As is customary here on Midtown Lunch, every Tuesday we’ll profile a different lunch’er and get their recommendations for places to eat in Downtown NYC. This week we have Richard who works a little out of bounds, but really loves BonChon Chicken.
Name: Richard Chen
Occupation: Web developer
Where you work: Bleecker and Broadway
Age: 31
Favorite kinds of food: Asian! Specifically, Korean, because I can eat it all day and still not get fat or unhealthy.
Least favorite foods: Diner food. It’s very tasty but blasé on creativity, on the unhealthy side of things, high in oils and salts & also because they’re an N.J. invention, though their desserts are typically good.
Favorite lunches downtown:
BonChon Chicken – I first heard about “Korean chicken” four years ago when a friend took me to its
former location on Chambers St. Even though it was later spurned for being a fraud, I still loved the idea and now visit both its Leonia, N.J. location (closer to where I live) and the one on John St. Beware of imitators though, there are a few using similar signage. I usually get the six piece with bone and with soy and fresh garlic sauce; I subway down from wherever I am in the city for
Bian Dang, especially if they’re in Soho, just to get this lovely food despite how they have a fixed location in the
Food Gallery 32 in Midtown. I usually get the snack platter which, despite its name, is actually a full meal with an unpictured side of clear broth soup.
(Favorite lunches continued after the jump!) Read more »
Posted by Andrea H at 9:30 am, May 29th, 2012 under PROFILE: Downtown Lunch'er.
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