Shan Wei Xuan — Restaurant in Subang Jaya

Was looking for zha jiang mian (“炸酱面”) after watching some food video on YouTube. Then come across this Shaan Xi noodle house in Sunway. Shan Xi (陕西) is a China province where people love to eat wheat noodles. So I decided to give it a try. The Shaan Xi noodle house serving mainly dry noodle (“拌面”) with different type of noodles and toppings. There are 3 types of noodle to chose from - hand made noodle, spinach noodle and the Shan Xi “biang biang” mian (kind of much wider, longer, hand pulled pan mian). For toppings there are scrambled egg with tomato, minced pork (which they called 臊子), braised pork, vegetable “saozi”, and finally a touch of their hot chilli oil.

Since It’s my first time here, I went trying the biang biang mian. I chose to have it with mince pork, tomato egg and hot chilli oil. You can choose the spicy level and to have extra noodle for free. When it was serve, all toppings are clearly separated, so you will have to mix all of them together. I like that it wasn’t too salty, the noodle has a good textual, it’s tender and chewy at the same time, and It’s also heavy as each noodle is long and wide!

They also serve soup noodle, many types of cold dishes (凉菜) and another Shan Xi specialty - rou jia mo 肉夹馍 - kind of Chinese burger, which I am going to try in...

Thanks to youtuber Mike Chen promoting Xi'an food I was quite eager to try them. The rou jia mo or chinese burger was pleasantly flavourful despite the simple looking stuffing and I was expecting the dough to be hard but it was not. The spicy dumpling soup and mala noodle were just passable without any surprises, both good or bad while the lamb pao mo had quite a strong lamb taste which I kinda liked. The pao mo dish is best described as unleavened dough bits in lamb soup with the something that tasted like mung bean noodle and lamb meat, garnished with scallions and came with a extremely salty fermented bean paste and pickled garlic cloves while the biang biang noodle are thick not unlike the Italian pasta pappardelle. I chose the spicy meat slices and they were quite good while the mixed vege are just not exactly essential. The other Shaanxi specialty liang pi wasn't ordered but the full vegetarian description is a major put off.

Taste factor: 8.1/10 Return factor: I would wanna try the liang pi and other toppings for the biang...

Nice noodle with balanced taste. They give chilli oil on the side for you to add if it's not spicy enough.

I also tried below which are nice too Black fungus Pig ear Bean curb skin - too salty

#2nd review (a year later)# The egg tomato with biang biang noodle remains delightful. The texture of the biang biang noodle is commendable. If you enjoy spiciness, I'd still recommend adding the chilli oil provided on the side to enhance the dining experience.

I also tried the sour soup noodle (handmade white noodle). The white noodle is good, but I believe there's room for improvement in the broth as it lacks sourness (maybe cam provide more tomato) and depth of flavour. The meat is quite salty on its own, so it's better enjoyed with the noodle. The main improvement area lies in serving the soup hotter; it arrived at room temperature, likely due to the...