Xiang Yuan Qiao Yunnan Cross Bridge Rice Noodle — Restaurant in Coquitlam

Delicious broth/soup foods. Their menu has icons for customer and cook-recommended foods, if you're a first time visitor, those dishes are actually really good picks. Their recommended ('original') milk tea was more delicious than I expected, and I always order it.

They have non-spicy dishes that can be made spicy. If you are sensitive to typically spicy foods (like me) pick mild; you can add spicy pepper oil to your liking later. If you like spicy but not as much as your tongue-burning loving friends, pick medium (I'd still recommend trying mild and spicing it up yourself until you can try from someone else's bowl or you might be overwhelmed, medium is still quite spicy). If you love burning your tongue and crying a little (I don't get you people xD) you'll find 'spicy' is at least 'ok' perfect spending how sensitive you are (remember you can always add more spicy oil).

If you don't eat out at Chinese/East Asian restaurants that often, don't be too surprised about the way some meats are served with the bone still in; it's a cultural difference of cuisine, as far as I can tell. To avoid that, pick a cut of meat (brisket is really good for first-timer), instead of, say, ribs (they're chopped ribs into 1.5inch cuts with bone, you can pull the soft meat off easily with your teeth, for example). Just saying, it's a really good place that serves good food, and you can follow their menu's recommendations, but if you're not used the way some dishes are served, you could be unpleasantly surprised, and I'm saying don't be. Expect to spend around 15-20 bucks depending on whether or not you got their delicious milk tea drinks (they have more, btw, some...

We’ve been to this restaurant many times throughout the years. The noodle soup is amazing. They’re served in a clay pot that keep it hot throughout the meal. The portion is pretty good too. What I like the most about this place that differs from other noodle houses is that they provide a self serve condiment section that customers can add green onion, parsley, chopped garlic, chili oil and peppercorn oil. So customers can adjust the flavor and spiciness for their noodle. I like garlic, so I would always add a fairly good portion so the smell would last for a few days in my breath 🤣. Their bubble tea is surprisingly good too for a non-bubble tea place. The pearl is chewy. They also have a flavor we enjoy so much and haven’t been able to find it elsewhere (long yan and dates milk tea). As there is only one server that also acts as a cashier and the bubble tea maker, don’t expect too much service. I guess the restaurant made it clear of that when they made a QR code menu for you to order from yourself. What they should do next is, buy a robot to deliver the food so they don’t even need a server. Overall we enjoy the place for our noodle fix. But the one thing they should really fix is their washrooms. Let’s just say if you use it before your meal, you might lose...

Word service I've ever received at a restaurant. Waitress misheard my order and gave me two orders when I only ordered one and proceeded to defend herself saying I messed up because she apparently said "you want both medium spicy?" Saying that should've been a big enough indicator for me to correct her. I proceed to apologize for her misunderstanding me as I didn't know what to respond to which she rolled her eyes at me and walked out. I then hear her loudly complain to other coworkers in Mandarin about how dumb I was to not correct her when she never gave a confirmation over what we wanted to order nor have any indication that I wanted two orders other than that statement. After that, the waiters gave no service, never came up to my table to take orders of later arriving parties until we flagged them down, took food away before we were finished without asking, never refilled our tea and water, and continue to talk rudely about my table with coworkers. The food was good but the extremely sassy and rude attitude of the workers who honestly looked like they wanted to be somewhere else ruined the...