Deng Ji Yunnan Guoqiao Mixian

"For the last decade, more Yunnan restaurants have opened in the city, centering on a handful of dishes featuring soft rice mixian noodles and lots of Southeast Asian flourishes, This newer branch of Deng Ji has the largest collection of big-deal rice noodle soups that the city has yet seen, most involving dramatic tableside presentations and add-in ingredients numbering 15 or more. This place is for the real Yunnan aficionado." - Robert Sietsema

"The rice noodles at Deng Ji are showstoppers: cascading presentations of ingredients that tumble into an individual pot on top of a glass table filled water. These deluxe versions include up to 25 ingredients like morel mushrooms, shrimp, and sausage. But in the tighter recipes, the ingredients are less chaotic and more complementary. For instance, the savoriness of the beef broth gets compounded with the umami of mushrooms. Or the spicy and sour broth is reinforced by the fermented mustard greens. The rice noodles stay springy and many dishes feature mushrooms and edible flowers from their origins in fertile Yunnan province." - Caroline Shin

"Deng Ji, a Manhattan Chinatown restaurant specializing in Yunnan mixian rice noodles, opened a few years ago just as the fad was heating up (it’s pretty much been forgotten now). Later, it opened a deluxe Flushing branch in the old Fu Run space right on Prince Street, with a menu featuring several kinds of crossing the bridge noodles, a recipe with a colorful origin story. The deluxe version of the dish comes with 14 small bowls, the contents of which are emptied into the boiling hot soup and cooked at the table, including pork skin, shaved radish, lotus shoots, fish filet, and Spam." - Robert Sietsema

"Deng Ji, which opened in late 2019 in the old Fu Run Dongbei space, offers a bean curd skin salad for $5.99. The restaurant specializes in the rice mixian noodles of Yunnan, with the legendary crossing the bridge noodles available in several forms." - Eater Staff