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| - Visited this place near closing around 9pm on a Thursday night. They close 10pm weeknights and I believe on the weekends they close at 10:30-11:00pm. First off, it was pretty packed, however, we were immediately seated. We got the menu and began choosing. Now i've been to Dagu Rice Noodles and MiMi noodles, so my review will be solely comparing oriental against the two. Super fast service! Tea and menus were placed down right when we sat down. It was good because we were freeezing! We both ordered the coconut curry soup base for $8.95. The gave us the side dishes which I absolutely thought were MUCH MUCH better than what both MIMI and Dagu offers. They gave 1 shrimp, quail egg, bamboo sheets, preserved chinese sausages, spam, pickled radish, meat sauce and cherry tomatoes (see pics). Meat is the same as anywhere else, still three slivers of meat. Now here is the major difference between the three places. I don't like the noodles at oriental. Maybe it was just my dish, but it was overcooked and soggy like. It wasn't a nice chewy texture like Dagu's. Their soup base was good, but the noodles threw it off.
We also ordered their pig ears ($4.99) and their salted seaweed ($4.99). The seaweed one was just not my cup of tea.. blahh. The pig ears were delicious though!
Another thing I didn't like was how the servers all assumed we spoke mandarin and would just speak to us in mandarin, despite us replying in English. Oh well, they did split the bill for us, so that's a plus I guess!
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