Price Guide (average entree): $ bargain - $6 or less, $$ inexpensive - $6 - $12, $$$ moderate $12 - $19, $$$$ expensive - over $19.
Quality Rating: Superb is the highest, considered the very best possible. Notes are qualifiers allowing insight into the reviewer's rating. Disclaimer
| Restaurant: | Blue Koi | Location: | 39th St/Midtown |
| Cuisine: | Asian | Price: | $$$ moderate |
| Ambience: | ** very good | Notes: | small and intimate |
| Food: | *** excellent | Notes: | everything on the menu is good |
| Service: | ** very good | Notes: | helpful and friendly servers |
| Favorites: | noodles with duck |
| Comments: | This is a great place in KC! Open everyday except Sunday. Lots of great items to choose from. Definitely try the various soup items and you can add the meat of your choice as a topper. The duck is excellent
and is second to none in KC. |
| Reviewer: | Jack |
Date: | 6/4/03 |
| Restaurant: | Blue Koi | Location: | 39th st/Midtown |
| Cuisine: | Asian | Price: | $$ inexpensive |
| Ambience: | **** superb | Notes: | Beautiful in a way that I can not describe |
| Food: | **** superb | Notes: | Fresh, real, stunningly delicious |
| Service: | **** superb | Notes: | Different, unique, down to earth people |
| Favorites: | Everything ... but I do love the dumplings |
| Comments: | I love this restuarant! It truly is a unique enviornment!!! They are doing a wonderful job!!! |
| Reviewer: | Tashina |
Date: | 7/12/03 |
| Restaurant: | Blue Koi | Location: | 39th and State Line |
| Cuisine: | Asian | Price: | $$ inexpensive |
| Ambience: | ** very good | Notes: | Mellow |
| Food: | **** superb | Notes: | Jackpot of herbs and spices! |
| Service: | * average | Notes: | |
| Favorites: | Chili pepper/cilantro veggie dumplings |
| Comments: | This place rates up there with the best Chinese food you find in San Francisco's Chinatown. I can't put into words how flavorful everything was. KC is lucky to have this joint!! |
| Reviewer: | MV
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Date: | 8/7/03 |
| Restaurant: | Blue Koi | Location: | 39th street |
| Cuisine: | Asian | Price: | $$ inexpensive |
| Ambience: | *** excellent | Notes: | It's nice and cozy and local. |
| Food: | **** superb | Notes: | About the best food i've had in KC. |
| Service: | *** excellent | Notes: | Not pushy, but there when you need them. |
| Favorites: | ginger chicken with noodles and the dumplings are great. |
| Comments: | I think this place is great, and I recomend it at every chance I get. Truly great food, huge portions and decent prices. it's a treat. |
| Reviewer: | Katie |
Date: | 10/17/03 |
| Restaurant: | Blue Koi | Location: | Westport- Kansas City |
| Cuisine: | Asian | Price: | $$ inexpensive |
| Ambience: | **** superb | Notes: | Colorful and cheerful, yet cozy and intimate |
| Food: | **** superb | Notes: | Never had a bad meal there. I regularly crave the food here! |
| Service: | *** excellent | Notes: | Knowledgable, Attentive but not overly annoying |
| Favorites: | Dumplings, Ants on a Tree, Bubble Tea |
| Comments: | I had never seen bubble tea in my life until I went here. It a great dessert if you just want something sweet and light.
The guy who owns the place is so nice. On xmas eve last year I went there with a 102 degree fever to buy my boyfriend some of his fav. jasmine tea. The owner could tell I was sick and just took such good care of me, and even gave me a discount! I am so happy for him that is restaurant is so successful. |
| Reviewer: | Erin |
Date: | 11/21/03 |
| Restaurant: | Blue Koi | Location: | 39th |
| Cuisine: | Asian | Price: | $$ inexpensive |
| Ambience: | **** superb | Notes: | cozy, and funky |
| Food: | *** excellent | Notes: | different, and fun |
| Service: | **** superb | Notes: | very nice |
| Favorites: | ginger chicken |
| Comments: | awesome! |
| Reviewer: | julia |
Date: | 1/7/04 |
| Restaurant: | Blue Koi | Location: | 39th Street |
| Cuisine: | | Price: | $$$ moderate |
| Ambience: | tacky | Notes: | corny music |
| Food: | substandard | Notes: | noodles were overcooked |
| Service: | * average | Notes: | |
| Favorites: | |
| Comments: | I have no idea why anyone would eat here!! I've tried twice and both times it was disgusting. We found a fingernail in our soup last time we wwent and reported it to the health department. BEWARE |
| Reviewer: | Charles |
Date: | 2/8/04 |
| Restaurant: | Blue Koi | Location: | 39th Street |
| Cuisine: | Chinese | Price: | $$ inexpensive |
| Ambience: | *** excellent | Notes: | _ |
| Food: | **** superb | Notes: | _ |
| Service: | *** excellent | Notes: | _ |
| Favorites: | Dumplings, Tofu with Awesome Sauce |
| Comments: | I have eaten here dozens of times and it has been superb each and every time. Great service, great price, great food! Enjoy! |
| Reviewer: | Kirsten |
Date: | 3/31/04 |
| Restaurant: | Blue Koi | Location: | midtown |
| Cuisine: | Asian | Price: | $$$ moderate |
| Ambience: | ** very good | Notes: | _ |
| Food: | ** very good | Notes: | I love the ants noodle dish and it can be made vegetarian |
| Service: | ** very good | Notes: | _ |
| Favorites: | dumplings, tofu with awesome sauce |
| Comments: | The Blue Koi is one of the best Chinese restaurants that I have been to in the United States- especially the midwest. Most of the time Chinese restaurants serve gross Americana food like egg foo young or sweet and sour chicken. |
| Reviewer: | Margie |
Date: | 6/24/04 |
| Restaurant: | Blue Koi | Location: | Midtown |
| Cuisine: | Chinese | Price: | $$ inexpensive |
| Ambience: | *** excellent | Notes: | _ |
| Food: | **** superb | Notes: | _ |
| Service: | **** superb | Notes: | _ |
| Favorites: | Chicken or tofu with black bean sauce |
| Comments: | My wife and I eat here every week! |
| Reviewer: | Joe |
Date: | 8/25/04 |
| Restaurant: | Blue Koi | Location: | 1083 W. 39th St. KCMO |
| Cuisine: | Asian | Price: | $$ inexpensive |
| Ambience: | * average | Notes: | The decor is modern and casual. |
| Food: | * average | Notes: | See comments below |
| Service: | poor | Notes: | See comments below |
| Favorites: | Eggplant Pockets, Bubble Tea |
| Comments: | Vegans, beware! I went here with friends having read that Blue Koi has vegan options. We told our waiter that we ate no meat, fish, eggs, etc. and ordered the vegetarian dumplings as an appetizer. Our appetizer arrived with our entree (Vegan Delights), which came in a chipped bowl. After a bite of the dumplings, the waiter was asked: "Are you sure these are vegetarian?" He affirmed that they were, but a minute later came back and said, "Actually, they might be chicken." They turned out to be pork! When told about the sharp edge on the chipped soup bowl and that we had falsely been reassured more than once about the dumplings, the owner acted ambivalent. We'll never eat at Blue Koi again and I warn any vegan to TRIPLE-check anything the waitstaff says. |
| Reviewer: | Lisa |
Date: | 12/18/04 |
| Restaurant: | Blue Koi | Location: | 1803 W. 39th Street |
| Cuisine: | Chinese | Price: | $$ inexpensive |
| Ambience: | **** superb | Notes: | Cool! |
| Food: | **** superb | Notes: | Best wonton noodle soup I ever had |
| Service: | *** excellent | Notes: | On top of everything |
| Favorites: | Wonton noodle soup, Wild Berry bubbletea |
| Comments: | I travel to Asia often. Blue Koi is the real deal! |
| Reviewer: | S.T. |
Date: | 3/20/05 |
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