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MELBOURNE | GO Noodle House is a popular Malaysian noodle chain that’s expanded to over 30 locations across South East Asia since opening in 2014. The first of several planned Australian locations opened in Melbourne’s CBD recently, and we were invited to take a look. The space is light filled, with high ceilings, large windows, timber floors and wood furniture. Dotted around the venue are on-theme decorations, including tributes to 17th-century Chinese emperor Kangxi who, legend has it, was the first person to add rice wine to his noodles.
An assortment of noodle dishes and snacks are offered, with a seemingly limitless combination of ingredients across the menu’s many pages. You select your soup, your noodle type, and any add ons, including shots of aged rice wine, which is typical several of the Qing Dynasty Imperial noodle dishes that appear on GO’s menu.
We opted for the pork and beef combo – bok choi, fresh sliced ginger, sliced beef, and pork meatballs in GO’s ‘Superior soup’ with slippery spaghetti-like mi xian rice noodles. The Superior soup is very light and fragrant, but the hot and sour soup is where the real fun lies. Our second dish was Pan Mee with thick, wheat “tear” noodles – think mini lasagne sheets, inside hot and sour soup topped with pork mince, fried shallots, fried anchovies, and shredded wood ear mushrooms.
The hot and sour soup plays wonders on your taste buds with a great balance between tartness and chilli. The tear noodles, meanwhile, are fantastic for grabbing a bit of everything in each bite and getting a wonderful flavour and textural complexity with each mouthful. Other soup bowl options include things like fish dumplings, pork belly, and clams.
For snacks it’s things like grilled beef skewers, pork ‘fries’, fried fish dumpling crackers, and fish balls. If you’re thirsty you can choose from a selection of hot and iced teas, Asian drinks, and Tiger or Tsingtao beer. A word of warning about the iced teas – they are very sweet. We opted for the snow pear flavour, which was tasty, and ended up diluting it between two of us with water.
GO Noodle House might be a chain, but don’t let this dissuade you from visiting. The food is tasty and well priced, and a great option for anyone looking to satisfy their noodle cravings in the CBD.
GO Noodle House
195 Exhibition Street
Melbourne
Victoria 3000
Australia
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Mon – Sun: 10:00am to 10:00pm