Inoodle

When living in China I ate the Chinese style hand-​pulled noodles on average once a day, as they are both cheap and delicious. Therefore, it was with great appreciation that I found my evening meal taking place at this restaurant, whose menu says that head chef hails from Xi’an in NW China. After watching the noodles being made, I got to munch on a nice large bowl of hot noodle soup, which was the perfect antidote to the freezing winter sea breezes in Newcastle. Less than a tenner got me a very filling bowl of soup with veggies and pork and a plate of pickles to put in the soup. Recommended

We have been waiting for a great place to get noodle soup in Newcastle, because we are such phở addicts. Lucky for us, this place delivered! We came here on a Sunday for lunch after a late night, and the food hit the spot. Delivered very quickly to our table, were two big bowls of hand-​pulled noodles in soup. I got the pork and vegetables. Honestly, it doesn’t matter what kind you get, because the noodles are the star. They are chewy, delicious, and abundant. There wasn’t much meat in the dish at all, though it did have a bunch of chopped veggies like potato and carrot. The flavor of the broth was nice, only a little bit spicy. Comforting, a little sinus-​clearing, and yummy. My fiancé felt the same about his — the noodles were the best part, but his beef noodles had more meat than my pork ones did. My pork was almost just there to flavor the dish, while he had actual pieces of meat. I might get that next time. We also got pork and veggie wontons, but they were pretty slippery with oil and hard to eat with the plastic chopsticks. Seriously, they should get wooden chopsticks, it was so hard to grip the food with the plastic ones! I’d skip the wontons next time, a waste of stomach space when there’s such nice noodle soup, and they weren’t particularly special.
Pretty low prices, cute atmosphere, and judging by the clientele, they are offering authentic Chinese food. The hearty slurps around us were the sounds of happy customers. We’ll be back for sure! Nice to have a place to get this food besides Wagamama — and it’s even better.