Bok Choy has the twin advantages of being cheap and close to work. I rounded up a few coworkers to check out the $5 opening special.
Right now, $5 will buy you a noodle box of noodles and a miso soup. Just like any sandwich bar, you choose all the parts — noodles, veggies, meat or tofu and sauce — see them assembled, and then cooked before your eyes. The portions are generous to the point of being ridiculous, the veggies are fresh and tasty and the sauces are flavourful. The miso soup is decidedly average, but whatever, it’s free.
Bok Choy is a hole-in-the-wall, and only seats a handful of people, so take your noodle box across the street to the park. There doesn’t seem to be any option to dine in on real plates, which makes a visit a bit dodgy, environmentally speaking, but those little noodle boxes with the handles are super-cute.
Word’s already got around about Bok Choy – on the two occasion’s I’ve visited, there’s been a line out the door. The management seems to be aware this is an issue – on my second visit, the number of staff had doubled, cutting the wait time.
The final word comes from a coworker: “This is really good – and for $5, this is amazing.”