This is the new incarnation of Kong Kee Food, which until recently sat for many years on the northeast corner of Grand and Bowery.
The proprietors still sell fresh rice noodles, tofu, and soy milk, as well as a couple of the more prosaic rice cakes offered in greater variety nearby. From the small steam-table selection, fat rice noodles ($1.25) floundered in a thin rice slurry, which was also flavored by tidbits of dark-meat chicken and a few slices of (my best guess) well-cooked bitter melon.
The herbal jelly shown at bottom ($1.50) was commercially packaged but labeled with the Kong Kee name and a Long Island City address. Its principal listed ingredients were honeysuckle, tuckahoe, and figwort; only the accompanying thin packet of simple syrup rendered the bitter jelly marginally palatable. 212 Grand Food
212 Grand St. (Mott-Elizabeth Sts.), Manhattan
212-966-1350
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