美食之家 Noodle House — Restaurant in Leeds

Delicious food at unbeatable prices

Service - Staff are always fantastic, fast, attentive and as friendly as they need to be! You're not getting silver spoon service, but if you want that then why are you here?

Atmosphere - Classic style hustle and bustle fast paced eatery, this is something I love. If you don't, grow up.

Food - I couldn't sing praises for the food anymore than I already do! I can't think of a single Chinese/Malay eatery which offers such tasty food for prices as good as this, even after the slight price rise post-covid it's still worth it every time.

What to order?

Really I would feel comfortable ordering anything from this menu, everything is cooked by fantastic chefs on high powered gas burners, anything cooked in those woks is dripping in wok hay flavour that is truly so special and unbeatable, however some of my favourites;

Malatang Lamb/Beef w/ noodles or rice: Fantastically spiced and perfect amount of mouth numbing. Absolutely loaded with various meat offerings, vegetables and delicious broth. Perfect for cold weather!

Pickled mustard greens and fish w/ noodles or rice: An acquired taste but I implore you to try and acquire it! A deliciously light yet flavourful broth which is slightly sour and goes so perfect with their toothsome vermicelli rice noodles. Again, absolutely loaded with fish and greens!

Beef ho fun: If you want wok hay look no further, deliciously smokey tender noodles with gorgeous velvety beef! Perfect anytime, any day, any weather. I could eat this every day!

Roasties: Probably their namesake dish which people return for time and time again, doesn't get much better than this!

Laksa: This is, after all, a Chinese/Malay spot so please lean into the more Malay flavoured offerings here. One of the best Laksa's i've had in the UK. Deliciously creamy and aromatic, packed with meaty fillings and again their gorgeous noodles.

Mie Goreng: Exactly like the Ho Fun, swimming in wok hay aroma and flavour but with some added Malay spice. Fantastic for all!

Pork and aubergine over rice: An everyday Chinese classic staple for a reason and Noodle House do it perfectly!

Worth it? - Never has a restaurant offered such great quality food for such affordable prices! This sits with Thai A Roy Dee in the pantheon of fantastic Leeds eateries! If you haven't eaten here, what are...

So i returned this time and it was open. Really excited as the menu looks amazing. I was not disappointed.

There is so much that we wanted to try. We could not eat too much as the bowls are generous. We settled for wanton noodle soup, laksa and being super greedy a plate of 3 mixed roast meat.

Wanton soup, gentle broth with a hint of celery. Not a big flavour but not unpleasant. The wantons were superb, sweet and flavoursome filling an absolute dream.

Laksa was a rich and spicy coconut spiked broth. A generous set of bits and pieces fried beancurd, prawns, fishballs etc. I have had it in Malaysia and think it was a good version.

Mixed meats. Not a big fan of char sui pork. It was well done i think a neck filled. Just not my cup of tea. Roast pork was fantastic. Still moist with a great crackle, super yum. Finally I think it was a chunk of Haianese chicken. It was cloud like tenderness. Almost worth going just for this.

All in all i cannot recommend enough. Pigged out for 18 quid including 2 cups of tea. Can't...

Their cantonese food is probably alright, but make no mistake, this does NOT serve Malaysian/ Singaporean food, despite their claims. I asked for char kway teow and got a decent Chinese-style wide rice noodle stir-fry. It didn't displease me, but I was looking for SG/Malaysian char kway teow! Staff tried to pull a fast one on me, telling me that the SG/Malaysian dish was very special and they couldn't answer my questions about it because I had to try it for myself, before I disclosed, in mandarin, that I WAS Singaporean, and the panicked waitress yelped to the kitchen girl at the back (in mandarin!) "O no, she's from Singapore, what do we do!"

All in all not impressed. I asked if they were serving average darker CKT or the penang variety. If they didn't know, they should've said, we don't specialise in their cuisine, we have no idea. Instead they tried to fool me, and it went badly. Wouldn't be visiting again, even if the Cantonese stuff is good. Just, it was an act...