Has one of Chinatown’s best restaurants expanded, or did former employees quietly open a copycat business?
Outside New Spicy Village, which opened last week and bears an uncanny resemblance to Spicy Village on Forsyth. Photo: Christian Rodriguez Since opening in 2011, the narrow, brightly lit restaurant Spicy Village on Forsyth Street has become a destination within Manhattan’s Chinatown. The restaurant’s spicy big-tray chicken — a platter of bone-in bird loaded with Sichuan peppercorns — is a draw, as are the hand-pulled noodles, which Eater New York declared in 2017 to be the city’s best.
When I dropped by New Spicy Village on its first day, the space was empty, save for some employees. In the foyer, there was a small altar and three pieces of fruit for good luck. “The rent is almost over at the other location,” a worker told me, sharing that she’d worked at the original location a couple years ago. After I commented on the larger size of the new space, she responded, “It’s always so busy over there. This is better.
Curious if there was a misunderstanding, I asked a Chinatown local to pop into New Spicy Village. An employee told him the same story I’d heard: Same restaurant, same chef, and same menu, only bigger and better, and, oh yeah, the original is closing. It wasn’t a misunderstanding then. When I called New Spicy Village over the weekend, the manager repeated that the restaurants were owned by the same people. When I told her that the people running Spicy Village said otherwise, her tone changed.
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