I took the R train and as I ascended onto the street I found that the weather had changed, and it was an admirably crisp and mild evening, sunny too. I was early so I explored Elmhurst and found a huge shopping center. There was a Red Lobster, Outback Steakhouse, Target and Best Buy contained within this "center."
I considered purchasing some cheddar biscuits from Red Lobster, a bloomin' onion from Outback, an iPad from Best Buy, and then going to Target, sitting down on a recliner in their furniture section, and then watching YouTube videos while smearing biscuits and bloomin' onion all over myself. I decided not to do this.
Uncle Zhou. It's a small place filled with families, mostly Chinese, eating. It is a Henan restaurant, and it specializes in the noodles of that region. My friend and I ordered knife pulled noodles with egg and tomato, and also pork in fresh hot pepper.
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The noodles were quite nice, in a strongly flavored tomato broth. The noodles soaked up a decent amount of the broth, yet we were left with a fair amount of liquid once the noodles were consumed.
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The pork in fresh hot pepper was similar to the Sichuan version, although there was more liquid. Oh, the intoxications of bubbling cauldrons of hot, Sichuan pepper infused oil! How I yearn for these cauldrons; how I am enamored with their mystery. It was a bubbling, messy cauldron indeed, as my shirt and my friend's shirt can attest: we splattered the oils all over ourselves and each other!
This was a fine meal. Next time, I might order the cauldron and an order of plain noodles and soak the noodles in the cauldron. Cauldrons!
Uncle Zhou
Elmhurst, Queens