Hing Lung

This place has gone downhill, as with all different times and different locations, since Broadway days. Failed in SF. Failed in Fremont, twice. Failing, again. Lots of items crossed out on the menu. Hmmmm…

For those of you who grew up in San Francisco, you must remember the good old days. Hing Lung used to be place know for it’s porridge. I remember coming here with my grandparents as kids and getting a porridge and some beef crêpe, and of course you had to get a chinese donut and one of the sweet donuts to go with he porridge. So when my friend brought me over porridge on day, I was reliving my childhood. I said «omg this porridge taste like the one I had as a kid in Hing Lung», only to be amazed to learn that Hing Ling reopened a new location in Millbrae. So the next week I paid a visit to this place. I order my porridge with liver but was only to be disappointed to learn they no longer serve Chinese donuts. What is porridge without donuts!!!
The porridge was pretty good, but I felt it was missing something. I also had the braised chicken with shallots in a clay pot. It was good but a little to much bone for my liking. The service was a little annoying. I sat down for 3 mins and they asked me what i wanted to order. I will return to this place because I think it’s one of the best porridge in the bay. I hope they have their Chinese donut back soon!

Best food ever
Love the porridge, and all its specials

Like other San Franciscans, we came to tried. Like other reviewers, the service need a lot of improvement.
The BBQ Wonton noodle soup/​Porridge is strongly recommended; the convenience is great. So, at least will be back many time for late night siu yia (noodle soup/​porridge)

Being a San Francisco native, I grew up going to the old Hing Lung in Chinatown. That place was heavenly, absolutely the best porridge ever. I remember taking a detour into Chinatown after school just to get a bowl of the organ porridge to go and sneakily ate it on the moving MUNI. I’d postpone meetings just to have an extended lunch to have a bowl of my favorite porridge. When this place closed down a few years ago I was so disappointed and sad. So imagine my expectation when this place reopens in my hood.
This rating doesn’t cover service. If you knew how good the food used to be, you wouldn’t mind it at all.
The sweet fried donut is still the same recipe, and good.
The organ porridge is not the same, doesn’t have the tasty heart and kidney anymore. Instead there are slices of pork, which isn’t authentic. Authentic organ porridge has a variety of organs and maybe 1 piece of pork.
Wonton noodle soup is average, still makes good comfort food.
Overall, I would still return, because there isn’t many places that do porridge in the peninsula. And for me this is a place full of memories. I didn’t see the old owner so I am not sure if it’s the same owner. My guess is they may have retained 1 or 2 of the previous chefs but not all.

Service really sucks. When we arrived there was no one waiting but the lady at the cashiers asked me to put my name down as they were cleaning up a table. I put my name down and waited. Someone else came through the doors and she told them to get seated in the table that was supposed to be cleaned for us! I confronted her and she indicated she forgot that we were waiting even though she told me to put my name down just in case someone else comes in! We finally got seated 5 minutes later but were waiting another 5 minutes to get the menu and had to ask for tea/​water.

This place has been opened for a couple of weeks and i came here tonight with my family. It is owned by the same owners that own the Hing Lung in San Francisco.
Service could definitely be better. Because it is a new place, I would expect the workers to be motivated to work or friendly. We were seated for 10 minutes until someone finally came to give us menu. The place was busy, but it wasn’t even fully packed. When the waitress took our order, she seemed miserable. We wanted to order 1 more item after our food came so my mom got a different waitress’s attention. My mom asked if the restaurant served pan fried rice noodle. The waitress was like «ummmm.i don’t know… i haven’t seen anyone order it before.» then my mom asked if she could go ask. the waitress came back and she said, «yes, we served it». my mom then said «okay, what kind?» she said «uh…not sure.» and she went to grab the menu. Everyone who worked here was very soft spoken and unmotivated.
The food was pretty good, and the portions were decent. We wanted to try the chinese fried donut & chinese fried bread to go with our porridge, but it only serves until 3pm. I wish it serves later because dinnertime should be the time when most people want to try it.
Assorted Pork Organs Congee – Very good, not bland. Bascially has big organ parts in porrdige with green onion
Pan fried rice noodle with shredded pork – Very good. It’s hard to find a restaurant that can make this very well. This dish is basically pan friend noodles, but with the sauce from the shredded pork, it will moisten it up.
Spare ribs with flat rice noodle – One of my favorite chinese dishes but it wasn’t so good at this place so i was disappointed from this dish. It was drenched in oil.
Wonton noodle soup – Good wontons, egg noodle was very springy
Spare rib clay pot rice – Good! It takes 25 minutes for it to be ready so next time when you want to eat this, order it as quickly as you can
Overall, good food. New business and it has a lot of potential since Millbrae doesn’t have many chinese comfort food places like this. It has a very nice ambiance so I’m sure a lot of people would want to come here!