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| - Wendy's Noodle Cafe, located at the Western edge of Chinatown in Las Vegas, is a non-descript looking building... in which it, in it's former life, was a Pizza restaurant. Wendy, herself, is a middle-aged Asian lady, who re-located from San Diego a couple of year's ago.
First impression upon entering... Small place, nothing fancy... most of the patrons were androgynous college-aged Asians. Thought to myself... glad my kids didn't go through this fashion phase! I think, when they were this age... baggy pants were the fashion statement.
Onto the food...
Mango Pudding (**) No Asian restaurant that I've been to prepares Mango Pudding like this!
Wendy's Mango Pudding is a triple-layered Pudding made with Gelatin... not Milk-based that you'll find at most other Asian restaurants.
The Pudding looked OK. Triple-layered... Top and bottom layer were more opaque than the center layer, which contained bits of Mango. OK in flavor... but I didn't order J-E-L-L-O!!! All the layers were made with Gelatin... all previous Mango Pudding ordered at Asian restaurants were never made like this.
Rating on Yelp reduced to 3-Stars based mainly on this disappointment...
#82 Singapore Noodles (**** 1/2) Perfectly made... On a 6" square porcelain plate you'll receive... thin Vermicelli Noodles with Bean Sprouts, slivers of Green Onion, Red and Green Bell Peppers... stir-fried with Medium-sized Shrimp, and slivers of Chinese BBQ Pork! Smaller portion than at most Asian restaurants.
Salt & Pepper Tofu (**** 1/2) The square cubes of Tofu are prepared like any other Salt & Pepper entree - fried at a high temperature until the Tofu looks like small Sandstone colored bricks. The Chef then tops off the entree with Green Onions, and most impoerantly some sliced Jalapeno Peppers which gives this entree a real kick. Very, very good! I think the kids had some trepidations upon my ordering this entree... but it became the most popular...
Salt & Pepper Calimari
#41 Won Ton Soup (***) Kathy's order of Soup, which she said tasted "funny".
BTW, $15 minimum on Debit/Credit Cards...
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