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Start New ThreadI'm looking for some place in Manhattan or Brooklyn that has the best cold noodles with sesame sauce. There use to be a place in Chinatown called Little Szechuan that had the best cold noodles but I believe they closed a couple years ago. Need a substitute to feed my cravings.
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on Dec 5, 2006 08:58 PM
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Both Wu Liang Ye & Szechuan Gourmet (both midtown) do it right. It's not that awful, leaden peanut buttery stuff most bad Chinese restaurants serve.
Was Little Szechuan that place on Oliver or Henry Street? I think they closed a long time ago.
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Yes it was located on Oliver Street. Very small with about 8 tables. They moved to a much larger space on East Broadway for a few years and then closed maybe 6 years ago (or maybe moved and I just don't know where).
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I second Wu Liang Ye. Could use a plateful right now!
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Grand Sichuan (International Eastern Incorporated)
1049 2nd Ave At 55 St
(212) 355-5855
Nice amount of heat, but not overly spiced.
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I like Grand Sichuan @ 21 Saint Mark's, too. Probably the same owners. Not the usual peanut butter stuff. Nice & flavorful, a little bit spicy. Also try their cold cucumber with scallion sauce, if you're looking for tasty cold apps.
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I will try it, the muck of too much peanut butter seems the current
standard.
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I love the noodles at The Greens in Brooklyn Heights ... flat green noodles with a great sauce. This a vegitarian/kosher Chinese restaurant. Another favorite here is Yin and Yang ... realy dense mushrooms in terrific sauce that tastes just like pork! Upstairs on Montague street.
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The MIE chain (if there are any left) makes very good ones. I had them all the time (along with the even better, atypical Dan Dan Noodles) at the late lamented place on 1st Ave. @ 13th St.
The place on 7th Ave. between 54th and 55th, just south of the Carnegie Deli, also makes good ones. I often take them home for dinner. However, eat them quickly. If you keep them overnight, the vinegar predominates.
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There's still a Mee on 9th Avenue. I sort of like their fake dan dan noodles--it reminds me a bit of a Chinese attempt at fettucine Bolognese.
Are you talking about China Regency near Carnegie Deli? I don't know if I've had the noodles there, but the place is an abomination, and when I worked midtown coworkers always wanted to go there (the same people who always wanted to go to Carmine's).
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Yes, it's China Regency. I agree that it's generally awful, but they make great sesame noodles. I work a few blocks away and bring them home for dinner about once every 3 weeks.
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Mee at 53rd and 9th makes good sesame noodles. They're a bargain at $1.95
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$1.95? Seriously?
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As I told someone in a post for $5 eats, you can get a decent sized dish of sesame noodles-$1.95, Vegetable Hot and Sour soup w/Cellophane Noodles-$1.85 (pretty big bowl-delicious)and scallion pancakes (fairly crisp and dry-not sodden)$1.95. I call it the trinity. Completely filling for under $6
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Joe's Shanghai use to make a pretty good one with spinach noodles. Don't know if they still make it anymore.
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I've had them at Joe's in Flushing. They're not made with spinach noodles and I think they are just okay. If you get some hot oil on the side, that helps ratchet them up a notch.
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Oh I'm sorry you are right. I had them at Sung Dynasty on 48th or 49th on Lexington Avenue. But this was a long time ago. Maybe someone can give us an update.
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Wu LIang Ye makes really good sesame noodles.
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Noodles on 28th, which moved up a block to between 29-30th street on the opposite side of 3rd ave---has very good cold sesame noodles, and they are actually better warmed up---and their scallion pancakes are excellent.
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Tried the ones at Spicy and Tasty in Flushing, and they were excellent.
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Yes, in my opinion, far and away the best I've had. But aren't they in more of a chili than a sesame sauce? Or is that another dish?
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they have a sesame sauce but it's subtle..it's funny they taste exactly like an organic health store which had a prepared food section in Glen Cove years ago....except they add a bit of hot chili's to it...but they are good--and light tasting..not heavy and gloppy like other renditions.
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Are there any other places in Queens that serve good cold sesame noodles?
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Spicy and Tasty is in Queens, flushing.
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Kevin Kong was the original owner and chef on Olover Street. He sold it and then bought it back and then moved to East Broadway. He was not a young man. Maybe he retired. I found a place online in Fair Haven, N.J. with a very similar menu: Little Szechuan
- littleszechuannj.com
2025 Old Trenton Road, Princeton Jct - (609) 443-5023
Kevin trained a lot of cooks. If you try them please let me know. I live in Hong Kong now. If i visit NY I would like to try them.
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I'm also a huge fan of the noodles at Grand Sichuan on 55th and 2nd.
They are not overly creamy or overly spicy. Yum!
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