A no messing around guide to the coolest things to eat, drink and do in Vancouver and beyond. Community. Not clickbait.

Ramen, Dan Dan, And Pho – Oh My! Where To Find Vancouver’s Essential Noodles

IMG_9079

By way of geography and circumstance, Vancouver has long been in an ideal position to gather up the noodle knowledge of the Pacific Rim. Whether they’re dragging noodles, long noodles, pushing noodles, round noodles, cutting noodles, skinny or fat, we do it all here, and by all we mean alkaline, egg, wheat, rice, mung bean…the lot. Here are five that can’t be missed for your ranking consideration…

Dan Dan Noodles | Fat Mao | 217 East Georgia St. | CHINATOWN | www.fatmaonoodles.com
Sichuan spiced and not over the top with the peanuts, this intensely flavoured, minced pork-laden revelation is a delicious punch in the face. For those who like heat with substance! $8.99

Bun Ga Dac Biet | Mr. Red | 2234 East Hastings St. | HASTINGS SUNRISE | No Website
A lusciously aromatic noodle soup brightened with cilantro, kaffir lime leaf, and cilantro. Comes loaded with vermicelli noodles, shrooms, shredded chicken and pork balls. $8

Classic | The Ramen Butcher | 223 East Georgia St. | CHINATOWN | www.theramenbutcher.com
The super thin, house-made noodles here make it a weekly go-to. This one has rich tonkotsu (pork) broth with pickled ginger, dried shrooms, and salty slices of pork. Best in town? Arguable. Our fave? Definitely. $8.95

Laksa | Laksa King | 2546 East Hastings St. | HASTINGS SUNRISEwww.laksaking.ca
Restorative bowls of Burmese signature spicy noodle soup with prawn, fish ball, tofu puff, hard-boiled egg, chicken in coconut broth. So much flavour it’s almost ridiculous. | $8.75

A16 | Chef Hung Taiwanese Beef Noodle | 3313 Shrum Ln. | WEST SIDE | www.chefhungnoodle.com
Chef Hung’s noodles are recognised as some of the best on the planet, so it’s hard to go wrong here. The undersung A16 sees thinly sliced fatty beef with flat noodles in a bold, beefy broth. $12.95

If you could pick just one...

View Results

Did we miss your favourite noodles? Let us know @scoutmagazine

OTHER POLLS OF CRITICAL IMPORTANCE

There is 1 comment

Field Trip: Tagging Along for a “Glorious” Tomato Appreciation Feast

Inspired by their love of tomatoes and everything that farmer Mark Cormier and his farm crew put into growing them, the team from Say Hey Sandwiches head out to Aldergrove on a mission to cook a feast for the Glorious Organics team...

Reverence, Respect, and Realization: What The Acorn Taught Me

At 21 years old, I'm still just a kid and relatively new to working in restaurants, but I grew up umbilically tied to the hospitality industry. My father was a food writer, and my mother is a photographer. Their careers meant that most of my early years were spent in kitchens and dining rooms instead of on playgrounds and soccer fields; consequently, I learned my table manners before I could count past one hundred.

Amanda MacMullin Talks Seeking New Challenges and Becoming a ‘Grizzled Old Bartender’

Rhys Amber recently sat down with The Diamond bartender to catch up, swap 'war stories' and discuss the minutiae of the crazy, hospitality life.

On Expensive Hobbies, Title-Chasing & Getting ‘Rinsed’ in the Kitchen, with Josh Stel

The veteran Vancouver pan jockey and recently appointed Chef de Cuisine at The Mackenzie Room possesses a slew of attributes harder and harder to come by these days, so Rhys saw it fitting to reach out and see what makes him tick.