Old Street Food Place Incorporated
“I cannot handle too much spicyness so I usually pair it with a taro milk tea from Kung Fu Tea next door.”
“It took a little while to start eating, since they are soup dumplings one poke and the soup can leak out.”
“There are maybe only three things you should be ordering from Old Street (Lao Jie).”
Old Street Food Place Incorporated
Take-out: Yes
Bike Parking: Yes
Good for Kids: Yes
Good for Groups: Yes
Price range.
$ Price range Under $10
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In what barely is a food court in Queens Crossing is "Lao Jie" Special Soup Buns. What they offer are dumplings and buns along with your spicy side dishes. What's great about this place is no tax and tip required. Just order and wait until they yell your number in Chinese. So better know your yi, er, san's.
I had to order the xiao long baos or soup dumplings. If its in their name, then it has to be good right. I mean the fact that I can get the soup dumplings without having to dine in at a restaurant is a plus. However the soup dumplings here are lower quality in all levels compared to just about anywhere.
Special Soup Buns ($5.50/six) – 1. The dumplings were laid on top of each other resulting in the skins sticking to each other. For soup dumplings, that is a sin because that guarantees ripped dumplings and a bad time. 2. The dumplings had no soup anyways and just a moist meatball in the center. 3. Why do I feel like these are the frozen ones you get from the supermarket? The top of the dumpling is rock hard and chewy and just doesn't seem handmade at all. (4/10)
I heard good things about their regular dumplings and buns though so maybe ordering what they don't specialize in is the right thing to do here.
On a side note:
Apparently, you order the noodles that are seen being made in the middle of the room here as well. (The ma la tangs and the beef noodle soups). If anyone knows if the noodle place has its own yelp page, please refer it to me. Thanks!
Note that this place is [Old Street] [Food Place] and not Old [Street Food] Place. I assure you, this is located inside the food court (next to where Paris Baguette is).
The lines can be long, but that's because they make most things to order.
I didn't try their fried or steamed dumplings, but they looked good. I did order some of their turnip related pastries to go, as well as a flakey shredded turnip bun. Both were exactly what I expected.
They also have decent fresh, warm soy milk.
What the focktard is this? It's half cafeteria (quasi?) and all of 3 stands for well, food. One counter holding dumplings and food related in the dumpling family. We ordered the fried ones because Little didn't like the look of the round ones – assuming they were the soup dumplings I noted according to the sign overhead. However, Little hit it on the nail in description, "they look squishy and not so good, Mama".
The center counter was selling some type of noodle soups of various flavors. Maybe we should've gone with that.
And the other counter being Kung Fu Tea. There you have it. A cafeteria/restaurant? Not a clue. It wasn't inedible but it was quite greasy. It was supposed to just be a potty run for Little but I'm always willing to try anything I've never tried before and it seemed well, maybe I did know better but wanted to be proved wrong. Well, now I know.
There are maybe only three things you should be ordering from Old Street (Lao Jie).
1) the egg and scallion bun – a flaky turnover-like pastry filled with egg and scallion. Nice and salty and perfect by itself or with soup/congee.
2) salty tofu soup (shen doufu fa) – a salty version of the typically sweet doufu fa you see during desserts, with a salty soy sauce scallion and mini shrimp sauce thing
and most importantly…
3) beef hotpot (niu rou malatang) – a delicious mix of noodles, assorted veggies, and thinly sliced beef akin to the ones you get during hotpot.
If you're getting dumplings/pan fried pork buns, you're getting ripped off (aka go over a couple streets to Yummy Dimsum to get them for 4 for $1.50).
The highlight of this place is the beef hotpot in my opinion. They come with other meat options, but beef is the best. You can choose your spiciness level, but be warned…even the "small spicy" leaves me sweating and sniffling. It's around $8 for a big portion of vermicelli noodles, seaweed, sponge tofu, cabbage, potato, lotus root, and beef all soaking inside a salty spicy soup with hint of garlic. It's the perfect thing for a cold winter day.
For what this place is, don't expect great service. It's meant to be for a cheap eat or quick bite, but it's quite delicious.