Imagine being invited to eat a piping hot bowl of the Best Noodle in the World at GO Noodle House, The Starling!
Known as the San Xian Tang Mi Xian (三鲜汤米線), these silky-smooth noodles merely is delicious.
GO Noodle House is the haven for legendary Chinese Imperial Noodles (三鲜麵).
Famed for being a Chinese Emperor’s favorite noodle, this restaurant is a popular lunch spot for office workers.
The pungent aroma of Chinese wine is nicely fragrant for this light soup lunch.
GO Noodle House The Starling
A popular noodle restaurant with an overwhelmingly positive customer response, this noodle house has many Mall outlets.
Good quality, wallet-friendly price, and an excellent massive serve are the plus points drawing in customers daily.
I couldn’t agree more when we reached the Qing Dynasty era theme restaurant in the Starling Mall just before lunchtime.
Yes, this is one of those times I try an outlet with Penang’s presence, out of state.
Qing Dynasty Theme
The restaurant is simple, with Chinese-style wooden tables and stools.
There are open cabinets for the Chinese cooking wine on prominent display.
These are the only decorations in the restaurant.
The customer can enhance the flavor and fragrance of the soup by adding an extra spoonful or two of a Chinese Wine bottle.
They can purchase from the restaurant.
Go Noodle House offers free storage for unfinished three-year-aged and five-year-aged Chinese wine bottles for future visits.
The wine bottles are sealed with the customers’ names for safe storage.
Open cabinets for the Chinese cooking wine on prominent display.
Why is the GO Noodle House soup so flavorful?
If you’re wondering why the soup base is so fragrant, it’s simple.
The restaurant uses yellow wine (non-halal) to enhance the fish-based soup’s flavor.
Yellow Rice Wine (花雕酒)
Some customers may prefer the more robust flavor of the wine for an extra kick.
GO Noodle House offers four types of vintage Yellow Rice Wine according to the years of brewing.
The older the vintage, the more concentrated and intense the flavors are.
The 3-year and 5-year wines are suitable for cooking.
The older vintages, 10-year, and 30-year can be enjoyed with your meal or on its own with some titbits.
The Wine.
GO Noodle House – Chinese Noodle Restaurant
These legendary imperial noodles originated from ancient China.
The Kang Xi Emperor’s favorite, the legendary San Xian Tang Mi Xian (三鲜汤米線), is dubbed as the Best Noodle in The World (天下第一麵).
I tasted the Yunnan-style Mixian rice noodles.
It was smooth, light, slurpy, and delicious without being too hard, soft, or al-dente chewy, which is good!
Imported from China, the Mi Xian (米線) is silky smooth. Best of all, it does not go flabby or softens after the soup cools down.
The texture of the slurp-worthy strands is just perfect, and it is soft enough and easy to digest.
We saw many seniors and young children having a meal here.
GO Noodle House Menu
History of San Xian Tang Mi Xian (三鲜汤米線)
Signature Clear Soup
Famous for its signature clear superior broth, this fish-based soup is cooked for several hours to bring out the natural sweetness.
The steaming bowls of slurpy noodles are finished with fragrant Chinese wine.
The garnishing is chopped cilantro and spring onions.
Even without the conventional garlic oil that Malaysians are used to, the soup tasted bright and sweet.
There are noodles and there ARE Best Noodles in The World!
A trade secret, the recipe took several years of painstaking fine-tuning to formulate.
The Superior Soup contains a small amount of Hua Diao wine.
Shaoxing wine is also sometimes called Hua Diao wine (huādiāo jiǔ, 花雕酒), which translates to “carved flower wine.”
GO Noodle House Menu
Lots of Possibilities to Craft a Personal GO Noodle House Bowl
First, choose your noodles. We opted for the Signature Yunnan-style Mixian Rice Noodles.
There is a choice of Superior or Spicy soup. Each bowl of noodles comes with one type of topping.
Additional toppings of optional ingredients include:
- pork belly
- beef slices
- clams
- scallops
- ‘song fish’ belly
- squid balls
- fresh prawns
- bitter gourd
- spinach
The bowls are significant, and some restraint is needed; it’s accessible to over-order.
Steph and Jeannie confessed to going overboard and overindulging when Go Noodle House first opened.
They ordered a large bowl of extra ingredients each and struggled to finish.
You can even order big bowls of broth without noodles from the a la carte menu.
Just add in fleshy chunks of grouper head and belly if you like a fresh fish for lunch.
You could even order a meaty frog for a bright, distinct sweetness to the soup.
You’re the BOSS of your Noodle Soup.
GO Noodle House has Frog on the menu!
What we ordered at Go Noodle House
We ordered two bowls of *No. 1 Bestseller* Superior Soup Bursting Meat Ball (三鲜汤浆爆丸) it was sufficient for three of us girls to share.
The bursting pork balls are noteworthy.
The meat is bouncy, and the minced pork filling is juicy and flavorful.
We finished our shared bowl happily and vowed to return for more.
For starters, we order a Crispy Bean Curd Skin to munch on.
We also love hot herbal tea, which has a sweet flavor.
Cautionary notes: Beware of the heat-inducing homemade Chili Paste, dangerously addictive.
Smart Dory took a step back and just dipped in soy sauce.
The experience of Vietnamese chili and pepper is a good restrainer.
*No. 1 Bestseller* Superior Soup Bursting Meat Ball (三鲜汤浆爆丸)
Hakka Sauce Pan Mee with Onsen Egg
Hakka Sauce with Century Egg Noodles
I would love to try the QQ Curry Mi Xian which I once saw on promotion!
GO Noodle House Trio Platter Snack
The Trio Platter snack of Crispy Fucuk (fried beancurd sheets), Fried Pork Roll (almost similar to “lor bak”), and Gold Coin (that tastes like “bak kwa”)
We ordered the GO Noodle House Crispy Fucuk, which is satisfying.
Crispy Fucuk.
GO Noodle House Review
Every time I pass by the outlet, there’s a queue to enter.
Thankfully, the wait for seats doesn’t take too long.
The order is brisk, and the noodles are served super fast.
I think their noodles in superior soup (with wine) are still their most successful and most sought-after dish.
GO Noodle House is so famous that the queue is 30 minutes long during weekday lunchtime.
Its popularity is best summed up in three words.
Fresh ingredients.
Good taste and good value for money.
If you haven’t tried, find out for yourself.
Overall, this is a trendy and casual noodle outlet with a long queue line worth the wait.
If you’re wondering, the confirmation is GO Noodle House is non-halal.
The restaurant serves pork and alcohol in the soup.
After this review, I have dined at the Penang branch several times.
The restaurant is strategically located in Gurney Plaza (7th floor/ near GSC).
GO Noodle House @ The Starling
Address: Lot B-018, Level B1 The Starling Mall No, 6, Jalan SS 21/37, Damansara Utama, 47400 Petaling Jaya, Selangor
Hours: 10.00 AM to 8.00 PM
GO Noodle House, Gurney Plaza
Gurney Plaza, Lot 170-07-02/03, Level 7, Pulau Tikus, No. 170, Persiaran Gurney, 10250 George Town, Penang
Hours: 10.00 AM to 8.00 PM
Facebook: GO Noodle House
