Spicy City

黑店 千万别来 don’t ever go this place, its unscrupulous restaurant, the price are huge difference after check out

该店宰客坑人！Be careful about the market price. They didn’t tell you the price and charge for a very high price for one dish.

If there’s is a negative star I will definitely pick that one. The waiter (the boss) talks so loud and has been so rude to some customers. Food portion is small but pricey. Won’t come again and not recommend this restaurant.

Rude service, aggressive waiter (the owner) who pretty much picked our every order (unnecessary orders) for us to rip us off
Recommendation: go find somewhere else to eat. (-.-) this place.

I ordered a fresh fish soup that didn’t show price. Just show seasonal price. I think that is less than 1LB. Very small a dishes, a little bit tofu. It’s 40 dollars. And then. The other importance. We got the bill. They charged our four people tips. If here can give zero star I prefer give this bad restaurant.

Living in Texas, I had yet to find a decent xiao long bao place that meets my standard, so I decided to hunt for it during my Vegas trip. Despite reading the low reviews mostly for bad service, my family and I decided to give this place a try. It was Spicy City’s darn tempting poster that caught me!
The «highlight» of the experience was that absolutely NO ONE spoke English. I called ahead and the lady could not answer a simple yes/​no question. She told me that her English wasn’t very good, then we awkwardly hung up the phone. When we arrived, our waiter also didn’t speak English. The waiter kept speaking Mandarin to me. I could understand bits and pieces of what he said and made effort to order a rack with the little mandarin I knew. The waiter scoffed at me and scold me in broken English for not knowing Chinese when I’m «Chinese» and I kept telling him «I’m NOT Chinese» both in Mandarin and English. My brother joked, «if no one speaks English, then who did the paperwork??» On top of that, he’s screaming «Amigo! Amigo!» to his worker while madly waving his arms and throwing crazy sign language at him.
Aside from that, the pork xiao long bao served its purpose! It was juicy and the broth was tasty. Not the best I had compared to Joe’s Shanghai in NY, but it satisfied my craving. It beats most so called «xiao long bao» from other restaurants where the broth has been absorbed into the dumpling and there’s no drop of soup coming out.
In conclusion, I now understand why Spicy City deserved its low ratings for service. I found the experience to be more HILARIOUS and MEMORABLE than anything. It makes an entertaining story I can retell to my Chinese friends. Although I only had xiao long bao, the food here seemed authentic as I see mostly Chinese families and Chinese tour buses eating here. I highly recommend coming in with someone who speaks Mandarin or at least having a Mandarin speaking friend on FACETIME to order for you. Hopefully, you won’t get scolded for not speaking Chinese or even meeting halfway and trying your damnest to communicate! Jeezzuss!

My family and I have been eating here for almost a decade. Most authentic Chinese food in the city. Our favorites include the dry spicy chicken wings, baby bok choy and black mushroom, and the pork with plum sauce. Please, don’t let other people’s ignorance of the Chinese culture and true Chinese cuisine detour you from trying this place. Finish it up with a reflexology foot massage at one of the nearby spas and call it a perfect end to your day.

Very authentic Chinese food. Great vegetables and dumplings. Don’t forget to try the fish puffs. Friendly waiter and not expensive.

You get your money’s worth with a little extra. Also, vegetarian friendly~!
The atmosphere in the restaurant was so calm and collect. Ordered the eggplant with garlic sauce and let me say it actually had me smiling while eating. The waitress was polite and asked the other customers, along with us, regularly if we needed anything. Definitely a favorite in Chinatown.

so bad. worst service ive ever had. wont try this ever! the pork dumpling is not bad though

totally shit, shit service. The waiter told us to move the dishes ourselves when we needed to move to another table. I never write a review before but this restaurant is terrible

rice noodle is really bad. Staffs are not friendly.15% service fee added automatically.

Went in for the noodle poster on their wall, but the real noodle was sooo bad that made me lose my apperti! The noodle soup smells turning bad already. Also, they charged 15% tips automatically for such bad serves– we waiting at front door about 5 mins to get the first waiter came to talk to us; they serve the dishes without rice so we ask for rice (charged) THREE TIMES until we finally got it. Never going there again.

My family is from New York City and we were DYING for some rice. (We asians love our rice) We were driving around Chinatown and just over looking some of the menus and the Chinatown Plaza caught our eye, so we parked our car and checked out some of the restaurants.
Nothing on the ground floor interested us so we went up and saw Spicy City. It was pretty empty inside, only about 2 tables filled but the owner of the restaurant, a very friendly and jolly man, popped his head out and says «please! come try out the food! it’s amazing, my wife cooks it!»
This man did not lie. We had 4 dishes to share with a big pot of rice and soup. Everything was delicious, and this family owned business really hit the spot for my rice craving family. However, the food is very well seasoned with pepper so anyone who isn’t very good at eating spicy foods, tell them to slow it down on the pepper cause this restaurants lives up to its name.
I recommend asking the owner or his son for recommendations on the best foods for the night!