Tang Dynasty Imperial Noodles Restaurant
Ceddy on Apr 20 2008 at 11:05 pm
Whenever people talk about Penang, they usually relate it with the great food and normally people mention Lorong Selamat, but a street before Lorong Selamat - Jalan Zainal Abidin has a new restaurant which specializes on RAMEN. It’s known as Tang Dynasty Imperial Noodles Restaurant.
If you can’t read Chinese, it actually says “Authentic LanZhou handmade Ramen, dumplings and a variety of foods”. Since it’s not so well known, we decided to give it a shot to see if we will be back again. So will there be a second round? You’ll know later.
It’s Sunday but it’s not crowded, but who cares? Just because it’s not located at Jalan Selamat doesn’t mean it won’t produce good food. Normally we’ll ask the waiter to recommend their famous dish since this is our first trip. The waiter recommended their famous Dumplings, 10 for RM6. Quite reasonable what, and if you notice, you can see how the chef prepares the dish.
Look at how serious the chef is, he’s busy making the dumplings. For your info, they didn’t name the restaurant blah blah blah from China for no reason, the chef is probably from China, I seriously can’t tell if he’s faking it or what but his accent was very strong. But whatever it is, what we want is the FOOD, and this is how the dumplings look like.
Don’t they look delicious to you? And YES! They are really yummy! But watch it when you start biting because the contents are so fucking hot and it’ll burn your tongue if you wanna finish it quick like a hungry ghost. Thus you gotta take it slow. Apart from the dumplings, we also tried their famous FRIED RAMEN.
Looks like fried worms, LOL. And let me tell y’all, the food here are really amazing! They are not expensive and extremely delicious! We’ll definitely come back again to try more! But till then we are very satisfied with the food. However, there are a few reasons why it’s not well known:
- Everyone talks about Lorong Selamat when it comes to food and not Jalan Zainal Abidin, where is Jalan Zainal Abidin? In Penang, there’s this one huge UMNO building when you’re driving on Jalan Macalister, once you see this big UMNO building, make a turn to your left and that is Jalan Zainal Abidin. This restaurant is just opposite UNITAR college.
- During weekdays it’s hard to find parking spaces along Jalan Zainal Abidin because there are people who work in the UMNO building, and not just the workers, we have students from Kemayan ATC and UNITAR so those who drive will fill up the spaces. And there are only 2 parking spaces in front of the restaurant so if people can’t find the parking space, they leave.
- This restaurant is not being well promoted, perhaps they should put a banner somewhere before Jalan Zainal Abidin so that people will know its existence?
In case you want to know where the restaurant is, this is the map, hope it helps! 
