I did a short crawl of Milpitas Square and nextdoor Ulferts Square this weekend:
- Foodie Talk is now a Malatang place, and has no affiliation anymore with Chef Zhao.
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FT BBQ in Ulferts Square has several Shenyang style dishes to accompany their skewers. I got the “chicken born”, elsewhere called “chicken rack”, scrap bones of chicken stir fried with cumin and dried chili flakes. The meat is very juicy and addictive if a turkey carcass is your favorite part of Thanksgiving. Unlike Shen Yang in San Gabiel Valley, FT BBQ’s version doesn’t have any char or a dark sauce.
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QQ Noodle has spinach hand pulled noodles! Anyone try those?
- Kung Fu Noodle is a recently opened noodle shop by the owners of Chili Garden. They have thin and wide hand-pulled noodles, and the menu has Sichuan, Taiwanese (the chefs is Taiwanese), and northern Chinese influences. The lamb noodle soup with hand pulled noodles was stellar. Clean flavors in the lamb and soup base and a few quail eggs to punctuate every few spoonfuls of broth. Lamb pieces have layers with contrasting textures, soft meat against cleanly snappable sinew (?), whose texture matches the dried tofu bamboo scattered throughout the bowl. The wide noodles are several feet long, thick, in a uniform manner, and almost have the bite of knife-shaved noodles rather than the elasticity of a thinner noodle. Their thickness enabled me to take some home as leftovers with no deterioration overnight. I also liberated a few noodles from the bowl (geez, they’re long) and tossed them in chili oil for an extra treat.
