Dumpling Cafe Restaurant

A reader of mine alerted me to the opening of Dumpling Cafe in Forest Hills about a year ago, and I’ve been meaning to go check it out for a while.  I was a lil disappointed when I finally got over there and discovered it appeared to be little more than a take out Chinese place… with a few items of interest on the menu.  Unfortunately, being the silly girl I am, I didn’t manage to try those this first time.  Being called the Dumpling Cafe, I of course ordered pork dumplings (fried).  This order of 8 was $4.95.  They [...]

Lan Zhou on Division

One last stop in the hand pulled noodle journey!  The very first place I started was Lan Zhou (which is the region from which hand pulled noodles come, actually).  Since then, another place has opened with a similar name, so I made my way over to this ultra clean restaurant, which was pretty empty on a Wednesday evening.  Spicy Ninja ordered some spicy soup.  He liked it a lot, if I recall correctly.  He said it was a good spicy level, not crazy but not too mild either (one of his pet peeves).  I ordered the ‘beef stew hand pulled [...]

Super Taste

Another stop on the hand pulled noodles journey - Super Taste, directly across the street from Sheng Wang, is impossible to get to quickly from the part of the Financial District where I work(ed).  Oh well.  I stopped by Doughnut Plant on my way back anyway.  Hehe.  The menu was pretty simple and straight forward.  I’d read a couple of other blogs and decided what I wanted quickly.  Fat, thick slices of eel over handpulled noodles.  Mmm, doesn’t that look awesome?Thick, chewy handpulled noodles; I really enjoyed my bowl of piping hot noodles.  What I didn’t enjoy was sitting in the [...]

Sheng Wang

Sheng Wang is the first handpulled noodle place that ever crossed my radar.   Somehow, though, it’s taken me this long to finally get there… I headed over with Gmak after work on a cold, blustery day.  Perfect for noodles in soup!Gmak ordered the knife-cut noodles with beef.I didn’t try any, but I know he was extremely happy with his dish, especially the beef, being of the aromatic kind.  Win!  I decided to be adventurous, so to speak, and order the duck noodles.  They were $5.50 and I figured big, meaty, fat slices of duck (like from the many Chinese butchery windows [...]

Kuai An La Mian Hand Pulled Noodle fka Eastern Noodles

A few weeks ago, a brief online conversation with James over at The Eaten Path concluded with him explaining to me that his favorite hand-pulled noodle place was Eastern Noodle.  I was intrigued; in my research (ie, reading other people’s blogs and casually mentally filing away names for later eating), I’d heard of many places but not Eastern Noodles.  And I <3 when there’s a place that may be not everyone’s heard of but is really good and I should try.  So I jotted down the address and headed out on a cold night to meet up with Spicy Ninja [...]

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