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| - We were really excited to try this place. We love hand pulled noodles. I've eaten them in Beijing in several places. We're Korean, and Korea has many Chinese living there who brought hand pulled noodles to Korea, so Koreans love hand pulled noodles. So, that's my food background that will shed light on my review.
I think it's a hit or miss on the dishes. We tried the chicken and mushroom. The sauce was good. The noodles weren't as chewy as I'm used to. It didn't have that slick but chewy texture. I would say probably the flour is an issue.
The staple of hand pulled noodles in Korea is Jja-zhang or I think they called it Peking Jja-zhang (I actually don't know how to spell it in English)... in Taiwan, Dan Dan, and in Peking as well they have lots of jja-zhanng... but in Peking, all the places I had it served the black bean sauce in a bowl or a small dollop. The noodles were slick, not from oil, but the noodles had a sheen to them. The same is true in Korea. There is a toothiness to the noodle. At Shang, the sauce unfortunately is super salty, for my taste. I had to send it back and didn't request a replacement. I was told that the style at Shang was salty. If you've had black bean noodles elsewhere, it's really delicious and flavorful. A funky earthy taste with the soy black bean sauce. Anyway, I wouldn't order it if I went back. I think the sauce at China Ma Ma is actually better.
The pork and cabbage dumpling was very delicious. I'd definitely order that. The beef and onion pancake wasn't what I expected, It was more a dumpling than a pancake. I'm used to having pancakes where the dough is cooked as in layers and there's beef within it with onions. These were over a inch thick and about 2 inches round... definitely more like a fried bun. They were okay, but not as good as the pork and cabbage dumpling.
The Shang fried rice was good. Again a little salty for me. I think maybe the restaurant doesn't want to deal with folks asking for soy sauce... but having a lot of the salt really takes away from the flavor. It's Chinese food so there's a lot of oil, but to also have it really salty meant I probably won't go back.
I'm glad there are so many great reviews. Maybe I haven't tried enough dishes. I think it's inexpensive... Five dishes for about $40 so that's pretty cheap.
It would be great if they tweaked some of their menu items. But hey, it's great to see that we have Artisan Noodles in Las Vegas.
The service on the other hand was great. The two servers worked hard to keep the busy spot running.
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