy your hunger. The portions are generous, the food quality is consistent, but nothing to brag about. Beef and broccoli is good. Ask for the sauce, its a little bit spicy and I like it.
Ive never been there, only ordered to go. The delivery takes a little longer then I would like, but the last time the delivery guy drove an Escalade, so maybe he had to make a stop to refuel.
Good food, but small portions of the main course with lots of rice.
2 stars because the food is just + 4 stars for price & convenience settles me at 3.
I've eaten here more than any other place. It's a couple blocks from us, and it's consistently good enough. I love the spicy szechuan wontons with peanut sauce on top of white rice. My fiance loves the pork fried rice and General Tsao's chicken. It's pretty cheap for the area and better than the other places within the neighborhood, but I would not go out of my way nor make this a destination location.
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cheap and tasty, no complaints. the food has always tasted great, yes a bit greasy but at this price who cares, i always leave satisfied.
This place is exactly what I expected it to be- quick, cheap, and greasy. I got the chicken with broccoli combination dinner and it was good. The hot and sour soup was ok and the portions were pretty decent. Don't expect anything gourmet.
Hsin Hsin = every dish comes with a side of sin. or something like that, since every time i've had Hsin Hsin, I've been hitting the sauce. but those sins might have happened anyway, so...
it's cheap
it's greasy
it's chinese
it's available for delivery
it's across the street
it's 4 stars
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It was a nasty summer day in Boston -- middle of July, 90+ degrees, mercilessly bright, air so thick you could cut it with a knife. Perfect day to stay inside, eat ice chips, watch re-runs, and enjoy the AC. Where was I? Smack in the middle of the heat, on the streets, slowly dying as my friends dragged me to Hsin Hsin for lunch. The only thing keeping me going was the thought of cool, recycled air at the end of the journey.
But there was no cool air to be had. The AC was turned off (WHY? WHYYYY?). Meanwhile, the sweaty bodies of the dozens of loud, over-excited undergrad diners filled the stale, muggy air with the smell of hormone-packed B.O. Seconds after sitting down at our booth, I could feel moisture gathering under my legs. It was so damn hot. Hoping to avoid leaving an embarrassing wet mark on the back of my dress, I stuck a few cheap-ass, thin-ass napkins under my thighs, only to have them almost immediately dissolve and stick in unattractive clumps to the backs of my legs. Was this Hell?
At least the food was worth the trip, right? NOPE. My sweet & sour pork was dry and tasted like the meat had gone bad. The lobster soup was thick, and brown, and gloopy. The fried rice was decent, but can anyone really screw up fried rice? The best things on my plate were the crab rangoons, but in that kind of heat, fried foods sit in the stomach about as well as balls of lead. Yummy.
What's utterly baffling to me is how the BF and his buddies can continue to consistently eat here. Late night study breaks? Hsin Hsin's. Brunch line at Pour House too long? Hsin Hsin's. Craving shitty (really shitty) food? Hsin Hsin's. The only explanation for this is the late delivery hours and relatively cheap prices + huge portions. Still, who would want giant servings of rancid sludge, right?
I've known all along that the BF has poor taste in Chinese food, but this has got to stop. It's time for desperate measures -- every time he orders from Hsin Hsin's, I'm going to make him get a Manzilian. I'm pretty sure that's a fair trade off.
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so, this place totally rocks, i dont really know why its never been yelped on before, i hope its a mistake. this place is so not even noticeable from the street, but when you walk in you will regret never having stopped by for sit down chinese food when you walk from newbury or boylston to the harvard bridge. this place is so quiet, i think thats what i love the most. cool locals take a seat here and enjoy tasty rice, chicken, eggplant, egg drop soup, crab rangoon, among assortment of other foods. the staff never bothers you, but they make sure they are visible when you need them, i recommend stopping by and giving this place a try, its got great food for the cheap prices, enjoy!
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The best you're going to do for late-night Chinese delivery in the MIT/Back Bay area. Better than Quan's, better than Pu Pu Hot Pot. No, it's not authentic, but it stimulates all the right receptors for fat, salt, and umami. What's that? Your ICE project is due in 12 hours, you only have $8, and you can't decide between crab rangoons, fried rice, and sesame chicken? How about all of them, all at the same time?
You can do it! You can have it all!
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Cheap, delicious, enormous portions. What else is there in life?
Crab rangoons. That's what there is. And as a serious purveyor of crab rangoons, this place is the second best in Boston/Cambridge (Chili Duck being #1).
Go for lunch and you can get in and out for $5-6 in under an hour. The portions can easily make up your dinner, too. The people are super nice. It's cheap. It's exactly what I want in a restuarant near a college campus - cheap, generous, and benevolent. I went here so much in college the owner recognized me and always came by to chat. They're great people, and they seem to empathize with their clientele - hosed undergrads who come by in a frantic rush to get cheap food at all hours of the night and day. They basically serve delicious comfort coddled in tasty sauce.
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Everyone has their own taste in Chinese food and this place isn't mine.
Don't get me wrong, the lunch and dinner specials are VERY reasonably priced and the waiters are very attentive (it's like they fill your water glass as means for preying on college gossip) but the tastes of everything except the Scallion Pancakes are just too saucy.
A lot of my friends are addicted to this cheap, fast place to grab a bite with usually enough to take home for later but it's too bland for my taste to get a rave.
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I still dream about this place even though the last time I had it was oh like over 3 years ago. But I bet it is still the same.
Used to get it when coming home after class. It is the BEST when you are sick because even if your nose is totally clogged, you will still taste it, and it will taste awesome. They also used to have the best crab rangoons (on a good day) if they weren't burnt.
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Hsin Hsin is awesome.
1) Delivery
2) Cheap (dinner combo with appetizer, fried rice, and an entree is 7 bucks.)
3) Delicious
This is worth at least 4 stars for its economics alone.
UPDATE: They have some crafty drivers too. One night, some of my friends and I ordered both Quan's (another Chinese place) and Hsin Hsin at the same time by coincidence. Both drivers arrived pretty much the same time, but as they double parked in front of our house, the cops rolled up with sirens on. Well, the Hsin Hsin guy wasn't going to have any of that so he actually just floors it and bolts and lets the Quan's guy get the ticket before circling back after the cops take off. Clever.
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I will preface this with that fact that I don't really love Chinese food.
After a year of awful Nan Ling, I moved out of the dorms and into my very own shoebox of an apartment right around the corner from Hsin Hsin. I barely had a kitchen or space to do any cooking so I basically depended on my microwave and takeout. On the nights when I wasn't in the mood for India Samraat or Subway, Hsin Hsin it was.
Decent place, quick service, awesome cold noodles and crab rangoon. I can't really vouch for much else of their menu, but for chinese stand-bys this is the place to go.
I live further away in JP now but if I ever crave Chinese again I can honestly say that I would order from here.
Hit or miss... but when you hit it is excellent. The food is not too greasy & full of flavor. the preparation time is extremely fast.
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This isn't the most amazing place, but satisfied my Chinese food craving. Beware! Although their website says they're open on Tuesdays, that's not true!
I was craving for American-Chinese food last weekend and decided to order in from Hsin Hsin since it was near my friend's place. As many of you already (or should know), real Chinese food do not really exist outside of Chinatown (or maybe Quincy in the case of Boston). Most of the so-call Chinese food joints are AMERICAN CHINESE where you have the General so-and-so kind of dishes. I think most of them do not taste very well, although once in a while i do crave for that greasy huge portions of chicken tossed with vegetables.
I had the SESAME CHICKEN and it was pretty good. The chicken was tasty and not overly breaded. I can't say the same for the fried rice that came with it though. It was bland and had nothing in it. Granted it was the fried rice that came in the combination plate. Maybe it would be better if it's a special fried rice order (like HOUSE SPECIAL or something)
Was is amazing? Nope, nothing to shout about?
Did it fulfill my craving? Yes yes, and in a very short 20 minutes for delivery. Granted we were 3 blocks away.
Would I order in again. Definitely yes. I am seeing this place to be the place when i am super lazy in the winter times...
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Fast service,huge variety of Americanized-Chinese food. Cozy decor, with a television to pass time!!
The portions are great espcially for the price. The food is fresh and always hits the spot, plus when i'm too lazy to go out they deliver late into the night and a pretty far radius! I order from them all the time now
ps. it is a Americanized Chinese food, what do people expect when they try to get fancy and order the "nui roa" whatever-or-other?!
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This place is just not good. However, I ordered here quite a bit when I lived across the street and all the dining halls were oh-so-far away, and it was raining, snowing, or just late. The food is cheap, but that's basically where the positive aspects of this place stop. I've ordered probably about 7 different dishes here and all of them were lacking in flavor, or they had a funky taste to them....like the fried rice and crab rangoons--I don't know how you can mess this stuff up! Also, all of the meat was low quality, lots of dark meat and fat in the chicken dishes. Probably the best thing here I've tried was my roommate's leftover moo shi. I'm from Maine so I usually expect things in the city to be better, but all the Chinese food I've had had at home outshines this place!
Nothing too amazing about the food, but this restaurant delivers pretty late in the night. There is also a big television inside the resaturant for anyone other televeision deprived Boston-dwellers.
Also delivers.
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Got a craving for greasy americanized-Chinese food? Hsin Hsin will hit the spot. The owners are really nice, and the service is fairly fast. I live within walking distance and it's always ready to pick up 10-15 minutes after I order. Portions are generous and the food is better than average. It's not worth making the trip out here, but if it's in your 'hood, then give it a try.
Though, how is it pronounced? I say "sin-sin," but I could be way off the mark here.
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Greasy, delicious, relatively cheap Chinese food that delivers. Awesome crab rangoons. This place is not pretentious or incredibly tasteful, but for what it is, it's good.
The only things I can count against this place are that the chick who answers the phone is extremely terse ("What you want? Okay. Okay. Okay. Cash or Charge?! Thirty minutes!" *slam*) and the fact that they won't deliver before 5:30 pm.
if i could give 3.5 stars i would. So i have lived within minutes of this place for the past 6 yrs and my husband and i just ordered from here for the first time tonight. we have been looking for a cheap decent chinese food place at least a few notches up from nan ling. so we just got our food and looked at each other and said " why have we never ordered from this place before?" Very decent for the price...too bad we are moving at the end of june! delivery was quoted at 30 min from down the street and it took 45 minutes. my chicken with cashew nuts was lacking in cashews but hey, what can you do?
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It's takeout. It can taste good but don't expect too much in terms of authenticity. I ordered the water boiled beef (shui zhu niu rou) and it was pretty awful. Didn't taste anything like the real thing, but what do you expect. They probably used whatever ingredients that were available to them: 1/2 cup of sauce A, 1/4 cup of sauce B, and throw in some unwashed meat.
But for the price, pretty nice lunches, dinners are 2+ bucks more for the exact same dishes.
The food was good, but I found a long, black hair (obviously not mine) in my rice and they wouldn't even apologize, let alone refund my money. Needless to say, I haven't been back.
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Cheap and fast Americanized Chinese food. Huge portions, relatively clean for what I would consider greasy food, and good service. The giant carp fish tank are a nice touch if you're not sitting on the side facing the window, and free tea hits the spot (albeit not the freshest tea in the world). Hsin Hsin is considered a noodle house, so try their lo mein, chow mein, pan fried noodles, rice sticks, or some other noodle-ly dish. Their rice dishes and noodle soups aren't bad, either. Not too bad for being so far away from Chinatown.
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Went here once to try it, didn't like it. Got dragged back here by a white friend. Again, didn't like it. The place is definitely an Americanized Chinese restaurant, and not even a good one at that. The fried rice is disgusting, and their dishes were overly greasy and I feel like all the sauces had the same thick, oily base. As greasy and prepared with as little care and attention as the Chinese food truck across the bridge at MIT. Except, the food truck is more delicious and authentic.
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This place is the best for Chinese delivery! Once i've gotten my food within 15 minutes of ordering!!! Definitely better than Quans, both food-wise and delivering-time-wise. Best deal, all around.
The portions are huge, and it's super cheap. It might not be super authentic Chinese food, but it's still delicious, and they have the best crab rangoons ever! You have to get the lunch/dinner plates, and you get your entree, (fried) rice, and choice of appetizers (get the crab rangoons!!!!).
SO GOOD.
One of the better American-Chinese restaurants around. Cheap, fast, good. For under 7 bucks, you can get a lot of food. and the orange chicken here is a lot better than at some other places!
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Your standard cheap greasy chinese food place but tastier than most. Stop by here on your way to Satellite or if you are on newbury and want something affordable. The vegetable lomein here is pretty good.
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Category: Asian Fusion
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