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The seating looks similar to the location in downtown. However, the menus are different. There are no cute names for each noodle, such as G.I. Ju for the pork intestine noodles. I assume it's due to the fact that they try to liven it up downtown where all the students are.
The regular ramen noodles here seemed to be machine made...given the uniform shape. When i ordered the same noodles downtown, they didn't look like this. Again, the noodles were over cooked. The knife cut noodles were better, but a bit thinner and smaller than the ones from the location downtown. The pork intestine noodle also looked different from the menu. I do have to say that there were a lot of noodles in the small size that I ordered.
The traditional LanZhou beef noodles only had 4 thin slices of beef, the soup base was very ordinary. As for the beef noodle soup, the noodles were again slightly over cooked, but the beef had tendons attached and very well braised.
The Shanxi style cold noodle appetizer was not worth ordering. The noodles were very oily with a strong peanut flavour to it. It also didn't look like what was pictured in the menu. The noodles were alright, they were like rice noodles.
I personally like the downtown location better for the noodle quality. However, if you are around Markham/Richmond Hill and want some Chinese noodles, this location is okay.
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