Hoi Tin

Meal was tasty but expensive. Place needs abit of a lift although the Chinese cakes looked amazing in the window. Staff where nice and friendly but wandered about the place looking bored. Feel really sick after my meal stomach hurts a lot.

WORST SERVICE EVER!!! If you guys still use this shit attitude to your customers, you would better to suck yourself.

This place came recommended from a friend, and though I trust her judgment, this place was a dud. From charging .80 for tap water to tiny shrimps in the shrimp fried rice or the over breaded and over cooked sweet and sour chicken, I’m feeling a huge let down. My recommendation is to skip this place and go down the street to Chao Phraya, the Thai place. We also ate at another Chinese restaurant on our first night here and that place was head and shoulders above this place.

Sooooo … U want dim sum and you creaving for the REAL Chinese experience as they serve it to you … U r in the right place
Probably one of the best if not the best place to have Dim SUm in Amsterdam during the week. Ok i must admit the first time i was scarred from the place but to be honest there was no reason now that i am writting thsi review.
Great selection of plates preapred very nicely and quick. All food is fresh and they have a very good selection of Chinese pastries which you can also buy for home.
Bad side/​Funny Side is the completely Chinese service experience. Seriously is like been back to China: D

Delicious food, friendly staff.
It’s been over 30 years since I’ve visited Hoi Tin for the first time. Ever since, the food has been great and it still is. In the meantime, the staff has changed. I can say they are friendlier than they used to be. It was always ok but now they’re really friendly. Recommended to everyone who likes Cantonese food.

the dim sum is from 11am-​4pm only!
which is totally the reason we came :/​
Also came here based on the Unilocal reviews — but why such high reviews, guys?
I had the wanton soup –pretty solid, and because I was so dead set on dim sum — we ordered the prawn option… very meh.
My friend ordered the chicken curry which was pretty bland.
I might go back just to try the absurdly long list of dim sum. but outlook not so good.

Mondaynight after the gym; time for Chinese! We were planning on New King but unfortunately there was a 30 minute waiting line. So we decided to go to Hoi Tin!
I ordered the sweet and sour chicken, hellz yeah! That’s how I like my chicken!
My hubby had sliced chicken with Rice noodles; add a lotta ketjap and soy sauce, just to make the dish a little more tasty. (Opinion)
Our mate ordered the beef with 4 season vegetables. The beef was yummy, the veggies not «ma thang».
I’m very satisfied! (and my tummy even more!!) There’s no pin or creditcard which I find to be a little odd. The waiters are all Chinese, so that’s not really a thing I add in my review. If you know what I mean :-)

We actually went here on the strength of reviews on Unilocal.I’m not sure if it was an off night or what but I have to say it was easily the worst Chinese meal I’ve had in a restaurant in my life.
The menu looked good enough and we started with some steamed pork dumplings — always one of my favourite things. What came were really horrible clusters of fatty meat and gristle with gloopy stuff holding them together. I ate half of one — they were really unpleasant. Next came a platter of deep fried cuttlefish. These actually looked very tasty and smelled great but when I tried to cut one in half to eat it my knife hit something solid that was like hard foam rubber. I genuinely couldn’t cut it and the waitress noticed I was struggling and asked if I was OK. I said ‘I can’t eat this’ and she asked what was wrong so I suggested she try to cut the cuttlefish herself which of course she couldn’t. She took it away and suggested I have one of the ‘sizzling’ beef dishes that arrived on an insanely hot griddle sizzling loudly. It was more expensive but sounded good and I was hungry by this point so I said OK. A few minutes later the waitress returned with a platter of beef that was resolutely silent and not sizzling in any way. It wasn’t even that hot, not good and I didn’t eat that much of it.
The bill arrived — no charge for the cuttlefish but full price for the beef. I mentioned that our meal had been poor but the bill remained the same price and we left without tipping as a result. Very disappointing, and memorable for the wrong reasons.

Where ever i travel to I must find the best Chinese place in town its sort of my measuring stick. I have brought many people here and just another place i must go to when i am back in Amsterdam. the service is great and the staff is very friendly, why not its Amsterdam.

Das Restaurant würde in mehreren Reiseführern empfohlen. Es liegt im chinesischen Viertel von Amsterdam.
Die Einrichtung ist eher einfach und erinnerte mich auch von der Atmosphäre sehr an die verschiedenen China-​Restaurants in China Town in New York. Freundliche Bedienung, schneller Service. Als Vorspeise Frühlingsrollen, Wan Tan Suppe und eine ganze Ente mit brauner Soße. Außerdem verschiedene gedünstete Gemüsesorten. Dazu ein asiatisches Bier für jeden, köstlich!
Das ganze für drei Personen insgesamt
72 €.
Klare Empfehlung!

I went to Hoi Tin for some dim sum with my Japanese friend. I’ve been in here for the Chinese bakery which is part of the establishment, but never a full lunch or dinner. I’m Chinese myself and loved Dim Sum on Sundays with my parents since I was a toddler.
In a nutshell the experience was below average. Normally I forgive Dim Sum restaurants for their décor if the food is awesome, but unfortunately this had no saving grace. The place was very much like the waiter there — tired, old and waiting for retirement.
We had a selection of prawn dumplings, shanghai dumplings, Cheung fun (prawn and char siu), fried turnip cake, and other stuff most westerners would not eat (Stewed chicken feet in chillies & black bean sauce). The Cheung fun was in the wrong kind of soya sauce, and everything else was just off the mark in terms of look and taste. It was a kind of imitation of Dim Sum — like a trainee chef had learnt the dishes and not finished the training. Dim Sum should be fresh and uplifting, but this was everything but that.
Unfortunately I’ll be going to other Dim Sum restaurants in the future, and hope that they can survive on the passing tourist trade for evening meals! Or that the Dim Sum chef finishes his training!

The dim sum at Hoi Tin are quite good by continental standard. The dishes also seemed to have been super-​sized. I ended up with far more food than expected. Four dim sum items plus one stir-​fried noodle are more than enough for two. Everything for less than 30 € (including tips).

we were very disappointed. this chinese restaurant claims for himself to be obe where chinese people go to. maybe it is like that. and cettainly there have been a chinese couple there. but the quality of the food was not very high (and know a bit about chinese cuisine). the choi sum was served only medium hot. the rice was not very hot or fresh as well. prices are way too high (ok, tourist area) for that low quality level. service is quick und the meals were served quite fast though. very small dining room with only around 20 seats (wonder where the other 140 seats are? maybe on the other side of the street where there seems to be another facility belobgung to this place??) anyhow, we should have gone to nam kee a few meters further where the people were actually quewing up just to get a seat. we asked a couple just coming out and they said that the food was very good. gee we will check that out today. but hoi tin is not recommendable.

I went for dim sum and it was good all the dishes I order like shrimp wonton soup, siomai, Mix meat pan fried noodle, beef ball, beef chow fun and they have there special hot oil that how i can tell if there hot oil (hot sauce) is made by the restaurant.

When I’m in A’dam this is one of the two Chinese joints I hit. The clue is to eat where the Chinese eat. This is such a place.
Service is well… Chinese. Quick, to-​the-​point and no frills. That’s fine with me because I’m here to eat and eat well.
It’s a small place just behind «de Wallen» aka The Red Light District. The dim sum is good and rather cheap. by Dutch standards. For 3 people (lunch) we forked out 30 yuri’s.
The dinner menu: The Chicken in Black Bean Sauce — excellent. The Egg Foo Yong — one of the best I’ve tasted on the continent and I’m not really a fan thereof. The fried noodles with pork — A1.