went as a twosome here on sunday morning. got seated in a twosome table right in front of the kitchen pick up window. we got a good view of the 2 chiefs and 1 waitress serving the entire restaurant. She was busy as she was doing everything, hostess, cashier, busing, and serving. She needed some more help but her attitude was good, besides a little slow service, everything else was ok.

we ordered pea shoots, xialong buns, beef noodle soup and green onion pancake. We had no room on our table to put all 4 dishes, so we ate holding our little bowl and all other dishes occupying the postage stamp size table. After we were done i decided to bus our own table and remove some of the dishes to the service cart in the back and also refilling our water glasses from the jug on the counter.

i was a little put off on the $1.50 for hot tea, which is free at other restaurants like this, but just had water instead, at least it was clear on the menu that tea is not free.

i was fine doing this as the waitress was swamped. I found the value a little expensive for what we got, but it was a good experience.

Went for lunch with 3 co-workers and two had the Peanut Sauce noodles and the other two had the lemon garlic noodles. Very difficult to eat with slippery plastic chopsticks for one thing and bland, flavourless sauces all around. The bits of grisely, stringy chicken were disgusting and we spat them out. Few pieces of basil/spinach and even the chili sauce condiment didn't help. We were all still hungry afterwards and made a promise never to return. The place is tiny and cramped and dark too...blah.

This place is small but cosy. The designers went to a lot of trouble to create an authentic Asian feel to the restaurant and the open kitchen with chefs pulling noodles provided for an entertaining meal. I had the beef soup with wontons, veggies and thin noodles. ($7.25) It needed some hot sauce to spice it up but the wontons were fresh and flavourful. My friend had the veggie noodle soup with spicy seasonings($6.99) that she said was tasty. The home made fruit flavoured tea ($2) was excellent. Hope this place survives!

I took Mrs. C and a friend to this place when I discovered that Café Europa (formerly Clove on Denman) is now a Japanese restaurant. I saw a local lounging on his bicycle nearby, and asked about the demise of the café. He said, “Why don’t you try the noodle place across the street? It’s great!” I thought this guy sounded enthusiastic, so we gave LN a try. There is no real signage to mark this place, and it was not easy to find.

We wedged ourselves into the tiny restaurant and were seated at a puny booth. I begged for a larger table, and was told that one might soon be available.

We ordered the onion pancake appetizer with peanut sauce and the chive stuffed pancake. Both were excellent, and I had some Great Wall wine to wash it down. I thought the only Chinese wine was mau tai, but this was a red wine. It wasn’t great, but when in Rome…

I had the lamb and cumin with sliced noodles, and my companions had beef flank in thin noodle soup and dumplings in thin noodle soup. This place is all about the noodles, and they didn’t disappoint. They were amazing, but the rest of the meal left something to be desired. All the dishes were WAY too salty. If they fix that, the food would be better.

The servers seemed like they wanted to be somewhere else, but they were competent. I found the ambience to be a little cramped, and the w/c was not super terrific. The cooking area is beside the rear booths, and it was fun to watch the cooks play with the noodles, so you get a show with dinner.

Will I be back? Probably, but this place could use improvement.

Came here mid week for lunch. We both had the Beef Broth Noodle bowl I had the thin noodle and he had the flat.
The broth was flavouful and hot, I liked the spinach and brocolli in the soup along with the fresh coriander and basil. My thin noodles tasted fresh and they gave a good amount, not too much.
To drink we both had the house tea; it looked good and at first sip was hot and aromatic with floating a floating nut, dyhedrated cranberries and cherries in it but was really sweet as it steeped in the glass, it became almost like a juice as it cooled down and not a good way; I drank half.
The service was okay; I asked what Jaio Zi were and her answer was "it's Jaio Zi" after asking again she let me know they were dumplings. The soups came out about 3 mins apart so that was also kind of annoying but no biggie. One thing that I didn't like where the chopsticks; because they were plastic and smooth there was nothing for the noodles to grip to so they would slide right off, instead of having a bit of a squared off edge they were round so it was slow eating the noodles.
The room was dark and quiet, there were 3 other tables indcluding us. My business partner wasn't too impressed either with it; we both thought the soup was good but nothing to come back for.
Another thing we didn't like was the chilli oil on the table; it was the most mild and flavourless 'hot sauce' ever, we each put the oil and the crushed chillis that sit in the dish and still nothing, now that I think about it the broth was pretty bland I had to put pepper in it.
Overall okay; I'd rather have pho if I'm going to go for some broth/meat/noodle soup. Good to check out but probably won't go back; nice to try though, wierd entrance btw.

The first thing that I noticed when walking in was a whiff of an unpleasant smell, which I later recognized as rotting lunch meat. Maybe it was just me, but I smelt it twice later when walking past the "kitchen" in the back of the restaurant. Probably just me...
The girl dressed in a t-shirt and cut-offs sat us in a booth. Pardon, that is actually two church pews facing each other, with a table in the middle. Now, I'm all for ambiance and stuff, but... I guess in this case they were trying to educate us on the fact that everyone in Asia sits on benches, stools or, well, church pews. For extra padding they put 4 pillow cases. That's pillow covers, not pillows. (Refer to the title...)
We ordered Spring Rolls and Edamame to start. They came out first, as we had asked, but the Spring Rolls were very hot and all the three of us had to eat over were paper napkins. So here we are, trying to hold on to the rolls with plastic chop sticks, dripping plum sauce all over the napkins. Oh and by the way, what's with the plastic flatware? One of the reasons I hate Hon's (on Robson) is not because of its Soviet Cafeteria feel or the slime they serve for food, but the plastic utensils one has to use to scoop up that slime with. You know how difficult it is to hold on to anything using those? Ever heard of bamboo? Renewable, so no monkeys have to die... Too expensive I guess, eh? I'll pay the extra dollar, I swear.
Anyway, I ordered thin noodles with pork, mushrooms and black bean sauce. Now you can't go wrong with that combination. But the dish was nothing I had expected. The pork was ground! Huh? There was maybe one mushroom, a broccoli and a couple of green beans on the side. And a bunch of black bean sauce. Not even all of the noodles were coated with the sauce though. Was it just squeezed from a bottle at the last moment? So it was really Spaghetti Bolognese sans the tomato sauce. Thank God it came with a fork and a spoon, which I would usually find atrocious. But remember what I said about slime and plastic chop sticks...
Oh, the tea! Green tea in a Chinese restaurant... Tetley! In a water glass! With a paper coffee cup sleeve! Now that's creative!
The bill came immediately after our plates were cleared, which I thought was presumptuous, seeing that we had ordered starters. But maybe they didn't have dessert. By then I couldn't be bothered to check. It was $18 something + tip per person. The others had had similar stuff and we split the starters. My reaction was: did I really eat 20 bucks worth of food?
When we were leaving, a group of girls came in and were brought to our table to wait for us to leave. I guess they were meant to sit at the empty table next to us, but they really wanted ours. So much so that one of them sat down at our dirty table before I could get out of the booth. Good luck ladies! Wouldn't wanna be ya...

I gave the overall rating a poor because the food has just way too much MSG and nothing would be able to redeem it. The noodles tasted pretty good, the stock was rather weak and broccoli in noodles just seems strange to me. the space is cute & rather quaint. Service was speedy.

It's alright. Was really excited about it, walking in looks very memorable. It used to be an old italian coffee joint, you can still see the -Ciao !- signs above old bar. Anyways, decor is very nice and definitely a plus. Its a small place but they have a good arrangement, good vibe and cool music.

The noodles are truly superb and watching the noodle masters in action is always entertaining. Not very flavorful though , really think the food overall needs some tightening up. Specially starting with such fresh raw materials as in-house made noodles, the final dishes should blow me away - they don't really though. Appetizers seem to be better than entrees.

Getting charged for tea also upsets me to no end, specially when it is the cheap chinese tea i'm familiar with.

It's alright, nothing more.

Sept 29, 2009 – NICE DÉCOR. BAD FOOD. EVEN WORSE SERVICE. We were on Denman Street and intrigued by the interesting décor that we could see from the street. Inside, was also really charming and the menu looked delicious, so we were quite excited and hoped we had found a great new place to eat. Unfortunately, it all went downhill from there. We asked the server if the chicken used in the dishes was all breast meat and she told us that it definitely was all boneless breast meat. We ordered 2 dishes with flat noodles, one with Lemon Garlic Green Onion Sauce and one with Creamy Peanut Sauce (adding on what we believed would be chicken breast for an additional $3.50) plus Green Onion Pan Cake to start. We eagerly awaited our food. The Green Onion Pan Cake arrived and was somewhat flavourful but incredibly heavy with grease. The accompanying peanut dipping sauce was bland and tasteless. Then our noodles arrived. The noodles with Lemon Garlic Green Onion Sauce had a nice aroma and really good flavour but were incredibly greasy and the noodles were unpleasantly doughy and chewy. There were a few sparse pieces of broccoli and spinach and that was it. The noodles with Creamy Peanut Sauce came in a disappointingly bland sauce with the same unpleasantly doughy and chewy noodles, again with a few sparse pieces of broccoli and spinach and an overall very greasy texture. Worst of all… the little scraps of greasy chicken were most definitely not breast. We pointed this out to the server who argued with us saying it was breast and “it was from all parts of the chicken”!! We also felt that both dishes were a poor value at $13 each, given they were just some noodles with a few bits of broccoli and spinach. The extra $3.50 for the greasy bits of dark meat chicken was ludicrous. We will definitely never go back, which is a shame because it seemed like this place had a lot of potential.

BF and I love the noodles, the reasonable prices and the large portions. He always has the Gan Man Bian lemon garlic dish and polishes it all off. I like the Hit Me dish with pork and hot garlic sauce. Yes, there is a little bit of greasiness to the noodles, but they are yummy anyway. I plan to try the soups next time as they also seem popular. Ambiance is fine - small and cosy, although the clothes do smell a little bit of fried stuff when you get home. I find that happens with most Chinese and Indian places though, so nothing unusual about the Legendary Noodle in this regard. It's fun to sit near the kitchen and watch the chefs at work, making the noodles by hand. Recommended for sure.