Standing on a chair on his tiptoes, 4-year-old Bosco Yiu craned his neck to peer at the array of garnishes, from which he could choose to make his own mini pizza at Kit n' Kitchen.

"I only eat the pizzas here," said the shy pre-kindergarten Maryknoll student, scrunching his nose in disapproval of the corn and julienne strips of green pepper. "And I only like pineapples and pepperoni on my pizza."

Bosco's parents and Kit n' Kitchen owners, Kit and May Yiu, can attest to this, especially since they're the ones making the pizza.

"He loves it," said dad Kit. "He has tried the pasta, the gratin dishes, but he always asks for pizza. He's the reason we're now treating kids 6 years and younger to a free mini pizza whenever they come in with their parents."

For adults, Kit and May have come up with new fall specials, including a meatball appetizer ($4.95), which is whimsically presented in a cup filled with a tangy burgundy-tomato sauce.

Another new offering features slices of grilled USDA beef drizzled with an Argentina-inspired chimichurri sauce ($10.95).

"This (chimichurri) is common all over the world," Kit said. "But everyone's recipe is different."

Kit's chimichurri gets its kick from specks of red crushed pepper and generous dashes of cayenne that are folded into a mixture of finely chopped parsley, olive oil, onions and garlic.

Tamer in flavor is the pesto chicken ($(10.95), served with a mound of spaghetti tossed in a creamy spinach white sauce.

"Anything new we put on our menu is first tested on our regular guests," Kit said. "Both the beef chimichurri and pesto chicken were huge hits among everyone who tried them."

Playing with color and flavors, the Yius embellish a pan-fried crispy salmon steak by topping it with a colorful salsa and cool tomato sauce ($11.95).

On the house-special menu, the adjective "zealous" is used to describe the seafood pot ($12.95), which gets its "zeal" from a peppery broth that drowns a bounty of shrimp, mussels and squid.

A carry-over from the summer menu, the half-roasted lemon chicken ($11.95) continues to garner praises among regulars and first-time visitors.

"We have to keep offering specials because we have so many regular guests now," Kit said. "And we don't want them to get bored."

That's doubtful, even without the quarterly specials. Kit n' Kitchen's menu spans a wide range of dishes, from pasta carbonara ($8.95) to baked spaghetti mixed with bits of seafood ($10.95) to create-your-own spaghetti.

But one of the best sellers is the made-to-order pizza.

"Customers come here on a regular basis and refuse to order anything else except our pizza," Kit said.