{"id":235570,"date":"2026-05-18T17:47:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T17:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/235570\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T17:47:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T17:47:08","slug":"new-york-city-brand-cuci-burger-coming-to-colonie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/235570\/","title":{"rendered":"New York City brand Cuci Burger coming to Colonie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>COLONIE\u00a0\u2014 Cuci Burger, a metro New York brand that serves burgers and sandwiches with chicken, duck and fish with an Asian twist, is being developed on Central Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>Construction is underway at 1306 Central Ave. in a building that previously was home to Garage Sale Store. A worker at the location confirmed it would become a Cuci Burger (an online video says the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reels\/DLk4TXXv7cg\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">name is pronounced tsoo-see<\/a>), as do\u00a0Colonie town building and zoning permits posted on the door. The permits list the owner as Jianhui Weng; a person who identified himself as Steven Weng answered a phone number provided by the construction worker and said he owned the business but provided no other information. A real estate listing shows the property was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coldwellbankerprime.com\/p\/1306-Central-Avenue-Colonie-NY-12205\/dmgsid_65932538\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sold in January for $553,000<\/a>, after about eight months on the market.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCuci\u201d appears to be a Malay\/Indonesian word originating with the Tamil word \u201ccuci,\u201d meaning \u201cclean\u201d or \u201cpure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.grubhub.com\/restaurant\/cuci-burger-chinatown-14-elizabeth-street-new-york\/13002536\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">A Grubhub menu<\/a> for the Manhattan Cuci Burger offers grilled and fried chicken sandwiches, others with fried fish or slices of Peking duck, as well as fried chicken pieces, chicken wings, whole roasted or fried chicken and\u00a0\u2014 curiously, given the name\u00a0\u2014 only one burger. Sandwiches cost $8.39 to $13.19, wings $16.79 for 10.<\/p>\n<p>It was not immediately clear if the menu and prices would be the same in Colonie or when the local Cuci Burger will open. As of last week, the building\u2019s interior was still being gutted.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COLONIE\u00a0\u2014 Cuci Burger, a metro New York brand that serves burgers and sandwiches with chicken, duck and fish&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235571,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[30394,1070,844,610,21903,9,24,55,54,56,821,31842],"class_list":["post-235570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-alco","tag-food","tag-latestnews","tag-local","tag-new-restaurants","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-restaurants","tag-table-hopping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}