It's not five stars like New York Times five stars, it's five stars because it delivers consistent food at super cheap prices. There is actually another Ka Chi in Chinatown. The default dish to order is the pork bone soup (Kam Ja Tang), and you can have it non-spicy right up to super spicy; it costs $6 or $7, and you get a bowl of rice, a big bowl of soup with potatoes, kimchi, bean sprouts and of course pork bones with some meat attached. It tastes like it sounds like. In winter time I will call ahead for pick up a couple of times a month. The other menu items are decent but what's the point?
There is another place called Thumbs-Up across the street; it used to be our favourite for Kam Ja Tang but they seem to have fewer ingredients in the soup nowadays (like no bean sprouts or something) and the meat is sometimes tough and the soup thinner, like maybe it wasn't simmered long enough. But we will give Thumbs-Up another chance, as they have served us well for many a year...