Ding Ho Restaurant

I missed this place so much. I used to work at Tufts and come here all the time. I was able to make it into Boston today and get a $ 4 plate, lo mein and chicken. I wish I lived next door. I can’t wait until I make it back to Boston to get two of these plates.

$ 2 for lunch? Cheapest meal in Boston.

Cheap. Quick. Mediocre food (o i l y). They stick to their $ 4 a box meals. $ 2 for smaller boxes! It’s not something I’d eat every day but when you need to grab a quick lunch that’s under $ 5, this is your place!

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.

Good food cheap! I love the noodles-​they pack a ton in a small container, and it’s only $ 2!

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.

I just wanted to add in a little update here that it seems that DingHo is closed right now. Which is a major bummer. Now I don’t know this for sure, but I do know that there was a fire in that building and all the residents have been moved to a shelter close by, so I would imagine that they would ask the restaurant to close while it’s figured out if it’s safe or not to be in that building after that fire. Sure hope thats all it is– and that DingHo will be back soon.

This place definitely is not like how I used to remember it as a kid. I’m sure it has to do with ownership changes and fighting inflation. This is the only place I can think of (other than dim sum) for the steam rice noodles. Just wished the sauces weren’t so watered down. The sauces are key to success.

Cheap food, quick service. The dumplings and Lo mein are good. The stir fried choices are a bit on the salty side for me, but for the price, who’s complaining?

opens about 8:30am, with one cook, one server behind the counter, and a (usually) one-​direction line, Ding Ho serves various kinds of simple, fast Chinese food cafeteria style, except that you’ll have to find your own seating in a nearby park.
Breakfast choices:
— streamed plain rice rolls (cheung fun, 腸粉) — doused with soy sauce and peanut sauce usually, hot sauce and sesame seeds optional. $ 1.50/box.
— dumplings, 4/​$ 2.
— congee (i believe the staple is shredded pork with 1000-​year egg — trust me, the flavor is quite subtle in the congee)
— sometimes a stirfry thin noodle or vermicelli is out in time for my purchase, but i’d usually save it for lunch or even dinner.
Lunch options:
— yellow noodles
— veggie vermicelli
— fried rice
(small box $ 2, big box $ 4)
— chicken dishes (black bean sauce, curry stew), plain veggies (ex. broccoli), tofu dishes: available by itself, or as add-​on to your rice or noodle dish
— hot and sour soup
— dumplings and congee until they’re sold out
cash only.

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.

Their Steam rice noodles AKA Cherng Fun is absolutely the best! Yes, it is plain and very simple, but that freaken Soy sauce and peanut of sauce makes it so freaken delicious !! It sucks that I can’t walk in, order it and devoured it right there, but man, I can never get sick of it. It great for on-​the-​go and if you’re lookin for something quick and non fattening! Relatively cheap and it’s cash only!

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…

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 entrée + 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.

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.

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.

Fast and Cheap. If thats what you’re looking for, this is it. $ 2 for a small (normal portion size) of lo mein and broccoli. Done. Lunch is served.

Known amongst my classmates for its ability to soundly liquify one’s stool, the food is cheap, greasy and able to get the job done provided that you possess great GI fortitude. In its defense, the stuff doesn’t taste particularly bad at all… just a bit below the average American Chinese fare.
Really though, there are nearly a dozen places within a block of Ding Ho where you can find cheap, decent Chinese food in a hurry.

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!

You will not get more bang for your buck anywhere in Boston than here. This place is a quick, cheap, potentially nutritious, and somewhat tasty option if you have less than $ 5 in your pocket. For $ 4, you can get 2 – 3 generous spoonfuls of white rice topped with your choice of 2 sides, which could be any of the following: curry chicken, onions and chicken (too salty), broccoli, tofu… For less than $ 1 more, you can sub in fried rice or lo mein for the white rice.
One thing that sucks about this place is that… they mess up white rice. They always put too much water in it, so it’s globby and sticks together.
It’s all about quantity over quality here, but for the price, you can’t beat it if you want greasy Chinese food in less than 2 minutes!