Nouilles de Lan Zhou — Restaurant in Montreal

Phenomenal hand-pulled noodles!! I was looking for a quick, cheap, warm meal near my hotel and Nouilles de Lanzhou kept popping up in my Google / Yelp recommendations. I decided to poke my head in and was immediately greeted by the incredible fragrance of rich meat broths and savory stir-fried noodles. I settled in and grabbed their vegetarian combo set, which comes with a salad / appetizer of your choice, vegetable soup noodles, and a tea egg.

The noodles were absolutely incredible. They had a perfectly chewy, QQ texture and were super fun to eat. The soup noodles comes with the medium thickness noodles (san-xi), which is perfect for slurping. I was initially a bit nervous about how flavorful the vegetarian soup would be at a place that specializes in beef noodle soup, but it was fantastic; it was herbaceous, umami, and very tasty. The veggies were fresh and had a bit of crunch in them, and the tea egg was delightfully fragrant.

One note for folks with allergies — their chili oil has peanuts in it (or at least that’s what the servers told me), so you can’t use the chili oil at their table or get anything spicy (e.g., the...

NOODLE UNDERCOOKED + BOTH GOT DIARRHEA

I’m a regular to their chinatown store. I visited this store with my boyfriend today. I ordered the classic beef noodle, and my boyfriend ordered the beef chou mien. Right after the first bite, we both feel that the noodles are undercooked, they are very hard to chew, but we still finished it. My stomach feels really bad afterwards and IM EXPERIENCING DIARRHEA RIGHT NOW. So disappointed, never felt this bad after consuming the same thing at the chinatown store. Also, I asked for sanxi noodle, but the noodle that i got was literally erxi which is a lot of thicker than what i regularly ate at chinatown store.

Update: my boyfriend is now experiencing...

This noodle restaurant opened not too long ago and I was excited to try it out! There are two vegetarian options - veg fried noodle or a soup noodle option. I tried the soup noodle and the broth was rich but light - a spicy option would be a nice addition but the table does include some chili oil. There are also different noodle sizes and types to choose from. The interior is open and comfortable. The staff were friendly and efficient. This was a great dinner choice when hungry after a day from work. The small size was still a bit large for me, so could possibly be split between 2, especially for the combo, since it wouldn't keep well as takeaway....