Biny Karaoke Bar & Lounge — Restaurant in New York

This place was a surprise. From the outside it looks like a dive. Once up the long staircase to the second floor, you enter a small space with a tiny bar. The room is, however, huge.

It has tables along the walls and a nice large dancing and performing area. The song lyrics are displayed on a cinema sized screen, which was a major surprise.

The crowd is young here, 20s to 30s, and very friendly. And they do get rowdy. The drink menu is standard and affordable, but has surprises like jager bombs, Long Island iced tea and the Wonder Wheel which contains numerous shots in a clear plexiglass ferris wheel for $80.00.

The food menu is Hong Kong Chinese, so do not expect an Sichuan spicy dishes here. I highly recommend the fried pork dumplings. They come wrapped in a delicately thin, almost cellophane shell and are lightly fried. They are totally unlike the doughy, heavily fried versions in most Chinese restaurants.

The lo mein here is vermicelli, not the thick noodles like other places. The surprise here is that you can order it with vegetables, chicken, fish, shrimp or, wait for it... Spam. Crazy sounding, but excellent.

There are no private party rooms here. But I highly recommend it for its...

Eh. It's a karaoke bar so I'm not sure how much I can expect from the private rooms. It's loud in there and the rooms aren't totally isolated from one another. The volume controls are hidden behind a panel so staff have to change them for you. The microphones are tuned in a way that causes a lot of feedback if they get close (tough for duet songs). They have a good song selection but it's hard to access things. The interface is a very strange touch screen and it's not at all intuitive to get through the menu to search. And to type things there's a pretend phone texting keyboard instead of a normal keyboard on the screen. We still had fun and sang and drank once we worked out the volume and song selection interface but I can't say this was really my best...

They have the best public area Karoke setup in all of New York featuring a nice clean public area setup for a few groups of people, each with their own Karaoke station. There are private rooms as well

The snacks e.g: Fries,Chicken Wings are pretty descent and of course for a bar/lounge, the price is on par with other bars. Its a great place to have fun especially for those of us who enjoy Karaoke.

This place has been to different management so their way of doing things may be different. If you're not ordering more drinks even though you spent over $100, the manager just might...