Noodles are pure comfort food, but when temperatures hug the 100-degree mark, most of us prefer our comfort chilled. Thankfully, restaurants offer cold noodle salads as appetizers or a light meal.
Owner Tottie Kaya serves up a cucumber chicken salad seasoned with ginger and mint. This refreshing salad is then topped with noodles.
Fill up and cool down with a cold buckwheat noodle salad topped with chicken or grilled pork, cucumber, cabbage, lettuce and tossed with a sesame dressing.
Craving ramen noodles? Order the Oriental Salad, a mix of Napa cabbage, green onions, toasted almonds, ramen noodles and tossed with a sweet soy dressing.
This ethnic gem dishes up a salad of transparent noodles, cucumber, red cabbage, celery, onions, chicken, shrimp and chili jam in spicy dressing.
The Clear Noodle Salad features ground pork, shrimp, red onions, scallions and cilantro nestled in bean-thread noodles spritzed with lime juice.
The zaru ten soba is a buckwheat noodle dish served with a separate bowl of light broth for dipping. The hiyashi udon features the wider, thicker Japanese noodles with a side of light cold fish broth. These dishes aren't on the menu, but they are made fresh daily by the chef.
Zaru soba is served here with panko-style Spanish mackerel and dipping sauce. Hiyashi chu-ka is udon noodle salad with grilled chicken breast, cucumber, lettuce and sesame dressing.
Order a fresh spring roll with rice noodles, grilled shrimp and pork wrapped in rice paper. There are a variety of rice vermicelli bowls served with either grilled pork, chicken, beef or shrimp or with stir fried beef.
Try the mori soba, a buckwheat noodle with shrimp and vegetable tempura with a soy sauce-based sauce or the hiyashi chu-ka made with buckwheat noodles, lettuce, cucumber and a soy sauce-based soup.
This Old Town classic turns glass noodles, shrimp and minced chicken into a refreshing salad tossed in a light lime dressing.
One of this small eatery's signature salads is bean-thread noodles tossed with chicken, prawns and mint leaf with lime juice, served on a bed of lettuce.
