Personal Narrative: The Noodle

For the past three years, I haven’t go to many restaurants. I’m not the person who really enjoy dining in the restaurant, I usually take out the food or just eat at home. I believe eat at home is more healthy and more preiswert, and I don’t really like loud environment. But for this time, my experience at The Noodle was completely changed my mind.

The restaurant I went to was called The Noodle, it is a Vietnamese restaurant. The location of this restaurant is at 2336 South Wentworth Ave, in the Chinatown. Which is pretty simply to get there, only took me about ten minutes by walking. The reason why I choosing this place is I never try the Vietnamese food, is kind of a new food to me, and it is the only Vietnamese restaurant that open at Chinatown.

It’s really simple to understand and it is different than the traditional restaurant signboard. It made me feels so fresh and different. When I got closer to the restaurant, there is a black canopy installed above the windows and door. It also could be a signboard, and it still very simple just a word PHO, but really conspicuous. It super easy to understand that they’re good at or the main food is the pho. It’s not a big restaurant just a small place, the first impression of this place gave to me is simple, quiet, and clean. I think the design of this restaurant plays a really important role, just like a bottle of water clean and simple. This really makes me feels more comfortable dining

The waiter brings to me a cup of ice water and the menu, the main course is most about pho and other Vietnamese food, but they also have Thai food. I order the food that my friend recommended to me, a small size steak pho, two Vietnamese spring roll, and ban xeo (Vietnamese pancake). The food wasn’t taking so long, just about five to seven minutes, I think it because they’re not busy. The first food come is the pho, it’s a small size but actually is a really big bowl. The thing that surprised me is, it also come with a plate of veg (soybean sprouts, mint leaf and a piece of lime,) that you can put in you noodle soup. It’s weird combination but when you taste it, it actually taste good and flavorful . This kind of like Chinese noodle soup but it is the rice noodle. The spring rolls also pretty good, it just different than the Chinese spring roll, the Vietnamese spring roll crust was made by rice and it is the transparent color. You can see the stuffing inside the spring roll, also, dip it into the specially made souse it just very tasty. Compare the pancake with the other two dishes, it’s just a little ordinary, nothing special and nothing