ISO CHINESE ROAST MEAT & NOODLES
The other night Anthony Bourdaine's show was about Hong Kong. He visited one of the last artisan who make hand made noodles. The guy kneeded the dough buy sitting on top of a bamboo pool and bouncing up and down.
He at the noodles in a soup with top notch barbecued pork and goose/duck. Where is THE place to go in the SGV for this style of food. I'm searching for a place that roasts the meat themselves.
I'm hoping to go where this dish is the specialty, not one on a menu of 50 items.
Since flying to Hong Kong this weekend isn't going to work out, send me to the SGV ISO this meal!
markethej
Sep 14, 2007 03:51PM
Ma Lan Noodles in Rowland Heights. It's what pretty much everybody orders.
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Thanks! You're one of the chowhounders I was hoping would reply!
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Great recommendation. Looks like a trek out to Rowland Hgts is in order.
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Just a clarification, these are long-life noodles, 長壽麵 / tseung sau mein / chang shou mian -- you know, where they start with a long blob of dough, spin it a bunch, drag it through flour several times and then end up with 4,000 noodles... as opposed to 刀削麵 / do siu mein / dao xiao mian, which is "dough sliced" noodles, thick and square and usually eaten with lamb in Chinese Islamic places. If you want dao xiao mian, you should go to China Islamic on Garvey and Del Mar, or to Mas in Anaheim.
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What type of hand-made noodles did you see? Did the guy make zillions of strands of noodles starting from one long lump of dough? Did he cut the noodles from folded sheets of dough?
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He actually machine cut the final product. The artistry was in the kneading process. How he see-sawed up and down on the bamboo poll working the dough, folding it, and working it again. Apparently there are many shops where you can see the noodles themselves being "pulled": even at Mr. Chow's they have some guy doing it now. The dough however is machine made, so in the end it's just showmanship. Bourdain didn't respond like this was showmanship; it resulted in a superior noodle with a more complex texture and taste.
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