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| - I don't think words can express just how much I love this place. Their beef noodle soup and stinky tofu are absolutely amazing. My favourite menu item (aside from stinky tofu) is the tripe beef noodle soup. The tripe is huge and they give generous portions. The soup itself is very flavourful, the bok choy is fresh, the preserved vegetables are delicious and the noodles are a perfect degree of chewy.
The star of the menu is, without a doubt, the deep fried stinky tofu. My mouth is watering just typing this sentence. The odour of the tofu (which, for those who don't know, is fermented in brine) can gross out passerbys who don't know what Mei Nung serves. I used to be one of those people until last year when I was converted with my first taste of a hot, sauce-covered triangle of stinky tofu. It does not taste like the smell, though your after-meal burps will let everyone know where you went for dinner - this isn't the place to go for a first date.
The service is friendly and attentive for Chinese and non-Chinese speakers alike. Water and tea is quickly refilled, even when the restaurant is packed with diners. The take-out servings are just as generous as the eat-in servings.
The restrooms are clean, especially by Asian restaurant standards.
It makes me very sad that they aren't open on Tuesdays because there have been so many times that I've had a spontaneous craving for stinky tofu on a Tuesday. I guess my stomach just wants what it can't have! Thankfully, they are open until 10:00 PM on the other days!
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