A Secret Szechuan Gem and Our Other Asian Food Faves
While Denver’s dining scene has attracted top chefs from all over the world, it’s our mom-and-pop shops and holes in the wall that tell a deeper culinary story. Like Noodles Express, a nondescript eatery in a strip mall on Colorado Boulevard that happens to serve up some of the best Szechuan cuisine in town. We stopped by the recently a lo-fi feast of sweet, salty, and tongue-numbing spice with our fave gastro guide, Westword food editor Molly Martin. Today on the show, newsletter editor Peyton Garcia and host Bree Davies celebrate the last day of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month with Molly as they dine on mapo tofu and dish about their fave Asian restaurants across the Mile High.
Molly mentioned the Crazy Hungry Asians of Colorado group on Facebook, the Westword profile of Adam You, You’s Denver Chinese Source blog and the return of Mile High Asian Restaurant Week. Here’s Molly’s original review of Noodle Express, as well as her story on the restaurant bouncing back from the brink of closure.
All the great places we mentioned:
- Noodles Express (Colorado Blvd.)
- New China (Alameda & Pearl)
- Chada Thai (Uptown)
- 303 Ramen (Arvada)
- Szechuan Tasty House (College View)
- Meat and Eat Bistro (Hampden)
- Meta Asian Kitchen (Highland)
- Pho King Rapidos (Highland, for now)
- Yuan Wonton (Food Truck)
- CoArk Food Hall (Centennial)
- Tommy’s Thai (Congress Park)
- Pho Hong (Alameda & Federal)
- Tí Cafe (South Broadway)
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