the noodle club

delicious noodles and dumplings

we visited this restaurant specifically to try their hand-pulled biang biang noodles (youpo mian) and they were delicious. the noodles were freshly made and the sauce (we chose to get the sauce with beef) was delicious. the pork and prawn dumplings weredelicioustoo. we weren't that excited about our cucumber salad though - it might have been a little bit past its best. the service was fast, the portions are generous and the prices are very reasonable!

they’re delicious. handmade and pulled, thick and long. they say they’re like a belt. a bloodydeliciousbelt. they’re simply put with chilli, garlic, vinegar, soy and greens but you can also add beef if you want. i went without as i also ordered the pork steamed dumplings!. turns out that youpo noodles are actually what the peasants used to eat (lucky them) many, many years ago. they were a basic dish that grew in popularity.

i go here with nanxi infrequently. it's in the runcorn plaza shopping centre so parking is ample albeit hazardous.

the cooking is homestyle northern chinese and not really to my taste but is well received by my chinese friends. every person i've shown these photos is immensely interested as well as homesick, the taste is very authentic apparently. they do an extensive range of cold salad items, which i'm not a fan of but are also extremely popular judging from the huge amounts people buy.

i went here for hand pulled lamb noodles, they used a fatty cut of lamb that was smoky, greasy tender tastiness. it was a greasy dish for sure but surprisingly delicious. the noodles were all different sized and had a great chewiness to them. there was a lot of onion and capsicum slices there too but there was equally as much lamb!

nanxi insisted i get the hot and sour beef soup. a slightly medicinal flavour with lots of shredded bits that i couldn't identify. i would say beef, black cloud fungus and other bits. i had a few tablespoons and stopped, mostly as i was very full eating other things for breakfast.

we got a egg and green onion pancake plus a pork bun each. the egg pancake was light and flakey, ive not had something like that for breakfast before so i've got no option on it. the pork buns were very large! a thin layer of dough and a large disc of juicy minced pork with a strong ginger flavour. almost too juicy! beware the splatter!

i got a marinated egg too. no grey ring, solid soy flavour, would get again!

the real high light for me was the freshly made you tiao! we were told there was a 15-20 minute wait cause of how many orders there were at 7am on a saturday morning! the line never got less than 8 people queueing, plus people taking home giant cardboard boxes of them!

they were so good! light, despite their oil frying, airy, chewy and huge to boot! the size of my forearm aka a woman's size 9!!! i slowly picked at my you tiao and took the second half home. my mum found it and she said it wasdelicioustoo, high praise!

all in all, go for the you tiao, everything else is average for me but your mileage may vary if you're a homesick chinese person.