New Korean delivery/pickup, https://www.instagram.com/ricethief.nyc/. Crab was very good, congee good enough (but not worth a re-order), and scallops just meh, and overpriced.
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Do they deliver only in Queens?
Though crab is one of my favorite foods, I have yet to try the raw / marinated kind.
Definitely Manhattan as well, 'cause they were here last night. $10 fee, pretty reasonable.
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Rice Thief is all grown up into a brick & mortar restaurant. I went there with four others to try the expanded menu. This is the Gunsan Platter, two “deluxe” crabs, red shrimp, white shrimp and abalone. The red shrimp, crab and abalone were all excellent. The white shrimp was a bit bland.
Spicy crab and Hokkaido scallops. The scallops were worlds better than the delivery version. And I bet I would’ve like the spicy crab more had it not been blown away by the Gunsan crab.
Abalone congee, also a lot better than I remember. Maybe it just doesn’t travel well.
We (well, they) also had a beef stew, and a couple of “rice thief bowls,” which were rice topped with seaweed, roe and some other stuff. There’s some soju on the drinks menu, which I steered clear of because it all sounded very sweet. I opted instead for an Asahi Super Dry, which was excellent, but probably only because I was dying of thirst on this hot day. One of my companions got a big bottle of fizzy rice wine for everyone to share; I liked this better than I expected. I think it’s a mass market cousin to the cloudy unfiltered sake served at Hangawi. And for dessert, two sweet cold rice soups (sikhye), one traditional and one pumpkin. These were pleasant but not terribly compelling, plus we were all stuffed by this point.
The place is extremely popular and remained packed the whole time we were there. Service is a little scattered, but fast and friendly. We were sat directly across from the pass, and I’m pretty sure one of the cooks was taking pictures of me with her cell phone. Maybe she isn’t used to seeing a middle-aged white lady demolish a crab the way I can, like a sea otter.
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