Ding Feng Tang

Came here for quick bite and caught the end of happy hour. All cocktails are $7 and a good bit of food that's discounted.I ordered the lychee cocktail and was not the biggest fan of it. The food is pretty good here!We ordered the crabmeat and pork soup dumplings, chicken skewer, vegetable stir fry noodles and general tso chicken. The winners were the pork soup dumplings and general tso. I will skip on the skewer and noodles next time. Chicken is heavily coated in cumin and has a nutty taste. This is the perfect skewer if you like a dry rub! Noodles were lacking flavor so I had to add quite a few condiments to bring it back.The soup dumplings were flavorful and had the perfect amount of dumpling/filling ratio. I could eat these again! The general tso does not come with rice. The chicken was cooked to perfection and the sauce was delicious. Not too sweet and made just right! A cool and clean establishment in Chinatown with a full bar.

A more affordable, local version of Ding Tai Fung! Everything was so so. The seating area is huge, with a live window where you can watch the aunties make the fresh dumplings. Soup dumplings were yummy, and pork and shrimp wontons in chili oil were great. Dan noodles could've had more meat/toppings, popcorn chicken didn't have much flavor. Pro tip: the happy hour menu actually ends up being more expensive than the regular menu if you count by individual item. However, they do offer smaller portions for a cheaper price, so you can try more variety if that's your cup of tea! Their other stir fry items looked delicious, but I didn't get a chance to try!Servers were so nice and incredibly smiley!!

Great happy hour spot!Food: 4/5, Value: 4/5, Service: 2/5We came in for their happy hour. Lots of options on their $5 happy hour menu! We got a large selection including two types of soup dumplings, shu mai, chicken wings, beef skewers, and enoki pork belly skewers. Just to note the dumplings come with 3 instead of the normal 4 dumplings on their regular menu making them a similar price to normal. Our favorites were the pork belly skewers which were deliciously chewy, perfectly fatty, and salty. The chicken wings had a great marinade and were crispy and juicy. The dumplings were good too, but nothing special. Would skip the cocktails. They were quite sweet and were not very strong (we tried South Bay and lychee yogurt). Service was not great. We had to wait a while to put in our order and they forgot one of our cocktails despite asking twice. They are a new place so hopefully they work out the kinks!

Great food and staff in Chinatown. First time there on a Saturday at like 4:30pm. Got some happy hour menus like crab pork soup dumpling, pork and enoki on a stick, pop corn chicken. Also got the crab fried rice. Everything was amazing.

Love this place! All the food came out fairly quick, everything was flavorful and hot. They have a killer happy hour menu which we took full advantage of. Service was great and friendly. The place is super clean nicely decorated with a window to see the chef make the dumplings by hand. Highly recommend this place and I will definitely Be back.One thing I didn't like is that they advertised one free cocktails on instagram until the end of April when I mentioned it to the waiter he didn't know what I was talking about so we didn't get our free cocktail.

I recently visited this restaurant, whose name reminded me of Din Tai Fung. The popcorn chicken and vegetable dish were quite good, but I was disappointed by the skewers, which were overcooked. The service was okay, but our waiter didn't come to refill our water. On the positive side, the restaurant is spacious and food came out quick.

Stopped in to try this new spot during happy hour. The prices are pretty good overall, even with the regular menu, so decent value. The drinks were unfortunately not spectacular - the Mai Tai was definitely not a typical proper mai tai you would expect. The hand made dumplings you can watch being made which is a nice touch. A little small, but well put together with good taste. Seemingly a focus on being a decent dumpling spot. The skewers also were seasoned very well but the quality of the pork belly slices were subpar which brought down the overall dish. Only half of our order made it to us as the rest of it wasn't given to the kitchen, and we waited expectedly, so unfortunately a mistake as they're newly opened. Overall there were both positive and negative parts of the meal, so may need to try again once they have settled some more. Thanks

Following the week of soft opening nights, five of us came for Ding Feng Tang's Grand Opening night.This review is given with grace as bumps are always expected as new teams learn to work together. In this case, there seemed to be plenty of teammates, but they were often in a rush and difficult to flag down.We were seated right away, even though we had not been able to make a reservation: no one answered the phone nor the Instagram direct message.We asked for water and a round of drinks as we read our way through the offerings on the checklist. Water was served in very small glasses--thankfully a water carafe was left on the table for refills. Hot tea was served in the same small glasses--we wished the glass was thicker or had a handle so drinking was easier.We wound up ordering in two rounds because we wanted half a Peking duck and knew it would take a while. We were foiled in this attempt: even though the server read the initial order back to us, the duck did not make it into their system. We inquired after it halfway through the meal and we wound up eating it for dessert. In all, we tried:- Pork soup dumplings (a group favorite)- Crabmeat & pork soup dumplings- Chicken soup dumplings- Chives & pork potstickers (a group favorite: who doesn't like potstickers?)- Fried pork buns (a group favorite: good flavor)- TanTan noodle (a group favorite: good flavor)- Taiwanese popcorn chicken (a group favorite: hot and crispy)- Cucumber in garlic sauce (a group favorite: fresh and garlicky)- Scallion pancake (a group favorite: nice and crispy)- Beef skewers (needed more seasoning)- Lamb skewers (needed fat rendered longer)- Vegetable fried noodle- Chinese broccoli with garlic (a group favorite: divine sauce)- Peking duck (half)I'd return to try some of the other offerings once service smooths out.

One of the newest spots recently opened in Chinatown. Known for their soup dumplings, they have an extensive menu to choose from.We chose a $70 set meant for a family of four but fed six that included choices of different items, but we got two shrimp skewers, scallion pancakes, hot and sour soup, mapo tofu, fried rice, grandma noodles, beef in spicy chili sauce, one pork soup dumpling, and one pork and crab soup dumpling. I would say with all this food, it was an incredible value for $70. Although the place is known for soup dumplings, they weren't the absolute best I've ever had. They were decent with a thicker skin. However, the rest of the food was solid, and we had no complaints.They didn't skimp on the alcohol for the drinks. My personal favorite was the lychee yogurt cocktail, which was sweet and a bit creamy from the yogurt soju.Reservations can be made on OpenTable, and there's a decent happy hour from M-F. Their listed phone number doesn't seem to be working as I tried to call a few times, but otherwise check this place out! It's downstairs from Tango, so you can make it a dinner and night out in one building.

Came with six friends to check out this new spot and that's the way to do it: family style! Unfortunately, two of our party were veg/vegan and the servers didn't always know if things were actually vegetarian or not, but that's common in Chinese restaurants. So if you're vegan/vegetarian, just be aware that you'll have to be extra careful and use your senses lol.Our servers were very friendly, if a tiny bit inattentive. We had to chase them down and hand them our order sheet and ask for more water, but after that, food came out pretty quickly and they checked in more frequently. Beyond the seating area in the front, where you can watch the dumplings get made, there's a back area with some tables and then the bathrooms all the way in the back. No lazy susans on the tables, so you'll have to pass food around by hand.We ordered a ton of food, which I'll break down below, but overall I'd say it was pretty good! The meat was tender and the flour/doughy items (dumpling wrappers, wonton wrappers, noodles) all had a nice texture. Value seemed about right, especially in today's economy! Also, they have beer and cocktails for reasonable prices, and a weekday happy hour from 4-7 where beers are only $3 and cocktails only $7!What we ordered:-squid, lamb, pork belly, and sausage skewers. All pretty tender and yummy. "Spicy" isn't actually that spicy, so don't be afraid to get them! I really liked the pork belly ones, which had enoki mushrooms inside-wontons in chili oil: again, not that spicy, and pretty good but not amazing-scallion pancake: very nicely crisp-grandma's noodles: like soft peanut noodles. Pretty good, but not very complex, like something simple and comforting you'd make at home (hence grandma?)-grandma's rolls: like mooshu with pork, ginger, bean sprouts, chives, but without the hoisin sauce. Decent, but not my favorite-tan tan noodles: a bit dry but nicely spiced with mala and meat-cucumber salad: not spicy at all, and a bit underwhelming, flavorwise-crab and pork soup dumplings: just as good as anywhere else in Philly, I think, though tbh, I'm not much of a soup dumpling person. They give you vinegar but no shredded ginger...-chive and pork pot stickers: the wrapper had a nice texture but the inside was pretty standard for a chive and pork dumplingLike I said, pretty good! I'm sure they'll get better with time as they're still new. Definitely check out their happy hour because those deals are worth it!