Grand Noodle Emporium

Had lunch at the nest today and decided to try out the Grand Noodle Emporium. For food court food, I "guess" you could say it's okay. Anywhere else and this place should be out of business.

We had the Crispy BBQ Duck Spring Rolls to start. They were okay. We wish the daikon was cut thinner and included inside the spring roll, as he spring roll was quite bland without it - like it was missing something. The reason the daikon and carrots would have helped was because they were soaked in vinegar and helped cut the richness of the sauce and the fattiness of the duck.

We also had the Hunan Pork because we heard the person in front of us say it was "really good". It was a disappointment. The pork was probably frozen as we had notes that were cold and bites that were hot. It tastes a bit like domburi with the egg and all, but lacking all the seasoning of a domburi. At least adding hot sauce and soy sauce seems to help.

Overall, did not enjoy waiting in line and in anticipation only to be disappointed. Mediocre food. At least sushi seems a better deal. Won't return.

Tang's Bistro

I was craving noodle soup and feeling lazy so we went somewhere close by.

The renovations made the restaurant really hip and I really like that the restaurant is divided into thirds. I guess the renovations cost too much because this was the first Chinese restaurant that charged for tea.

I had the brisket and wonton rice noodle soup. My partner had the BBQ and wonton vermicelli. We also had pork soup dumplings.

The food were solid. My brisket was soft and the soup was flavourful. My partner's BBQ pork was overcooked and too tough. They had them under a bunch of noodles so I think they just kept cooking.

We were too excited to remember to take a picture of the pork soup dumpling, but they were mediocre. There wasn't enough soup in each dumpling and although the skin was thick, they broke easily.

I think I would have enjoyed the experience more if the server told us the noodles were ginormous. But solid.