It’s always a crap shoot ordering Chinese food here, as evidenced by my Singapore Noodles adventure some time back.
Today, I felt like soup.
Noodle Soup.
Now Noodle Soup is not a simple endeavor in the US.
It is hard to locate, and once found, it usually tastes nothing like I had envisioned.
The only thing on PF Chang’s menu that remotely resembled noodle soup was an oddity called “Pin Rice Noodle Soup.”
I asked the waiter what the noodle looked like and he looked at me like I was a noodle.
Yellow or white? I asked.
Clear, he said.
You know how they say Eskimos have a million ways to describe ice? Yeah, Chinese have a million ways to describe noodles too.
I was setting myself up for disappointment. I could feel it.
Fine, I said, I’ll have it.
Imagine my surprise when lo shi fun or “rat tail noodles” arrived.
I have not seen that on any menu in the two years since we moved here.
Jay D could eat no rat(‘s tails)
His Wife could eat no lo-mein
So between them both you see
They licked their platters clean
is that bee tai mak?
Er, yes. What is bee tai mak? Is that Hokkien? I know it as lo shi fun.
bee tai mak is also what i know it as. Never knew it was called lo shi fun! But yummy i love bee tai mak. But that one in the pic doesn’t look very tasty??? was it?
I guess it is called bee tai mak! Hmmm. I know it looked kinda bland, but for someone having a noodle craving with clear soup, it sure beat all the other random, over flavored or curry soups they tend to serve!
it’s a real bitch to eat with a fork though. haha
Yah… I realised how deprived you were when you said the prawn noodles at the malay satay hut was good….