Noodle heaven at T&T

Amy finds the noodle aisle at T&T. Photo by David Lansing.

Yesterday morning I skipped breakfast and headed for the Asian supermarket next to our hotel, T&T. I was looking for XO sauce. Frank was dying to buy some sort of Asian malted milk balls you can’t buy in the U.S. And Amy—well Amy wanted to check out the noodles.

There are people who think of noodles the way others think of certain vintages of Bordeaux wine. I think Amy is like that. She found the noodle aisle and it was like looking at a kid who’s stumbled into FAO Schwarz a week before Christmas.

She started to do a little dance right in the middle of the aisle. And then she started skating up and down the aisle pointing out the rice sticks and slippery noodles, noodles for chow mein and ramen, mung bean noodles and cellophane noodles.

How many types of noodles do they carry at T&T? I have no idea. But you see the photo above of Amy? Those are all noodles she’s looking at. On both sides of the aisle. This place is noodle heaven.

And they had four or five different types of XO sauce. Oh yes, and Frank found his malted milk balls. Everybody scored.