Having gone to Momofuku Noodle bar in NYC the weekend that the place opened in Toronto, it's been so recently ingrained in my taste buds how much I love the chewy Noodle, rich meaty broth and the delicious pickled ingredients and perfect pork belly.
Okay seriously how come the Toronto one was none of that????? The noodles completely over cooked and not chewy. The broth was full of salt and didn't taste meaty. The pork belly was overcooked and fat. The other ingredients looked like crap and we're overcooked too. The egg was not poached properly. While sitting at the bar I could also see how many bowls were sent back to be fixed.
Also how do you even screw up steaming the pork buns? The buns seemed to have sit there for a long time or just microwaved.
Oh the service was horrible too. Right when we sat down, the server asked us if we wanted to order... We hadn't even seen the menu. Then she had attitude like ugh fine I'll come back. Then it was nowhere to be found when we were ready.
Quite disappointed at the lack of quality here. Am hopeful its just opening kinks to be worked out. But no excuse seeing that David Chang already knows what works and can't repeat it here but still charging a premium.
The best part of this experience was waiting for a friend so we had a drink in the bar upstairs and played jenga. Service was amazing, the lumberjack packed nice flavour. If the evening ended there I think my rating would be way higher.