Alex Eats World

I try to justify all the junk I eat by eating healthy ever once in awhile.  I mean, brussel sprouts are veggies right?? (albeit usually served with compound butter, bacon and/or deep fried)…  wow, those three things just got me very hungry.  Deep fried bacon dipped in garlic butter…

I’m lost….oh yes… Trying to eat healthy, I’m sitting here right now with a large bowl of high protein/high fiber kashi cereal with unsweetened soy milk.  With 13 grams of protein and 40% your daily fiber needs, it sounds like you’d be eating pieces of cardboard covered in protein power, but it actually tastes pretty reasonable.   What I really wish was in front of me in this 20F degrees weather is a big bowl of the knife cut noodles you see above.   If you’re ever in Asia you have to treat yourself to a noodle stand that makes knife cut noodles fresh.  It’s quite a show as the cook holds a ball of dough and starts knifing off thin strips directly into boiling water.

With one hand holding chopsticks and one hand on my camera I tried snapping a picture of the noodles.  Notice the wavy sides and the irregularly cut thicknesses throughout each noodle.  While most my friends prefer hand-pulled noodles, I think this is the best stuff.  The irregularity of each noodle adds so much to the differing texture and taste in each bite you have.  The thin edges are soft and have soaked up the flavor of the soup while the middle of the noodles offer appealing resistance to your bite.  Besides the great noodles, this place serves up soup that leaves something to be desired.  It seems to be a very simple soy flavored soup without much to it.  But, for $5 for a beef and beef tendon noodle soup, you can’t expect everything. Next time I’ll have to try their pan-fried knife cut noodle dishes.

Somehow, for some odd reason, their dumplings have a hint of sweetness to them and the sauces on the table are also sweet.  Why would anyone want sweet pork dumpings?!  The skin is thin and crispy and it could be a winner, but why are they sweet?!  Come for the noodles.  Pass on the dumplings.

Tasty Hand-Pulled Noddles
1 Doyer Street
New York, NY 10013