Gui Lin Mi Fen (桂林米粉)
135-25 40th Rd
Flushing, NY 11354
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Menu
Gui Lin Mi Fen is one of the new specialty restaurants to join the fray in Flushing. The menu here is simple and focuses on one thing: mi fen (rice noodles). Guilin is a city in the southeast Chinese province of Guangxi. In this region, one of their most popular snacks and everyday food staple is their mi fen (米粉) or rice noodles. It’s quite common to top these noodles with an assortment of ingredients that include soybean, picked vegetables, scallions, and thin slices of meat.
The only thinking you have to do is deciding on what meat you want to pair with your noodles. There are 9 choices to pair with the noodle that includes vegetarian, smoked fish, chicken, braised brisket, and more.
Authentic Guilin Mi Fen 正宗桂林米粉
Being that it’s my first time here, I went with the first item on the menu: “Authentic Guilin Mi Fen 正宗桂林米粉” ($7.25) that had a few brisket slices and some roast pig.
The noodles are dressed with a light sauce with a hint of sichuan peppercorn. Each strand is very smooth and slippery and perfect for slurping. The sauce coupled with the toppings and braised slices of brisket has just enough flavor and if you want to turn it into a noodle soup, just pour in the pork broth.
For spicy food lovers, they have the Sour & Spicy Lao You Fen 酸辣老友粉 ($7.25) topped with spicy bamboo shoots and wood ear mushrooms. A lot of the heat comes from the chili oil, however its more more spicy than sour.
Each noodle is accompanied by a pork bone soup. The soup is actually one of the best parts of the meal and tastes very natural and clean.
One of their main appetizers (and meat option for the noodles) is the Shanghai Chicken 三黃雞. It taste just like a poached chicken (also think Hainan Chicken) with little meat. Portion sizes comes in quarter ($5.95), half ($11.95), and whole ($21.95).
The restaurant is quite new, barely a few months old. However it’s rare to eat something in Flushing that puts quality over quantity. The soup and noodles are top notch and the staff even teaches you how to bring out the best from the meal. Our waiter suggested that we eat the noodles dry first and then add the soup half way. I see big things in this small noodle shop and look forward to try out the other noodle assortments.
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