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Shin Shin Chinese Restaurant
- Hours:
Mon-Thu, Sun 11:30 am - 9 pm
Fri-Sat 11:30 am - 10 pm
- Attire:
- Casual
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Price Range:
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$$
- Good for Groups:
- Yes
- Good for Kids:
- No
- Take Away:
- Yes
- Waiter Service:
- Yes
- Outdoor Seating:
- No
- Alcohol:
- Full Bar
- Noise Level:
- Quiet
- Wheelchair Accessible:
- Yes
7 reviews for Shin Shin Chinese Restaurant
7 reviews in English
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Review from Johnny L.
3/17/2012 2 photos
Great Chinese food with Great Service.
I was a little skeptical of Shin Shin at first because of the high "Canadian" to Asian customers ratio...but I really enjoyed the food that they offered. Shin Shin is one of the rare Chinese places here in Windsor that didn't have a separate Chinese menu from their normal one. The place is a small intimate kind of setting and the service here is stellar (so much so that I bumped it up to 4 stars). I enjoyed the overall experience.
The food here was good and the portions were good for the price. We ordered the Duck Family Style and the Deep Fried Pork Chop Ribs with Spicy Salt. The Duck Family Style is a plate of shredded duck with celery and green onions in a lightly tomatoey sauce. (Not sure if that's a word, but it's what it taste like). The duck was shredded very nicely and the meat was very tender. The plate is a bit spicy, but nothing overly powerful. The celery provides a nice crunch with the duck.
The Deep Fried Pork chop Ribs with Spicy Salt was incredible. I'm a huge fan. The pork is boneless and is deep fried with a thin battered layer (probably a quick coating of potato starch). The spicy salt encrusted the meat very nicely. The meat was thin and tender. It is a little hard to separate so it might be helpful to have a knife around. The pork was very tasty and there were plenty of pieces for us, along with the duck, to share and really enjoy the meal.
Overall, the food was good and the service was great. Our waitress was very helpful and extremely friendly. She gave us a lot of attention without being bothersome at all. Judging off the other patrons in the restaurant, there must be a lot of regulars because they were greeted by name and were asked about family and such. Nice environment overall and will definitely come back again.
P.S. We were kind of craving chicken wings for some reason and this has to be one of the only Chinese places that don't offer chicken wings....weird.Listed in: Good Eats in Windsor, Ontario, Mun Ching in Windsor
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Review from Brian S.
1/15/2012
Ok, this place may be need to be updated inside, but I don't care if there are chickens flying around inside of the restaurant and little Asian kids playing randomly as their parents prepare food, because this is a very good restaurant.
Shin Shin has been around this part of Windsor for decades and it is one of Windsor's best Chinese restaurants. It is cut-throat in the restaurant business in Windsor with so many restaurants, and there are 40 Chinese restaurants in Windsor.....However, Shin Shin remains one of the survivalists.
Hunan string buns are righteous here. Spicy garlic beans, pan fried dumplings, Crispy beef are all favorites. After coming to Shin Shin a few times, I have discovered that some of their Szechuan items are incredible. They do Szechuan food very well with a spice.
I am tossed with 4 to 5 stars. It is one of Windsor's best. If you like spicy food, this could be a place to try.Listed in: Places in and around Windsor !
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Review from Liz W.
5/29/2011
You have to get a fried bun here. Yummy. Moist, sweet, love the different textures to enjoy, just fabu. I want another one now. I also dove into some hot and sour cabbage salad for me alone, happy sichuan pickle memories. I have not had this dish in years. I almost cried from happiness.
The corn egg drop soup here is very good. Sweet, salty, rich. Evil. My husband finally found an egg drop he will eat.
The crispy beef was all that Liz R promised and more, we both liked it a lot. Ditto on the spicy green beans, which James could not stop eating. We went out on our own again with some shrimps in the shell with spicy salt, pretty happy stuff.
I think you have to know what to order here though, other things I saw did not look as happy as ours. We over-ordered but liked everything we got so we were pleased. Thanks to Liz R I loved this place. Someone needs to get a passport already, hint hint.Listed in: As Chinese as you will get…, Windsor wanderings
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Review from Janelle W.
12/28/2010 5 photos
Long before my Yelp days, I heard fables of Windsor's Shin Shin restaurant -- that their Sichuan specialties would burn more than an overpriced Canadian hamburger (à la MotorBurger, http://www.yelp.ca/biz...), and that their Chinese Zodiac placemat doubled as the menu.
I was just never motivated enough to cross a border for Chinese food -- a cuisine for which I typically exceed my threshold just on bad days, when in a masochistic flash, I drown my sorrows in a sloshy carton of greasy sweet and sour.
But lately, I've been hanging out in Windsor a lot, so I worked in a long-overdue visit to Shin Shin.
Alas, the Shin Shin fables were merely tall tales. The Chinese Zodiac placemat was just a placemat, and was quickly covered up with a worn menu that offers an uninspired Cantonese take on Sichuan food. Their most exotic protein is shrimp or duck. Their sauces are as thick and unnaturally-colored as Jersey Shore's Snooki. And the food is as spicy hot as Kimmy Gibbler in a high-cut swimsuit.
Shin Shin's successes are the steamed string bun ($2.50) and the rice stick ($7.50). The bun is a perfectly-leavened, smooth, pillowy, and moist cake, formed by pulling the dough and wrapping it like a ball of yarn. The rice stick is a savory stir-fry of tender, chewy rice paste slices, cabbage, and pork, finished with a slightly heavy soy-garlic sauce.
Skip the diced Sichuan chicken ($9) -- unless by "diced", you hope for a protein that closely resembles the six-faced gambling tool. This stir-fry is a mess of undercooked bell peppers and a bitter yellow sauce that's more discomforting than a colonoscopy. And skip Shin Shin's greasy noodle dishes, which are as useless as a Papa John's® review.
Perhaps Shin Shin has lost its luster over the years; the old fables of their once-great Sichuan food no longer apply. Aesop, the great champion of fables, also reminds us of such:
"One story is good, until another is told."
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Review from Liz R.
10/17/2010
Oh Shin Shin, we miss you. (we haven't gotten passports yet)
Up until our passport laziness, we would visit SS every other month, coinciding our meal with a trip to the Windsor casino (since it is non-smoking and they had nice penny slots to occupy my time).
We've culled our food choices down to the ones that we KNOW work.
I love their corn egg drop soup - perfect combination of sweet creamed corn and salty egg drop soup. Love. To compliment the soup, we order a fried bun. The outside of this large bread is crispy from frying, but the inside is sweet and yeasty, and pulls apart in strings. We've never seen anything like this. Does not reheat well.
Main dishes for us are the Crispy Beef, ordered hot and extra, extra crispy so it's almost the consistency of cornstarch battered bacon. Sweet, spicy sauce is over the top good. (Ken made the mistake of ordering their General's chicken our first time there, because that's one if his fav dishes, but when he saw my dish he said 'What is that??' then gazed longingly at it after I let him try it) Other winners are their Shrimp Egg Foo Yung, with thin egg patties and the shrimp in the gravy on the side (yum!) and the Spicy Green Beans. The sauce on the beans is similar to the Crispy Beef but contains ground meat and green onions, and the beans are still crispy and fresh.
(I just drooled)
OK, that's it, I'm heading to Walgreens to get my passport pic taken! -
Review from Bob N.
Updated - 11/14/2010
Went back for Peking Duck, which must be ordetred 3 days in advance.
Very good and the staff was very excited that someone had ordered it but I wish someone there would have told me what to expect.
I ordered corn soup and a spring roll to start.
Then served the crispy skin as the first course, soooooo good. Served with pancakes and a thick soy type sauce.
Then the entree, second course, of duck, they ask how you want it made. I asked for stir fry medium low hot. Their medium low is our medium high but it was very tasty.
Then the third course was duck wonton soup, oops to full had to have it put in to go containers.1 Previous Review: Show all »
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11/5/2010
Well Liz was right.
Started with wonton soup. Expecting the flavorless American version I was happy… Read more »
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Review from Greg W.
Toronto, ON
7/5/2011
Highly recommend the fried bun, seafood soup and beef noodle soup. Other dishes were also very good, but these were excellent.
Service is also fast and super nice!
