Chef Papa Tea and Noodle Bar recently took over the Congee Wong space in the Kennedy and Hwy 7 (Peach Tree) Plaza and it follows the same format as Deer Garden; you customize your meal by selecting your soup base, noodles, and toppings. But, it seems like they offer a few more soup bases and less variety of toppings. They also have rice dishes as well which I was tempted to get but wanted to try the noodles as it seemed to be their speciality. Comes with a drink, Presotea drinks are an extra $2.50 with your noodle or rice combo.
They also have side orders and surprisingly the side of grilled lemongrass chicken was quite tasty! The noodle soups were pretty good too but the chicken was done better than expected. Don't get me wrong, I would definitely get the noodles again, but the chicken (albeit a bit small) was tender and very flavourful!
I ordered a Chiu Chow style broth with fresh udon, Japanese chashu, and soft egg. My partner got the hokkaido pork bone ramen (comes with the soft egg) with egg noodles and fish puff. The udon noodles were definitely chewy and tasted fresh, this was probably the best part of my bowl! The soup was flavourful but I think I prefer Deer Garden's Chiu Chow broth more (sorry, it's hard not to compare!). The Japanese chashu was slices of pork belly (good portion size) which was decent, but not as tender as Japanese ramen houses. Opted for a cold milk tea instead of Presotea which was okay, but they put in quite a bit of evaporated milk, seemed like condensed milk was added.
Overall, a decent meal with quite a number of options. Especially great if a group of people want to eat differing types of noodles/rice, this place offers Japanese, Vietnamese, and Chinese noodles and rice dishes to satisfy a variety of cravings.
Chef Papa Tea and Noodle Bar
8390 Kennedy Road, Unit B1-3
Markham, ON L3R 0W4
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