I’ve been to Ali’s, Boston’s best restaurant by far (don’t try debating me on that) a few more times since my previous review, so here’s some more stuff. I’m now up to 9 Ali’s visits and 20/27 coverage of the menu!
Review, part 2
Tea egg
This is actually the Lanzhou-style beef noodle soup from Fresh Noodle Allston, but the tea egg is a shared menu item. I don’t like tea and I don’t like eggs so I obviously wasn’t a big fan of the tea egg.
Shrimp with rice, spicy chicken, and radish salad
Apparently radish salad isn’t a real menu item? The other two are real though. There’s so much shrimp in this and the rice looks plain but once mixed with the sauce and shrimp, it’s awesome. SO MUCH SHRIMP. The spicy chicken is spicy (wow) and cold so a bit strange to my tastes but it’s not bad.
Tomato with egg rice and cold noodles with beef
The tomato with egg rice is honestly pretty average and the shrimp with rice is just strictly better. However, the cold noodles with beef are amazing and Ali accidentally gave me normal cold noodles (see above) and then he immediately recognized his mistake and walked out to my table and added the beef. This was way too much for me to eat in one meal but the cold noodles are pretty cold so I packed that to go (and hoped they wouldn’t spill open in my backpack) and ate it later and it still tasted amazing!