If you?re not careful you?ll miss it, and boy would that be a shame. Bep Ga NYC opened quietly in March of 2017, and since they?ve been selling four Vietnamese dishes out of an almost signless shop. On the menu there?s chicken noodle soup (ph? gà), chicken noodle salad (ph? gà kho), chicken and rice (H?i An c?m gà), and chicken salad (g?i gà), but don?t let those plain few words fool you. The food is anything but plain – the chicken (the highlight of each dish) tasting of some Platonic ideal of chicken and each bowl overflowing with herbs, chilies, ginger, crispy garlic, and sauces rich with fish sauce, more ginger, and lime. To top it all off, be sure to douse whatever you?re eating in muoi chanh ot – a lime/chili/salt/sugar sauce from Nha Trang that?s good enough to drink. Pick up a bottle by the register before you leave. Bep Ga is co-owned by André Saraiva of Cafe Henrie, Chef An Nguyen Xuan, and Heather Gee Szeto. If you?ve been to Cafe Henrie, you?ll recognize Saraiva?s aesthetic – clean, modern, and yes, pink. The recipes come from Chef Xuan whose parents are Vietnamese, and Gee Szeto runs the daily operations. All in all, Bep Ga is nearly perfect in its simplicity. The exterior is nondescript, the tables are few, the decor is spare, and the menu is short, but when reflecting on that chicken that tastes more like chicken than any chicken you?ve had before, it?s clear that simple, in this case, is best.
Bep Ga NYC

70 Forsyth Street

New York, N...