Noodle Exchange

• 4000 W. Flamingo Road, Las Vegas, 89103 (Directions)
• Inside the Gold Coast
• 702-367-7111
• Web site: http://www.goldcoastcasino.com/dining/noodle-exchange

Noodles are, naturally, the house specialty here, and there are 16 ways to try them. If you don’t mind a spicy kick, I highly recommend home-style spicy braised beef in broth noodles, a huge bowl stocked with thick, wheat-based noodles and shards of thinly sliced beef bobbling on the surface. A milder noodle dish would be foo kiem shrimp and calamari stir-fried rice noodle, with anchovy and bean sprouts adding crunch and salt. Teppan pork tenderloin noodle with onion black pepper sauce is served on a sizzling platter, and there is a nice helping of meat to balance the carbs. If you prefer something on the bland side, then stir-fried chicken and vegetable noodle is the ticket. Think of these thick, white, spaghetti-like strands as Chinese Noodles 101.There are also Szechuan chicken wings, delicious, crunchy things with a sweet, hot sauce, done lollipop-style. Seafood lettuce cups are wonderful, finely minced shrimp, scallops and lap cheung, that sweet Chinese pork sausage that you wrap taco-style in the hollow of lettuce leaves slathered in hoi sin sauce.