Western Yunnan Crossing Bridge Noodle
Chinese noodle restaurant · Sunset Park ·
Noodle shop with theatrical 'crossing the bridge' noodle bowls
Noodle shop with theatrical 'crossing the bridge' noodle bowls
"Outside Western Yunnan, there’s a sweet mural illustrating one possible origin of the name of its signature dish: crossing bridge noodles, a specialty of China’s Yunnan province. The mural shows a wife trying to bring her husband lunch across a river without the noodles getting soggy. Inside the restaurant, there’s a simple solution to this: the big noodle soup, full of things like beef and quail eggs, is mixed together tableside by your server." - carina finn koeppicus, bryan kim
"The focus of this small restaurant is the famed “crossing the bridge noodles,” a Yunnan classic that uses rice noodles as a base. These noodles and their piping-hot soup give a nourishing full-meal experience and a theatrical one, too, as the dozen or so ingredients are cooked tableside, and the pale noodles are dumped in as its climax. Yun Nan Flavor Garden, which is also in the neighborhood, has been serving these noodles much longer, but Western Yunnan offers more variations." - Erika Adams
"Another place where you can get some good crossing the bridge noodles, Western Yunnan is newer than Yun Nan Flavour Garden, and the soups have a few more ingredients. Cabbage, pork, pickled greens, and fish cake, for example. All of these things come out on a rectangular tray (along with beef and rice noodles) and your server mixes them into a heavy stone bowl of extremely hot broth. We slightly prefer the simpler, less cloudy broth at Yun Nan Flavour Garden, but this place is great for when you want something a bit richer, and there are some sweet, crispy pumpkin pancakes on the menu for when you’ve finished your soup." - Bryan Kim
"This small restaurant’s big focus is the famed “crossing bridge noodles,” a Yunnan classic using mixian (rice noodles) as the base. As well as its delightfully theatrical serving, crossing the bridge noodles and its piping-hot soup give a nourishing and moreish experience. Yun Nan Flavor Garden also serves these noodles, but Western Yunnan is a better option for the dish. Cash only." - Pelin Keskin
"Subterranean and mural‑decked, Western Yunnan Crossing Bridge Noodle—run by sister-and-brother Tara and Yong Ting Chen—is devoted to the crossing-bridge soup: mixian rice noodles cooked in steaming broth to order with tofu skin, quail eggs, Spam, pickled greens, black mushrooms, and cloud ear fungus; the menu also features vinegared cucumbers, Hmong beef jerky, and pumpkin cakes filled with bean paste." - Robert Sietsema
