Shi Miao Dao

WOW! Took a chance and came here for lunch on a hot day. It's nice and air conditioned for comfort. Lovely decor, really nice and quick service. Relatively inexpensive for how much food you get. Got the Kim Chi rice noodle bowl. So flavourful, a little spice like the menu said but not overwhelming. Lots of veggies packed inside. Also got a side of Korean fried chicken. The sauce on it was INCREDIBLE! 10/10 Would recommend!

The namesake noodles are a little on the bland side especially if you order the default set without add-ons, but it hits the right spot. The only dish I didn't enjoy was the chicken rice - the chicken was rubbery and there was too much rice compared to the chicken portion. I'll be back to try the other noodle broths, but I'd avoid the other items on their menu.

Every single thing in my take out order was perfection. I’ve not had a lot of hainanese chicken but from the limited options in downtown, this was just perfection! Including the sides rice and sauces. Also got the scallion pancake and cold shredded potato dish has a mostly numbing taste but with hoisin it’s perfect!

Food was alright. But service was bad. They never refilled water. A friend ordered his without pork and they put in extra ham and sausage along with shrimp which he hasn't ordered. Ordered refill noodles and took half an hour to bring over after asking a second time. The beef rice plate was great though.

The restaurant's food was delicious and precautions on spatial awareness and bonus points for great air circulation! Overall, a decent substitute if you were trying to go to other rice noodle soup places. Note: we stopped by Shi MiaoDao for dinner time around 7-8pm with friends. Food-wise, we had the House Special Malay Laksa Rice Noodle Soup, Hot and Sour Rice Noodle Soup, Shredded Chicken and Shredded Potato. Following with the other reviews, agreed, the Laksa soup base was pretty good. The Hot and Sour soup base is not your "average hot and sour soup" you'd expect. It's more on the traditional herbal style for hot and sour. We were also pretty full on the standard 1 service of rice noodle and didn't order any refills at all! The cold dishes of Shredded Chicken and Shredded Potato was not bad as well, although the potato could do for a bit more seasoning. Service was alright. The staff required a bit of flagging down which is okay. Since we were closer to closing time, the staff was a bit more casual with dishwashing gloves and grabbing your dishes in front of you. which I personally don't mind. They also take cash or credit for contactless interaction as well which is great.

If you want to try some fresh and delicious noodles, come here, we love all types of food here!

For personal reference only, 2/10 Not lower because it's still edible Disappointing Chicken Rice and Mala Noodle Reddit recommended Chicken Rice because it tastes like Singaporean/ Malaysian chicken rice. It doesn't! The dipping source or lack of it is the first disappointment, IMO the thick soy sauce and the fruity spicy dipping is one of the keys to good Chicken rice. The chicken texture tastes nothing like the real deal combination of cooking technique and breed of chicken used. The restaurant did use a thick piece of chicken thigh. However, it doesn't hide the fact that the chicken and the rice tasted absolutely horrible. Mala Noodle is too salty and masks all possible flavour in the soup. The word Mala means "numb" and "spicy" while the soup is spicy, it not numbing at all usually comes from Zanthoxylum. The portion is large though and it's ok for the price. Overall a huge disappointment. Can't believe that I went twice.

Excellent food! And great services. Good vibeFood: 5/5

Spontaneous find turned into a good dinner. We were actually going to get pho because it was very cold plus the big snow the day beforeand we were craving something warm and comforting. On the way we found this restaurant and decided to give it a try. I don’t know if they were understaffed, the service was slow and sporadic but the server was nice. They could accommodate vegan/vegetarian and change the soup base. I was given two soup choices for vegan version; tomato basil rice noodle soup and fresh assorted mushroom rice noodle soup. I chose the mushroom soup since the picture in the menu looked really nice. I was disappointed that my husband’s dish came first then mine was brought out very late. Maybe my soup was served very late because they had to make the vegan version soup from the scratch?! ‍ I told him not to wait for me because his soup was getting cold and the raw meat needed to be cooked in the soup. When my soup was brought out later it was super hot so I had to cool it down a little. By the time I was able to eat the noodle soup my husband already finished his We also ordered shredded potato and scallion pancake to start. I don’t know if they forgot one of the appetizers we ordered because when I asked about it the server said “oh?”. So the scallion pancake came lastly. The food was overall really good. The mushroom soup didn’t look like the picture though. I don’t expect it to be exactly the same but the two fresh shiitake mushrooms in the picture were nowhere to be seen in my bowl. My favourite was the shredded potato!! I have to say it was the best one I’ve ever tried :D I would go back to try other dishes as well!!

The laksa was really delicious, I’ll definitely order it again. The fried chicken had more batter on it then I like, the flavour was good though!

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