The Noodle Bar Markham 老朱車仔麵 — Restaurant in Markham

I ordered the noodles with 4 toppings: curry fish ball, curry pork skin, chu hou beef brisket, and deep fried pork fat. Each of the ingredient are cooked throughly with care so the items are very tasty! (入味). To me, the curry sauce and the beef brisket sauce goes so well together with the soup noodle and together also with the house sauce, taste very good! Make sure u get all the shallot, coriander, scallions, it just taste sooo yummy all together. Got to mention the evil guilt deep fried pork fat... my favourite!! Those are the left over bite from the pork fat after the pork oil are extracted out when the pork fat are deep fried. You gotta have that! I recommend u eat those bites first while it's crunchy before the soup make it soggy. I do the take so I took the pork fat bites out before I pour the soups in. Yum. Very evil... but yum!!

We also get the rice with pure pork oil with soy sauce. I guess this is where the pork oil is used .. haha.. another evil dish. But to be honest, it's a tasty bowl of rice but don't expect too much because after all, it is only white rice with oil and soy sauce. The aroma from the pork oil is something to try if u haven't tried pork oil before.

The food is pricey but i think it's worth it in my opinion, hope they keep this up and I will go again.

But please expect a long wait for the table or food if u r...

TL;DR: The authentic HK taste served here is a rarity in the GTA area. The taste is decent and the portion is great for its price. The staff are friendly and they speak HK Cantonese as well. I went in a rainy weekday around 2pm for dine-in and there's no wait at all. The place only accepts cash and debit (NFC).

I ordered a 4 topping noodles (chicken wings, beef, cuttlefish, curry fish balls) with the the special and the swiss sauce. For only $13, you get 2 wings and 4 balls each, which is quite generous compared to other shops out there. The toppings are marinated well, and the whole bowl is delicious. However, I wish the broth/sauce is a bit stronger, though it could have been my combinations.

The topping selection is very diverse and authentic, and filled with rare ones that you don't find in most places. However, 1/3 of them are out of stock. The noodle selection is decent too but I wish there are more noodle types (e.g. Pho rice noodle). The drink menu is very limited with only a few soft drinks and chrysanthemum tea (sold out), I wish that they serve more HK style drinks.

One last thing, the QR code menu is default to Chinese so you have to click the hamburger menu on top left then...

Lined up here first thing in the morning before they opened and there was already a huge line! Vaccination receipts were checked and each table were separated by plexiglass dividers.

You have to scan a QR code located on the table to place orders. Pretty much everything is contactless and intuitive. Ordering the items through their website was easy, the moment you place your order, a waitress will come by and give you a receipt confirmation. Our food arrived in less than 15 minutes given we were the first table to be seated. Most of my family called the house special noodle and it included fishballs, abalone, pork feet/intestines and turnip. It tasted delicious and it reminded me of noodles I ate back home- Hong Kong. The bowl costs $15, it’s not cheap but I think it’s reasonable as they were generous with the portions.

Only downside is their website is in Chinese so if you can’t read the characters, I’m not sure how you could understand what you’re ordering. Maybe by looking at the pictures? Something the restaurant owner should take into consideration. Make an English site so non-Cantonese/Mandarin speakers can order easily.

Note: CASH/CREDIT...