So it was Friday night and I was on my way to a party at Touch that K.O.S. Productions was throwing when I realized that I hadn't eaten all day. Anyone who knows me knows that this never happens. My boy Gabe decided that we should get some eats before we rolled out to the party and told me to pick a spot. My first inclination was to go to Negril Village in the West Village, but then I remembered that I no longer worked at a bank but in nonprofit. Then I thought, why not take it way back and get some cheap good eats from Chef Yu located on the corner of 36th and 8th in midtown Manhattan? BOOM.
Chef-Yu is great because of it's amazing happy hour, which even exists on the weekends, ad its extensive menue. From 4pm-8pm they have $4.50 cocktails, wine, and beer (but it ain't that quality liquor). You can even get top shelf alcohol for less than $10. Since I was a bit early, I posted up at the bar and grabbed a glass of Ciroc Coconut and Sprite. You have to try this drink.
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| Chef Yu's bar taken by my new Canon S95. Sick Camera! |
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| image not taken from my camera. |
For an appetizer, Gabe and I split the shrimps dumplings, which swimming in a pool of red hot pepper oil. Extremely tasty. Gabe thought the dumplings to be a little too spicy, but he enjoyed them, nonetheless (grammar check, please).
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| Shrimp Dumplings |
For the main course, I kept it pretty simple: fried rice with shrimp and beef. I'm not going to show you a picture of it because my camera took a wack picture, but it was pretty good. Gabe rates any Chinese spot by it's General Tso's Chicken which pleased him and my camera:
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| I couldn't help but be reminded of the 1989 awesome flick - Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, where they kept asking who was General Tso and why he had his own chicken. Peep this great video on Chinese food |
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| The site of this dish gets the mouth salivating! |
The only negative is the service: while the food comes out lickity split, the waiters forget about you once the food has been sent out!! This was particularly frustrating because, while everything else is good about the restaurant, this wasn't my first time that week experiencing it (yes, I had been there 3 times in the past week). I pretty much had to do my best Elephant Man rendition, "signal di plane," and waive the waiters down like I was hailing a cab to leave a nightclub at 4am. It's like they knew I would be asking them to take me to the Bronx.
All in all, if you need a quick bite before an event, some nice decor, and don't want to break the bank, then Chef Yu is the place for you. Just make sure you bring a vest with reflectors on it so that you can grab the attention of the waiters.
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| Signal Di Plane! POW! |
