Hing Lung Owners Open New Chinese BBQ Shop in the Tenderloin

For more than four decades, Hing Lung Company was one of the crown jewels of San Francisco Chinatown . The cramped, slightly dingy, old-school Cantonese butcher shop consistently cranked out some of the juiciest roast duck and crispiest-skinned siu yuk (roast pork belly) in town. Because the shop didn’t have any seating to speak of, popping open a takeout carton of its luscious, wonderfully fatty roast duck in your parked car, or huddled on the sidewalk, was one of those quintessential San Francisco dining experiences.

It was the end of an era, then, when Hing Lung shuttered its Stockton Street storefront last April, citing long, drawn-out rent negotiations with the landlord that fell through in the end.

The closure was especially bittersweet as it came right when brothers Eric and S