China-T Restaurant

To surprise you, I was first drawn to the restaurant because of its elegant Chinese name, not because of foodies' positive reviews it received on openrice.  小雨天 refers to light shower in Chinese.  Its current English name "China-T" makes no sense.

China-T may not make the best bowls of noodle in town but it is the only restaurant I know in central that serves yunan spicy noodles.

It also serves the spiciest noodles in the central business district.  When most of the world is getting home for the evening when I am just starting my third shift of the day, i.e. the evening shift, I definitely need to stay wide awake and be energized.  Spicy noodles is a very good energizer.

photo courtesy of openrice

Probably inspired by cart noodle, China-T let you custom make your own bowl of noodles.  You may start off by choosing the spice level of how hot you want it.  Then, you can pick your favorite toppings and noodles.   This time, I chose chicken wings, dumplings and enokitake.  The chicken wings were nicely marinated.  The delicious soy sauce permeated the wings thoroughly!  Yum!   Dumplings were boring.  Their skins were a little too thick for my liking.

I have little fear of spices and wanted to rock the spiciest level.  The waitress stared at me sternly as if I were crazy.  She insisted that I should start with "medium-hot".  Turned out she was right - "medium-hot" can already bead my forehead with perspiration.  To be more exact, the spice was not tongue-numbing, but lip-tingling.  I suspect my lips were swollen after the dinner.  If not the spice, the "pork bone broth" would be very bland.

China-T Restaurant Co. Ltd.
G/f, Won Hing Building,
74-78 Stanley Street, Central