Downtown Lunch: Lan Zhou Handmade Noodles
Midtown workers shouldn’t have all the fun, so to even the score, I’ve brought on Daniel Krieger as an official Downtown Lunch Correspondent to write up some of the tasty stuff you can get in the lower half of Manhattan. He’s a great photographer (insuring good food porn), but more importantly he is a lover of cheap, unique and delicious eats (or as I like to call it- Midtown Lunch’ish food.)
Unfortunately I don’t speak Chinese, so I didn’t know the name of the noodle shop on 144 East Broadway which doesn’t have any English words on the front. Fortunately though other parts of my body (nose and tummy) could care less if the words were written in Swahili or Hebrew. The language of love for me this week was found in the narrow quarters of 144 East Broadway, home to good cheap hand pulled noodles and dumplings. (I found out later alot of people call it Lan Zhou, although that’s really just the region where this style of noodle comes from.)
Posted by Daniel Krieger at 11:30 am, August 8th, 2008 under Chinatown, Chinese, Jury Duty Lunch, Lan Zhou Handmade Noodles.