Nouilles de Lan Zhou

We felt a little bit out of place here… but the beef noodle soup was delicious and the portions were huge. My husband and I ordered the medium bowl and I couldn’t finish it (my husband did). The ingredients were so fresh, the beef was so tender… very good! We were a little confused about the drink situation. They brought us two cups of tea automatically but I was unclear whether we could have ordered different drinks. There was a pitcher of water on the table with a lemon slice floating in it but we didn’t have glasses to put the water in so I chugged my tea and poured the water in my cup. Overall, it was a good experience…

Soupe de boeuf braisé: grasse et salée. La texture de la viande ressemble plus un ragoût de boeuf qu’un boeuf braisé. Les piments né sont pas assez piquants. Place sympathique… concept intéressant. Bonne portion. Menu limité, mais amplement suffisant compte tenu du concept du resto.
Nous pouvons choisir la sorte de nouilles dont plusieurs combinaisons de possible selon le plats commandés.

Freshly made noodles in a small little restaurant! Anyone can watch the masters at work right outside without entering! What a joy!
This place is bustling with in-and-out’s due to the Chinese grocery store downstairs.
The service is not amazing. The noodles are very cheap though for the size!!! Medium is more than enough for my petite stomach. Amazing value for lunch and dinner.
The noodles are above average, the soup is only ok. Overall a little bland for my taste. Beef wasn’t that flavourful, it didn’t soak up the soup enough.

Visited Montréal last summer and we stumbled upon this joint. The beef soup was flavourful, spicy, but not too salty. We ordered the cold beef with chilli sauce for appetizer; which was surprisingly really good. Cost for both items was less than $ 20, we will definitely come back.

I’m not from Montréal but whenever I am in the Chinatown area I go to Lan Zhou. I recommend the place as it is one of the better hand pulled noodle I have had outside of Asia
–I usually get the Spicy Beef noodle Combo which includes a salad and tea egg. I recommend getting the medium for $ 12.97 CAD (before tax) and going with the spicy cucumber salad
–the noodles are fresh (high volumes at this restaurant) and beef is tender. The broth is flavorful. I usually skip drinking the broth (too much sodium) but couldn’t help myself from taking a few sips. The waiter does ask you how spicy you want your noodles so don’t be shy if you can’t handle spicy
–the spicy cucumber salad is okay but I think it is superior vs the other 2 choices
–I wish they would give you the tea egg separately vs dropping it in the broth
–the restaurant provides free tea or water
–oddly shaped restaurant, L-​shaped because it is basically on top of the large supermarket which is downstairs
Would definitely come back and deserves to be in my Montréal Chinatown rotation

What to add to the long list of this noodle and beef broth soup spots accolades?!
A sweet little business in a small, clean, straight off the street space with stairs and an escalator cutting the south (or east, didn’t pull out the compass) side floor plan down to an under street level grocery store. So there’s a real flow, eat and go atmosphere.
Under 15 $ with the 15% gratuity for a mid sized bowl with an additional egg and extra veggies. Who knew medium meant huge in MTLs Chinatown?! (Even I couldn’t finish there, enough for a reheat, second go, later, bonus)
Choose from 6 – 7 different noodle thicknesses. Broth is rich, yummy, on the table within minutes and the staff are sweet.
AND the point: today being New Years Day… LONG FRESH HAND PULLED noodles for an auspiciously long, healthy and prosperous life and red monkey year. Red Monkey is said to be prosperous for small businesses so happy to appease the plucky celestial primate.
Lastly: Was shivering when I arrived and fortified for the stroll all the way back to Mile End afterwards. Umm, so, YES, when my Best Ramen buddy in Vancouver comes to visit I will have at least one (probably more) respectable noodle soup spot (s) to share with her.
Fun going downstairs afterwards to PU some Chinese groceries too.
Cheers,
Tammy M
=D

Like everyone else I took the special beef noodle soup. The soups was excellent: the broth was perfectly balanced and tasteful. The noodles are freshly made: tasty and just thick enough. The beef is tender and fat enough as well. The medium size is huge, be aware! The device is nice only in English tho. I went during a cold night and I had to eat with my winter jacket on. The weird set up, some electric stairs going down to the grocery in the basement right in the middle of the place, makes it almost windy inside every time someone gets in or out. That’s really the only bad comment I have because really for the price you get a real good soup!

Best beef noodle soup ever! After a cold day of hiking in the snow, we were ready for a hot bowl of broth and noodles. First, the noodles are hand pulled right at the window, #Authentic. You get to choose your noodles size/​thickness and shape. There’s different bowl sizes, I went for the medium and its pretty sizable. We ordered the beef bowl with chili oil (omg yes please). The place is pretty small so there may be a wait and the menu only contained a few signature items. Each bowl is made to order, so there’s true freshness. The broth was perfect and just the perfect thing to soothe your cold soul.

Yummmmm!
We came at 8:45 because we arrived in Montréal late, but they still took us in! (They close at 9pm).
We order the neuilles jiazhiang (jiajiang men) and soupe de nouilles avec boeuf (noodle soup w/​beef). They were both delicious but I especially liked the jiazhiang men!
The edamame with takana (a japanese pickled vegetable) were good too.
The waiter also asked me if I was Japanese and wanted to practice his Japanese with me :)
Thumbs up for good food and friendly staff!

J’ai adoré mon repas chez Lan Zhou, idem pour le reste de la famille. Ici, on parle d’un menu simplifié. Quelques items, mais très bien maîtrisés. Nous avons tous jeté noe dévolu sur la soupe Lan Zhou (soupe au boeuf). AVERTISSEMENT: si c’est votre première visite, assurez-​vous que l’on vous montre ce qu’est une portion «small»!
Nous avons tous pris une «small» et je suis le seul à avoir terminé mon bol! La «médium» est grosse comme un bol à salade et la «large» doit pas mal ressembler à un bain pour enfant! :-P

This place was awesome. The portions were huge, and the special. noodles with beef, was delicious! The broth was amazing (get it spicy). At first I thought it was «just» good, but then it just got better as I ate it. It works so much better when you place all the noodles in a spoon full of broth. I also liked that they give you tea with tea leaves instead of that cheap, powdery stuff. The service is hectic and abrupt, but that wasn’t unexpected for a place like this. The place is cramped though.

Pros: Superb bowl of hand stretch noodle. Good broth, fresh products, fast service, very clean establishment. Complimentary tea is served trough the sitting.
Cons: Very few menu item, some only available on weekend. No washroom are easily accessible and the table are very small, like the restaurant. It gets crowded easily.
If you want to slurp up a good bowl of noodle and don’t mine XS tables. This is for you!

Food: Probably one of the bests of it’s kind in MTL in terms of hand-​pulled noodles Lanzhou style. The broth is tasty but not too salty, and actually quite clear unlike some other places where it seems to be tainted by soy sauce. The meat is tender and no big pieces of FAT (yes that’s a no-​no). The noodles come in different sizes, made to order, cooked just right~ the most popular being erxi but i love mine flat, ye jiuye! Erxi tends to be more chewy and jiuye is softer, and due to the flat shape, coats in spicy sauce better :)
Service: Fast, efficient, nice
Price: redefining worth the price for the amount of noodle~
Ambiance: why the minus one star. Located above the busy Chinese supermarket, squeezed in a bathroom sized space, where u literally sit back to back with the person behind you, no place to put ur belongings beware! really, eat everything and leave, u don’t want to linger here~

I’ve never had this type of noodles before, so not a ton to compare them too, but I thought the noodle soup was delicious… It was cool to see them hand making the noodles at the front window. I liked that there weren’t a ton of choices, which kept ordering more simple… If you’re going to get the traditional soup, it basically just choosing your thickness of noodle and then whether you want spicy or not!
I don’t think that getting a large is worth the extra two dollars… I think I definitely would have been satisfied with the medium. I didn’t have the thinnest noodle option, but my friend did and those were my favorite.
I prefer phở over these noodles, but phở is basically my favorite thing on earth. I’d definitely recommend this and I will come back next time I’m in town!

I, along with the few who gave this place less than 4 stars, were drawn by the many praises of fellow Unilocalers. Tasting is believing, and I honestly don’t think this place deserves any more than 2 stars. Reasons:
1) The place is located in a corner section above a supermarket. Seating is extremely limited, like less than 40, and if you have a party of less than 4, you’re likely to be seated with strangers in the same table. The wait can be atrocious.
2) The noodle: while it was made in front of me, I found it to be undercooked and not the true Lanzhou «chewy». It’s OK, but seriously you can get better noodles in the supermarket below.
3) The soup stock: tasteless and salty, like someone took tap water, added beef stock and salt, and called it a day.
4) The beef: it was… okay.
The Lanzhou beef noodle place in Philly is way better, but driving 7 hours south is probably not in most people’s interest for Lanzhou beef noodles.

Delicious noodle bowls can be found here! We were looking for a quick, tasty lunch in Chinatown and we were so happy we stopped here.
The place was packed — always a good sign — but we were seated promptly by friendly staff. The app was presented right away (spicy cucumber salad — yum!). The noodles were brought out in less that ten minutes. Steaming hot, amazing noodles and so filling! Huge portions (a small is more than enough) packing a flavour punch. It was also fun to watch the chef making the noodles from where we sat. Highly recommend!

As a Chinese who loves Lanzhou noodles, I can say this is authentic and delicious.
They gave a lot of beef slices and hand stretched noodles are the best!
We will definitely come back Whenever we are in town.

Excellent beef hand pulled Lan-​Zhou noodle soup, this little restaurant is conveniently located on Saint Laurent in the same building as the Asian market which is located on the floor bottom floor beneath the restaurant. There are three main soup types, beef, chicken and pork all served with hand pulled Lan-​Zhou noodles, the most popular is the beef and for good reason it’s fabulous with a very rich spicy beefy broth. There are three soup sizes small, medium and large, the two larger sizes can be easily shared as they are hugh; the spiciness of your dish can be selected as well. This is a tiny space seating no more than 20 people at most and gets very crowded quickly but the line sees to move fairly well. This is a great stop for lunch and then a visit downstairs to the market to pick up some of your favorite items. This should be on your list of stops when visiting Montréal.

Reminds me of NY’s Xian Famous Foods. The noodles could be more toothy, but the soup is en point. The house made hot sauce (sesame, sesame oil and chilli based), is what my dreams are made of.

Beware of the large portion!
Took a small bowl of lanzhou beef noodle and couldn’t finish. The noodle of a good chewy texture but the soup lack a bit of flavor.
The side dish of seaweed and potato was excellent!

Les nouilles sont excellentes, très bon bouillon aussi. Le format des soupes est assez grand. Pas assez de garnitures dans la soupe à part les nouilles. Mon copain n’a vraiment pas aimé par contre.

Leurs soupes au bœuf sont délicieuses! On peut choisir la largeur des nouilles et la commander épicée ou non. Prix très abordable pour la portion et réconfortante :-)

Handmade noodles being pulled and stretched behind a window is always an interesting sight in Montréal. Exciting enough, I ran through the menu and realized that there’s only like 3 main course options. This left me a bit disappointed but nonetheless, I opted for their signature Lan Zhou beef noodles.
Like the menu, I was let down. Basically, there’s a variety of noodle shapes and sizes available and the noodles I received were two times bigger than the ones depicted in the menu. Not only that but my noodles were definitely undercooked. My broth was average with the oil making most of the flavor but I got to admit that the beef was tender and packed with beefy goodness. Unfortunately, 2 out of the 3 entrees that I tried had unpleasant combinations of flavors that still haunt me to this day.
There are many other restaurants in Chinatown offering noodles and Nouilles de Lan Zhou wouldn’t be my first pick.

Il y a des restos qui servent des pâtes et il y a des restos qui servent des Pâtes. Celui-​ci appartient définitivement à la seconde catégorie… Tellement fraîches, savoureuses et cuites à la perfection qu’on pourrait en manger un grand bol sans aucun assaisonnement!
La soupe au boeuf est absolument délicieuse, quoique la viande soit un peu grasse, assaisonnée juste à point. Les portions sont extrêmement généreuses: j’ai eu beaucoup de mal à terminer (en fait, je n’y suis pas arrivé complètement) le format médium, et je m’interroge depuis sur la taille du saladier dans lequel on sert le format large…
L’endroit lui-​même né paie pas de mine et est assez étrange, éventré qu’il est par un escalier roulant qui mèné à l’épicerie du dessous. C’est bruyant et non-​climatisé… Et préparez-​vous à une expédition si vous cherchez les toilettes… Mais le service est ultra-​rapide, la bouffe est bonne (sauf les entrées qui sont plutôt ordinaires) et l’amoureux des pâtes fraîches y trouvera son compte à peu de frais.
Bref, un autre endroit qui confirme que si l’on veut vraiment bien manger à Montréal pour pas cher, le quartier chinois est extrêmement difficile à battre.

C’est vraiment pareil comme en Chine, mais la portion est trop grande! J’ai pris un middle, mais je peux plus bouger！Pratique et délicieux, un bon choix pour dîner.

We came to this restaurant 15 minutes before they supposedly close, but it looks like they kept taking in people as they came in. In a small kitchen with a window facing the street, the cooks made fresh noodles (to the width ordered– narrow to very wide), cooked noodles, added sides and broth. It is an amazing production. We had the cucumber and seaweed salad, which tasted fresh and nicely pickled. We had the cold marinated sliced beef with scallions, hot pepper sauce, and peanuts. This was a nice addition to our beef noodle soup. I got the wide noodles, which went well with the excellent broth, scallions, and beef.
We are happy we stopped by here for an excellent meal and service. They only take Canadian debit cards and cash.