I know I have been very slow when it comes to restaurant reviews, but I have been very very busy lately. Anyway, back by dope demand (shakhbary lol), Q’s Restaurant Review is back!

This time, I will be reviewing Noodasia, the latest addition to Marina Crescent. It is located near the coffee shop tche tche, above Kai restaurant.

I have walked past the place a few times before. Before it opened, all they had covering the windows was a poster for National Fish Company, the company that owns it. The whole time, I figured it was going to be a seafood restaurant or something. That was very stupid of them! Why waste that space!?! Why would a restaurant waste the opportunity to have a free ad for a few months and get the name and publicity out to all the visitors to the place?! Anyway, I hate stupid small things like that but thats not what Im here to tell you.

Back to the issue at hand….food! So my wife and I decided to check this place out, and even though I have a ‘no marina mall on weekends’ policy, I still decided to go there because I promised my wife to take her there, and I know I wont have time the coming couple of weeks.

We got there at around 7:30, we were starving, and we got up extra late so didnt have lunch. The place was empty, there was one table busy outside, but it was empty inside. Thats not a great sign, but we figured its just too early. We decided to sit inside, near the window. The place felt cold, not temperature cold, but just soulless cold. The colors were shades of blue and grey, and they didnt have any music. So I asked for music, and it felt just a tad more comfortable. Its not a bad place at all from the inside, its actually pretty nice, its just cold, but maybe thats bcz it was empty!?

We ordered:

  • Starters: lobster salad, chicken and shrimp spring rolls (4 pcs), and duck dumplings (4 pcs)
  • Main: Beef with black pepper, Kung Poo Chicken with egg noodles
  • Side: Vegetable fried rice
  • Dessert: Banana fritters with vanila ice cream

Again, please remember that we were starving!

The lobster salad came first, and it was absolutely amazing, I would say it was the best dish we ordered! The spring rolls and dumplings were very good too. The only problem with the starters is that the portions are small. Not tiny, but small.

Then came the black pepper beef, the noodles, and the rice. These portions were much better, and they just continued the excellent taste that we got with the starters. I couldnt decide on which was my favourite, I really liked both the chicken noodles and the beef.

After the great starters and mains, it was time for dessert. No review is complete without going the whole nine yards. After a long that was too long, we got our banana fritters and vanila icecream, with chocolate sauce on top, which wasnt mentioned in the menu. I love that, but unfortunately, my wife doesnt eat chocolate, so they had to make a new one, with the chocolate sauce on the side for me. So after an even longer wait, we got it….and it was worth the wait! If you want the perfect bite, get some hot banana fritters, with vanilla icecream, and smother them with chocolate sauce and honey. Its the closest you’ll reach to nirvana!

Believe it or not, we wiped out every single dish, the two of us cleared every plate. Its that good!

The food was unlike anything you would get here in Kuwait. When you want to have asian food here, you end up going to a Chinese restaurant, and you either get a really high end fancy restaurant, or a crap cheap restaurant. The kind of food is either really good classic food (Peacock, Greens), or just chinese fast food. Sometimes you want something that is not quite peacock style, and in Kuwait, until now, there was nothing to offer such an alternative. The style of food at Noodasia is similar to that of Noodle House in Dubai, or Wagamama in London (but much better than wagamama).

To make a long story short, the food was excellent! More importantly, its the only place where you can get that kind of food….finally!! Oh, and they dont do that stupid thing of closing during the afternoon, they’re open from 11am till late…thank God!

After all that wondeful food, we ordered the bill, and it came out to less than 20KD! GREAT value for what you get! Weirdly enough, by the time we left, 9ish, it was still empty, just a couple of more tables, while Johnny Rockets, Blue Fig, and Asha’s were full! Doesn’t make any sense!

Final Grade - 91/100

Noodasia, silly name, excellent food!