Chop Stix Food Hall — Restaurant in New York

today, my whole family pass by to try, their favor ( store claimed themselve) osmanthus duck vermicekk noodle soup was no good at all, before put on table, ask waiter, do it contain that man made power to look many hours boil soup, she relied certain no ,but the taste is too much made man taste or msg, by bone for boil many hours, but color light brown white color is by made made power which show on video, i look on baidu, I read chinese newspsper which introduce store by themselves how good it is, but taste is fake, man made long hours soup, the problem made my wife had red spot on neck who is sensitive if too much strong and very heavy in man made msg, also, meat duck is too too thin and too small ( guess the thinnest in new york city ) , it can only enough for a very small dog to eat that noodle soup, I talked my family, all these duck is less than 2 piece cantonese style roasted duck. ( want to say just one piece ) just remind anyone if senitive to heavy msg, don't try that soup for health purrpose, the only attract customer by their decoration with modern way instead of common chinese...

I wanted to explore different restaurants in the area, and came by this place. The duck assorted vermicelli noodle had 4 pieces of duck meat and majority of it were just duck bones. (Felt scammed) The duck organs did not really taste fresh.The vermicelli was thick and chewy, had a weird texture for soup noodles. We also ordered a seafood dry pot, less spicy… it was EXTREMELY SPICY. We had to wash it down with the soup that I ordered, and it instantly turned orange - similar to the soup laddles they gave us. We couldn’t even finish half of the dry pot because it was wayyy too spicy. Yes granted we understood it was spicy pot, but it was coated COATED in chili oil and had 5 pieces of chili peppers when we ordered LESS spicy. The black tea that we ordered was extremely sweet when we did not ask for sugar. We will not be coming back. We got 3 things and it was $50…it may seem regular pricing but for the amount of food we got, it was not worth it at all. I think even going to Manhattan, I would get more...

The first time I came, I was just passing by and wanted to see what the cute duck logo was selling. I’m not actually into duck as a food though, so I ordered a tonkatsu ramen.

The food itself is okay, I guess for the price it’s what you get. I’m more in love with the seating area and self service. Everything is so clean and I love the decor lol

The second time I came around after work, which surprised me more that it’s still open. (They close at 9.) it’s not late late (10) but I’m glad there’s an option for night food.

Got the ramen and dumplings set, tried the chrysanthemum tea, house made, I assume. Ramen was the same, okay good, dumplings were a nice deep fried crispy texture. Tea was good too, not too sweet.

Oh also, reception/foh was super friendly and helpful both times. 👍

Anyway, great place to eat for lone eaters like myself. Or bring friends, there’s a...