Friday, January 14, 2022

Fried noodles with sweet & sour chicken at Tai Won Mein

Rewind about twenty years ago and there were about three or four noodles joints in London like Wagamama and Tai Won Mein etc along with Tai Tip Mein.
Both Tai Won Mein and Tai Tip Mein pride themselves for big portions at affordable prices.
I decided to revisit these restaurants to get an update on quality and how they are these days.
Visited Tai Won Mein which is located at Cutty Sark and there is another branch somewhere in Catford.

Without further ado I got the sweet and sour chicken with fried noodles which are basically curly noodles which are similar to instant noodles which I also had at Tai Tip Mein later for comparison.
In the early days, these curly noodles were not served.
The noodles arrived a few minutes after ordering which was really efficient.
Each and every strand of noodles were well tossed and evenly coloured.
The fried noodles were executed better at Tai Won Mein as they were not so oily or too salty but I didn't like the beanshoots.
As well as the noodles, the sweet and sour chicken was also top notch.
The plain noodles or noodles with black bean would have probably been tastier but I felt that I had to try the most popular dish.
Returned for some plain fried curly noodles with extra curry sauce and it was so worth coming back because the curry sauce is the usual takeaway stuff but their version was extra hot because you could really taste the chilli oil in it!
The noodles and curry sauce was just heaven together.
I also managed to see the stir fried beef ho fun which looks phenomenal, again will return to try that some time.










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