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| - My parents and I went here for lunch recently and we really liked it. It's a build your own soup place where you select the broth, type of noodles and toppings. They also have some side dishes, like popcorn chicken and chicken wings that you add on for a discount when you buy a noodle soup (as opposed to when you buy them alone), but you can only get a maximum of 2 at the discounted price. They also have a partnership with Presotea, so you can either get the free drink that comes with your meal (coffee, tea, lemon water, etc.) or pay an extra $2.50 to upgrade to a Presotea bubble tea!
So I chose the Fish Broth Chiu Chow Style ($9.50). All fish broths automatically come with free napa cabbage, prince mushrooms and bean curd roll (so it's like getting 3 free toppings!). For my noodle, I chose the Korean clear noodles (they are the ones made out of sweet potato that are used in Japchae). You get 2 free toppings with each soup (each additional topping is $1.75). I chose sliced beef and fried fish slices.
The Chiu Chow style broth also comes with ground pork, so I felt like I got 6 free toppings in total, woo hoo! The broth was really fishy, not a bad smelly fish way, but in a you know the broth is made of real fish kind of way. It was also really rich. I loved the ground pork as it added an interesting texture to the soup. The napa cabbage I received were mostly stalks and not the yummy leaves that I prefer :( The prince mushrooms were umami-licious, lol. The bean curd roll was delicious too. The sliced beef was on the fatty and sinewy side though. The fish cake slices were nice and chewy, but didn't have too much flavour. They gave me so many noodles!! Fortunately, they were tasty. Overall, I did enjoy my soup.
I chose 1 side dish: Taiwanese popcorn chicken ($1.99 - discounted price). It was delicious. So crispy and with a distinct salt and pepper taste. There were no basil leaves with it though. Nonetheless it was great and a real bargain for $1.99.
I upgraded my drink to a Panda Milk Bubble Tea ($2.50). It's called Panda because it comes with black and white tapioca pearls. The tea was rich and creamy and not too sweet. (You can customize the amount of sugar and ice in your tea, and I was going to ask for half sugar, but I forgot to, and fortunately full-strength sugar wasn't that sweet). The tapioca pearls were nice and chewy and you get a good amount of pearls. The drink is large. It's definitely worth doing the upgrade. Besides, they give it to you in a takeout cup (not in a real glass), so if you don't finish it, just take it with you when you leave :)
My mom had the Pork bone soup with red miso broth ($10.50). This broth comes with free corn, a marinated soft boiled egg, and 2 types of seaweed. You can also chose the Japanese ramen as your noodle with no extra charge (if you chose any other type of broth, you must pay an additional $0.75 if you want the Japanese ramen). Obviously, my mom chose the Japanese ramen. For her toppings she got the Japanese Char Siu and the beef brisket. She really enjoyed her meal. I had a taste, and the noodles were nice and springy/chewy the way Japanese ramen should be. The broth was creamy and rich. The meats were too fatty for my liking, but that is the nature of those types of meats. The egg was heavenly. The yolk was so gooey and melted in my mouth. I think I could eat a dozen of those, haha.
She got the Lemongrass chicken cutlet as her side ($2.75). It was super greasy and was sitting on top of a puddle of oil. The meat was fatty and I wasn't a big fan.
She also upgraded to a bubble tea and got the Matcha Milk Bubble Tea with Red Bean and White Tapioca Pearls. She said the green tea was too bitter for her liking, but she enjoyed the red beans and tapioca pearls.
My dad got the original fish soup broth ($9.50) and chose beef tendon and lamb slices as his toppings and udon as his noodles. He liked his meal but commented that the lamb was really gamey. He just got a coffee as his drink (free). The coffee comes already creamed, but no sugar. He had no comments on the coffee but I noticed that he did not finish it.
They give you a laminated piece of paper and a grease pencil to tick off your choices on the order form (points for being environmentally friendly as they reuse the order forms). There's a place to tick off if you don't want any items that routinely come with all soups (i.e. bean sprouts, cilantro, sesame seeds, etc.) The form is pretty straight-forward. They also give you a menu with pictures.
Our server was really nice and pleasant. She just didn't really speak English all that well. One time she had to ask her co-worker to translate. Nonetheless, she was competent because our orders all came out correctly and timely.
The restaurant is clean, including the washrooms. It's in a strip mall, so there is free parking.
I love build your own noodle soups places and this one did not disappoint.
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