The Times
Chitra Ramaswamy joined the throng of East Asian students that regularly pack out the two floors of a TikTok viral hit restaurant in Newington, an area “fast becoming the capital’s unofficial Chinatown”.
Amid strong competition this place, she is told, is “the best for hand-pulled noodles”, and sure enough “the smells from the kitchen are sensational”. Everyone seems to be having the Lanzhou ramen, so Chitra followed suit – “and, my word, the noodles. So chewy, springy as cables, flawless.”
Best of all were the spicy king prawn wontons “in a dark red oil-slicked broth more floral than hot, Sichuan pepper-ish but without the numbing tingle, so surprising I go to the till and ask the server what’s in it. It’s Noodles Home’s secret chilli sauce. And she’d never eaten anything like it until she worked here either.”
Chitra Ramaswamy - 2025-02-16
