Mei Nung Beef Noodle House — Restaurant in Markham

Ok wow. I didn't realize I hadn't written a review for this staple institution yet!

I think they've been around since pre-2010 and it's still standing. Located at First Markham Place.

As everyone's pointed out already, you walk in, you get blasted by that powerful stinky tofu smell, let it MARINATE on your nose and then in 5 min you become numb to the smell and get used to it while you're looking at the menu.

A large, homemade beef noodle soup is the go-to order. I recently came back with my friends on a saturday for diner just to see if the quality had remained or gone down.

Happy to report, the quality seems to have remained good! The noodles while I'm not sure whether they're made in-house anymore, certainly felt like fresh, handmade noodles as they were very chewy and had a lot of springiness to them (although I do rmbr them being much thicker in diameter).

They still give you a lot of beef which is very nice. 80-90% of the beef chunks were tender. I got the occasional not-so-tender piece but for the amount of beef you're getting in each bowl that is easily forgiven.

Broth is still layered and tastes complex. I can't really recall if it was better in the past since it's been SO long but it had good flavour so that's good enough for me.

The dumplings remained exactly the same. Same wrappers and same filling.

Seems to me like they've maintained their standards all these years! If you can tank the stinky tofu smell for the first 5 min, you will enjoy a great bowl of...

Carb counter? Forget it!

This place was recommended to me by my online friends. So we’d thought we’d try it out.

The restaurant is in First Markham Place. Man oh man. Do NOT come to park on the weekend. It took me a good 30 mins to find parking here.

The restaurant is not in the mall, but one of the restaurants on the edge. It’s quite a small restaurant with limited items.

The main claim to fame is the beef soup noodles. They also have a bunch of snack. So We ordered one large beef tendon bowl as well as a pork dry noodle bowl. We skipped the stinky tofu. They have three different noodles, glass noodles, rice noodles, or their homemade noodles. We decided on the homemade noodles.

Boy oh boy, the noodles bowls did not disappoint. There was a generous helping of noodles in each bowl. We tried the soup noodles first. The beef soup was excellent. It was salty and sweet. The salt was not overpowering. It was fairly complex in flavours. The noodles had the correct springiness. It came with plenty of beef chunks and tendons that were firm, but not too soft; the beef had a bite to it.

Next we tried the dry noodle bowl. It was flavored with soy sauce and sesame oil. It was also delicious. The pork was very nicely seasoned. But the true star was the soya egg. It had absorbed the soya sauce flavor and had a hint of star anise. It was absolutely incredible.

Overall the meal was quite enjoyable. I would be happy to recommend this restaurant to anyone who has a craving...

Located in First Markham place, small store front so ya gonna search for it

Decided to get my stink on and ordered their stinky tofu, as normally restaurants will not have this in the menu because of the smell. More than 50% of the tables ordered this dish so it can't be that bad.

Good choice, cooked fresh and the stink was not that bad when compared to the stinky tofu stalls in Mongkok, Hong Kong.

Their beef noodle was stellar, flavorful broth, tender beef and chewy noodles.

Jaja mein was ok but not as good as I would hope for

Stinky tofu was the star of the show, bring a bottle mouthwash with you beforehandLocated in First Markham place, small store front so ya gonna search for it

Decided to get my stink on and ordered their stinky tofu, as normally restaurants will not have this in the U menu because of the smell. More than 50% of the tables ordered this dish so it can't be that bad.

Good choice, cooked fresh and the stink was not that bad when compared to the stinky tofu stalls in Mongkok, Hong Kong.

Their beef noodle was stellar, flavorful broth, tender beef and chewy noodles.

Jaja mein was ok but not as good as I would hope for

Stinky tofu was the star of the show, bring a bottle mouthwash with...