"Dish: Slack Season Noodles The Slack Season Noodles at Joy, the Taiwanese restaurant in Highland Park, packs a ton of comfort into a small bowl. The deep flavors don’t come from its toppings–a single, beautifully tender shrimp, some seasoned ground pork, and green onions–but from the soup’s clear base. The shrimp and chicken broth impart a subtle (but necessary) ocean flavor to the chewy wheat noodles. Add on some shrimp wontons in chili oil or a thousand-layer pancake while you’re here–both are great and balance the soup’s simplicity with some huge punches of flavor." - brant cox, kat hong, nikko duren, sylvio martins