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Small rant: The system to seat people is quite inefficient. They only jot down your name and party size for groups that are in the indoor waiting area (fits about 6ppl). Anyone after that, they are not interested in your group size and you are to wait outside until there is few enough people before you so you fit that tiny space. So essentially if there is a party of 6 before you and lots of unconnected 2 people tables, you ain't getting seated as a party of 2.
Nonetheless, we went early at 6, so the wait was only 15mins.
Having been to similar noodle chains uptown, I was happy to see more soup base options at Dagu. They are priced ~$2 more than I'm used to, but could be just a dt price.
Similar Yunan style noodle setup: You pick soup, comes with 10 raw misc. toppings you cook in the boiling soup. Noodle itself is bottomless.
Food came within 5mins of ordering. I had the mushroom soup and I was very impressed. Mushrooms were fragrant, there was good quantity and variety (enoki, button mushrooms, oyster mushrooms etc). Toppings were basic hot pot offerings but the soup really elevated the whole experience. I also like how the soup did not taste sour from pickled veggies, which is something I often dislike in Yunan style noodles.
Overall, service was prompt, beautiful noodle dish, I would love to come back for more.
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