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| - After eating at Dagu for a few weeks straight, my s/o and I attempted to "try something new" and ended up at Oriental Rice Noodle. Similar to all the other crossing the bridge noodle chains around, it offers all you can eat noodles in a bowl of boiling hot soup. Upon entering the store it already has a vastly different feel with the decor. I do want to note that there is an electronic system to get your number that will send you a text to notify when your table is ready which allows you to leave the premises.
Food 3/5
To compare this place to Dagu, the concept and majority of the foods are extremely similar. We got the kimchi and tofu soup, spicy pickled pepper soup and beef lung and tripe appetizer. The soups seem to all come with the same side dishes - corn, wood ear, fish tofu, pickled greens, minced meat, quail egg, bean curd, ham, Chinese sausage and a few slivers of pork. The only difference here between Dagu is a few of the side dishes and that pork is the only meat option. The soup should be the star of the show but unfortunately both were quite underwhelming in terms of flavor. The kimchi was quite bland and lacked any kimchi flavor until you ate an actual piece.
The spicy broth didn't live up to our expectations either considering it was 3 peppers. The bowls the soups are served in are also quite annoying because they become narrower at the top which led me to keep having to peer in to see if I missed any food. Noodles compared to Dagu are also significantly different as they are thinner, softer and chewier. I quite liked the chewier texture but the noodles lost that quality near the end of the meal as it soaked in soup too long.
Beef lung and tripe appetizer was also disappointing. It did look good but was completely covered in peanuts so peanut haters beware. The chili oil sauce lacked flavor and was only mildly spicy. The beef slices are tougher than Dagu but the pieces here are definitely bigger.
Service 2/5
As noted before the table system is electronic and text based. When I got the text I did as instructed which was find a staff member to which they said they weren't sure which was my table... I then showed another staff who just pointed at a random table in the back for me. Wait-wise it was quite quick for a table of 2 on a Sunday afternoon. The service is quick but that was really all I can say about it... they automatically assume you speak Mandarin (which I don't) and even when you reply in English they still reply in Mandarin.
All in all the flavors here are lacking on all fronts and the servers don't seem to make an effort to communicate in your language. If compared to Dagu, I much prefer Dagu not only because of the soups but it seems to have more choices. I prefer that you can choose meat slices or a pork/beef bone.
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