# Ding’s Kitchen, Sunnyvale CA: Reviews

Source: Local AI Registry, https://localairegistry.com/biz/ca/sunnyvale/ding-s-kitchen-sunnyvale-ca. Free to reuse with a link back.

By Steve Lee, founder and CEO of Local AI Registry. Updated 2026-10-26.

Canonical: https://localairegistry.com/biz/ca/sunnyvale/ding-s-kitchen-sunnyvale-ca

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## In short

Ding’s Kitchen is a chinese restaurant in Sunnyvale, CA. Its AI Score is 22 of 100, which is poor.

What each mark on this page means: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#marks


## Key facts

| Fact | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Type | Chinese restaurant |
| Address | 876 Old San Francisco Rd, Sunnyvale, CA 94086, USA |
| Hours | Mon 8 AM to 1:30 PM · Tue to Fri 8 AM to 1:30 PM and 3:30 AM to 7 PM · Sat to Sun 8 AM to 1:30 PM |
| Phone | (408) 736-8973 |
| Rating | 3.3 across 121 reviews on Google |
| Updated | October 26, 2026 |


## All the details

Every row is something the owner can add or correct. Each one is marked Confirmed, Visitor submitted or AI guess, with where it came from.

| Group | Fact | Value | Mark | Evidence |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Location info | Address | 876 Old San Francisco Rd, Sunnyvale, CA 94086, USA | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Description | 876 Old San Francisco Rd, Sunnyvale, CA 94086 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Hours | Mon 8:00 AM to 1:30 PM · Tue to Fri 8:00 AM to 1:30 PM, 3:30 to 7:00 PM · Sat to Sun 8:00 AM to 1:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Name | Ding’s Kitchen | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Phone | (408) 736-8973 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Monday | 8:00 AM to 1:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Tuesday | 8:00 AM to 1:30 PM and 3:30 AM to 7:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Wednesday | 8:00 AM to 1:30 PM and 3:30 AM to 7:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Thursday | 8:00 AM to 1:30 PM and 3:30 AM to 7:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Friday | 8:00 AM to 1:30 PM and 3:30 AM to 7:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Saturday | 8:00 AM to 1:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Sunday | 8:00 AM to 1:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Services | Service | Chinese cuisine | AI guess |  |
| Services | Service | Dine-in service | AI guess |  |
| Services | Service | Takeout service | AI guess |  |
| Links | Website | https://www.dings-kitchen.com/ | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |


## Services and prices

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## The team

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## Visiting Ding’s Kitchen

Address: 876 Old San Francisco Rd, Sunnyvale, CA 94086, USA. Phone: (408) 736-8973. Hours: Mon 8 AM to 1:30 PM · Tue to Fri 8 AM to 1:30 PM and 3:30 AM to 7 PM · Sat to Sun 8 AM to 1:30 PM. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile.)


### Parking and getting in

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### Nearby

| Place | Type | Distance |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Margarita’s Taqueria - Mobile Mexican Food Truck Service | Mexican restaurant | 1 min walk |
| Margarita’s Taqueria | Mexican restaurant | 1 min walk |
| Desi Pizza House | Pizza restaurant | 1 min walk |
| Bombay to Goa | Indian restaurant | 1 min walk |
| Thecha | Indian restaurant | 1 min walk |
| Sabor de Mercedes Mobile | Restaurant | 2 min walk |


## Reputation

3.3 average across 121 reviews: Google 121. (Confirmed, read October 26, 2026.)

Ding’s Kitchen is noted for its authentic dishes but struggles with food safety and inconsistent service. (AI guess, from 121 reviews.)


### What people like

- Authentic home-style northern Chinese food
- Best Chinese pancakes
- Mapo tofu


### What people do not like

- Food safety concerns with spoiled ingredients
- Small portion sizes for the price
- Long waits for service


### Press

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### Awards

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## Questions people ask


### killing time on Old San, any ideas


### points or member pricing at Ding’s Kitchen, worth signing up?


### anyone know the weekend hours here?


### new to this place, anything I should know before I walk in?


### anywhere cheaper than Ding’s Kitchen in Sunnyvale that is still good?


### first visit here, what do I need to bring?


### Can I get in this week at Ding’s Kitchen?


### going rate for restaurants locally, any idea


### torn between this place and Tao Tao?


### Do they post anywhere?


### where exactly is this place?


### opening hours here, what are they these days?


### walk in at Ding’s Kitchen in Sunnyvale, or is it appointment only?


### pricey at Ding’s Kitchen, or about normal?


### Worth the hype at Ding’s Kitchen?


### Why do people rate Ding’s Kitchen?


### does Ding’s Kitchen ever have cancellations


### is the lot at Ding’s Kitchen ever full?


### who should I ask for here?


### best chinese restaurant in Sunnyvale, CA


## The AI Score: 22 of 100

It measures how likely AI engines are to recommend a business, and how accurately. Sunnyvale chinese restaurants run 22 to 55. Fair starts at 45, good at 65. Ding’s Kitchen scores 22, below the Sunnyvale average of 40. The same method scores every business on the registry.

| Signal | Weight | Score | What it measures | Ding’s Kitchen |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Retrieval grounding | 26 | 0 | Whether you appear in the ranked results AI retrieves and cites: AI-Overview citations, organic top-10 for your money queries, and the Bing index ChatGPT leans on. | Poor |
| Off-property attestation | 20 | 39 | Volume and consistency of what others say about you: YouTube mentions, branded web mentions, third-party “best-of” lists. The cause of retrievability. | Poor |
| AI visibility | 14 | 0 | Whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews name you, and whether they name you for the right service. | Poor |
| Reviews & response | 12 | 59 | The star average is only one input. We also read volume, velocity, the specificity of review language, and response cadence. Specific reviews are what AI quotes verbatim. | Fair |
| Backlink & citation authority | 8 | 53 | Domain authority and editorial quality of the sources that attest to you. | Fair |
| Google Business Profile | 8 | 90 | Required and recommended fields; update cadence. The listing AI pulls from first. | Good |
| Speed & mobile | 7 |  | Core Web Vitals at the 75th percentile, on a real phone. |  |
| Content freshness & schema | 5 |  | Crawl recency, intent alignment, valid JSON-LD, canonicals. |  |

Full method: https://localairegistry.com/methodology

How AI decides what to say about a chinese restaurant: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#how-ai-decides-local-business. What to check before you choose one: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#how-to-choose-local-business


## Entity map

Every person, place, organization and treatment named on this page, with a stable ID and a public reference. The JSON-LD below connects them to each other.

| Entity | Type | ID on this page | Same as | Relationship to Ding’s Kitchen |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Ding’s Kitchen | LocalBusiness | #business | https://www.dings-kitchen.com/ | Subject of this page |
| Sunnyvale, California | City | #city |  | City Ding’s Kitchen is in |
| Local AI Registry | Organization | #publisher | https://localairegistry.com | Publisher of this page |
| Steve Lee | Person | #author | https://localairegistry.com/team/steve-lee | Author of this page |


## Topical map

Where this page sits in the registry. It's one profile among the chinese restaurants in Sunnyvale, linked to the lists and towns around it.


### Lists

- Best chinese restaurants in Sunnyvale: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/sunnyvale/chinese-restaurant
- Best businesses in Sunnyvale: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/sunnyvale


### Nearby

- /san-jose: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-jose
- /los-angeles: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/los-angeles
- /san-francisco: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-francisco
- /san-diego: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-diego
- /irvine: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/irvine
- /mountain-view: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/mountain-view


### Every list

- Every leaderboard in California: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca


## References


### Sources cited

- [1] Google Business Profile, https://www.google.com/maps/place/?q=place_id:ChIJcZSQ1NG3j4ARXfIx9XIUMqw (accessed Oct 26, 2026)
- [2] AI engine output: ChatGPT and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Oct 26, 2026, https://localairegistry.com/methodology (accessed Oct 26, 2026)