Deer Garden 鹿園魚湯米線 - Delicious Noodles

Restaurant: Deer Garden 鹿園魚湯米線

Cuisine: Chinese

Area: Richmond, BC

Address: 8580 Alexandra Road, Richmond, BC

1: Poor 2: OK 3: Good 4: Very good 5: Excellent

Food: 4.5

Service: 3

Price: Cheap

Friday was a Pro-D Day for our school <3

We decided to do our "Sibling Bonding Day" on that day, though it really just a excuse to go out and eat with our brother paying! Free food <3 My brother also promised his friend that he would take her out to eat as a birthday present. So on Friday we set off with my brother (we'll call him Toast) , Faith, Toast's friend (we'll call her Matcha) and me. Faith had been wanting to go to Deer Garden Signature in Richmond so we decided to go there. Deer Garden is a popular Chinese Noodle House in Richmond. They are known for their "build your own noodle bowl."

The restaurant was almost impossible to find. The GPS was no use in this situation >.<

By the time we were able to find the restaurant, it was packed! Lucky we anticipated this and made a reservation! And just as we went in a group of people were leaving so we got a table really quickly. Always make a reservation here if you come in during lunch time/dinner time!

 

The menu to build your own noodle bowl.

On the table:

The noodles all cost $7.95. They come in big bowls! Faith and I couldn't finished the noodles off, we tried though but couldn't do it so we had to take out the leftovers. Toast and Matcha was able to finish it all up! Matcha was the first to finish, we almost couldn't believe it! That girl sure can eat! LOL that's why we like her :) Anybody who can eat is our friend :)

Faith ordered the Laska Soup with Thick Noodles, Homemade Cuttlefish Balls and Beef Brisket. It came with a lot of cabbage, green onions, mushroom and bean curds. The laska soup was good, it was flavorful and delicous. It tasted like curry. The thick noodles was just like the noodles that you get with Taiwanese Beef Noodle Soup. It was Al Dente. The homemade cuttlefish balls Faith's favourite in the whole meal, it had a lot of small little cuttlefish in it and was pretty big. The beef was big but average.

I ordered the Orignal Fish Soup with Vermicelli, Beef Tendons and Pork Intestines. The soup also abundant amount of cabbage, green onions, mushroom and bean curds. It also had a sprinkle of parsley on top. The mushrooms and cabbage were tender. The soup I fond was a little too bland for my tastes. The noodles were average, a bit bland. The bean curds were good and soft. There was a good amount of pig intestines, they were a little bit too chewy but good. The beef brisket was soft and there were a lot of beef tendon. They defiantly don't skimp out of the meat!

Toast also had Original Fish Soup with Vermicelli but for the meat he had Beef Tendons and Beef Brisket. He liked everything especially the meat.

Matcha, like me, had the Original Fish Soup with Vermicelli but had Fish Tofu and Sliced Beef. She really liked the noodles and finished the whole bowl!

We also had 2 side dished that cost $1.75. They were Pan Fried Fish Puffs and Deep Fried Pork Chops. The Pan fried fish puffs were pretty good, they were soft and came with a sweet and spicy chili sauce. Faith really liked the sauce. The deep fried pork chop were fried too long, making it dry and hard to bite into. It came with tarter sauce.

Drinks were also included in the price but only if it was hot. Cold drinks cost a extra $1 and drinks from the special menu cost an extra $2.

 For drinks Faith and I had the Hot Hong Kong Style Milk Tea, it came unsweetened, we found it tasted kind of bitter since we preferred our Hong Kong style milk tea sweet, we added like 8 packs of sugar each but no matter how much we put in, it didn't taste sweet at all. We left this drink unfinished.

 Toast had the Hot Almond Milk, it was basically powered almond milk you can get in a Asian Supermarket. Faith and I liked his drink more so we basically finished it off for him which pissed him off. Oh well...

Matcha had the Lemon Tea ($1). The drink was a nice cold drink. Matcha liked it but since we didn't try it, we can't really comment on it (we also forgot to take a picture of it >.<").

Overall we really like this place. The restaurant may be hard to find and may be crowed with a lot of people but it's worth it! The bowl of noodles are big and they aren't cheap with the abundant of ingredients they put in there!  The service is nice and fast but we wish that they could speak English because they  seem to be only able to speak Cantonese and we have no clue what they are saying every time they speak! But we would definitely come back! Of course we would make a reservation first though or else we have to wait like 30 minutes before getting a table!