A wide selection of tasty noodles, delivered quickly at a sensible price. Good veggie options too. Cafe rather than restaurant style. Nothing fancy about this place but the food, while not being gourmet quality, is well made and tasty, service is prompt and friendly and the punters keep on coming, despite the area being packed with other food options. Recommended for lunch when a bowl or plate of noodles is what's required to hit the spot.
We really struggled in Chinatown, first to find a restaurant that was open (it was past 3pm) and then to find one that had even one vegetarian dish. After at least 45 min of window shopping, we were at Big Bowl's doorstep. Their menu had plenty of stuff and we just crashed in exhausted. The point of the lengthy introduction is that if you have dietary (or budgetary) restrictions, please just head here directly. Their combo meals are plenty of food for 2 (big bowl indeed). The veg chopsuey I had was a satisfying dish of noodles and steamed veggies. They didn't skimp on the exotic veggies like cheaper places tend to do. The green apple virgin mojito was too sweet but refreshing nonetheless. An easy choice in Chinatown!
Everyone has their go to place when no particular places have been decided on or prior reservations made. Over the last few years Big Bowl, situated on Berry Street in Liverpool has been my go to place. As close to a Hong Kong style café as you can get along with Café de Pearl on Bold Street (which I don’t rate as highly as Bog Bowl) it offers good quality grub at a very reasonable price, as long as you know what to order. Being of Chinese ethnicity I would probably only ever order the Western take on Chinese food such as sweet and sour pork, lemon chicken etc about once in every hundred visits to Chinese restaurants. Whilst there are other delights to be enjoyed I still get the odd pankering for them along with the classic crispy duck (recently overtaken in my books by Peking duck after a visit to Hong Kong – post to follow). Whilst the official title of the restaurant includes Noodle Bar, it is the rice dishes that have become my favourite comfort meals. One of my absolute favou
An error has occurred! Please try again in a few minutes