[Rating:2/5]
I’ve been to Crazy Noodles on one prior occasion in the past and think it’s location is perfect for a quick bite before a movie or a break while shopping. Talking of movies, I think movie theatres probably serve the lowest quality of food this side of Jupiter. Guess they think can get away with it and they do. Take the snack counter in the theatre at GIP NOIDA. The ‘chicken’ sandwiches don’t have chicken, have stale bread and smell awful; The soft drinks are mostly soda most of the time; the popcorn is damp and variety is non-existent.
On our way to watch Quick Gun Murugan (biiig mistake) we walked in an hour early and thought of Crazy Noodles for breakfast. They do take the term ‘Crazy’ in their name quite seriously, what with cute little wobbly glasses, puzzles given to guests with the promise of a free mock-tail if successful and dehydrated napkins that expand with the addition of a little water. Yes sir, they do take the entertainment of their guests and living up to the ‘Crazy’ in their name very seriously indeed.
I wish they’d pay as much attention to their food. It’s awful!
Okay. We aren’t speaking of value for money here, which it may be – if all you want to do is fill your tummy. If you would like to go a little beyond that, walk right by Crazy Noodles and don’t stop till you reach the Food Court at the other end of the mall. The prices are a little lower and the food a little better.
Crazy Noodles offers free Jasmine Tea to it’s customers. This wasn’t the case the last time so we were pleasantly surprised… until we saw the cups. Filthy! I mean it – dark brown and absolutely revolting to look at. I understand serving tea in the same cups for many hundreds of servings can discolor plastic – so change the cups people! Use ceramic or whatever. The teapot too was filthy. We asked the waiter if there were any clean cups and he could only shake his head. Can’t blame him can we?
We ordered chicken dumplings (85), chicken noodles (120/170) and a big bowl of chicken ramen (160). The chicken dumplings tasted nice, but not a single one reached our plates in one piece – each dumpling broke apart immediately on being lifted from the basket and was a tattered mess of wrapper and filling in our plates. The noodles had an abundance of packaged pepper and screamed ‘pre-made’. It had a few chunks of fried chicken in there that I think were added to a batch of pre-made vegetable noodles.
The soup deserves it’s own paragraph. I’ve eaten it on one prior occasion and both times it was closer to hot water than soup. It looks amazing, I’ll say that much. Everything ends there though. I ended up removing all the spinach from within because each bite was gritty with muddy residue that crunched in my mouth. The shiitake mushrooms were soaked but not squeezed – probably picked up from the receptacle of hot water and dumped straight into the soup. A few stray pieces of chicken were present, the same kind as in the noodles, which reinforces the belief that they’re cutting corners wherever possible.
Our bill was a shade under Rupees 600 – for three dishes, which I don’t think is value for money. The serving staff insist on speaking broken, unintelligible English, when they’d do much better to just speak Hindi – nothing wrong in that. Ineffective air conditioning, wobbly chairs (by design?), ripped seats, slow service and a rudely implemented, unfriendly no photos policy completes the experience.
I don’t think I’ll be visiting again, slick advertising notwithstanding.
Meal for Two: 500 | Credit Cards: Most | Alcohol: NA | Takeaway: Yes | Home Delivery: NO
- Sid
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Sid: If you want to try good Oriental food in Noida…then try BBQ Bowl. It is recently opened in The Great India Place and has the best Chinese food in the vicinity.
I was a part of this group, and it was because of me that we reached an hour early and ended up at Crazy Noodles!! Anyway, now I’ve shifted to Gurgaon, and Crazy Noodles has an outlet there as well. I happened to meet the owner, Dhruv, and we discussed my experience. He seemed to agree to most of it. And yes, I tried their Crazy Ramen, which was much better than the one at their NOIDA outlet. Dhruv mostly stays in the kitchen, and supervises everything himself. This makes a lot of difference to the food that comes out, because you have the boss keeping an eye on everything going out to the tables!
terrible food. One get’s better food at hill side dhabas serving their version of chinese. the staff is decent and ambience good, but the food really sucks. they have only a couple of types of gravies which goes in most starters and main courses. everything is fried, mixed with gravy and served.
Agree Sachin. I was however, pleasantly surprised at the Gurgaon outlet of Crazy Noodles, where things are far better.
Food of crazy noodles is very very good but things are same in both restaurant one of fellow is saying dhruv is taking care of kitchen very wrong he is a it professional not a chef or head cook, one more thing i like to add the owner of crazy noodles are quit crazy to deal there staff also very frustrated people are there. One guy sandeep also posted a comment actually he is the owner of BBQ Bowl now its turn to mr. china.