Hong Kong Station looks just enough like an actual subway stop that I did a little double-take the first time I saw it while walking down Bowery one evening. All credit to their sign designers, I walked over to check it out, which is probably precisely what they intended. Inside, I saw dozens and dozens of Chinese diners jockeying for tables–some even eating while standing–and smelled one of my very favorite things: soup noodles.
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Ah, ramen. That staple of every camping trip you ever went on, every broke college grocery-shopping trip you ever took, and every bad home-packed lunch your mother ever sent with you to elementary school, right? Wrong. Ramen is a thousand times more than just a packet of MSG and a brick of noodles. It’s a full meal in the right hands: great ramen is more than the sum of its parts, and guaranteed not to leave you in want of more food.
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Sometimes going for a good meal in New York Chinatown means going off the beaten path. Just east of Bowery on Hester St far away from all of the touristy shops on Canal is Hong Kong Station Noodle shop. It emulates a fast food noodle shop that you would find in Hong Kong. The sign on the marquee is even in the same font as the Hong Kong Metro love the little noodle icon in red and white - it’s awesome. We went in to check out the noodles in this restaurant and was pleasantly surpised by the authenticity of the noodles. A row of lucky cats greet you in all various sizes. I guess Hong Kong Station Noodle Shop doesn’t take any chances on getting luck. The way this works is you choose the type of noodles : fresh or dried / egg or rice noodles. Then you choose a la carte style what type of ingredients you want in your noodle soup. There isn’t an English menu on the wall so if you can’t read Chinese you can just point at the ingredients. There’s a lot of familiar items such as Chinese broccoli, turnips, shiitake mushrooms, chicken wings, tofu, and other vegetables. There’s also some hardcore items like tripe, beef stomach, chicken gizzards, and pig?s blood. It’s all served with a very rich chicken soup base. It costs about $1 per item so you can gauge what you are spending. Because everything is pre-cooked your noodles are ready to eat in minutes - a very quick solution like you’d find in the Hong Kong Metro.
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