Yunnan Rice Noodle House

The texture of the tomato rice noodles, curry coconut rice noodles, and squid tentacles was delicious and flavorful. Excellent service and atmosphere to sit and eat for lunch or dinner.

Came here on Sunday night during dinner hours. If you come during peak hours, wait time can easily exceed 1+ hour. Service was quick once we got seated, the staff were friendly, but it was quite noisy and all parties were seated quite close together.

The chicken and lamb skewers were delicious, as well as the cold chicken appetizer. They offer three types of noodles to pick from: rice noodle, sweet potato noodle, and Shanghai noodle. You can pick whichever noodle for the initial selection. If your hunger is not satisfied, they offer unlimited noodle refills for free but you can only get rice noodle (other noodle refills are $1.50 per refill). And if you get way too much noodle, you can pack it up and take it home, but you have to pay for the container which is 75 cents each.

Overall, great experience and value.

Edit: came back here on 10/28/23. Service and food was still great! Appetizer was huge like last time. Forgot to order the skewer this time 😩

Wifie saw a tik-tok on this restaruant which seemed fun so we made it a point to stop by.

It was around noon on Sunday and the place was all packed. There was a wait list kiosk in front of us as soon as we entered. We entered a name and a cell phone number. Immediately we got a text, stating we were #12. We wondered around the neighborhood for 15 minutes and decided to go back and check even though we did not get any text. Strangely, we got seated after we asked for status of the waitlist. Seriously, it appeared that no one ever get texted - at least that's how we felt. So it pays to check personally instead of relying on text.

The menu look complicated and we were a bit lost because the a la carte add-ons are listed below each soup base choice. It's not clear if the soup base comes with anything. Once you know, it's really easy and I'm telling you now:

Just pick a soup you like, and choose the default rice noodle.

THAT IS ALL YOU NEED TO DO! You pay the price listed for the soup base, which comes with 10 toppings by default. You can change the rice noodle to glass noodle or Shanghai noodle for $1.50 more. You can have unlimited noodles, but I don't think most people can handle more than 2 servings. We came out totally stuffed.

It was indeed fun place to try. In a way it's like a mini hot pot. That being said, the service was really a big mixed bag. First, the wait-list system seems state of the art but I don't think the staff processed the workflow at all! Second, we waited for nearly 20 minutes for the soup base to come. That was a long time, but we suspect they were batched and we simply missed the previous batch. Finally, there was just 1 super waiter who handle the entire store, (plus one guy at the register, and a bus boy who served out the food). As a result, we had to request 3 times before we finally got the extra serving of rice noodle and we had to request twice before getting our bill -- even though we were so impressed each time they acknowledged us even though they were totally swamped. Effectively, they acknowledge as a way to placate but had no plan for action. It's frustrating and amusing at the same time. Rare experience.

WoW, more licentious mastication!
The food here is amazing...
The atmosphere is super cool and hip.
Clean dining and very friendly staff, especially from David !
I had the yunnan rice noodle soup w. Coconut curry.
Added the pork & fish ball, mixed mushrooms, seafood, geeen onions, and cilantros !

It was an amazing experience served with a hot bowl, so the soup was a hot temperature till the end.

Lastly, the cost was an absolute steal. It's worth every bit of its super affordable price. I highly recommend trying everything on the menu!

A small chain that mainly serves a steaming stone pot soup where you add a variety of toppings and chewy noodles. Its a great spot if you're craving noodles or a warm broth. The texture of the noodles was great, though I think the soup lacked a bit of flavor (still pretty good though). I would recommend the original soup if it's your first time trying, the pickled soup was slightly odd.

Other than the food, the place is well decorated and service is responsive. Bonus points since the food was extremely affordable and their appetizer was huge.

Nice little noodle soup shop hole in the wall. Wide selection of flavors soups and additional toppings. Various selection of noodle type from list. Bunch of appetizer from the menu that have good flavor. If you select fountain drink refill free also unlimited noodle refill as long that you still have soup. Limited amount of table on either sides of the walls. During fully staff day the back room is open for additional guest. Skewer are quiet good which are deep fried yummy. The staff provided double shrimp I don’t think they realized lol 😆

I recommend the rice noodles with chinese sauerkraut and fish, and try to add duck blood if possible (it tastes like jelly). The mushroom rice noodles is great too (Yunnan is famous for its mushrooms anyways so you can’t go wrong with it). The portion is huge so you don’t need to get any appetizer in extra.
The Yunnan rice noodle is a great traditional food from China. However, nothing is too impressive for a Chinese foodie like me. (Maybe my standard is a little high because I tried good Yunnan noodles in China). So I wouldn’t particularly go there to try it again.

Great service. Locate in Chinatown in Bayard Street. I went alone so there were more tables deep inside the spot. First it was a tray with little plate of small ingredients, them it was a pot of coconut curry soup them they brought the ramen! It was delicious! In my case I ordered fish fillet with coconut curry!! So yummy!! It was great for cold season!! Highly recommend! Love it! I will back!!