Thank you for all the pleasure you have provided me through the years! Whenever I am in need of great dim sum, chinese broccoli or some zhou you are there for me, open 24/7. Just because of this I award you five stars! Thank you JDX!

Interesting chinese decoration with many pictures of famous people on the walls. Reasonably clean but with the weight of being a very very busy place. Any time of the day you will find patrons at this venue. Located south of Sanlitun, is a good place to fill up your stomach and balance the alcohol after a big party. Also frequented by prosperous chinese men with beautiful ladies if you know what i mean, definetly you'll find a very interesting and diverse fauna at 3.00 am. The food is great for being a pseudo-fast chinese food place, specialized in cantonese dishes but also a lot of sichuan specialities.
My fauvorite dish is the sichuan fire noodles, it will kill any sensitivity you could have in your tongue, so advisable to pair it with a very cold beer, the chinese ones are excellent because the low alcohol though a bit more of fruitness would help to balance the exaggerated spiciness.
Being a cantonese place the speciality is dim sum, although here is not that good; the outside layers are too thick and lack the smoothness and tenderness I found in Guanzhou or Hong Kong. Anyway is always nice to have some shrimp.

Sorry to say, for those who think that jin ding xuan's dimsum is good, have they really tried other good dim sum's place dimsum? or its because this is the only affordable dim sum place and thus getting these ratings?

I have given JDX many many chances by trying it at least 5 times before i write this comment, but despite the award they got every year (highly suspicious) and all the great reviews saying its their best restaurant they ever been (more suspicious as for those reviews which use such strong word like 'best'), any people who like to eat or like food or like cantonese food can tell that the food is moderate, its not very very bad but it is not even close to best cantonese restaurant....

one thing of such low quality stuff is definitely due to too many varieties of food offers in the restaurant, they cannot master any of those which makes it so special but they do focus in lowering the price, 24hours operation and etc to lure customers, which i have no problem, but giving them such as best restaurant or best cantonese food in town, makes me highly suspicious on the beijinger is merely rewarding their customer so that they can advertise more in their magazines.

btw, can check with any well known and reputable food critique in town, no one will recommend you this restaurant, so, how on earth it can be competing with other great cantonese restaurant?!

One of my favorite restaurants in BJ, for lunch, for dinner or even after going out! Probably the best dimsum in town for this price. The service is quite ok for such a restaurant. Noisy and possibly smoky depending on the tables around you. Crowded, so if you don't like waiting you might want to avoid going there at 12:00 or 18:00. Either go there at 11:30 or 17:30 sharp, or else you better go at 14:00 or 20:00.

Always a favorite place to hop in if there is a sudden craving for cantonese food at anytime of the day or night. By cantonese, I mean dim sum: portuguese egg tarts, pastry of all kinds, deep fried dumplings, BBQ pork steamed buns. We just couldn't get enough of it. We don't get to see the dim sum cart being pushed around but what's more important is all the cute little dishes laid before our eyes. It is very affordable. Our bill hardly goes beyond RMB 100 (for 2) each time.

I went to Jin Ding Xuan over the weekend and despite the construction happening inside and outside the restaurant, was pleasantly surprised. The hargao was probably the best I've tasted in Beijing. On a Sunday morning, the place can be really packed so get there early! Great place to take out-of-towners visiting for the weekend and needing a dim sum fix.

i am a big fan of jinding not just the cantonese but also the sichuan dishes like ganbiabiandou and shuizhuyu, but we had the malaxiangguo there the other day and were thoroughly disappointed.
and yes, even though you might go at 2 am, you're gonna have to wait for the food to come out, not that quick, but by that time at night, people have a different sense of time and space so it should be ok.

Even though this is a very typical Chinese restaurant meaning service is not good, but I have to say the food is very good. I love this place is because I can go and eat there anytime I want.

Si Chuan, Shang Hai, Canton etc, whatever the food they make are very close to the original one. A little bit pricy, but not too bad. they have happy hour after 12am. Enjoy the dim sum and the best roast duck in China. :) YUM!

The store is open 24 hours, that is, more than people generally need to wait here, still lot of people even 2am,Snacks are particularly good volume of small dishes, but delicious, the general number of people almost done several dishes. Main Cantonese-style many variety flavors dish,authentic taste, price cheap. some of their shop is 24 hours a day, point is no matter what is food and non food time, business always is good and serving speed inevitably slow.

I've been to the Lama Temple branch of this place a few times, and although the atmosphere is fun (there's always a lot of people) the food is very, very ordinary - limp, overly oily and uninspired.

I wouldn't really even call it Cantonese cuisine. It's more a pale imitation - or what someone who's never been to Hong Kong might think Cantonese food is like.

The main thing this place has going for it is that it's open 24 hours, making it a dependable fallback when everywhere else is closed. When it's late and you have no other option, the food seems ok. Otherwise I wouldn't bother.