A note on the words: Hong Kong egg noodles are thin wheat noodles made with egg, and when they are deep-fried they set into a crisp nest that softens under whatever is spooned over it. Bok choy is a Chinese leaf vegetable with pale crisp stems and dark green leaves. Vermicelli, on a Chinese menu, means fine rice noodles, and XO sauce is a Cantonese condiment built on dried seafood, chili and cured ham. The Las Vegas Strip is the stretch of Las Vegas Boulevard the big hotels stand on. Hangover Meshi is the name of this blog, and meshi means a meal.
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Noodles on Tabelog (in Japanese) — Tabelog has no English pages for restaurants outside Japan, so this listing is in Japanese. Opening hours and payment details are kept up to date there, not here.
Hello, this is Hangover Meshi. This time I headed for “Noodles,” inside the Bellagio, the famous Las Vegas hotel with the fountains. As the name says, it is a noodle restaurant. Whatever else, Las Vegas is casinos everywhere you look. Even getting to this place, you cannot reach it without walking through the casino. Well, I suppose that is exactly the idea, ha.
Why travel all the way to America and eat Asian food? A perfectly fair question, and yet — I had a few errands to get through, it got rather late, and this was about the only place still open. (There may well have been others, but in a foreign country one has no idea, ha.)
And so, to “Noodles”!
It was late, but the place was quite busy! On a weekday, no less. The casino and the whole city of Las Vegas were heaving with people.
Hong Kong Egg Noodles: $22.88
XO Crabmeat Vermicelli: $34.88
About $22.88 a dish. That is not nothing! Thanks to the weak yen!
I went for the Hong Kong Egg Noodles.
After a while, the chili sauce arrived.
It felt like a fair wait. Thirty minutes or so?
In America each table has its own waiter, and nothing gets done unless you tell that person (something to do with the tips?), which is inconvenient, ha. It makes me appreciate the level of service in Japan all over again. Japan is something! Although in America they will come and refill your water forever, ha.
Ta-daa. What a quantity, ha.
In Japan this would be about two servings. Crisp, frizzled fried egg noodles under big chunks of chicken, carrot, bok choy and mushroom. All of it bold in a way that feels American, and yet the seasoning is delicate and good. This is the taste you get at a proper Chinese restaurant — never too strong, on the light side if anything, but with a powerful savor underneath that pulls the whole thing together. I see. It is delicious.
$22.88 comes to about 3,400 yen, I suppose. Expensive is expensive, but given the size, the taste and the location inside a hotel, my impression is that the value is not as bad as all that. Well, you end up charged something like 18% for service and tip on top of it, so with that in mind it is on the pricey side, ha. Japan does service better, but the yen being this weak is painful.
Noodles (Chinese / Las Vegas Strip)
Tabelog dinner rating ★★★☆☆ 3.4
I ate here and paid for it myself. Nothing on this site is a comped meal.
One more for the road?
