Happy Stony Noodle 83-47 Dongan Avenue, Queens, NY 11373

"A fantastically authentic Taiwanese food experience! This place is where I frequent when I long for my comforts of home away from home. Their stink tofu is pungent and the real deal, perfectly fried with some cabbage garnish. I love their snow cabbage with tofu or fish edamame, perfect to pair with fried rice or knife shaved noodle soup. Don’t miss their jian bing/scallion pancake rolled with egg and basil or beef! You really can’t go wrong, every table around us was really happy with what they ordered! This is a cash only, no frills, mom and pop kinda place, where they serve hot oolong tea with every meal and the food truly speaks for itself."

"discovered this place back during peak covid, and have been a returning customer since. I usually get the plain beef stew noodle soup. the beef is soft and chunky, and nice beefy soup. There's one with tendons if you want, but not my thing. Great appetizers too. I recommend the fried chicken nuggets and the scallion pancakes with beef They recently did small renovation, its much brighter now!"

"12/23/23 Update - Looks like the restaurant got renovated! They got new tables and the lighting is much better. We walked in at a weird time between lunch and dinner, so we got a seat of our choosing. The restaurant was dimly lit, and the tables had this weird bumpy cracked texture to it, which was a bit off-putting but I was here to eat and not buy furniture so it was trivial in the grand scheme of things. I ordered the Beef Noodle Soup like everyone else, and it delivered. The broth is definitely more on the clearer side, compared to other, darker and richer beef noodle soups I've had (E.g. Noodlecraft's Braised Beef noodle soup) so it's lighter and more drinkable as a result. The beef in the noodle soup was super tender and flavorful. I threw in some of the pickled cabbage they have at every table and it was a good combo. I would definitely order this again, especially now since the weather is getting colder. I also got their salt and pepper chicken and their lu rou fan, which were both pretty standard. I wish the lu rou fan was saucier, but it was pretty decent and I think they give more meat compared to Taiwanese Gourmet (but you pay more so the math works out). What really sealed the deal for me was how nice our waiter was about answering all our questions about the food, even offering to make the cold cucumber appetizer with more garlic, which is how I like it. I would come again, I really like the food and all you can eat pickled veggies."

"This is my second time here, but my first time trying their rendition of Taiwanese Beef Noodle soup. While they do get bonus points for the bowl of sour cabbage provided for you on each table. Their Beef Noodle soup isn't worth while. It smells fantastic, but the broth itself is on the bland side. Their stinky tofu I found good - ironically it had a very bad lingering smell after you eat it (pretty good thing in my opinion). Their Oyster pancake was good, except it is drowned in sauce. I did enjoy their porkchop over rice as well as their popcorn chicken. But I can't see myself here as often as Taiwanese Gourmet just a block down. The interior is a bit bleak. It doesn't look lovely or all that welcoming. The lighting is low but no real decorations to help it."

"Nice meaty portions of beef and tendon in the noodle soup and the soup had decent flavor. However, the noodles were only okay as they were a tad overcooked and tasted like the mass-produced ones you buy from the market. I was expecting the noodles to be better since they have 'noodle' in their name. The appetizers almost made up for it: crispy scallion pancakes with a slight chew in the center and nicely-flavored crunchy thinly sliced pig ears. We went for a late lunch and the restaurant was dark and cold - not sure if they were trying to save on the utility bills when there are fewer customers but it was a little odd to me (and I don't mind eating in holes-in-the-wall)."