Here's the deal. I've been looking for a restaurant in the general vicinity that served hand pulled noodles for at least the last year. Everything about them, including the cool whack! they make when someone's pulling them, sounds perfectly scrumptious. In all the food shows I'm addicted to, they always pair them with some delicious sounding sauce filled with peppers and spice. So when we heard about the new Korean place that was doing hand pulled noodles in Columbia, we just had to try it out.
Unfortunately, a Columbia strip mall is not really the place to find authentic hand pulled noodles, or Korean food in general. We should have known when we walked in at prime dinner time - there wasn't a single soul there. When we sat down, we were given hot tea - in a soda glass filled only half way...After a few tries, we managed to coax some ice water out of the kitchen as well. We finally decided to order, the hand pulled noodles in a bean sauce with pork, and Sweet and Sour Chicken and Pork.
Problem number 2 came when all we were given to eat with were chopsticks. I'm completely and utterly chopstick challenged. No matter how hard I try, I've never mastered the weird thing you have to do with your fingers to get them to actually work, so mine were being used as spears instead. The sweet and sour pork and chicken was actually quite good. Delicious actually. Crispy and sweet, just not so spicy. The noodles themselves weren't that bad either, it was mostly the weird bean sauce on top. I just couldn't get past the taste. Don't ask me to explain it because I can't. It just had one of those flavors that gets even worse the more you eat it. Ick!
But, I'm not ready to give up the quest just yet. I think this was just a bump in the road. I'll just need to find a better quality of restaurant to feed the craving.
Long story short: Having a father daughter foodie date eating something we've both been dying to try - Wonderful!
Bean sauce on hand pulled noodles - Terrible!
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