Osha Thai Cafe, 2922 Diamond Street (Glen Park); (415) 586-6742, oshathai.com, lunch and dinner daily; lunch $11-1311-13ner 13-177, extenoodlenoodle soup menu.
GRAND BO KY This long-awaited branch of Bo Ky on Bayard Street is about the same size and has the same Southeast Asian noodle soup menu, with décor that's a little less clinical: 214-216 Grand Street (Elizabeth Street), (212) 406-212212
His kitchen stocks 10 types of noodles; his menu offers 4 to 6 noodle dishes every day.
Fat or thin, flat or round, every noodle on the menu is delivered fresh several times a week, most from Chinatown in Manhattan, and can be mixed with a choice of pork, chicken, beef, shrimp or vegetables.
From the menu of noodles, the wide Malaysian rice noodles came with any combination of chicken, vegetables, beef, and shrimp.
Several noodle preparations dotted the menu.
In the rice noodle category of the menu, the version topped with grilled chicken was tender and succulent, its juices nicely moistening the grain.
(Given the quality of that soup, I'm sorry not to have had a chance to try one of the "big bowl noodle soups" on the menu — a choice of the usual proteins, plus rice or egg noodles, offered in Thai and Chinese styles).
Now they go for the cheap items on the menu, like noodles and fried rice".
Like the scallops, the rice noodles appear on the menu beside the restaurant's logo, a sign that it's a specialty of the house.
