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| - The last item on the menu is the Noodle soup with meat and seafood, and it was just what I needed for a too-late-for-dinner dinner. A nice soup before heading home after a long day would do the trick.
The waitress looked at me quizzically as she asked, "do you know this is a very big soup?" "Perfect!" I replied. She laughed! Then I found out why. Served in a tureen the size of a paddling pool, this is the size that normally serves the soup course for a table of 8! In other word, you can squeeze nearly 12 small bowls out of this one cauldron.
I got to work. I was expecting the standard thin egg noodles in a clear broth with an assortment of protein on top. But this was a thick, robust broth with thicker noodles that tasted homemade. Most of the seafood appeared to be puréed into the soup, except for chunks of real crab meat-not the artificial Pollock based "crab stick".
After 8 bowls, I gave in and took the rest home. I'm not sure it will keep, or if the noodles will simply turn to mush. But I had to save face.
This was a delicious soup. For $15, it is pricey since you can't really see any seafood or meat except for the bits of crab. This would be fine for a table of diners, but is equivalent to two $7 bowls of noodle soup at other places. If whole pieces of seafood and meat were on top of the noodles, I would have hit 5 stars for this one without question.
I will be back to try the other, more modest sized dishes.
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