Kong Kee
“Their soy milk is made daily and for hot soy milk, you can have it sweetened to your liking.”
“I'd buy this, add some hoisin sauce and chili and voila, the best rice noodle you can get without leaving your apartment for the next few days.”
“Everything here is so cheap $1 for fried dough, $1 for sweet dough, 50cents for taro/ daikon/ turnip cakes.”
Kong Kee
Take-out: Yes
Bike Parking: Yes
Price range.
$ Price range Under $10
8 reviews
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Love how it's cheap and fresh. This place is tofu and noodle heaven. All sorts of uncooked common Chinese noodles to take home to use, sweet cakes, and a variety of ways to use the soy bean: sweet silken tofu with liquid sugar, fried egg tofu, fried tofu "pop" etc. it's a great go to place for something relatively light when you're in Chinatown.
This is probably one of only a few places in manhattan chinatown where you can get a simple hot soybean milk (fresh made and delicious) and fried dough (you tiao) for breakfast. So simple but it's taken me forever to find a place in manhattan – you'll find more places in flushing for traditional chinese (not dim sum) for breakfast.
It's your definition of a hole in the wall – so don't be scared – walk through those doors and place your order with one of the ladies at the counter. I'm not going to lie – if you don't speak canto/or mandarin it might be a bit difficult to communicate. Just point and they'll figure it out. What you want to get is the hot soy bean milk (dou jiang) – it's made fresh in house and so good. Silky and no gritty after taste – plus it's only $1 for a cup.
Everything here is so cheap $1 for fried dough, $1 for sweet dough, 50cents for taro/ daikon/ turnip cakes. The fried dough wasn't great – a bit stale when I got it but perhaps you need to go earlier for a fresh batch. The sweet fried dough disc was delicious but might give you a heart attack if you eat the whole thing – very oily. They also serve fresh made porridge – probably $1 as well – my whole breakfast order only came to $6.50 and I got a ton of stuff.
The daikon/radish cakes were delicious much better than the taro cakes.
They have a variety of other items like fresh made flat noodles and other tofu products. The store ladies here were friendly and helpful in explaining the various items on the counter. There's also a 2 counters and a few stools in the back for seating. Great local place to grab a quick bite and take home some tofu/ soy products.
This is my first time here since they moved. A lot smaller than their old shop on Grand & Bowery Street.
Nice, little shop that sells an enormous amount of soy/tofu foods, rice noodles, drinks, grass jelly, and etc. They also have a small section where they sell hot food, but I wouldn't recommend ordering their hot food as it does not look appealing. I wouldn't recommend coming here either.
The people who work here aren't the friendliest and don't speak a whole lot of English either.
I used to love this place for tofu, noodles, and and cheap Chinese dishes, but began to notice that both the fresh noodles you buy from them and prepared foods here have an odor of gutter/sewage. You'll notice it on the hot foods as soon as it cools, and noodles… immediately. This concerns me what type of oil they're using to make the rice noodles and dishes with, and has been very consistent – just that I didn't notice for a while since most of the time I'm here for tofu, and once in a while I'd pick up some hot foods or noodles.
Given my own health and safety concerns, I've read enough about the carcinogens in the reuse of oil to ever get these items at this place again (can't believe I've been coming here and not thought about it for so many years). On the bright side, no more bad service at Kong Kee for me, and there's a fresh tofu place where noodles don't smell like sewage and service doesn't suck just one street away.
Hungry Kat does not approve.
great little obscure spot in chinatown for an economical weekday bkfast on the go. they have a good variety of noodles, turnip cakes and fresh steamed rice noodles. small seating section in the back…
you cant really go wrong with cheap noodles, and cheap drinks. this isn't a restaurant although i believe theres are some spaces to hover/sit around to quickly gobble down your meal. a good place for standard cheap noodles.
I love Kong Kee! They have all sorts of soy bean products such as soybean drink, tofu, bean curd, tofu skin, etc. Anything you want related to tofu, you can probably find it here at a very good price.
The people who work here are not too friendly but for the sake of price and quality, I just overlook their service.
This might be the only place that I would ignore the service. I've drank Kong Kee's soy milk before Yelp was even created. That's how long this business has been around. It use to be on Bowery and Grand and moved a few years ago I believe. They have both hot and cold soy milk. Their soy milk is made daily and for hot soy milk, you can have it sweetened to your liking. They also make herbal teas and jellys. They have a huge variety of tofu. My favorite is their silken tofu which is scooped from a huge pot when ordered. It's highly affordable which is a good breakfast or lunch option! They make a lot of other Chinese staple foods like turnip cakes, fried noodles, congee, sweet sponge cakes (LOVE, MUST TRY) in both white sugar and brown sugar. I don't recall trying their food but I always come here for their soy products.