Bo Ky — Restaurant in New York

DO NOT EAT HERE. I would give 0 stars if I could.

When we went in to eat on Sunday, the waitress told us that we needed to order quickly because the restaurant was taking its last order at 7:30pm. We were pressured to order very fast. She was speaking to us in Chinese, and when our two Chinese-speaking friends were speaking with her, she kept asking them angrily why they couldn't read or speak Chinese well (the menu only had Chinese characters). They started trying to say the dish number, and she kept saying she didn't know the dish numbers so we had to say them in Chinese. What waitress doesn't know which number goes with which dish? Our other friend speaks Vietnamese, and she had to clarify which dishes we wanted to order because our waitress would not treat my Chinese friends well at all. We were not able to look at the menu thoroughly at all. She seemed like she was pissed off that we couldn't speak Chinese well. People like her are the reason why First-Gen people don't like speaking their language anymore. I didn't expect to get hate-crimed by a Chinese person in Chinatown, as a CHINESE PERSON.

We got our food, and then an older Chinese man went around the room and started giving the checks out to the people in the room. When he came to us, we gave him cash and waited for our change. When he came back with our change, he started speaking very broken Chinese. The only word we were able to decipher was "tip," so we knew he wanted a tip. They definitely did not deserve the tip, but we gave a five dollar bill because it was starting to feel predatory and we wanted them to leave us alone. That wasn't the end. After giving a five dollar tip, he kept asking for more. He said in Chinese that he wanted six dollars. Why does he cares so much about an extra dollar? Because he is greedy. He told us we needed to give it because we arrived "late". The restaurant closes at 10 PM, so we didn't know why we even needed to do all this.

He was preying on people in the restaurant. Behind our table was more younger adults like us, and he would go up to them and the Chinese guy suddenly spoke fluent Mandarin to them. He was asking for tips because they also came in "late". Then he would ask for more. For the older adults, however, he would speak perfect Mandarin. He was talking to them like we couldn't hear him, but we can understand Mandarin perfectly. When they didn't give him enough tip and told him that it was all the money they had left, he got mad at them. This group even offered to go to the bank and he kept getting mad at them.

The food quality did not justify the treatment. We have had our fair share of joking around with "Asian restaurants will treat you badly" but this was actually really bad. I can't imagine how they would treat you if you were White or non-Asian if this is how they treated us. Do not eat here. Flushing Chinatown was a much...

This is the most authentic noodle soup restaurant stemming from the regional Chiu Chow (Chaozhou) minority born in southern Vietnam. It's a type of "fusion" style food that if you are expecting pure Vietnamese or pure Chinese food, it's completely different yet takes influences from each side. It is a family run business that has been in NY Chinatown for generations serving quick, honest and traditional foods. I pretty much grew up eating here.

The standouts at Bo Ky for me are definitely the Country Style Duck, the slow braised pork "parts", the Chiu Chow House Special Noodle Soup, the mixed seafood noodle soup and the beef tendon noodle soup (or braised beef tendon over rice).

You can ask for any noodle soup combination to be "dry tossed" where you get all the ingredients in the bowl without soup that is tossed with some aromatic oils but they give you a small soup as a side or serving as a palate cleanser if you will. I haven't heard anyone mention this but totally worth trying. Whether getting it "dry tossed" or with soup, I recommend adding some of their famous red chili oil from the glass container on the table. With each bite of the noodles, I also like to fold in the fresh marinated garlic and green chilies from the second glass container also on the table.

They are extremely flexible and you can get any combination or add-ons you want. The wide flat rice noodles are very popular but do try the glutenous and slippery "silver needle" noodles. They are so much fun to eat and duly tests your chopstick skills and spoon dexterity. The thick egg noodles are great too and I feel accompany the more heartier soups better than the thinner...

The restaurant closes at 7:30pm, my girlfriend and I started ordering at 6:30pm. the old female waitress wearing a hat and short hair came and said to me in Vietnamese very rudely “Eat quickly so the restaurant can close” =))) i should have stood up and left right then because it seemed like i wasn’t welcome here but i kept ordering because i had come a long way to get the culinary experience at this restaurant. but the bad thing continued when I only ordered one Hu Tieu dish for my girlfriend (because I was full before but still wanted to try this restaurant with my girlfriend, if your restaurant has a rule that each person must order at least one dish then I apologize for being full before, but for a first time visitor, I did not know that and was insulted and looked down upon by the waitress, if she had told me when I ordered I would have ordered more or stood up and left because I could not eat more). the waitress also asked in a sarcastic, irritated tone where I came from (like I was a country bumpkin and had no money to eat). she stood next to me and badmouthed me to the chinese woman in their language (unfortunately I understood what they said). HER SERVICE ATTITUDE IS VERY BAD. i saw a lot of reviews about the service attitude on google reivew, if the restaurant owner sees these things i think they should fire her and retrain these people to make things better. if this continues i am sure the restaurant will close soon not because of the bad food but because of the rude staff! hellish experience here. dont recommend anyone to come...