羯子王 Tin Tin Chinese Restaurant — Restaurant in Sheffield

A really complex, borderline profound, experience.

I could write an article on the wider issue of Chinese food in the UK; there are always two menus. Unless you are stared down as Chinese, you are getting the plain jane vanilla menu of British food; chicken balls, chow-mein and congealed sauces.

I finally had a breakthrough at Tin Tin. On the third request after entering, the helpful waitress finally let us see the Chinese menu, the real menu. Here, one has access to spiced pig ears, lamb bone broths and cold, nutty noodles. All other Chinese students in the restaurant were sharing hotpots and tucking in with their plastic gloves to gnaw on the bones. Finally, I could take part.

The restaurant itself is in a sad state and most of the customers/students are in a phone-scrolling daze. However, I was able to try two entirely new, tasty dishes; access, essentially, to an entirely new cuisine. This culture isn't going to change in the UK any time soon, as long as restaurant owners fear the wrath of one-star reviews from the sesame toast and chicken ball army. Clearly, Tin Tin is suffering from exactly this and should be proud.

Oh, I recommend the Xian Xian Mian - great addition of peanuts and cucumber to the...

went there for the first time. clean but very dated restaurant with a big dirty aquarium on display along with an old to on loud volume showing Chinese tv shows. Christmas decorations still up in places in July!! the menu was extensive. chose some very common dishes- salt and pepper crispy shredded chicken, chicken and sweet corn soup as starters along with a chicken sizzler. the soup had no salt in it. thankfully could add some salt and pepper to taste. the crispy shredded chicken was awful as it had a weird smell. the pieces of peppers added were not fried. still not sure why pieces of celery was added to it too. very salty. the chicken sizzler was the most disappointing as it was riddled with tiny chopped bones and very oily. no one came to check if we were happy with our food despite being the only customers in the restaurant at that point. on paying the money by card there was an issue and no receipt could be issued by the machine. very disappointing service and food for a restaurant in such a...

have been this restaurant many times in the passed years. this is first visit after covid. we booked a table for 8 on 5pm sunday (new years eve). the place was empty but soon been very busy at 6pm. so advise you to book a table in advance. the spicy lamb spine stew was good (羊蝎子) and one dish can serve up to four people. we also ordered other dishes such as steamed sea baas, belly pork with pickle vegetable (梅菜扣肉)，毛血王，(pig' blood with other meats and vegetable), 木須肉，韭菜盒(garlic chive cake), steam bun, dessert sticky roce wine cooked with sticky rice balls (酒釀小丸子)，spent over£45, we got 口水鸡(red chilli oil chicken)just for £1. we also got dessert red bean paste (红豆沙)for free. overall dishes were delicious. the only 木须肉dish was not good which can...