Best Chicken in Boston

BEST chicken I’ve tasted in Boston ever!

This post is gonna be about my favorite chicken dish—Empress Salted Chicken! Even the name of the dish sounds so awesome: the chicken delicately prepared only for the powerful empress in ancient China, the mysterious land in the Far East. We can now all taste this dish at Ho Yeun Ting in Chinatown, located at 13 Hudson St., Boston, MA 02111.

Empress Salted Chicken

The restaurant is really not that flashy nor spacious, but the chicken is so good that I don’t really care about the simple decoration and limited capacity at all! The chicken is so perfectly cooked and salted that it is tender and juicy from outside to inside, and even you can taste its special salty flavor from the bones. So Yum! Also, they do take out, and you can either order half or the whole Empress Salted Chicken! I just looove saying the name :)

Hong Kong Style BBQ in Chinatown

In Hong Kong, BBQ meat is one of the very important dishes at family dinner, as well as in big holiday feast. Vihn-Sum BBQ restaurant, located at 58 Beach Street, Boston, MA 02228, has some of the best Hong Kong style BBQ meat in Chinatown.

The restaurant doesn’t have much decoration, but it is very clean and spacious, with two floors.

We ordered a BBQ combo including everything—roast duck, roast pork (char siu), roast pork chop, and roast pig (siu yuk). All of the BBQ meat were authentically and traditionally grilled, very juicy and tender! Yum yum!

Hong Kong Style BBQ (from top: roast pork chop, roast pork, roast duck & roast pig)

They also have a take-out BBQ booth, where the skillful butchers cut the BBQ meat quickly and precisely according to your order!

Another dish we ordered was Shredded Chicken. It was a cold dish that came with a lot of vege like carrots, tomatoes, green pepper and red pepper, and white sesame on top. Not really Hong Kong/Cantonese style shredded chicken, so I don’t recommend it…

Shredded Chicken

Vihn-Sun also has a broad Hong Kong style menu, from sandwich, congee to milk tea. I’ll follow up with another review about it soon!!

Dim Sum in Chinatown

Hei La Moon, located at 88 Beach Street, Boston, MA 02111, is one of my favorite dim sum places in Boston. It has huge space with big tables, sometimes filled with people chatting loud, all of which remind me of home. For our family, we get together once or twice a week, share stories and often laugh out loud at dim sum tables.

Here are some of my favorite dim sum.

Shrimp Hargow: it is large and the shrimp and vegetable in it are quite flesh, a must-order dim sum :)

Shrimp Hargow

Pork Shiu Mai: it has tender pork and moist shrimp, packed with flavor and tightly wrapped.

Pork Shiu Mai

Steam Chicken Feet: steamed marinated chicken feet with black bean sauce, personal favorite! Strongly recommend it if you haven’t tried chicken feet and are adventurous like many of my American friends :)

Steam Chicken Feet

Sweet Egg Cake: soft and lightly sweet, and it will melt immediately when you take a bite, giving you a luxurious taste of egg cake

Sweet Egg Cake