Tenants of a Midtown building including a celebrity chef claim the new landlord is using the Chinese mafia to force them out of their homes, according to a new $8 million suit.

One resident of 23-25 W. 35th St., Obi Lee, said a goon even followed her to work, claimed to be part of “a very large company in Hong Kong” and then threatened to harm her neighbor, saying “they would send someone to cut off his arm,” according to the Manhattan civil suit.

Lee says the thugs also threatened her with “the worst type of harm which could be inflicted on a woman.”

Another tenant, Gina Watts, was allegedly told by a landlord’s rep named Jason that “the owners in China are very, very rich.”

The landlord has also been trying to evict a third tenant, Porter Brooks, of the TV show “Entertaining People,” over a rent dispute.

Vaduzco Realty, which had owned the two four-story buildings since the 1970s, sold the property to a first-time Chinese buyer using an LLC, who planned to turn it into a hotel, according to the Commercial Observer.

But the LLC’s attorney, who declined to name his clients, denied the claims.

“I’m astonished to hear this,” said lawyer David Brody. “It doesn’t have a ring of truth to it,” he said.