Koo Koo Chicken — Restaurant in New York

‼️BE CAUTIOUS WHEN EATING HERE! YOU WILL BE HARASSED MULTIPLE TIMES FOR MORE TIP!!! This restaurant and their waiters will actively target and harass Americans and non-primarily Asian speakers for more tip! We are Asian Americans but primarily speak English. Me and my daughter ate here for casual lunch Sunday August 20th. 🚨The male waiter was extremely rude, coming back twice pointing at the “SUGGESTED 18% or 25% tip” on the bill and how I must give him more tip ($7 more than the standard 15% we originally gave). He only backed off and let us leave the restaurant when I harshly told him “NO” for the 3rd time! Never been so embarrassed by a insistent and selfish waiter feeling like he’s entitled to a larger tip when we are only 2 people who got 2 dishes with an appetizer who paid the standard 15% tip and compared to the big family groups of 6+ people across from us who got 7+ dishes and only tipped $10.

For the food and drinks: Every other Asian Speaking table was bought a carafe of hot tea and table side cleaned chopsticks, we were thrown 2 glasses of cold sink water with forks and not given tea like we expected like every other customer there. Curry Beef Brisket Over Rice was barely edible, 3 pieces of beef and the rest were all veins and hard tendons. We sat there for 15 minutes because I wasn’t feeling well and hardly ate the 2 dishes we ordered so we asked for 2 take out containers and were given 2 small cheap plastic ones that couldn’t hold the food but all the other tables with leftovers got good quality large plastic take out containers.

Rule to the restaurant: Don’t target and harass small groups of people or any costumers for an inflated “suggested tip”. Just make it a noted required tip percentage for every table then we wouldn’t have come here and had such a bad experience.

🚨 There are many other reviews to this restaurant with similar experiences to us told to never come back by the waiters if they don’t tip the suggested 18% or 25% so please don’t go here unless you want to be targeted and harassed multiple times to pay the inflated...

We drove by this restaurant purly by accident and thought to try it. Right before we walk it, we googled the review and it was 4.5 stars so we we're like great! We ordered the typical Hainese Chicken with Rice, Curry Fish Head Rice Noodles Soup and the ABC ice for dessert. The rice in the Hainese chicken was AMAZING! It was nothing we've had in other Malaysian restaurant. If you like garlic, you are on for a treat while this rice explodes with garlic flavor. The chicken is made perfectly with the sauce that is matched made in heaven. You have to get the condiments tray where the chili sauce for the chicken is in there so you get more than typical tray. It is Tangier that typical which made my mouth dance with joy. The curry is just spicy enough to thicker than a typical soup. It's wonderful with flavour. The ABC shaved ice is wonderful for the hot summer weather. It has red beans, corn kennels, jelly, peanuts and grass jelly embedded under the shaved ice. Overall, we love the food experience and highly recommend this place and will be returning with...

Kookoo chicken offers typical Malaysian fare. The portions sizes are smaller than expected especially for the price. The Hainan chicken was good, the spicy sauce was probably my favorite part of the entire meal. The fried taro was subpar - not as crispy as I would’ve liked.

Since this is one of the only Malaysian spots left in this area of Brooklyn, it will suffice. The service is not great. I understand that everyone is understaffed but the waiter would take away 1 or 2 plates and not come back until we waved him down again. We were trying to clear the table to have cake and get all the dishes off the table, not good service at all.

The restaurant is on the smaller side and with the covid compartment / plastic rooms inside, it’s even more cramped. We had a larger party and there was just enough room to barely accommodate 10 people. Anything more, you should probably go...