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| - This little restaurant is tucked away in the chain of little restaurants on John Street, right next to Fat Sandwich Company and Insomnia. Since it was one of the few on-campus restaurants I had never been to, my friend and I decided to go there on a whim.
The staff was quite friendly, but there was a significant language barrier. I decided to order the Hot Dry Noodles and a Pork Bun, while my friend ordered the Rice Noodles with soup.
The dishes came out within minutes, so that was nice.
However, the meals themselves were very mediocre, and really quite disappointing. Unfortunately, every dish was incredibly bland. The Pork Buns, which should have been delicious and flavorful, were surprisingly bland. The outer bun portion also tasted stale, as if it was a few days old. The Hot Dry Noodles were immensely bland, having a giant mound of noodles on a plate with very little veggies or anything else. The Rice Noodles with Soup were also quite bland, but not as flavorless as the Hot Dry Noodles. They do provide chili oil at each table, as well as salt and pepper, but nothing worked to help elevate the flavor of any dish. In fact, the chili oil at our table tasted very strange as well.
The only saving grace to this place is that its noodles themselves tasted incredibly fresh, like they had actually been made that day. If the noodles had any flavor or spice to go along with it, this place could become a bit more popular on campus, but with all of the flavorful dishes that nearby competition like Bangkok Thai offer, there is no reason that I would come back to this place.
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