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One of my (and my mom’s) favorite beef noodle soup places ever! It’s definitely a hole in the wall, so usually on weekdays there is no wait. Occasionally, on weekends during lunch there will be a wait – a lot of families love the lamb hot pots (?), and it’s very family friendly. The place is not big, there are probably only 10 tables total, with 4 seats at each table. The spicy beef noodle soup is so good – it reminds me a lot of beef noodle soups found in Taiwan, and they give 3-4 pieces of meat in each bowl. They also offer the sour mustard greens é?¸è? and hot sauce on the side. Personally, I don’t add anymore hot sauce – it’s spicy enough for me. And recently, they just added “thick” noodles that look like handmade noodles. I love thicker noodles, the texture is much chewier than the original thin noodle. Occasionally, I get the plate of pork ears, since I like to dip them in hot sauce. Price of a bowl of beef noodle soup is $10.25 right now, which is similar to other beef noodle places around Fremont. I come here probably once a week or so, sometimes more. I just got it yesterday for take-out, and I know for a fact I’ll be getting lunch here again in 2 days. The service isn’t amazing, but it’s very efficient. I don’t expect great service at small, family run places like these though. There is no decor, but prices are decent, food is pretty great, and service is efficient. I highly recommend giving the beef noodle soup a try.

Noodle House – Menu with Prices – 4800 Baseline Rd A-110, Boulder

One of the more authentic places for Asian food in Boulder–this is exactly what I’ve been looking for in this town. And the boss lady is an absolute gem! The restaurant is extremely clean, spacious, and nicely decorated. The name of the restaurant is Noodle House, but they also serve hot pot–seems like it’s the only place in Boulder that does. They have lunch specials daily for both noodle dishes and hot pot combos too. My boyfriend and I got the beef noodle soup with the house noodles. The house noodles are delicious–you can taste the homemade freshness through the texture and consistency of the noodles. The beef noodle soup is flavored nicely and in a very authentic way. The mild spicy has the perfect amount of kick to it. The beef is also cooked to a tender perfection. Super flavorful and well seasoned. The only thing I didn’t love about the beef noodle soup is the fact that it includes broccoli instead of something more traditional like bok choy, but honestly this is all around a decent bowl of beef noodle soup. Not Taiwanese style, but good. The owner is the sweetest woman and honestly feels like a mother figure with how kind she was. Can’t wait to come back and try the hot pot when it gets a bit cooler. Noodle House, you’ve won my heart.

Nuro Noodles ???å??å?³?ç??è??? – Menu with Prices – 160-06 Northern Blvd, Flushing

I decided to give this place a try because it was a new spot with solid reviews and I love Taiwanese beef noodles. It was a rainy night but I still walked over. I had my mind set on trying both, so I ordered both the spicy beef noodle soup and tomato beef noodle soup. The lady was super friendly and nice as others have mentioned. One part of the experience is the service and although I took it to go, I felt very welcomed. A+ for that. I hurried back home and it was the moment of truth. I have tried many beef noodle soups before so I wanted to see how it compared. The first thing I noticed was how deep and rich the soup looked. The color was beautiful. The beef was nice, big chunks and the noodles looked al dente. I tried the soup of the tomato beef noodle and it was exactly as it looked: rich and full of flavor. Combined with the noodles, beef and pieces of bok choy, it was a winning combination. I was very impressed. The soup was on point, the beef was nice and tender and the noodles were cooked perfectly. It met and maybe even exceeded expectations. Next, I tried the soup of the spicy beef noodle soup. Again, I was very satisfied. They are both excellent! My experience was great- not only was the owner super nice but the flavor was all on point. As you can see, this is my first review. I’ve tried a lot of places but never felt the need to write a review, but I felt like I had to write this review. Service was great, food was awesome! I’m a little sad that they only have a tiny shop inside a supermarket. I hope they will be able to have their own restaurant some day! Btw, sorry for the quality of the pictures. I also had to eat some before I took it.

Paik’s Noodles – Menu with Prices – 28124 Newhall Ranch Rd, Santa Clarita

This is a review for lunch to-go order on a cold weekday! What I ordered: Beef Jjamppongbap (no spice) Food: The broth was flavorful and PERFECT for a cold and rainy weather. I ended up slurping the soup after I finished eating the noodles and toppings! As what others noted, it has a peppery taste which might not be for everyone. But works for me!! The actual bowl was full of vegetables, beef, and a couple of shrimps. You would get a good amount for each mouthful of noodle and soup! Price: $ CHEAP for the quality and quantity! Parking: It always has ample parking. This is located inside the plaza. Service: For the TO-GO experience only! I like the fact that they didn’t forget the necessities that comes with the order such as utensils and napkins. Plus points for me! Just like ordering a bowl of noodle soup, the broth and noodles/toppings are separated. The noodles I got wasn’t sticking and the veggies seem fresh and not too wilted. However, I would suggest for a bigger bowl for the broth. I had to slurp the soup before putting in the noodles because the bowl was a little shallow to put everything in. It’d be a mess if I just drop all the contents in!! Not to mention it was also hard to mix it in since the to-go bowl is small. WILL COME BACK!!! I will probably order Jajangmyeon during summer time and get the beef soup for winter/cold days. So many items on the menu I’d love to explore!

Nak Won Jung Korean Restaurant – Menu with Prices – 1010 S 10th St a, McAllen

My gf and I visit this place for the first time, well at least for me. As soon as you walk in it transports you to another country. Loved the way it looks inside. I tried the black bean noodle soup on recommendation from my gf and i was so in shock when it was brought to me. The noodles are authentic and as soon as I got a bite from my noodles I fell in love with it. My gf had the spicy noodle soup and I tried that as well. And I got to say IT WAS SPICY everything was so delicious. Will definitely be coming back for more!

Flower Brook Mifen House – Menu with Prices – 44-35 Kissena Blvd, Flushing

Came here after a doctor’s visit on a rainy day. No umbrella, but it’s walkable from Charles b Wang community center. Place looks Asian but also hipster. Cashier speaks English very well. I wasn’t sure what type of noodle they had so I went with my gut and ordered my favorite lamb topping on noodle soup. The guy charged me $9. That’s a little expensive for a bowl of noodles. Also I got the Wang lo Kat drink which was $2. I said to stay and I got my food from the counter and there were sone unknown pink stuff in it. I thought it was ginger because it looked like ginger from japanese sushi restaurants but it was sour and had texture like a cabbage. I stopped eating that and focused on the noodle and the noodles were like hand-pulled noodles except a bit more uniformed but same amount of positive mouth feels, chewy and smooth at the same time like what the other reviews say. The soup was amazing which I didn’t expect because I asked for less spicy and usually I prefer spicy noodle soup but it didn’t need the spicy to make it taste good. The sour vegetables complimented the rich beef broth really well. They give lots of cilantro to contrast the flavors. I usually don’t like half a boiled egg in my noodle soup but this was a tea leaf egg, which made it okay. I will visit here again when I go see the doctor again! Or maybe even just to show my friends. It was pretty dead when I went so I was skeptical of their food being good. But to be fair I went at 3ish pm

BZ Bees Noodles – Menu with Prices – 2636 Dupont Dr Ste 40, Irvine

This place has been sitting in my bookmarks for a while now and I finally got the chance to try it out! I love beef noodle soup so obviously I was very excited. They apparently open at 10am which doesn’t seem like a great business model because who goes out for beef noodles at 10am?? Well, apparently I do, because I strolled in right around 10:45-10:50 and asked for a table for one. I was the only person there aside from the workers but I’m not holding that against them. The menu is not very large- they only really have a selection of different noodle soups, a few Taiwanese/Chinese breakfast items, and a handful of drinks to order from. However I knew what I was coming for so it wouldn’t have taken me long to decide even if the menu was larger. I ordered the braised beef noodle soup (?ç?§ç??è???). I was tempted to order the beef and tomato soup but decided I’d better stick with the classic. After only a small bit of waiting, my noodles arrived and I went to town. The broth was spicy and nicely flavored and the meat was cooked well. The bok choy was a nice palate cleanser to all of the other heavy ingredients in the soup. The noodles were not bad, though they were a little too soft for my liking. I prefer noodles with a little more chew to them but overall the dish was still good. It was served with a few garnishes on the side: there was some salted peanuts, chopped scallions, and what I initially thought was pickled mustard greens but actually turned out to be some sort of roasted green pepper. I’ll have to come back sometime to try their other soups and maybe their drinks. Parking was easy but I came early on a weekday so YMMV. Also the restaurant doesn’t have an official sign yet but just look for the BZ Bee in the window and you’ll find it.

698 cafe ??? – Menu with Prices – 39-07 Prince St #1H, Flushing

This location has been the kiss of death for so many restaurants before it and I’m sorry to say that if things don’t improve from the kitchen, 698 Cafe will be another victim of the KOD on Prince Street. No fewer than 3 restaurants have been evicted in the past 3-4 years here. Every time, a new hopeful group pops in and sets up shop, hoping to beat the odds. The decor here is really clean and nice. The staff here is polite and very attentive. The food however is pretty subpar and the kitchen has major issues. We ordered 2 noodles, spicy beef appetizer and some “marinated” cucumbers. The food here is well, just not very good and the kitchen needs to sort things out because it was awful in getting not just our food out but that for every single diner. The cucumbers were weird – cut like a small curl like they shave it with a knife but they’re definitely not marinated. They poured the sauce (soy, vinegar, sugar and chili) over the cucumbers so there was no absorption of the flavor (which was actually pretty good). One noodle dish came out immediately. We then waited another 15 minutes for our other cold dish (spicy beef) and an additional 5 minutes (20 minutes later) for the last noodle dish (beef noodle soup). The spicy beef was actually really good – pungent and spicy but waiting 15 minutes during the busy lunch hour in a full restaurant for something that’s already prepared wasn’t good. Also, the beef noodle soup was pretty awful. It’s not Taiwanese or Lanzhou beef noodles – they use the old HK noodle shop way of basically using wonton noodles, wonton noodle soup and then bits of stewed beef added later (the beef was paltry and dry). The soup was bland. The noodles looked like they used the ones in from the Chinese supermarket – definitely not made in house. What killed this meal was the waiting. They leave the orders on a slip of paper taped onto the table so the servers can check and make sure things come. While they checked often and apologized profusely, the kitchen never could get anything to come out on time. This wasn’t unique to us, the entire restaurant was repeatedly asking where their dishes were. Noodle soups came out in droves of similar orders which made me think the kitchen made multiple orders at once and not when they were ordered. Some people waited even longer for the same dish that we had ordered on account that they brought them all out at the same time (and they clearly sat before us). This place kind of sucks considering how fierce the competition is in Flushing for similar restaurants. Not recommended when there are so many quality options literally feet away.

Golden Corner Noodles – Menu with Prices – 4215 College Point Blvd, Flushing

This is one of those hole in the walls secret noodle shops. There is a no decor, no ambiance, uncomfortable place to eat in. The garbage can is too close to the diner and diners are constantly bumping into each other. All that said, the noodle soup is so good! The beef noodle soup has chunks of savory beef that has enough chew in it to let you know you’re eating beef. The broth is a rich deep beefy broth. Then they put in the add ones like the pickled veggies, sprouts, and cilantro. On the tables, they have their home made hot oil. BE CAREFUL WITH THEIR HOT OIL…!!! I’m normally not affected by the hot oil at these restaurants because it’s not that spicy. This one was. I put in 2 big spoonfuls (because I’m a spice head) and kept getting caught by surprise as I was eating the noodles and drinking in the soup…so much so that I keep coughing because the spice got to me. lol The tea eggs as an appetizer was great. Some places make the tea eggs very weak and soy saucy…these were actually TEA tasting eggs. I couldn’t give it 5 stars because of the uncomfortable seating arrangement, but the food is definitely 5 stars. Oh…good news! They’ve now started taking credit cards for orders more than $20!

Jin Ding Xuan – Menu with Prices – 57-33 Main St, Flushing

So Shanghai Cuisine 33 was one of my go to restaurants, not sure what went wrong since I know a lot of other people liked that restaurant too. Now there’s a new restaurant, with new wait staff, menu, and chef. The interior is the exact same as the previous restaurant, all the way down to the creased booths. Food wise you’ll find some classic selections (ie XLB). Upon entering we were given pickled daikon and roasted peanuts. Mock duck: the tofu skin is much lighter in color, and has less mushrooms than you would get from the previous restaurant. Overall taste is fine, though not sure if $9 was really justified XLB/Soup dumplings: overall decent, broth was flavorful and the dumpling skin was ok. Totaling 6 pieces per basket Spicy beef noodle soup: zero nonexistent spiciness (and I’m not really a spicy sort of person), noodles are udon noodles, and broth is ok. But I know a few other places that I would rather opt for if I was craving this dish. Comes with diced up suan cai and bokchoy. Beef cubes were tender enough. Pan fried noodles with seafood: originally asked for beef…somehow it got mixed up. Anyways there’s a bunch of seafood (ie fishballs, squid strips, etc) with a mix of veggies (water chestnut, baby corn, etc). Was not a fan since there were some hard chunks of gelatin within the sauce. Service: My family and I arrived a bit over 1 hr before 10pm but this place was empty with no other customers. Service still somehow was lacking since the waitress didn’t input our order for pan fried noodles with beef, and the waiter inputed the wrong order and we ended up with noodles with seafood…we just gave up in the end and just wanted to finish dinner and leave. It was a bit weird having a wait staff constantly walk by and watching the table. Also 30 minutes before closing they stop making tea, so when we asked for a pot refill we made do with plain hot water. But overall no apologies, no compensation, no appearance from the manager, which I felt is vital especially when a place is new. I sensed that the staff wanted to avoid everything. Not sure if I’ll return, the family was not exactly impressed with the first experience. Maybe with some time this place and the staff will get better. Reality rating is 2.5 but rounded up. Potentially a good place for the afternoon since they offer lunch specials. Just don’t expect the same food or experience from the previous restaurant, totally different dynamic.

Yaso Noodle Bar – Menu with Prices – 289 Mercer St, New York

This place is newly opened and yet there was a big crowd inside at lunch time already, which is always a good sign. The menu consists of various types of noodles with meat or vegetarian options. I ordered the stir fry noodle with ribs and spicy dumplings for appetizer (they currently have a special $2 for 3 dumplings deal). The dumplings were great, reminiscent of a soup dumpling in both appearance and taste, although it wasn’t advertised as such. It is filled with juicy beef and the bottom is pan fried for a touch of crispness. It is not super spicy so even people who can’t handle spices can tolerate. While the dumplings were great, the noodles on the other hand can be improved upon. When I first got my bowl, I was admittedly disappointed. Inside was 4 pieces of ribs, a portion of noodles and a few pieces of romaine lettuce. The ribs were well-seasoned and not too tough and were the highlight of the dish. However, the noodles were quite lackluster, tasting similar to what you would get from an instant noodle package (if you want a comparison, it’s quite similar to nissin chow mein teriyaki beef noodles). Needless to say, I wasn’t impressed with what I could have bought at a supermarket. The flavoring could use some garnish such as garlic, scallion, shallot, cilantro, crushed peanuts, etc for more complexity. Additionally, the vegetables didn’t seem to go well with the dish, since it was just raw romaine lettuce and some peas. Bok choi or Napa cabbage stir fry together with the noodles would have been better. Overall, I was happy with the dumplings, but not so happy with the noodles. Since this place is new, they might still improve their dishes over time, so I don’t hold this against the restaurant.

Thiên Ã?n Restaurant – Menu with Prices – 7304 101 Ave NW, Edmonton

Thien An is a new Vietnamese restaurant to open us in this neck of the woods. Not much is in this area except we did pass Pho & Bun a few blocks west on the way back home. There’s plenty of room to park and they even have a lot in the back. We came on a late Monday afternoon so there were only a few tables occupied. The inside is new and quite spacious. The menu is massive but the southern Vietnamese soup (hu tiu mi) and beef stew (bo kho) caught my eye. – Fresh salad roll with tofu (V2) ($6.00 for four) – these were nicely done. Slightly warmed, freshly made and with a good peanut dipping sauce. – Veggie noodle soup (V9) ($10.50) – O’s converted to partial vegetarianism so it was veggie soup for her. She liked the broth and it looked like a satisfactory amount of tofu, vegetables and noodles. – Hu tieu nam vang (H2) ($13.00) – smelled great. You choose either egg noodles or rice noodles. I asked about it and you actually can get a mix, so I tried both. You get a variety of meat (beef, shrimp, squid and ground pork) but a bit more meat and noodles would justify the higher price point. That being said, the broth was solid and had a sweetness to it similar to what you find in a wonton/egg noodle soup. What I found interesting was the shape of their bowls. The top part of the bowl forms into a square shape. Odd. Good first experience. I’d come back to try their bo koh and other pho options. 3.5 stars.

Five Spices House – Menu with Prices – 546 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge

Super solid authentic Chinese food in the heart of Central Square! Service was ok but could be improved and is the main reason I took off one star. The first time I went here I got take out of Sichuan braised beef noodle soup. It tasted delicious! Meat was tender, noodles had good texture, and there was plenty of bok choy as well. The food was ready within 15 minutes of when I ordered. I came here again for dinner with my boyfriend. There was no wait, although the restaurant stayed busy during our time there. Most of our food came out pretty fast, but the waiters were sometimes a little confused about who ordered what. One dish took a little longer, and just as we were about to ask about it, a waiter told us it’s not done but will be out soon. Overall I didn’t mind the inconsistent service too much as we didn’t have to wait too long and it was easy to say that we did or didn’t order a dish, but service could definitely be improved for customers to have more peace of mind. The delicious food really makes up for the service! Water spinach with garlic was very flavorful; the garlic somehow added a subtle sweetness that really made the vegetable enjoyable. I’m not usually a huge fan of water spinach but I devoured the water spinach here. Minced pork with black bean sauce over noodles passed my noodle test. Noodles have good texture and sauce is just right — not too sweet, not too salty, and good ratio of sauce to noodle. Sauce came with plenty of pork and bean curd. I also really enjoyed the Sichuan diced chicken with chili peppers. It’s actually not very spicy so if you like spicy you probably need to ask them to make it more spicy. One thing to note: rice doesn’t come with any dishes and costs $2 a bowl. Most Chinese restaurants my boyfriend and I have been to have complimentary rice so this was unexpected for us. I personally don’t mind since I’m not a huge fan of rice but my boyfriend likes rice and thought the price is a bit steep. Other than that, prices and portion sizes for the dishes were pretty reasonable. I plan to come back to try some other dishes next time I’m craving authentic Chinese food!