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| - Facility: Coming southbound on Kennedy, make the right into the plaza the driveway before the lights. It will be on your immediate right. Chef Papa's is a clean a spacious establishment, lots of natural light and clean.
Food Quality & Price: Depending on which soup base you get, the cost will vary. You're looking at spending around $10 a bowl. The usual option people go for is the combo.
Pick your soup base.
Pick your noodle.
Pick 2 toppings.
Side dishes optional at extra costs.
Pick a drink (included but you can upgrade to BBT for an additional cost)
What we ordered:
1) Fish soup base with preserved egg, prince mushroom, bok choy, and cilantro + yellow noodles + sliced lamb and deep fried fish cake. Absolutely delicious and a great change from ramen and pho. I loved the soup base and there were plenty of ingredients. They were no stingy and the variety was the highlight of the bowl. The portion of noodles were huge though. I was unable to finish.
Drink: Royal Earl Grey Jelly Family - was fine. Tasted like cold regular "earl grey" with milk and sugar and some assorted jelly at the bottom. Will probably order something else next time.
2) Shoyu (soy sauce) soup base with corn, soft-boiled egg, and black fungus + Japanese ramen noodle (extra charge) + chashu and deep fried fish cake. It was okay, egg was too soft and runny, falling apart which was probably the worst part. Soup was okay (we were unable to tell or confirm if MSG was present, but soup was fine). The japanese noodles were the highlight of this dish - well executed. Portion size was perfect. But on the grand scheme of things, doesn't hold a candle to any of the ramen masters (Kinton, Jyuban etc).
Drink: Water with lemon. Exactly what you'd expect. Small cup of warm water with a slice of lemon.
Service: Passable. The waiter did his and her jobs. When we asked a question about a specific type of noodle depicted on the menu, the waiter seemed unsure. Staff should know their noodles working at a noodle house. Seems like a no-brainer to me.
Overall: The attraction of Chef Papa's is the incredible variety on the menu and in your bowl. They don't do any dish AMAZINGLY well, but they do variety really well. Chef Papa is a Jack of all noodles soups but master of none. It's a great place to go when you can't agree on what to eat, or if you want something other than ramen or pho. While ramen and pho ARE offered, there is also Singaporean laksa, Tom Yum, Chinese style noodle soups, and rice dishes available. Working in partnership with Preso tea, they have a decent BBT menu to add together as a food combo with the soups.
Don't know what to order?
- order from the "chef recommended" section y
- flip through photos on Yelp and see if something looks good.
Will definitely return in the future and looking forward to seeing the staff brush up on their customer service skills!
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