Fabulous Noodles Report
Started with Vegetarian Chicken, a marinated tofu and dried mushroom concoction that I normally love, but it was half-frozen (!) this time, and so only offered up its best flavor as time passed, and we had moved on to other things.
Crispy Chicken was more juicy and tender than usual with the normal lemon and salt mix. Quite tasty.
Soup Noodles with BBQ Pork. A high point for me. Excellent, rich broth (which they continued to replenish), nice thin noodles, and pork "like candy" to quote TonyG. Very satisfying - I could have made a meal on it.
Salty, spicy soft shell crab. Tasty and tangy, though I wonder if we are approaching the end of the season. It got a little lost in the rush of dishes, though, and I think I prefer the big, crunchy heads on shrimp in a feast such as this.
Yu Noodles with pork and shrimp. Another stellar dish, big thick noodles bathed is a light brown sauce with baby shrimp and strips of pork. Livened up perfectly with chili oil.
Ginger Beef, recommended by our hosts. Slyly sweet and tangy, crisp fried bits of beef candy. Very good.
Tofu and fish maw casserole. A symphony of textures - chewy strips of maw, chunks of tofu with their own medley of crispy, and exploding soft interior, and big black mushrooms. The mushrooms dominated the flavor, with the other components adding just those textures.
Sauteed water spinach with garlic. Particularly stemmy this evening, we all needed a little roughage. By the time it came, I think we were also pretty full.
Vegetable fried rice and white rice accompanied everything.
And all for the un-chowish price of $17 per. A fine meal. Thanks to all who came. More details on Joliet to come shortly, though I think that may be a new topic for clarity.
Please chime in if I forgot anything.
Fabulous Noodles
4663 Old Tavern Rd
Lisle, IL 60532
630-305-8868
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