Craving Chinese hand-pulled noodles for days, I went online to search the recipe for how to make it myself. The reason I was trying to make it myself is that there was no authentic hand-pulled noodles in Toronto as far as I knew. To my surprise, I found this video on Youtube showing how the owner of Sun's Kitchen made his noodles. He was pretty good on the video. So my husband and I travelled about 1 hour from downtown Toronto to Pacific Mall to give this place a try.
When we got there, there was a young guy who was making the noodles. Looking at the menu and the pictures on the wall, I was a little dispointed. Most of the items they offer are Cantonese style, not what I imagined. Usually such noodle dishes are made in the northern Chinese style.
I ordered the beef brisket noodle soup and my husband ordered the BBQ pork noodle soup and we also ordered a plate of pan-fried dumplings. The noodles were OK. The guy who made them was kind of sloppy because the noodles turned out somwhat uneven. Some of the noodles were too thick and undercooked. The soup was very oily, which is not to my taste either.
The most dispointing thing was the dumplings. The skin of the dumplings was too thick and hard and the stuffing was too dry and bland. I have had much better dumplings in Toronto. As far as the noodles, they may be the best in Toronto but they simply cannot be compared to the authentic hand-pulled nooles (Lanzhou lamian) that I am used to having in Mainland China.
Anyways, we didn't enjoy the food at Sun's Kitchen. Maybe being from Mainland China, my standards are too high. I just cannot wait to go back to China to have real good hand-pulled noodles.