Beijing Noodle House－－北京面馆

We finally decided to try the Beijing Noodle House in Richmond. This place was especially recommended to us by Raymond Li (李学军) the manager of Regency Toyota, where we take our car for service. Raymond is from Dalian, in Northern China. He said if you want some good wheat-based Northern cuisine, try this place. So we did.

It was nice and clean inside, which almost made up for the bad service. To be fair, I think the staff weren't too sure of their English, and we were the only non-Chinese in the place. [this picture is from the web, so no, it wasn't empty]

This is a signature dish, the beef noodles. I passed, but it looks good for the genre.

We started off with the thick noodles and cabbage. Quite tasty.

Also good was the garlic chives and bean sprouts. Wonderful when mixed with the noodles. I do love garlic chives (韭菜 jiucai).

Our final wheat-based item was steamed veggie dumplings. I know, noodles and dumplings, two kinds of fan, but what the hell. 饭 fan is the filler part of a meal, like rice, noodles, or dumplings. Usually, one picks only one, unless you're a foreign devil.