Today on Food on Fridays we consider some Chinese pasta that’s truly legendary. You see, it’s the food at a place here in Vancouver called Legendary Noodles. It’s is a tiny Chinese restaurant that opened up in the West End shortly before Chris and I moved away from Vancouver back in 2008.  As the name would imply, the restaurant focusses almost exclusively on dishes made with different sizes of noodles, including thick, thin, medium or hand cut, among others.  The dough is made by hand; you can see the cooks in the semi-open kitchen area kneading the dough and/or tossing it like a pizza before  cutting the noodles to make your dish.  There’s something fun about watching them cut the noodles to make the food — I mean, you can’t get much fresher than that, eh?

Anyway, the menu is organized into different possible toppings for the types of noodles, with a selection ingredients and sauces to choose from. The photos below show what we ate on a visit a couple of weeks ago, our selections based on what we remembered liking in the past:

Thick noodles with green beans and peanut sauce

Hand-cut noodles with shrimp and vegetables

Chinese restaurants that offer fresh noodles like this exist in the Richmond district in Vancouver, which is an area with a lot of Chinese restaurants and shops. Legendary Noodles, though, is still the only one that has opened a branch of this type of shop in the West End.  Over the years, we have included it in our stories about the wide variety of food we enjoyed when we lived in this are of Vancouver. So it was a delectable discovery to find it still in business after all this time. Legendary noodles, indeed.