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| - The first thing I noticed was the incredible environment! Modern design with amazing Asian flair, what an incredible place. Also VERY roomy!
For a Saturday dinner time, only half the dining room was full. But then again, from my understanding this place is fairly new. It's right in the Silver Star plaza, about one or two doors away from Destiny.
The fiance and I were greeted with smiles, and quickly seated. We were then handed an iPad (always cool) to order off from. While ordering they were quick to place our lemon water down, in fancy glasses I may add. The menu is very simple and easy to navigate so I appreciate that.
There's quite a few food options, but from what I can recall, I don't remember a side dish menu, it's really not coming to me. Because I would've honestly ordered from it. You get the choice of fried noodles or soup noodles. I thought I would change it up and get the fried noodles. I had ordered the beef fried noodles and the fiance had gotten the szechuan spicy noodles. Also with bubble tea for the both of us. Mind you, it costs an extra dollar to upsize your bubble tea size.
The one thing I really liked about the iPad menu ordering was the customization of the food options you chose. For example the noodles, you can choose if you want it to be spicy or not. For the bubble tea, you can choose what kind of topping you want and also the sugar level etc. Kinda like Chatime!
You then look over your choices, and hit send and off your order goes into the kitchen! Very cool! It might be obvious though that I've never done iPad ordering at a restaurant before.
While waiting for the food, I found myself admiring the beautiful decor even more. There's always something exciting in every corner. The place is impeccably clean, and I love how you can watch the chef's through a window making your meals fresh. Even down to the bubble tea corner was spruced up and modernized!
The one thing that made me uneasy is the wait staff tend to kinda ... Stare. Not in a creepy way, but in the "I am ready to help you" way. I don't know if it's because iPad ordering may be new and difficult to navigate for some people or the fact the place wasn't as rammed and they were just looking for something to do. I guess great customer service, but it was a little bit irritating watching a wait staff watch you eat.
Food came out fairly quick, as I would assume with any noodle place. The flavouring of my beef fried noodle was spot on, and I would for sure order it again. I was a huge fan! I'm kinda kicking myself in the butt for forgetting to take a picture of it.The beef was tender and the noodles were fried to perfection. Super delicious! The beef to noodle ratio was good also, tons of beef for you to munch on! My only complaint about the dish is that it was literally rained on by way too much green onion, fried onion and green peppers. Those ingredients alone kinda drowned out the noodles and beef which should've been the star of the dish. But again, very tasty.
My fiance on the other hand wasn't a fan of his Szechuan chicken dish. I had tried a little, and the seasoning was delicious, but there was something about the chicken. It tasted too ... Chickeny? I don't know how to put it. It's almost as if it weren't marinated with the dish (which it shouldve been to absorb the flavours) and it was just thrown in there in the frying process. All in all, the chicken just couldn't absorb those super flavourful flavours. Which was a down vote for me. And just like my beef plate, his was drowned out also by the sheer volume of green peppers, fried onions and green onions. It's good to have in a dish, but it was a bit too much.
Another thing was how slow our bubble tea took to come out. I was already 3/4 done when it finally came out. Which kinda sucked, because I kept looking over to the bubble tea corner and there was just a lot of standing around over there. Maybe they get the iPad orders a little slower? Or some kind of delay? I don't know.
My overall experience of the place was good, not perfect but what restaurant is right? There was this one guy that stood out to me though, telling by the way he was dressed I could only assume he was the owner of the place. He was up front and centre of the eating area with nothing but sheer professionalism on his face ready to serve. You don't get to see that a lot, and I can tell he wants nothing but this restaurant to succeed. So it was quite refreshing. I recall him going over to another table and happily helping out when they were having a bit of trouble ordering off the iPad.
I 100% will be coming back to this place, but will be trying the soup noodles. And hopefully I will be able to find the side dishes (if there even were any). I will update my review till then. But for sure a must try!
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