Noodle Oodle

106 Queensway, Bayswater, London, W2 3RR

Noodle Oodle is a Shanghainese restaurant which serves freshly made pulled noodles (on the menu termed "lamein", in cantonese pronounced "lai-mein"). In Queensway they make the meat using Halal meat making it suitable for Muslims.

The first thing that caught our eye about this restaurant was the chef pulling noodles in front of the main window. To us, it was like 'wow' fresh pulled noodles! - something we normally find in Hong Kong but may be not really here in London. Fresh pulled noodles are one of my favourite - if done well. So we decided to come here for lunch after bowling at Queens Ice and Bowl.

The restaurant itself was fairly dim and the decor so so. Who cares, we've come here for the food!

First we ordered some spicey chicken Shanghainese dumplings. They were nice, but wasn't a particular 'wow' factor. To me it wasn't particularly spicy (although on the side was a chilli and garlic sauce which was delicious!). I also thought it would have been nicer if they were more generous on the meat filling. None the less, not bad.

Chicken and Vegetable dumplings in vinegar and chilli oil

We spent ages choosing the lamein - to choose a spicy one or a plain broth one? Ohh the choices! In the end, we decided to choose two spicy lameins.

The sour spicey lamein - was what it said on the tin - sour and spicey. I was quite disappointed. It would have been nice if you could taste a well made meat broth in the background - and they were sooo stingy on the chicken, I could easily mistaken this as a vegetarian lamein! The noodle itself wasn't bad, ok - but you're only half way there if the soup is rubbish.

Sour spicy lamein with shredded chicken and shrimp

Sze chuan dan dan lamein, was a broth of cloudy sesame soup with chilli oil. This wasn't spicy at all. The broth itself was pretty bland. Didn't like this dish. The broth, key to all soup dishes, was lacking flavour like in the sour/spicy lamein.

Sze chuan dan dan lamein

Overall, the service was ok - the food arrived relatively quickly and the staff somewhat attentive. The food was ok - the most disappointing thing was the broth of both soup dishes. The price was ok ~£6 per soup noodle, a bit dearer for the dumplings ~£5.

Food = 5/10
Service = 5/10
Atmosphere = 4/10
Recommend? no