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| - We were driving past the other day when my husband noticed the sign for Shang's and randomly decided to Yelp it. Reviews looked good and the place is brand new! And when he said hand-pulled noodles, I was sold. The first time I had such noodles was in Chinatown in NYC. And it was amazing. So today we went back to try it.
When we walked in and got situated, one of the chefs in a big open window started his hand pulling noodle thing. It was great to see how fresh it was! I wondered if he automatically starts pulling noodles because he knows people will order it.
It wasn't so busy but service was great. We got water infused with watermelon and were helped right away.
Firstly, the chef provided us with a dish of pickled cabbage, carrots, and cauliflower. He wanted to know I'd it was worth putting on the menu. I really like these types of pickled veggies, and I thought it tasted great! But honestly, I'm not sure if people would order it. Maybe if it was $1-2. But would that be worth it?
We ordered a variety of things and everything tasted great!!
Spicy wonton
Beef pancake
Cucumber salad
Shang's beef soup with hand-pulled noodles
Pork belly soup with hand-pulled noodles
Dan Dan noodles
The spicy wonton was tasty. And surprisingly, it was hot. I'm used to this dish being cold, but having it hot was delicious!
The beef pancake was yummy too. It's more like a fried dumpling filled with beef than an actual pancake. It had some broth/soup inside like shanghai dumplings. So when we cut them in half to share, we lost all the soup!! :(
The cucumber salad is sliced cucumbers topped with a peanut-y sauce. It needed more flavor to me, so I dipped it into a mixture of the provided soy sauce and chili sauce. So much better!
The beef and pork belly noodle soups taste completely different. The beef is slightly spicy and salty. The pork one is slightly sweet. But both are very savory and taste great!
The Dan Dan noodles are delicious as well. But is not a soupy dish. Slightly sweet as well.
The wonton soup comes with no noodles. Tastes like Chinese seafood soup. Also good.
I can't wait to go back, this place was so good! And its here in Vegas and not somewhere ridiculously far like New York :)
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