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Mr. Fuk's Rice Box is a Korean restaurant featured in Grand Theft Auto IV and Episodes from Liberty City. It is located in the Koreatown enclave of Alderney City, Alderney, on Boyden Avenue.
Description[]
The restaurant serves as a front for the Korean Mob, featuring an elaborate interior with a two-floor, oriental-themed dining area that includes a central atrium. Upon entering, there is a reception area with seating and a bar. The manager's office, which includes an accessible computer, and the kitchen can be reached from the second floor.
Niko Bellic[vague] has the option to take friends or girlfriends out to this restaurant. The restaurant is a preferred outing for Roman Bellic, Brucie Kibbutz, and Dwayne Forge.
In The Ballad of Gay Tony, the restaurant's back lot is the designated drop-off point for all Drug Wars side missions set in Alderney.
Events of Grand Theft Auto IV[]
Mr. Fuk's Rice Box and its interior play a role in the mission Dining Out, where Niko is ordered by Gambetti Don Jon Gravelli to kill Kim Young-Guk, a North Korean gangster, at the restaurant. After Niko enters the building and requests to see Young-Guk, a firefight erupts, prompting him to chase Young-Guk through the upstairs kitchen and out the back, ultimately leading to his death as he tries to get away.
Prominent Appearances in Gameplay[]
Grand Theft Auto IV[]
The Ballad of Gay Tony[]
Collectibles[]
Grand Theft Auto IV[]
Flying Rats[]
One Flying Rat on a parapet facing Boyden Avenue.
Gallery[]
Grand Theft Auto IV[]
Trivia[]
- Mr. Fuk's Rice Box may have been originally intended to be a Chinese restaurant. This is suggested by the signs inside that read "Authentic Szechuan and Peking cuisine". However, due to its location and being used as a front for the Korean Mob, it likely shifted to a Korean restaurant during development, with its interior remaining unchanged.
- The word "Fuk" also does not exist in Korean phonetics. It does, however, exist as a Chinese character (福) meaning "fortune", further suggesting that it was intended to be a Chinese restaurant.
- The usage of "Fuk" in the name appears to be a reference to the curse word "fuck", pronounced "fook" by Jon Gravelli and the police scanner. This seemingly deliberate pun stands out when Jon Gravelli has a coughing fit and says "fuck" right after mentioning Mr. Fuk's Rice Box in the mission Dining Out.
- "Rice box" is a slang term for an East Asian woman's vagina.
- The restaurant shares similarities with the real-life Pyongyang restaurant chain, a North Korean international restaurant chain linked to alleged money laundering schemes by the North Korean government. The in-game restaurant is used as a front for the Korean Mob, which has origins in North Korea.
- Jim, Terry and Clay from The Lost and Damned absolutely despise this restaurant during friend activities, and they will often make negative comments about it such as "Heard its meals come with a free serving of dysentry" or "I think the secret ingredient must have been the chef's DNA".