Umai Oriental Street Food – Takeout

Umai Oriental Street Food Cafe in the Oriental Mart is a great place to pick up a bit of Asian Street Food. I have been here a lot and have blogged about them a couple of times already (read more here and here) If you collect and eat inside it is great value, but if…

Beef Brisket Noodle Soup at Yang’s

Yang’s Braised Chicken Rice in Nottingham might well be known for it’s signature dish ‘Braised Chicken Rice’ but they do also offer Soup Noodles on the menu. Now most of you well know that I am a total sucker for a bowl of noodles so it will be no surprise that I am back upstairs…

Tasnack: Soup noodles and Tawainese Chicken

Tasnack is an Asian restaurant on Friar Lane specializing mainly in hot pots and rice noodles with a few side dishes such as Taiwanese fried chicken. It has recently re-opened or re-branded formerly being called ‘Your world’. I last visited this location back in Oct 2019 and had some hot pot noodles and then once…

Wagamama in West Bridgford

Wagamama have recently opened up a branch in West Bridgford on Central Avenue in the location that formerly housed Carluccio’s that sadly closed during lockdown. I did once write about the Wagamama at the Corner House in town back in 2013 when I had some chicken noodle soup but I have never been to one…

Yang’s Braised Chicken Rice in Nottingham

Yang’s Braised Chicken Rice has finally opened on Market Street in Nottingham located upstairs from Hu Lau Shan. Many of us have been waiting for this moment ever since the sign was first placed on the building more than a year ago. At last this week the lights came on and they were open for…

Pho at Viet 80’s

Viet 80’s on Friar Lane in Nottingham is the latest Vietnamese restuarant to open in Nottingham. People have said that it is very authentic and that the menu and the food matches that expectation. Indeed with a dish of Pigs Tripes and Black Pudding being a special it certainly isn’t catering for the vanilla diner….

Grounded Kitchen in West Bridgford

Grounded Kitchen selling ‘Korean inspired nutrient rich nourish bowls’ has just opened at Tudor Square in West Bridgford. Early reports were that the food was really tasty so I figured that I really should make an effort and check it out Before we get down to eat I am just going to say that I…

Hello Vietnam: Crispy Belly Pork and a Banh Mi

“Hello! Vietnam” is an Oriental Food Market and Vietnam Street Food Deli located at the top of Derby Road in Nottingham. I first stumbled across this place back at the end of 2019 where I bought some ‘harder to find’ ingredients to rustle up some Vietnamese inspired meals. While there I learned that they were…