Kim’s Aunt Kitchen Cart

Cheapest lunch in mid-​town. The chicken sandwich costs just $ 4.00. That’s cheapest in the area except $ 1 pizza down the block. It also tastes OK. You can request from a variety of sauces on you sandwich to suit your taste. You can also opt for a platter, which costs just a little more and comes with salad and either rice or french fries. The flounder platter with french fries is quite tasty.

Modestly hidden in the «food cart street» on 46^th st is Aunt Kim’s sandwich truck. Their dull, tiny, steel exterior gets out-​shined by the colorful behemoth food trucks around it. While the cart looks boring, you get your value in the amount of food at low costs.
I got the whiting sandwich ($ 4.50) which in my opinion is a good representation of all the items on the menu. Cheap and filling, the sandwich came with two fried filets of whiting fish. It’s tasty but the tiny bones in the fish makes each bite somewhat unpleasant.
I felt slightly nauseous after the meal due to the grease and carbs but I didn’t go hungry for the rest of the day.

Worst food cart ever!!!
I was almost half done with my fish and bulgogi which was super chewy when i Found hair in the food! YUCK! almost threw up!

$ 5 flounder hero.
With lettuce, tomato, jalapeño, tartar, lemon juice, and hot sauce.
GREAT Lenten Fish Friday meal!

Took the walk down to 46^th to try out the flounder sandwich with fries. The sandwich was great, fries just OK. Would definitely come back.

These guys are great. Friendly, quick, and cheap. They pile on so much chicken and throw in some French fries if you ask. The flounder is good too. Avoid the beef. It’s too fatty and tough.

I read reviews and gave it a shot. There are other food trucks on West 46^th and I did not want to wait…
Don’t order the bulgogi. It isn’t good. This is poor excuse of meat is what transforms people into vegetarians: chewy grizzle masquerading as Korean marinated beef. Chewing gum is the best explanation I have for this dish. I should have known better and passed on.
Affordable lunch? Yes. Palatable? No. Aunt Kim is no relative of mine.
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Made the 4 block track last week after looking for some serious good lunch that isn’t overpriced around midtown. Yeah, good luck right? ^^ So I went for food trucks which tend to be more economical. This place intrigued me because of its Korean name and how its items seem to not have much to do with… Korean food.
I went around late lunch so only about 2 waiting. Ordered the combination lunch because I wanted to taste the fried flounder Unilocalers seemed to be raving about AND give my verdict on Bulgogi served by… people not resembling anyone Korean. =) OK I’ll be honest… fried fish with tartar sauce and bulgogi? what an eccentric, but somehow very tastebud-​convincing combination!
The combo cost upwards of $ 8 so it kinda defeated my initial bargain goal (still better than $ 17), but I didn’t mind as this was my trial run. They cooked it to order, which I liked and within 10 minutes I was walking back to office with my promising bag of lunch.
So there’s 3 criteria I’ll use here: Quantity, Taste, and Quality/​Value
1. Quantity — Very hearty portions! Another Unilocaler was right in saying that there seemed to be fried rice in every nook of the container even as you kept eating away. Generous two slabs of flounder, chunks of bulgogi, aforementioned rice, and even a nice side salad.
2. Taste — Flounder was AWESOME. Crispy on the outside, moist in the inside even after 10 minutes of sitting in the lunchbox steam. Ask for that tartar sauce + hot sauce drizzled over. Bulgogi was an Americanized version for sure as it was a bit bulky compared to traditional Korean bulgogi and a bit sweet. It was still good, just not special. Fried rice was a sub for the lomein they ran out of. It was nicely seasoned with soy sauce and did its job. Salad was very welcome actually because overall this is a heavy fare and slight vinegar sprinkled on the little salad actually helped balance the weight of the meal a lot! Yay, salad!
3. Quality/​Value — Fish tasted quite fresh and aside from fried rice for which you really can’t quite tell the quality of, even the salad was quite fresh. I mean, you can tell easily if salad isn’t fresh, right??? This one had crunch and was satisfying. And you can get this monstrous lunch for like $ 6 if you don’t do the combo. I’d say that’s a bargain in this prime real estate that is Midtown NYC.
Verdict: Dishing out my 5 Star rating in a long, long while! You can REALLY get your money’s worth and keep chewing long after your co-​worker in the next cube has stopped with his tiny gourmet Avocado & Edamame sandwich. Likely he or she will be looking over the cube drooling. For this reason I call this kind of lunch the «Death Food» i.e. if co-​worker didn’t eat yet you’ll kill her/​him with the aroma.
I am a FAN and I’ll be going back to try their fish sandwiches, chicken over lomein, and many more culinary joy abound. Warning to ladies though — not sure how many calories but I’m sure it’s quite high… something I actually go for because I’m too skinny, but I can see 2 petite ladies sharing one.

Pretty decent spot. Got the combo with Beef Bulgogi and Whiting for $ 8.
They didn’t have lo-​mein so I got the fried rice.
Beef — just ok, it was a bit over cooked and chewy. It looked great though.
Whiting — two big deep fried pieces, tasted great with their white (tartar) sauce.
Fried Rice — really good, dark in color. Looked like it was stir fried with soy sauce. Probably the best part of the meal.
Portion size was really good but i cant recommend the beef… too easy to f up and become rubber.
The chicken looked REALLY good and had a great char going. I kinda wish I had ordered that instead. I’d probably get that next time.

Cheap fried fish sandwich headquarters

First time here for lunch, I ordered a Bulgoki — Beef with noodles and salad. Its an affordable and delicious lunch spot and they also have sandwiches.
I will definitely be back to try the other things on the menu =)

I got the bulgogi on top of fries for $ 5. Cheap and filling lunch deal-​but def not the healthiest option! The meat was a bit tough, though.

This review is just for the fried fish cause i’ve not tried the other stuff. As far as fried fish goes, it’s pretty good!
I think some of these other reviewers don’t get it. This is your basic korean fried fish joint you find in every hood. It’s not aquagrill or pan seared tuna so keeping that in mind, flavor wise — its better than alot of fish and chip spots (cough, a salt and battery, cough)
Portion wise, a bit small but for a $ 4 sandwich, you can always get two sandwiches. Definitely get the white bread over the pita hero and whiting over the flounder.

That $ 3.50 whittaker sandwich is just awesome. So filling and so cheap. Unlike many of the food trucks nearby– this place somehow never has a line. So everything is ready super fast.
My friend says the bulgogi was «just okay». But definitely come here to try that fish sandwich.

I don’t get it…
The «bulgogi» was overcooked flank steak with chunks of fat, almost as large as the meat. The fiounder was thin and really greasy.
I’d call it hangover food, but not really a good lunch option.

I’ll start this review by saying I’m going to try extra hard to entertain you because I truly believe Kim’s Aunt Kitchen Cart deserves a review of the day. It is hands down my favorite food cart in midtown and not just because I root for the Davids among the Goliaths, but because I swear the flounder is battered in a mix of angel tears and crack.
For context, I was not keen on the idea of fried fish from a street vendor. I am risk averse and the concept seemed all sorts of risky. Where are you getting your fish from? How are you keeping it refrigerated all day? How often do you change that oil? How do you keep the oil from burning or spoiling? And finally, what the heck do you two tiny guys know about frying fish anyway?
Then one day, I was sitting in the office and the smell of freshly fried fish slapped some sense into me. A coworker was chomping on a fish sandwich that smelled so good I had to suppress my urget to lick his fingers (a la the best Doritos commercial ever). With eyes glazed over and saliva pooling underneath my tongue, I asked where he got it. Lo and behold the sandwich came from the tiny little chrome cart with the odd name.
Fifteen minutes later (I had to go get cash), I was ordering up a whiting sandwich of my own. It took about 6 minutes to have my fish fried fresh at a cost of about $ 5. (happiness is getting great food at a bargain). The sandwich, which was topped with lemon juice, hot sauce, and tartar sauce, was the most delicious fish fried fish sandwich that I’d had in years. It was like heaven exploded in my mouth (he he he 8 words to make a mans day…).
Since that very special first time, I’ve returned with unabashed loyalty and careless abandon. I still don’t have any answers to my previous questions on how the fish stays fresh or why it taste so good, but somethings are just meant to be a mystery.
Tip: The flounder is even better than the whiting (that blew my mind… sort of like being formally introduced to multiple orgasms… who the hell knew?)

Yes, I admit it. I like cheap food from a street cart. I have been here at least 5 different times (the first time was when I worked on 52^nd street and trekked here on a rainy day after I read about this on midtown lunch). The reason I went here? For fried fish (it’s hard to find fried fish in midtown). I like the flounder on pita the most. This cart is supposedly korean, but the only thing korean there is the bulkogi. I have tried it and it’s not bad, but I don’t like my bulgoi charred. I don’t recommend the lo mein either (charred, greasy)…chicken is also a bit on the salty side (maybe it was an aberration). But go here for the fried fish. it is yum…

This place is right outside my work and the time I had it I was highly underwhelmed. Everything was a bit bland and Korilla and that other korean truck that is on 46^th sometimes are in a different league. I hate to say it, but I really don’t recommend this food.

Well… Since I have seen a long line several times in front of this cart, I expected something a bit better. The sour fried rice (it’s cooked to be sour, right? not that it’s sour for different reason???) was unfortunately far from good, the beef was not bad though.
This is supposed to be a Korean food vendor but I have never seen any Korean people working here. The staffs are nice and friendly though.
The positive side is, unlike regular street food vendors, they have several fish options besides shrimp. I might come back for fish. Maybe, maybe…

$ 3.50 fish (whiting) sandwich did not disappoint. The bread was perfectly toasted, fish fried on the spot and doesn’t leave you smelling like the sea!
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