Huaxi Rice Ramen — Restaurant in Bellevue

The way that they cook the rice noodle is wrong, which makes the noodle chewy and lacks of texture. They just dump the dry noodle into hot water, boil for a few minutes and take it out. The correct way to make rice noodle is to boil some water, put the dry noodle in, turn off the stove instantly, close the lid, let it sit for hours until the water is completely room temperature. Then you keep the noodle in cold water and put it into fridge. When you cook it, you make the base, boil it, and dump the cold noodle into the boiling water, wait for it to boil again, then instantly remove it from heart. Boiling dry noodle directly is def not the authentic way to cook. I gave this place two shots, one with skinny noodle the other with thick noodle, neither of the time that the noodle came in with the right texture.

The flavor of the toppings and base is decent, on the salty side. Considering the price, I can give a 2 at the most.

If you are a hardcore rice noodle fan who grew up in china — pleas avoid this place. I’d say Pavo at least gets the...

Restaurant inside Asian Family Market. All ordering done through a tablet at the counter. The menu has seven or so soup noodles and a list of add-ons. Prices are between $15 and $20 per bowl. The noodle base is ok but the soup base tastes average. The soup seems to be from some soup powder with additional seasoning that don’t taste that great in combination.

We would prefer foods from other restaurants in the food court...

Oily but hearty, we had the #4 pickled pepper and beef rice ramen and the popular #6 traditional beef rice ramen. The portions are filling, but based on previous photos they have been caught by inflation as well, expect to spend 15-20 dollars here for a bowl. Fragrant peanuts, numbing spices and chilli powder, definitely hits the spot and go for extreme spicy for those that want to sweat in this cold and rainy...