Boon Chu — Restaurant in New York

If not for all the janky things that went on when I came here, I would have hands down gave this place 5 stars. I got the pad kee mao and on the menu, it said it's stir-fried noodles with basil and sauce, so I asked whether it came with vegetables (because pad kee mao in other Thai places in NYC, other USA states, and in Thailand always come with vegetables). The waitress said I can choose a meat, and vegetables can be it. I asked if there was tofu included in the vegetables, and she told me I could add tofu but it would be $2 extra. At least she told me it'd be $2 extra. I asked whether I could have half and half and she said no, and I have no idea why they can't do half and half, unless the vegetables and tofu are already measured out by portions. I said okay though because I really wanted the tofu because from the Yelp pictures it looks tasty, and I can't imagine eating pad kee mao without vegetables. But after that, I realized I'm paying $2.50 (including tax and tip) for a handful of vegetables which is most definitely a rip-off. So I was pretty salty about this the whole time. I also asked for it to be spicy. The dish came out piping hot after a few minutes, and it was great. The tofu was fried tofu but soft after getting stir-fried into the rest of the dish, and there were a lot of vegetables (and good variety too). The noodles were a bit clumpy though which wasn't ideal but they were still chewy and firm. The balance of noodles to vegetables/tofu was really off though, way too much of the latter and not enough noodles. The meal came out to be $9.74 post-tax, and I gave a credit card to which the waitress told me they can't take card less than $10. I told her with tip, it'd be more. She repeated what she said but said it's only 25 cents short so do I just want to charge that much? I said yes, just charge that much (and I'll just tip as I would've tipped before). She handed me an iPad (I think it was Square actually) to enter the tip which I did, and then I left. I think what they should do is just include the vegetables into the dish already. What kind of restaurant has pad kee mao without vegetables? What exactly are you trying to save here, how much money can those...

Im just so disappointed on their behavior. I will never go this restaurant anymore. I saw so many good reviews on this restaurant. That’s why I wanted to try for myself. So at first my all over experience was pretty good. Cz I went alone. The girl who was in reception she just asked me once everything okay or not. Then she didn’t ask me anything. But I don’t complain about it Cz I was alone and I didn’t need to too much customer service. After I pay I was waiting for the girl she didn’t came to so I thought okay everything is good and since I already got my receipt and since she’s busy maybe I might good to go. There’s so many restaurants I visit in my life I never saw anyone to do this type of behavior only for tips!! I never see any of the places where you can force for the tip!! I literally came outside of the restaurant the receptionist girl literally ran to me with her payment machine and in the middle of the street she literally saying I didn’t pay! I’m like what are you talking about I showed her the receipt and then she’s like no you’re not finish you have to add tips!! It was soooo embarrassing for me in front of so many customers and in front of other peoples She can call me in the restaurant she didn’t have to do it in the middle of the street! That’s a harassment. Stop doin this type of harassment with your customers. If you need your tips simply add to...

Did I come in at a weird time? The food was mediocre and that might be too much of a compliment. Service was really awkward...Perhaps it's because we were a party of 4, but only ordered 3 dishes that they assumed we were going to share food...I've never been offered empty plates to share without asking.

Then I was like okay, whatever..I ordered the green curry with CHICKEN. I don't know where other people come from, but I expect food in a bowl or a plate. How did two RAW pieces of chicken end on the bottom of my curry bowl? Ugh. Totally lost my appetite then...The curry wasn't even that flavorful either. All I tasted was spice.. I thought I was supposed to have a CHICKEN curry, not a bamboo shoot curry. There were at most 2 pieces of chicken in that curry..perhaps the one outside my bowl were supposed to be cook and inside instead. Who knows?

The weirder thing is that the person who was cooking, kept going in and out of the kitchen and handing out the checks to customers. Um... what? Isn't that what the waitress supposed to do? Sanitation is important, how do you handle money and cook at the same time is beyond me..

I just got home, so I'm still hoping I don't get sick...from the raw chicken and money-handling chef...

Not coming back here anytime soon. There are plenty other regular places I'd rather go to than try this...