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| - This place is supposedly pseudo-famous for its hand-made noodles. Indeed, upon entering you can see them hand-stretching the noodles at the back - quite an interesting process! Anyways, on to the review..
Location - wow parking mayhem. Coming Friday at 12:30pm is not ideal - this place is a fricking zoo. Indoors was packed as well but fortunately got in pretty quickly after about 5-10 minutes of waiting.
Food - menus are clear and nicely illustrated, though choosing the thickness of the noodles is a crapshoot - you basically choose one of 5 or 6 thicknesses from a miniscule thumbnail picture where it's impossible to tell what they actually look like. I chose something in the middle which turned out to be about twice the thickness of spaghetti. Proceeded to order their standard beef soup and it was quite nice - the noodles were, well, noodles, and the broth and meat were reminiscent of pho. Actually, if you just replaced the wheat noodles with rice noodles, you couldn't pho'led me (har har) into thinking this was a Viet soup. Anyways, it was ok, but nothing spectacular. As for other food, the lamb skewer ordered as a side actually tasted nothing like lamb to me and was overly spicy, but perhaps I'm comparing too much to a western preparation where the lamb's natural gaminess comes through more.
Service - food came quickly, but as with most busy Eastern food establishments, for anything additional a server had to be flagged down, including ordering and paying.
Overall, a decent experience, though nothing to write home about. I'd come back if the need for noodles resurfaces.
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