It’s not really a whole week of noodles. I didn’t even have all these dishes this week. But I needed an excuse to put up excessive pictures of food porn. As an added benefit to you, the reader, I’ll add in a quip for each dish, no extra charge!
My mom and I were home one night, and my told me to take my mom out for dinner so she wouldn’t have to go through the hassle of cooking just for two. As usual, we spent a long time debating where to go because there are very few places, as you may have noticed from reading this blog, that the family of fatties will go willingly. And so, after debating the choices, we decided to just stay home and make something simple. I found some packages of ramen and thought we could make some noodles really quickly and add some choice toppings. Unfortunately, it wasn’t ramen, but flat rice noodles, or he-fen. It didn’t really matter to me–after topping it with an egg, some green matter, seaweed, and some bbq pork, it was almost like ramen, except not as declious. But as a lesson to ya’ll, as long as you at least have eggs, seaweed (nori), and maybe green onions, you can make any instant ramen (note: when I say instant ramen, I mean high quality ramen that costs more than 10 cents a bag) into a hearty bowl of noodles.
On another night, she brought home a new noodle dish from our restaurant (China Bistro) for me to try. I think the literal translation is “bird’s nest noodles,” or something to that effect. They take some thin egg noodles and fry them into the shape of a ball/nest, and you’re supposed to dump a bunch of sauce and noodle accessories (i.e. meat and vegetables) to soften up the noodles. If you wait a minute, the noodles will have wilted a bit and safe for consumption. Though if you are more of a daredevil, you can choose to just eat crunchy noodles plus sauce right after combining them for more of a textural delight–crunchy and soft–if you’re willing to risk exposing the roof of your mouth to hundreds of sharp noodle-ends. I am one to do that.
I think it’s being sold as a limited-time special, so get it soon before we stop selling it. However, I think if there’s enough good response, we may make it a permanent menu item (that’s what my dad tells me).
This past week was my last week at work, and I will miss most aspect of it (not the part where I sit down for hours at a time reading about broken necks). But one of the perks I will miss most is the location to such great eats, like May’s Cafe and other keepin-it-real taco shacks. Without work, I wouldn’t really have a good reason to drive 10 miles across town to eat a 6 dollar bowl of noodles.
I’ve been getting bun a lot during the summer, and this time I switched up the toppings (exciting!) from shrimp and pork to egg rolls (super fried-tastic!). I didn’t expect the mountain of egg rolls, but I like cha gao, so I didn’t have problems with the mountain or fried-ness.
And thus ends the week of noodles. It was a good week.
Addresses!May’s Cafe
2327 N Fresno St # 102 Fresno, CA (559) 225-7990China Bistro
2021 W Bullard Ave Fresno, CA (559) 447-8399
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