The House That Noodle Built

Sunday, July 25, 2010

The House That Noodle Built

Lunchtime at The Pink Tarha office...

Sundrenched:
What will we have for lunch?

Eyecandy:
Hmmmm...

S:
What?

E:
The Noodle House! (said with much enthusiasm, it was scary)

S:
You've been eating at The Noodle House for days. For DAYS!

E:
Yeah, but I want their Pad Thai.

S:
They don't deliver!

E:
Let's call in our orders and I will go and get it!

S:
You'll go alone, I'm busy. (ignoring her ridiculous suggestion)

E:
Sure!

S: At Centria Mall which is 15 minutes away?! (looking at her with my "you're joking right?!" look)
E:
Yes!

S:
With an SR30 round-trip fare for your taxi? (looking incredulously at E because really, it is incredulous!)

E:
YES!

S:
Hmmmmn...

E:
Hmmmmn...

(By this time, we're already perusing the online menu. Two minutes later, we're calling in our orders, 30 minutes later, we're eating my chicken satay and E's pad thai for some seriously late lunch.)

This is how crazy E is for The Noodle House!

Before that lunch, E has been gorging on Asian food from The Noodle House for a period of two three many weeks. Her craving (obsession?!) for The Noodle House is relentless and unwavering, like a fire that is too hot to handle... or extinguish.

I am also enthusiastic about The Noodle House, but not as unbelievably ENTHUSIASTIC as E. I volunteered to write this entry because I'm sure E won't be able to come up with an entry that will not use all the good English adjectives in the Dictionary to describe the gustatory delights you'll find in this restaurant. She'll be lamenting on the fact that even those descriptions are not enough. An intervention is needed for that woman's obsession! Lol.

Anyway, I couldn't also come up with paragraphs to chronicle our The Noodle House eaxperiences (because they're quite a few) so here's a photo entry of our The Noodle House affair.

Ordering is as simple as this Order Pad (note the cute "noodle" pens).
You just have to check what you like, tear the menu paper from the bundle, and give it to the waiter. Here's the downloadable version. The prices are rather steep for a portion good for 2 but dishes are delicious so we throw caution to the wind, every time.

Prawn Mango Rolls

Prawn Bags and Chili Sauce
Crystal Shrimp Dumplings
Black Scallop and Prawn Hacau

Fruit shakes
Sun Spot Orange, cranberry juices with melon syrup
Asian Four Season mango, pineapple, kiwi juices with strawberry puree
Frozen Punch mango, pineapple, orange juices with greandine and strawberry puree

Fruit shake and dimsum: a rather odd combination
Singapore Noodles with Chicken and Prawns

Pad Thai with Prawns, Tofu, and Ground Peanuts
Eyecandy's favorite!

Egg bits, peanuts, and chili flakes to compliment the Pad Thai

Yang Chow Fried Rice

Singaporean Black Pepper Beef

Crab Fried Rice with Soft-shell Crab

Singapore-Style Roasted Duck

Mu shu wrapper
A fun way to eat the roasted duck is to put duck pieces, a few veggie sticks, and a generous amount of the sauce in this warmed wrapper and roll them ala lumpia. Yummy!


The 4 condiments
We love these four little jars of green chili, red chili, garlic, and chili+ginger because we can customize our food according to our taste. E likes extra hot while I go for moderate.

Fried Ice Cream
Hot on the outside, cool in the inside. Perfect palate sensation!


I cannot find the perfect words to describe each but we love all the dishes!!! Thanks to the Indonesian chef of The Noodle House who really knows what he's cooking. You might wonder why there's less noodles in there when we're talking about "the house that noodles built." Well, they only have a few selection of wet noodles and wok-friend noodles and we like the "dry" noodles more. Also, hindi pa kami tapos! Lol. We have more photos! Second entry on The Noodle House is on its way!

Just a disclaimer, we didn't eat ALL of the dishes you see in this entry in one night. We came back again and again so uh, that's the reason why looking at their menu, we can already cross out most of the dishes offered. We've tried almost everything!

Also, we apologize for any craving that this post is creating in your stomach right now. What's for your lunch? :P

10 had something to say:

NoBenta said...

wow, this entry really made me very hungry. i wish there are resto's like that here in yanbu.

John said...

The Noodle House is the best restaurant i've been to (so far) here in the city. Great food, great service and the ambiance is top-notch. No wonder you girls are always visiting the restaurant. :) And if you can afford to eat there almost every day, then why not?! Hey, we work hard for the money, we might as well spend them on great food, and yes, some other great stuff like bags and shoes. :)

My Yellow Bells said...

I love singaporean noodles with chicken and prawn as well as the steamed brocolli with ginger, hmm yum

an_indecent_mind said...

nakakagutom!

Anonymous said...

Kakain ko lang. I thought I read somewhere na meron din Noodle House dito sa Kuwait pero one food blogger put a thumbs-down mark for them because she said the sample noodles are too small and looked unpalatable, plus when their order arrived, it didn't taste oriental. D ko alam what they meant with that. And for all I know, hindi sya original na Noodle House.

But if I were to judge via the photos you have here, it's a thumb's up for me.

I've got to see how is it here in Kuwait; at kung meron nga talaga dito.

The Pink Tarha said...

Thanks for your comments! :)

Anonymous said...

maraming salamat po s magandang comment we hope n lagi po kau kakain dito mas naiinspired po kmi s mga comment nyo c isco po ito one of the chef in noodle house salamat po mabuhay tayong mga pinoy

Krishna - Riyadh said...

Love the noodle house in Riyadh...

Anonymous said...

ano po add ng noodle house pls.?

Anonymous said...

Too pricey. Very small serving.the plates are too big. Place is cool.
Not really a noodle house. Noodles are too dry.

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