Search of noodles

A couple friends and I needed a noodle fix Saturday night, but the wait at Ippudo was 2.5 hours! We audibled to hunt for hand-pulled noodles in Chinatown. At 9pm, Food Sing 88 was closed, New York Noodletown was closed (more on that in a it), but my friend Taylor found Tasty Hand Pulled Noodles open. Their menu was pretty simple: Soups, dumplings, rice cakes and stir fried noodles. You pick your style, pick a meat, pick a noodle and then eat. I got the mixed beef (tripe, tendon and sliced) and we all shared the dumplings. The broth was meh, but the nice part is always watching the guys make the noodles. I mean, what a cool skill: keep stretching dough till you make nice little strands...then thwack thwack.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1kw2k9iS8A&NR=1

So Great NY Noodletown on Bowery and Bayard seems to be closed. Might be a health inspection thing, but man do I miss that place. I hope the rats leave those nice older chinese chefs and the surly cashier woman alone.