Noodle Master — Restaurant in Baytown

What a great little unsuspecting gem 💎 of a place in Baytown of all places! Super clean and roomy inside. Delicious and fresh food.

The food is so fresh, made right when you order it, and brought out quickly. The staff is friendly, welcoming, attentive, and helpful with the menu.

We ordered the

Orange chicken with steamed rice - it was a generous plate of delicious and tender fried chicken pieces in a sweet and orange flavored sauce. This is easily shareable, we brought home leftovers.

The pork and green onion bao - OMG! These were great! I’ve had bao in Asian town over in Bellaire and even while traveling including at Disney World and these here are the best Bao I’ve ever tried. I did not like the dipping sauce they brought out though, tasted like tobacco, but the bao are good alone or with the soy sauce though. The filling was tender and flavorful and the bao dough was smooth and not dry at all.

The vegetable fried spring rolls - these are delicious and fresh, came out piping hot, the veggies weren’t soggy and the wrapper was so flaky and crispy, and the dipping sauce is so good. You get 6 which is great for sharing.

Prices are reasonable, food fresh, and service great! I definitely recommend!

I can’t wait to return to try more items.

We returned and tried the

Fried noodles, combination no shrimp. We were warned they aren’t exactly lo mein but the closest they make but they’re right. If you want lo mein, that isn’t it. They had some sauce but some noodles weren’t covered and stuck together, the flavor isn’t right, the beef so tough and chewy, the chicken was tender and good flavored though. It’s plenty to share.

Cheese Bao - like a cheese stuffed fried biscuit. They were good, you get 4.

We ordered soup dumplings but when brought to our table the server leaned way over into the steamer basket because she saw something in them and said something is in these let me get you new ones. Then rushed them back to the counter to discuss with the other server then with the kitchen as they’re all looking in the steamer basket discussing what it was. That scared me and even though they offered to make new one I canceled those and we left because I was scared of what it was. Not sure how I feel...

This place is terrible. Just go to any of the 10 other Asian places within a mile. I wanted to leave and go somewhere else but I didn't want to be rude in front of my grandmother.

My noodles in my ramen were under cooked I guess, they were very firm. They tasted like box spaghetti noodles, the texture threw me off. (I saw the chef pulling fresh dough, maybe the bao is better?) and the pork and egg were over cooked. Idk how that happens but even the broth was bland and instead of an actual spoon or an asian soup spoon they give you a little laddle 🤣

The broccoli and beef was HUGE and it looked hot held and not made to order, my grandmother liked it but I thought it was bland and mushy. And they dumped it on the same spaghetti noodles I had in my ramen.

I don't know if it's counter service or what but the service is whatever. I had to go to the counter for take out boxes because The portion sizes are insane. They just kind of take the order and ghost. They were polite and the place was clean though.

The atmosphere is a white room with no music, a TV of someone making noodles on loop, with the servers conversations in the background. The " decor" is a random mix of Japanese and Chinese stuff on the wall. Well, one wall.

Terrible Americanized Asian food. The owner should be embarrassed. After reading the website I learned they were "authentic" Northern Chinese food. I guess I would have got something more Chinese if I knew that. But if that's what you're going to say then just give us Northern Chinese cuisine, not orange chicken and ramen or whatever you think people are...

We got in and the tables were pretty empty, we order a lot of food and wanted to sit at a larger table, no it is reserved for large parties. Ok, fair enough. Then we start ordering and couple of things they didn’t have the cucumber salad. Ok, maybe they ran out earlier. Hey, things happen and restaurants run out of food. While we are ordering, the waitress was a little helpful, but can’t order kids size for my 72 year old mom and there is no senior options, so she had to pay for a plate that there was no chance she was going to eat it all. We were told it is policy that adults can’t order kids plates. Now let’s get to the food, not good. Not bad, you can eat it, but definitely the flavor was mild and they even forgot to put meat in my sister in laws soup. We tried to joke about it but the waitress didn’t seem interested and maybe just a touch of rude (but not significantly) The dumplings were bland and warm, not hot, even the Xiao Long Bao which is supposed to burn your mouth, maybe it’s a health issue in the US?

The waitress asked about the food and my wife said the curry was salty, and she said that how curry is made.

Overall, was not impressed and really surprised this place has such a high rating and was excited to get some authentic Chinese food. We were disappointed with the service and the food. Do not recommend.

Oh, no one sat at the tables we...