CinCin

Great Chinese restaurant in Chestnut Hill! Cin Cin has flavorful dishes and good service. I’ve frequently come here to eat and ordered take-​out.
The Mongolian Lamb is a personal favorite; the eggplant and black beans accompany the lamb and brown sauce perfectly. The Hunan Duck, Veal Escallops and chicken with Tarragon Sauce are also good — especially the mushrooms and peas in then chicken with tarragon sauce. Even if you like spicy food, skip the Sake Wild Peppered Chicken: It doesn’t have enough other flavors behind the spice and isn’t quite as interesting.
For an appetizer, definitely try the barbecued spare ribs– they are FANTASTIC. I like them so much that sometimes I’ve ordered them for a whole meal! The mixed green salad is also good, it come with almonds and a light vinaigrette.
The ambiance is classy, so it’s a fun place to eat at. However, it’s not super fancy so no need to dress up to come here. You may need reservations on the weekend, but you should be okay to walk in on weekdays.

The parking is a little limited, but aside from that CinCin is a upscale yet casual restaurant with good food and attentive service. The prices are reasonable and the food is on point. This could easily be a good place for either a nice Chinese meal or a date.

Love this place! Really Chinese food, tastes great and the quality was always superb. We come here twice a month on average and the experience was always good. Our favorite Chinese restaurant around the neighborhood.

Chinese food that is authentic but just a bit new to make it interesting. The spring rolls were piping hot and crunchy. Yum. The DanDan noodles were the perfect size to share as course #2. Lots of Flavor and not oily, as could be a problem with this dish. Yum again. Last, we shared a crispy shrimp dish and streamed rice. Shrimp were fresh and cooked to just the right crunch so the taste was light on the palate.

Great food, friendly staff and nice restaurant. I would recommend it.

Ordered take out and it was dry and nasty also burnt if you go here AVOID take out! You will regret it

Great date place for girlfriends or a guy friend! Shrimp and chicken wrap in seaweed great
Also the seafood sunflower bowl delicious
Check this spot out no complaints!!!

We dined at CinCin last week thanks to a neighbor’s recommendation. My husband and I took a dear friend and everything was lovely – especially the staff and service.
The staff is very welcoming and the environment is delightful. There are crisp linen table cloths and a very attentive, detail-​oriented servers.
In particular I’d recommend the Peking Duck (wrapped table-​side) and the Fried Banana. The Hot and Sour Soup was also very good and so was the Chinese Eggplant dish my husband ordered.
I’m looking forward to returning for more delicious food and the wonderful atmosphere and service!

Cin Cin feeds me many times a month. The food is good. Sometimes I get take out and sometimes I dine in. However, I can not figure out the «French Flair» they boast on their menu. Maybe it’s the chocolate dipped fortune cookies at the end of every meal. It would also be nice if they had a few more non alcoholic drinks to offer. Good spot tho. I recommend!

My first time at Cin Cin was wonderful! The food was made with quality ingredients and for a reasonable price. The French flair added something special and I don’t think I’ll be eating Chinese food anywhere else ever again! Our waitress Ping was very nice and helpful in our decision on what to eat. I can’t wait to go back and try something new!

Excellent and authentic cuisine

Seems to be going down hill of late. The owners seems preoccupied with their cell phones and the chef has a very heavy hand with the salt. Pan seared sea bass was good otherwise, but the szechuan string beans looked liked they’d been sitting around for a few weeks.

The Mongolian Lamb was described as spicy. It was, however, devoid of spiciness and that is a flaw I cannot excuse.
Mediocre Chinese take-​out food+ prime location, nice décor and a liquor license does not a good restaurant make.

Unfortunately, they were unable or unwilling to honor our month old 6:00 pm reservation after 40 minutes, so we departed for another restaurant.

My favorite Chinese Restaurant in Philadelphia by far. The staff is great and the location is really convenient. The only downside to Cin Cin is the limited parking space due to it being in Chestnut Hill but other than that it’s great. The Orange chicken is delicious. Highly recommend.

Fried Dumplings (aka Pot Stickers) were delicious!
Spring Rolls which were good!
Wild Mushroom and Goat Cheese Strudel was good!
Not so Great — Brandy Infused Szechuan Beef — Tasty sauce, but the meat seemed not high quality, very fatty cheap cuts covered up with fried coating.
My wife had the Mongolian Lamb with Eggplant — She didn’t think it was great, just ok.
Service was very, very fast. We were there on a Thursday so we had no trouble getting a table last minute.

Went for lunch around 12:30. Was greeted and seated immediately. Dining room has a nice décor and the sweet aroma of Chinese food was in the air… so far so good!
Ordered the bbq shrimp and fried shrimp in lotus from their special fall menu… small plate. Bbq shrimp vey good, but the fried lotus, may be an acquired taste. Next ordered app of mushrooms with goat cheese eggrolls… flaky Filo, strong goat cheese flavor served with caramelized onions helped mask the goat cheese and made it more palpable.
My entrée was the Orange sauce fillet… sliced filet, deep fried with deep brown delicious sauce. My dining partner had the shrimp with black bean sauce, so delicious. Only problem was my cognac cost $ 10 for a very small shot, but the pour on the Chardonnay was pretty decent…

Asian fusion with a slight eclectic twist!
Not your typical Chinese food joint. It is a nice, classy type restaurant.
It was a Monday evening at 7 and the place was packed. I was glad we made reservations (and u should too!)
Decent selection of food on the menu. Items from shrimp pad Thai to general tsoas chicken, to veal etc.
Started with a bottle of Pinot noir. The waiter served the wine the appropriate way which was refreshing. (Showed the wine, opened cork and placed in front of me to smell, then poured a small amount of wine in the glass and waited until after I smelled, sniffed, swished, swallowed and approved, then filled both of our glasses… he also then would make sure our glasses were always full). The bottle cost $ 35 but they ranged in price and there was a good selection of wines.
We order the pan seared dumplings which were delicious and I recommend!
For the main entry I ordered cashew chicken. The portion was very large and I was only able to eat half! It was very flavorful with a ton of cashews and tender chicken. The veggies in the mix were a little undercooked for my liking but overall it was good!
The only complaint I have is that there was a large fly that kept trying to attack me!

Definitely the place to go for great Chinese food, eat in or take out it’s always piping hot and delicious! An old favorite for sure. All of their dishes are delicious, just watch out for the spicy ones… when they say spicy they mean SPICY!
My personal faves are the fried rice, chicken and broccoli with brown sauce (not always on the menu but always available), crabmeat sumai, and the spring rolls, but really you can’t go wrong. You can even ask for general tsao chicken with all white meat! Tell me another place that does that because I can’t think of one. Going to keep this as one of my regulars for a loooooong time :) YUM

At the Bed and Breakfast we stayed at, the host highly recommended CinCin. We asked ourselves if it was really a good idea to waste a dinner night on Chinese food in Philly. You see, we come from Queens with arguable the best Chinese food East of the Mississippi. But we went anyways because not listening to the host is just a foolish thing to do.
CinCin is a very popular restaurant. At 9pm, the place was filled with people who obviously have not had Chinese food in Flushing (ok ok, I’ll stop.) They have a small parking lot, which in no way close can accomodate everyone. Street parking nearby was easy though.
The ambiance leans towards the higher end for a Chinese restaurant with dim candles and intricately folded napkins. It has small intimate tables as well as large party tables for the business dinners (and there were several functions going on when we were there.)
I ordered off the specialty menu of the evening.
— Dimsum appetizer with 3 shumai and 3 potstickers. Impressive shumai with very slippery texture. The skin was thin and the filling was moist and authentic. The potstickers were perfectly fried but the filling tasted like cheap meat.
— Duck with spinach, apple jam, white rice. The duck was super good! They were smart enough to put only half the pieces inside the apple sauce because that apple ruined everything. Actually, it didn’t even taste much like apples but more like just sweet sauce. Ew. Would have preferred Apple Jacks (they taste just like apples!)
— Seafood in flower basket. My fellow traveler wanted this because she is a girl and by design attracted to words like ‘baskets.’ The seafood was okay. The scallops were rubbery but the shrimp made up for it. Everything was covered in the signature American-​Chinese cuisine sauce, which makde everything taste sweet and sour. The basket was made out of crispy fried noodles. She ate the entire thing. Ew.
CinCin is part fusion as they take influences from Western cuisines with stuff like wine sauce and apples (ew again). The Chinese side of the cuisin was a lot better than I expected. The service was ordinary but I could see the waiter really chatting it up with his regulars over at the business table. Although nothing extraordinary, CinCin fits the bill for some solid Chinese food in the NorthWest.