PrintFollowing the Times to Happy Beef Noodle Soup in Flushing
When I heard about Happy Beef Noodle House from the New York Times' feature on the food of Flushing's Chinatown, I put it at the top of my "to eat" list. Beef noodle soup is my favorite Chinese noodle dish and, for $6.25, Happy Beef Noodle House delivers a bowl large enough for two. This double serving of soup comes full of extra long, thick wheat noodles swimming in a star-anise flavored broth studded with thick chunks of stewed, chopstick-tender beef that almost melted in my mouth. Each table comes with a seemingly neverending bowl of chopped pickled mustard greens to garnish your soup with. I probably added more to my soup than what's proper, but I loved the added crunch and tang of the pickles. Besides, it's not like they were going to stop me.
Happy Beef Noodle House
38-10 Prince Street, Flushing, NY 11354 (at 39th Avenue; map)
718-661-3969
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Anyone have recommendations on where to find this in Manhattan?
JT Eats at 3:24PM on 08/15/08
Well we went, five of us, on a sojourn to check this place out. And I have to the sad duty to report that we were served the WORST bowl of beef noodle soup I have ever had, and as a lifetime New Yorker, I have been seeking out and enjoying chinese noodle soups for at least 30 years.
But you didn't even have to be an expert to know you were being served something awful, maybe even unhealthy. Gamey beef, a thin dimensionless beef broth that offered no hint of anise whatsoever -- more like dishwater. My friend had the seafood combo noodle soup. The shrimps, still in their shells as they floated in the soup, were gluey and runny. Inedible. Faint fish odor coming from the soup. Very unpalatable. The only thing that was kinda good was the shredded pig ear. Crunchy and spicey with a light vinegary glaze.
I think the place is under new ownership. Looks recently remodeled. Red white and blue butning over the door.
DON'T EAT HERE. It could ruin noodle soup for you forever.
vergeblaze at 8:38AM on 01/11/09