May 24, 2013

• Sunday Lunch With Mom

  
  Mom and I made plans to go to United Noodles for lunch last Sunday. United Noodles is an Asian grocery store with a deli area where food orders can be taken in a cafeteria style setting called UniDeli. The grocery store has a good selection of Asian groceries, including Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Thai, Filipino, Vietnamese, and Indian. Prices are higher and overpriced than other places and they often have a lot of expired/spoiled goods. We were there just to eat in the deli so we didn't bother buying any produce.

  
  Mom ordered the Pork and Preserved Vegetable Noodle soup $7 (wheat noodles in a clear broth).  The noodles were the more thicker Shanghainese or Taiwanese noodles so it is more chewier and had a nice bite and goes with the soup really well. The broth was very mild and delicate and was being offset with the more salty preserved vegetables and slivers of pork; it was a good balance. There there some bokchoy and slightly steamed mung bean sprout underneath all the preserved vegetables.

  
  I ordered the Soy bean paste noodle with pork (also known as zhajiangmian) $7 (wheat noodles with ground pork and soybean sauce). It seemed interesting and I've never tried this before. The noodle also comes with sliced cucumber and slightly blanched mung bean sprouts and a tea-smoked egg.

  
  After mixing up everything, it looks the the picture above. Taste-wise, I thought it was slightly too salty for me, the sauce that is.I brought the rest home for my dad and he loves it.

  

  Overall I think it's a good deal. I will have to try to make both of the noodles at home, if it turn out good then I will post the recipe on here. Next time I would like to try their ramen and get their Lunch special take out, they give you a lot and on the weekends they often have braised pork belly.

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