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| - Came here for the first time on a recent Friday, to pick up some lunch for myself and my friend while she was at work.
Magic Noodle is located in the same plaza as Infused Tea Lounge, Makai, etc, just south of Tropicana on Fort Apache. I had arrived less than 30 minutes after they opened but almost the entire restaurant was full already. Every table was occupied, if not mildly over occupied. The layout of the restaurant is fairly similar to that of Shang's Artisan or Noodle man, with an open kitchen blocked off by a large glass wall showing the noodle being pulled.
I had ordered a dan dan noodle for myself, shredded chicken noodle w/ garlic sauce for her, and a beef brisket noodle for another friend at the office. It took maybe 15-20 minutes to get my order but it was still fairly quick, considering how busy the restaurant was.
The food smelled really good in the car as I was being mildly tortured while driving over to the office my friend is at.
They separate all the sauces and soups since it was ordered as take out. For some reason, the dan dan noodle sauce got all over the place, leaving like less than an inch of sauce left in that huge take out bowl. Fortunately, that was still enough to cover all the noodles, if anything, it was still a bit salty. Sauce had a good amount of numbing spice/oil to it which was pretty decent
The noodles, even after sitting in a take out box for give or take 30 minutes, were still quite al dente and had a good amount of bite to it, which was great. I noticed their strands of noodles are not too uniform throughout. Thickness varied quite a lot in the same order.
Great to have a hand pulled noodle place so close to home. Beats driving to Noodle Man or Shang's Artisan when feeling a bit lazy. Parking is much easier here than Shang's !
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