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Grand St (B, D)
Canal Street (J, M, Z, N, Q, R, W, 6)
East Broadway (F)
Mon-Wed. 11:00 a.m. - 2:00 a.m.
Thu. 11:00 a.m. - 3:00 a.m.
Fri-Sat. 11:00 a.m. - 4:00 a.m.
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I'm totally unclear what happened to this place. The last time I went in, there were decorations on the wall, english-speaking staff, and table tents advertising super-Americanized menu items.
I have been coming here since I started staying out drinking past 2am (so... circa high school). There was always a debate among the crew as to whether we would come here or go to Noodletown, and I always fought for Yummy on the basis that the shrimp dumpling soup was superior.
On my last visit, they were out of suckling pig, but the roast pork was good. The dumplings (and new menu item, and reminiscent of Gyoza) were meh, and the beef pan-fried noodles were passable.
I'm sorry to say, but I might be going over to the other side and becoming a Noodletown, in no small part because I am STILL WEIRDED OUT by the teal t-shirts that said "Yummy and Co." and the menus that said I heart Yummy.
Plus, SINCE WHEN DO THEY SERVE BUBBLE TEA?
I feel that if it were not for the fact that there are barely any restaurants, if any, in chinatown that sell clay pot rice other than yummy noodles than nobody would even bother going.
I learned about this place roughly 6 years ago when I was dragged there by some friends. I suppose what they say is true that things always seem better when you're with your friends. I didn't remember the experience being bad at all. However a few years afterwards I decided to bring a friend to try it. There are no words to describe how ashamed of myself I was for having even suggested it. They stuck us in the dark corner in the very back of the restaurant. On top of that they completely forgot about us. We sat there for 20 minutes with nothing but tea. The waitress never even came back to take our order. When we finally decided to get up and leave they had the nerve to ask why we're leaving. Well I've learned my lesson. If you're going to go to this place, order your food to go.
I recently came here about a week or two ago because people at work wanted some clay pot rice. Being the optimistic person I was I decided if I just take my order to go and bring it back to the office then what could possibly go wrong. Optimism can go burn in hell. As soon as I got it back to the office and we dug into the 3 clay pots I brought back we noticed that there was a thick black layer of burned rice. I know there's supposed to be a layer of slightly burned rice since the fire is directly on the pot (in fact that's my favorite part), however this was beyond normal thin layer of burnt. There was at least a quarter inch or burnt to black rice on the sides and bottom of the insides of the pots. WTF?
Please oh please I beg of someone out there to open up a new Chinese restaurant for clay pot rice. Preferably with a competant waitstaff and chefs that won't turn my rice into charcoal. Is that too much to ask? Oh and open it closer to soho so I don't have to walk as far to get there fom work please. That is all.
Yummy Noodles is a bit of a misnomer for a restaurant that has been known as one of the few places in Chinatown for a Southern Chinese specialty call "Clay Pot Rice". Clay pot rice is rice cooked in a clay pot steamed with a variety of meats. The classic is the preserved meat clay pot, which consists of Chinese sausage, preserved duck and/or preserved pork. Other varieties include salted pork, fish and other salted meats. This is classic Southern Chinese comfort food and if you want an illustration of what this is, go to Anthony Bourdain's No Reservations show about Hong Kong. You will find a variety of clay pot dishes along with congee dishes and noodle soups.
I will give props to the noodle soups mainly because of the quality of their noodles. The noodles contain the springy, cruchiness of great Hong Kong style noodles not found in all soup noodle restaurants in C-town. This quality makes the ordinariness of their broth forgivable. Yummy Noodles is a solid 3 stars and please do begin your visits with the Clay Pot Rice!
It's funny how everything is either good or great. Yummy noodles are so not that. In fact, I will argue that noodles are their worst dish, but what the hell do I know right? This is a typical Chinese restaurant. It's clean, and the service is great. (Can you smell the sarcasm?). If you're in the mood for clay pot rice casserole, then this is your place, as I don't think there's a lot of restaurant in ctown that will serve this, especially for the price. If you're in the mood for noodles, go half block down to the Great New York Noodle town. I swear. They're great. They have to. The name said so ;)
Definitely has its highs and lows, but if you stick with the highs, I think you'll be pleased.
Their congee is good, the cracked crab in particular. You also get a nice helping of roe if you remember to dig in the recesses of the shell. The salt and pepper calamari is also fantastic: superbly crisp, memorably seasoned, and lots of it. The carp is SO tender - it's like biting into butter, but BETTER. The frog legs are also really well seasoned and tender, but may not be worth your trouble if you don't want to bother navigating through a whole lot of little frog bones in the process. Thumbs up on the stir fried string beans.
I would stay away from the dumplings. Overpriced and just mediocre. The wonton noodle soup is okay, but there are certainly better out there with more flavorful broth and more substantial wontons. Oh, and please don't drink the bubble tea. I think turn over is too low for them to make fresh "bubbles", so you just end up with soggy, flaccid tapioca balls. Eck.
This place was very good before, but has gone DOWNHILL since they turned it a tourist attraction by selling T-shirts and turning it into a hangout place for Americans and ABCs. You know something is wrong when you start seeing people order fake Chinese food like shrimp lo mein. Anyway.... back to the review.
They used to give you a LOT of ingredients on the hotpot rice, now they give you very little, especially for the chicken/mushroom. Their congees are still ok, although they've become a little more watery. Their noodle soups are filled with MSGs so they're best to avoid. Once I ordered a plain wonton soup and the wontons are still cold and raw inside! It was unbelievable.
The only recommendation I have for this place is the boiled razor clams with chef soy sauce and scallions. The bottomline is, don't waste your money here. This place gives Cantonese food a bad image. This place is also cramped.
Avoid: Noodle soups.
Try: Hot pot rice -- if you don't mind the small portion. Hot double boiled egg dessert and the razor clams. They let you keep the hotpot if you order to go.
If you want more authentic clay pot rice, you should head to Yong Gee (Dining Room Management Group) on Mott St, but recently this place changed the management so the quality is also no longer the same... but it is still slightly better than Yummy Noodles
Yummy Noodles is not as yummy as I thought. I went there for dinner and ordered crab congee. It came out late. The congee was salty and burned. I didnt want to waste it so I told them to pack it for me to go. The next day I reheated it and was eating half way, I found a piece of plastic inside the congee. How disgusting !!. I wouldnt come back again after all its not that good.
There food is just ok. Nothing special. The dessert is bad. Taste like detergent.
Yummy Noodle is one of my favorite places. I always get the congee with frog. My friends always order one of the rice clay pots, and we shared an assortment of dishes. The calamari is good. Everything is good. I have never had a bad dish here. This is a great place for groups and if you are a on a budget, the prices will make you very happy.
I know it's a noodle place but get the beef and egg stone pot rice. Add some of the secret sauce (which looks like soy sauce but isn't) on the table into the rice, and just let it marinate for a minute. Mix the bowl like a korean bibimbap and eat. As a Korean-american who loves dolsot bibimbap, i am very picky about my stone pot rice, and yummy noodle does it right. my g/f who's chinese kept telling me it was good and I never believed her but wow, this is really good. you will be picking at all the crispy rice bits on the bottom of the pot.
It's weird that you can buy a Yummy Noodle t-shirt because this place isn't that good. Very subpar considering all the delicious and cheaper Chinese optionsin the area. Their BBQ meats are tasty, and their noodles are alright. However, when my friend and I ordered baak cit gai, white cut chicken with scallion and ginger sauce, the rice it came with was doused with soy sauce. Why would a restaurant do that? I'm pretty sure it was not like that when I ordered this dish last time because frankly, if it was I wouldn't of returned. The point of this dish is that the simple flavor of the chicken to blend with the scallion and ginger oil. Soy sauce ruins the flavor.
I also have to mention that I ordered a fried egg which I could tell was not freshly made. It had a waxish texture. Oh, and the rice was kind of hard. Very disappointing.
My fault, yo. I went from one extreme of ascetic living to complete mindless consumption. Hence, the lack of yelpin'.
Anyway, I totally forgot about this place. It used to be THA BOMB. In high school, you was the man homie. We would cut class and come here for BBQ Wings which always came out glistening with delicious juice. But it's pointless to dwell on the past.
I came back here last week at the suggestion of my gloomy friend for pot rice. If you've never had, you should try it. It's cool. We got the BBQ wings and Chicken and Mushroom Pot Rice. I'm sorry to say, the place has slid down the hill. The bbq wings were dry and the flavor isn't deep like it used to be. It's whatever, but the skin of the wings aren't succulent anymore. I'm not drooling on sight. Shame. The Pot Rice was aight. Maybe I hyped it in my head. But it was defs a little bland. But I still enjoyed the crispy bits. Note: you should push the rice against the side and bottom of the clay pot as soon as it hits the table so it crisps up, that is if you're into that.
So we tried to compensate and got some salt and pepper squid, the ol' standby and yet, I was left disappointed. It was flour-y and tough. Congee Village sp squid is much better, granted Americanized in flavor. I like what I like. Smell me?
And finally, I know we're dining in a dimly lit tunnel in Chinatown where there is more garbage than lamp posts, but can we have a little class? What is going on these days with kids and the lack of manners? Back in my day, a five year old me get the raw backhand for screaming at the dinner table, let alone at a dinner table in public. What drives me insane isn't even the kids, it's these douchebag adults that indulge their kids and their tantrums. For your information, your feets should not be on your chair at dinner. Rude.
Yummy Noodles......INDEED....
Always enjoyed this place. ...It has been my hangout during my Metlifedays....our branch was 2 blocks down the corner..and was a regular at lunchtime ..Located in an alley between Elizabeth St and Bowery..Sts. There is a Malaysian restaurant next to it.
I couldn't help but stop by and have some of their delicious.noodles . Ordered my favorite Mixed Seafood noodles soup with shrimp wonton. This is all I need in this kind of weather. BTW, Their Lo-mein here is to die for....cooked Hongkong style....and they have 23 kinds of congee to choose from...The Suckling Pig and the Frog legs a few of my favorite aside from the noodles of course....Really Yummy....and the prices are unbelievably cheap...the same as before....very affordable....what more can you ask.The staff may not be as pleasant but it it sure outweights everything.
A random place to end up at 2am but it was open and instead of wandering across the Manhattan bridge with empty stomachs, we thought it wise to get some food courage first.
Yummy is one of those restaurants in Chinatown with roasted ducks and entire rib cages hanging in the windows. Most of the patrons were not asian and most of the dishes contain more grease than nutritional content. Their menu includes stuff like Frog Congee, Pig heart with vegetables and noodles, sizzling eel, and intestine fried rice. Not really in the mood for experimentation we went with the dishes pictured on the wall: salt baked shrimp and beef chow fun. The salt baked shrimp looked like shrimp tempura with the shell still on them. The flavor was weak and I didn't enjoy greasing up my fingers for such little reward. The beef chow fun sat in a pool of oil and while the flavor was decent and the beef was cooked well, I couldn't get over how wet with grease everything was. The total came out to $20 which seemed kinda bogus considering the quality and amount of food we received but we couldn't verify prices because the dishes on the wall weren't labeled.
As a side note their logo is some sort of old school drunk Chinese dude which is plastered around the walls and they sell t-shirts of him for $15. I just kept thinking to myself, no drunk Chinese dude in their right mind would every eat at Yummy Noodles.
This place is more like..2.5 stars to me.
I use to stop by here a lot because it was close to the place that I was working at. The food here is mediocre at best. I remember getting fried dumplings here and they were horrible. I had the hardest time finishing it. I don't really remember much about the service here but I recall this one incident where I came here with my mom and the waitress there demanded more tip, which I felt was really inappropriate. I mean, I understand that they don't exactly make the most money, but tipping is a way for costumers to express their gratitude for good service and dining ..so..shouldn't the amount of tip be decided by the customer ? Well, besides that this place is ehhh - nothing great, nothing too bad. I would only come here for their clay pot dishes.
Yummy Noodle...
That's all I could say for hours after pigging out on three of their dishes. My squab friend and I ordered #207 Eggplant and Salty Fish Casserole, Charsiu (Cantonese-style BBQ Pork) Pan Fried (pan fried double side Cantonese-style), and Wonton Soup Noodles. I pretty much ate most of the grub in order to carbo-load for a marathon that I didn't end up running due to snow! Damn, this all turned into fat. It's okay because I'm already FAT.
I've eaten pan fried noodles at many places worldwide and cook it myself, but Yummy Noodles' was simply the best I've had. Their sauce sets it apart. I don't think pan fried noodles are event their specialty.
The eggplant (not much saltyfish) casserole had a nice spice to it and was, of course, Yummy.
The wontons were Yummy. We let the egg noodles sit too long, so they weren't Yummy as they should have been, but that's our fault. We were too busy making ourselves fat off the other two dishes.
All this food for how much? $24.
I'll keep saying it... Yummy Noodle!!!
What's open in the middle of night/early morning after a night of drinking? Yummy noodles of course :] How do we always end up here?! It's good, satisfying and what you'd expect... get the noodle soup (of course) and duck!!!! I suggest wonton noodle soup with the white wide rice noodles.. mmm and lots of hot sauce. YUM!
My friend recommended we go to this place, I never would have found it otherwise since it's in the "tunnel" in Chinatown on Bowery. I went here with a fairly large group of people (8-9) and it was quite crowded. It took the waiter quite a while to take our order. One of my friends speaks Chinese so it made it easier for all of us to order. I ordered the orange chicken which was tasty, but the platter was a bit on the small side. A few of my friend's ordered the rice casserole pots with various meats. I tried a some of their food which was good as well and quite a lot of food. The food came out at various times so while some of us were well into our meals while others were just receiving theirs. Overall a decent meal, the service was a bit slow, but the prices weren't bad.
Found this place by a complete accident! Located in an alley across from Elizabeth Center, I think this restaurant serves the best peking duck and char siu in NY! Their rice casseroles are goood also. My fiancee and I bought it to go one time, and they gave us the clay pots to take home and all, haha :)
Oh, did I mention it's CHEAP? It's like $5 for a plate of rice with 2-3 sides of BBQ meat. Granted it's not a LOT of food, but hey, it's a hearty meal and it makes me happy. The rice casseroles range from $5-$7, and this, they put a LOT in there. My favorite is the chicken and mushroom one. Just put some soy sauce in there, close the lid, wait a few mins, and gooooodness. I can't ever finish one by myself!
Service is typical at a quick-paced Chinese restaurant, and the bathroom is pretty dirty, but otherwise, I LOVE YUMMY NOODLES!
I haven't been here in a looooooong time, but it's my go to spot for rice casseroles. My favorite is definitely the beef and egg rice casserole. Just writing that makes me want one, like, RIGHT NOW!
Although it's called Yummy Noodles, I don't think I've ever gotten noodles here. Maybe someone's gotten some chow fun here once. And if that did happen, it was late at night and we were drunk.
The roasted meats are never very satisfying, so I've stopped ordering that stuff from them. We literally only come here for casseroles.
My parents usually insist on ordering to go so that we get to keep the clay pot. I guess that helps to prevent me from opening it up too quickly. I hate waiting, so sometimes I don't get the crunchy rice on the bottom because of it...
Anyways, order the rice casserole with whichever topping you like. Leave it covered for a bit when they bring it to you so that you get the crunchy rice bottom. Swirl in a bit of the soy sauce mixture (not the regular soy!) and mix, either scraping the crunchy bits into the rice or leaving it for later. Eat and enjoy!
Damn, now I really want me some beef and egg rice casserole...
I came here before they got their new technology where your clay pot would be ready in a few minutes rather than waiting the 20 it would normally take. They are known for their clay pots, which are affordable and quite tasty. they also make good congee. I usually get the chicken and mushroom clay pot. They also have an assortment of roast meats hanging for your pleasure. Its pretty good but not as good as other places in chinatown.
I've never really eaten noodles there, mostly clay pots, cause you can't go wrong with what you pick, i love how the rice is crunchy on the sides and its hot when its served. I also like how its open late. I've walked in there at 2 am and ordered a clay pot.
The staff is friendly, though it does get touristy at times. buy a t shirt if you want, but i usually just go for the food.
I love Yummy Noodles! Their new motto: Noodles are forever!
If you're looking for cheap eats and a variety of Hong Style home cooking this is the place to go. Prices range from about $3.95 for a bowl of noodle soup to around $15 for some of the seafood entrees.
Claypot casseroles and noodles are the thing here, but if you like roasted and Chinese BBQ-ed meats it isn't bad either. Not a 10 but definitely a 7 or 8.
Enjoyed the fried soft shell crab for $6.95, but I would've liked rice with it. Three meats on rice was only $5.50.
Average food, poor service, exp for Chinese food
Went here last night w/ a few friends cuz one of them was craving casserole (clay pot rich dish). Its located in the "Tunnel" that connects Bowery and Elizabeth st (its much closer to the Bowery side).
Anyway, I got here a little late, my friends picked a table that was all the way in the back. It was cramped. Granted, its winter time and we all have our jackets and bags and what not, but still, could they have not put so many tables together?
As for decor, there is none. This is as bland as you can get, with a yellow color wood walls everywhere, and lights that only brighten the ugly yellow. Alright, let me get to the food:
We ordered (in the order that it came in):
dou miu stirred fry w/ garlic (not on the menu) - the best dish, almost everything else was a downer
Chinese sausage casserole - its good, but way too much rice
frog casserole - what frog? I only tasted dried orange peel (its a type of additive in many Chinese dishes) I think i found some frog eventually, but way too little
3 mushroom casserole - I like this one better than the last, maybe cuz you don't actually want too many mushrooms to overwhelm the taste
eel casserole - the best of all casserole dishes, which is kinda sad
there was 1 more casserole, but my friends polish that off, I don't think i tried it, its most likely the same as the other dishes
soy sauce marinated chicken wings - a bit salty, but bearable, at least the meat was tender
and after a long wait....
salty baked chicken (or duck) - way too much salt,... felt like I was choking on salt. I don't even taste the meat
Beef tripe w/ white carrots - carrots are nice and tender, and the meat was tender, but not really flavorful
overall, the food wasn't all that great. People like casserole dish specifically for the crispy rice that's sticking to the clay pot. The problem is I had some from the eel casserole and it was like burnt. I literally tasted a charcoal flavor in there. Ugh. I didn't even bother to scrap for them in the other dishes after that.
And if you didn't notice, we ordered the salty baked creature (does it matter if all I tasted ws salt?) and the soy sauce chicken wings as appetizers. They were listed in the "small eats" section of the menu, yet, they took as long as the casserole dishes to arrived. In fact, the casserole dishes arrive before them. What the heck was that about?
We asked the waiters multiple times where our chicken and beef tripe dishes were, and they kept on saying "its coming." Then when all the dishes came in after all that wait, they had the balls to place a check on our table before we were done. We did not ask for it. Why the heck are you rushing us, especially after you made us wait for our dishes? So we decided to sit another 10 minutes out of spite.
The total came out at $102. We begrudgingly paid $120 total. That's expensive for Chinese food. We usually pay that kind of price in a Chinese (dim sum) restaurant, not in a dump like this. Considering the amount of rice/ingredients ratio, this is a ripped off.
I feel this is one of those place that got too popular for its own good. Even as we were leaving they were still packing in people. Is this the only casserole dish place in Chinatown? I highly doubt that. To add insult to injury, as we got up to leave, a couple of my friends were like trapped in by a customer on the next table that decide to sit a feet away from her table, blocking their exit. Even after asking her, she was reluctant to move. What kind of ridiculousness is this?
I would have given it a 1 star if we didn't have the dou miu, the beef tripe, and the eel casserole dish.
The decor is very similar to average Chinese restaurant, simple. The service is also like average Chinese restaurant, simple.
I ordered the Casserole (with Chinese sausage and duck, first thing on the menu) and a bowl of noodles with egg wonton.
The noodles and egg wonton arrived first, which I did not prefer, I prefer to eat all the dishes simultaneously. The noodles and wonton are nothing special, very forgettable.
The casserole came later, and it was so-so, too few pieces of meat (less than 10). Nothing special either. And I have to add soy sauce to increase the flavor, otherwise it is just eating white rice with not enough pieces of meat.
Yummy Noodle isn't just about yummy noodles. In fact, I don't recall ever ordering noodles at this place. Amongst all the other million restaurants in Chinatown, this is the one where I go to get my "bo jai fan" fix. It's rice cooked in clay pots with various toppings.
My two favorites are salty fish with minced pork and the salty duck and meats. However, you probably won't go wrong with any of the. Add a little soy sauce, mix it all together and you've got yourself one heck of a meal for dirt cheap.
My most recent visit also included ordering the soy sauce chicken and a tung choy made with bean curd sauce. Both are well made and worthy of being side dishes at any meal.
I'm a fan and I'm sure you will be too.
MR says....
MRS says.... another random pick from rows and rows of restaurant in chinatown.
we ordered crispy pig which to my surprise it was served cold though there were still pieces of skin that's crispy. we tried the hot and sour soup. it was alright but nothing spectacular. the young chow fried rice was enough as a meal. it was over flowing with ingredients such as shrimp, pork and scrambled egg. what i liked most is the charbroiled or grilled flavor. very very tasty. well maybe because of the MSG. yes. i tasted MSG. we got some roast duck and it was ok.
we did not realize this place specialized in "noodle". we could have tried their noodles but we missed out. we have something to look forward to in our next visit.
again, be prepared to pay in CA$H only.
also space a little small so this is not good for large group... maybe during less peak hours?
My mom always gets her casseroles from here ALWAYS.
Ans she always gets it to go so we can have a free pot so we could make our own casseroles at home.
But homemade's never better than the resturants.
The bottom of the pot makes the rice all brown and crispy and that's what we like.
I don't know anything about their other dishes but their casseroles is top notch.
For those of you who are somewhat familiar with my reviews, I don't put much emphasis on ambiance, especially if its lack is reflected in the prices. Ghetto? Good. Ghetto and cheap? Goooooooooooooooood.
Ahh, Yummy Noodle. Scrumptious Cantonese food. It's so cheap it almost hurts. Try the rice casseroles, the eggplant casserole with shredded chicken (not the normal fish-eggplant thing, this one is #207 on the menu), and pan-fried flat noodles with seafood sauce. Last time I ordered the latter they forgot to add salt, but a few sprinkles later it was just fine. The roast meats aren't bad, but I prefer to order the carby dishes here. Breaking 10$/person is hard, and breaking 20$/person is probably impossible.
Suggestion: don't come here before a night out. No matter how much you ran that morning (eight miles), or how little you ate that day (a half cup of chicken soup), you will leave fat. No joke. FAT.
F-A-T.
Yummy Noodles conjures up visions of satisfying delicious authentic Chinese food. I consider YN a staple for late-nite Chinese satiety, however, I find the the quality of the food no different from any standard take-out joint. Of course, the rice casseroles (bo-jei-fan) are its claim to fame, however, they are not the only casseroles in town. I had the braised noodles (yee-mein) and my friend had the beef chow fun. The dishes arrived and I find them consistently oily and lacking flavor. My colleague, however, loves the place and can't rave more about his chow fun. Which leads me to the conclusion that YN is not for everyone, only those that need a quick Chinese fix at 11:30 at nite. YN does lives to its calling, its unique marketing and the need to fill an inexpensive Chinese food urge.
Note: Cash only! This is Chinatown. You could called the waitstaff "Flash" with how fast they get your orders out.
overall impression is positive, but this is Chinatown. lower your expectations on decor and service. This is a place for cheap, comforting Chinese staples.
I know this place as the "rice pot" joint. Way back in the day, you could get the rice to go and they give you the clay pot! Can't really do much with it but I had to try it!
At the very least, try one of the clay pot rice (or casserole) dishes. (Don't get the casserole chicken, unless you want to pick through out pulverized bones) Pick something you want to flavor your rice, as that's the whole point. I usually go with the spare ribs and black bean sauce (with extra ribs, and an egg). Should be enough carbs to pair another one of their specialties.
Tip: if you want fishballs and wontons, order that. without noodles. you'll get fishballs and wontons the size of a baby's fist. order it with noodles and you get marbles... okay i exaggerate but the difference is noticeable. it's a different dish
I finally came back to try the noodles with a couple of coworkers. We got the duck lo mien, chicken lo mien, and mixed veggie rice dish. The lo mien was good. It came with a separate bowl of strongly flavored soup of unknown seasonings that you can either spoon into the noodles or dunk your forkful of noodles into. I was downright disappointed when I saw that the duck was mainly not-so-crisp skin, fat, and bones. Que?! I don't think I even got one sliver of meat out of any piece and boy did I look. I guess you can't expect too much when you're paying five bucks for duck. I had a similar reaction to the mixed veggies- an Americanized dish of button mushrooms, water chestnuts, and broccoli. This may work in the burbs but it was an insult to see in Chinatown. The noodles are yummy indeed but that in itself couldn't save the meal. Not sure I'll be back.
I came here for lunch expecting a decent meal. I was not disappointed. The beef and tomato dish… Read more »
When this 1st opened a few years ago, the food & service was excellent. Since it changed owners, the service & food is terrible.
Do not recommend at all.
HOW TO EAT A RICE CASSEROLE* **:
1) Order any RC combinations.
2) Add a vegetable side for fiber.
3) Upon RC arrival, do not touch for 5 min. (This allows the rice touching the bowl to become golden brown and crispy.)
4) Squirt soy sauce mix into the pot (to taste)
5) Use metal spoon and mix up the rice/meat.
6) Eat.
* Rice casserole is rice that is placed in a high-temp dark stone pot.
** The korean version includes a raw egg and is called dol sot bi bim bap.
i dont know why they call this place yummy noodles . everyone here orders the clay pot dishes. i guess that's a tourist trap kind of marketing idea.
anyways the claypot dishes here are mediore at best. they dont even put flavorings or seasonings or vegetables in here like traditional hong kong hot pot places. not just that but i believe the clay pots here were burning such that the chemicals were leaking into the rice because i swear i smelled amonnia or some kind of gross melting synthetic smell coming from my rice pot.
the bathroom was also disgusting and the service was sour.
we all ordered something different along with some side dishes which were all mediocre. the claypots were all disappointing, bland, and did not give much rice. this place isnt really that cheap cuz if you want to add things like veggies or chinese sausage you have to pay extra for it. i had to ask them for hoisin sauce to flavor what they gave me.
all the side dishes were really teeny for chinatown standards and not very well made. we had the chinese brocolli which was bland and not thoroughly cooked , while the peking duck was overly fatty and more lard than duck meat. the eggplant was weird and sourish with a sweet aftertaste and reminded me of Panda express.
for authentic Hongkong food this place wasnt very good..and yea in my opinion not even that cheap! i mean the portions are small!!!!! maybe their noodles were yummy, but if you ask me i wouldnt go back to find out...
A nice place if you want a quick bite, I love getting the roast pork noodle soup, its quick and filling while on the run. I usually like to take friends here if I am in the area, because there are many places in chinatown to eat but this one treats you nicely.
haha I remember when I saw this restaurant on the Andy Milonakis show.
I love coming here after a night of drinking.
Must try's: honey glazed chicken wings & the different type of rice dishes they cook in a mini clay pot that's served to you (you can order it for take-out too!)
The noodles are yummy, so it's not false advertising. Open past midnight, they have decent Cantonese food: wonton, dumpling and other noodle soups, casseroles (which I haven't tried), etc.
Wasn't hard to find street parking nearby at 1 AM. You'd be hard pressed to find better eats past midnight.
I used to stop by here regularly for roast duck or roast pork, which were always good, but the place really specializes in congee -- sort of like cream of farina with tasty bits off the grill mixed in. It's an unpretentious place with good service, great if you've gotta get your roast duck fix fast.
Yummy Noodle is one of those "hole-in-the-wall" establishments that make up Chinatown. The restaurant is located at the beginning of a tunnel that connects Elizabeth Street to the Bowery, across the street from the entrance of the Manhattan Bridge, so the area is always busy.
This is one of those places where you eat and go. The place is a bit grimey thanks to all that foot traffic, so it's not exactly a place where you would want to linger. Rice casseroles are the main feature here. Everything else is middle of the road.
My friend Gen and I went here for lunch yesterday. It was very good. We got Vegetable Lo Mien, Crispy Pork, and Chicken Mushroom Casserole. I eat slowly. It was not very crowded, nice atmosphere and the waiter was patient, and nice people. We sat ate and talked for a couple hours, and they did not mind.
The food is tasty, and reasonably priced.
Our bill with tax came to $18, not bad at all for the amount and portions we had. I want to try the chicken wings next time, they looked so yummy hang there.
I took the left overs home to make soup for supper today.
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Neighborhood: Midtown East
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Neighborhood: Kips Bay
Neighborhood: Chinatown
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Neighborhood: Chinatown
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Neighborhood: Chinatown
Category: Chinese
Neighborhood: Chinatown
Category: Chinese
Neighborhood: Chinatown
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