Shi Miaodao Yunnan Rice Noodle

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!

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!

Rice noodles have been a huge trend in Toronto, especially during these past couple of cold, winter months! Settling into a great ambiance with a nice, hot, boiling bowl of soup and noodles is always the way to go. At Shi Miaodao Yunnan Rice Noodle, you can get the best of both delicious noodles and also some great Asian vibes. Shi Miaodao was extremely crowded, which made sense because it was peak dinner time, and one of the colder days in Toronto. Everyone was sitting in a great dining space and chatting over some bubbling soup and a colourful array of sides that were to be added to the soup. You can choose from different flavours of soup, depending on whether you want to have spicy soup, savoury soup, or the original. Essentially the base of the soup is customizable, but generally the sides are the same for all the rice noodles at Shi Miaodao. Despite the crowdedness of the restaurant, we were served quite quickly that evening. My partner got himself the Spicy Malay Noodles while I went with the classic Crossing Bridge Rice Noodle at the very top of the menu. Note: whenever I go out to new places, I always want to try out the most popular, original and classic choices, before I go back and try out all the other types of items they have! The sides were served first, which seemed to have a variety of different things but really made the dish very colourful and attractive to the eyes. There were seaweed varieties, corn, quail egg, shrimp, beef brisket, fish cake, and other garnishes. Once this was on our table, our soups came in bubbling and super hot! The waitresses were kind to let their customers know that the pot is extremely hot, and gave a quick tutorial on how to eat the dish. Make sure you’re cooking your meat in the boiling hot soup, while it’s at its peak obviously! Then throw in all the side and enjoy. The Spicy Malay I could tell lived up to its name because the moment the waitress passed the soup to my partner across from me, I got hit with the sheer spiciness of the dish and had a slight cough from the smell. You could see it was not only boiling hot, but also extremely and intensely spicy. My partner, who enjoys spicy food, took his first few bites and said that the soup was serving its purpose, but the spice level of this dish was way over the top. It wasn’t that he couldn’t finish, but he could tell that whoever had prepared the dish that they were primarily focused on getting to the spice level they did, as oppose to the actual taste of the broth. He was slightly disheartened by the dish. On the other hand, I must say that I was personally really satisfied with my Crossing Bridge Rice Noodle soup that I received that night during my dinner. It was a perfect compilation of savoury flavors, hot broth, and delicious taste. In combination with all the sides that were giving to me as well, this made for a killer meal. We were both given the rice noodles separately in order to control our noodle portions and we ate eagerly, regardless! Lastly, to pair up with our hot soups, we were given probably the freshest fruit teas that I’ve received. In fact, this was my very first time getting a drink like this! Usually on the Asian beverage end, I tend to lean towards iced coffee or avocado shakes from Vietnamese restaurants, or just the standard hot tea. These two drinks were a nice treat to end our visit at Shi Miaodao Yunnan Rice Noodles. One of the teas were the Passionfruit Tea with a mix of different fruits such as lime, oranges and apples in a cold iced green tea, and the other was a Matcha Green Tea chilled with lime, apple and ice. These drinks were very refreshing and added a beautiful, light taste to the end of our meal!