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| - I decided to visit Wendy's Noodle Cafe after doing a search near my zip code for the highest rated restaurants. All I can say is, wow, yelpers were right on the money with this one. Another good Asian restaurant near Spring Mountain Road? Say it ain't so!
I went with a friend around 1 PM on a Friday. The place is pretty easy to find, on the west side of Jones a bit north of Spring Mountain. We got the feeling that the building used to be a Pizza Hut or something similar just from the size and shape of it. There's seating for about 75 people inside, and about 15 were there when we came in. The decor is a bit sparse, but it's clean and quite spacious. There was a TV tuned in to Cops, strangely enough, a few Buddha statues and a mechanical maneki neko.
You can view the menu on their website, so I don't need to go into details about the kind of food they offer. They say it's Hong Kong cuisine, and obviously they have a ton of noodle dishes, but they have other things as well. I already knew, from having read other Yelp reviews, that I was going to get the beef in pepper sauce and rice (#61 as of the time of this writing), part of the "East Meets West" portion of their menu. We also got some chicken wings as appetizers and the Chef's Spicy Chicken, which I asked for as hot as they could possibly make it. You get some water and a small plate of salted peanuts (like straight out of Planter's) before you order.
The chicken wings were good, with a decent amount of pepper on them, and they were very large. Compared to Lotus of Siam's chicken wing appetizers they were easily twice the size. The spicy chicken was good and it comes with a small bowl of rice. I'd say it's just under the level of spiciness of the hottest flavor of Ma's Spicy Diced Chicken from Dong Ting Spring.
The beef and rice, however, was utterly amazing. It is easily one of the two or three best dishes I've had in my 2 years of being in Vegas. It's the kind of dish that makes you say "if I wanted to, I could choose to never go to the store again and come here for this dish for every meal." It's that good. When you first pick up the beef it feels like the texture is not going to be good in your mouth, but it's absolutely perfect. The sauce is very savory and goes perfect with the beef and the rice. The rice itself is slightly red and on the menu it says it's supposed to have a tomato flavor. I didn't really taste it but I will say the rice is perfect too. It wasn't overly sticky or dry or hard, it was just right. The dish also comes with string beans but I am not a fan of string beans so I passed. My friend, who got the same dish, said they were very good, done all the way but still crunchy. The soup of the day is also served with the beef and rice, and it was turnip and carrot soup which neither of us was willing to try -- sorry!
The only possibly bad thing I could say about the place is that the sodas are given to you in cans. They do give you a glass with ice, but obviously there are no free refills and I wonder why if they go through the trouble of giving you a glass in the first place if they're going the can route.
The prices are amazingly low. For 3 sodas, 3 dishes, and an appetizer we only spent $35. Service was very quick and we were checked on numerous times throughout the meal by at least two servers and I presume the manager or owner as well. I went in with high expectations from the reviews and said expectations were exceeded by far.
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