My favourite bowl of noodle soup

In Glasgow, anyway.

It's a noodle soup with duck and pickled vegetables. I have it almost every time I go to Asia Style, a Chinese-Malaysian restaurant located at 185 St George's Rd., and I go there more than any other restaurant in Glasgow. It was the unofficial restaurant of our MFA programme and it's seen many of our celebratory meals, farewell feasts and even a near-death experience. We're all a bit too fond of it and its staff to be horribly objective about the food. They have a gigantic menu and so unsurprisingly there are some items that are a bit lackluster. But there are some genuine gems there too.

Here's what makes the soup amazing:

• The broth tastes as though a whole herd of animals have been sacrificed in its rich depths. It's a deep brown, almost opaque liquid that is the hot and steaming deifnition of umami.
• The pieces of duck are succulent and generous.
• The pickled vegetales, mostly some kind of green, are a perfect moment of sharp clarity amid all the luxurious meat flavour.
• I can get whatever kind of noodle I want in it. I love thick flat rice noodles, but in Toronto they were mostly to be found in beef dishes that I wasn't too fond of. Here I can be a bit unorthodox and put them in my soup. They are really far too filling for this dish, but I can't help it. I love them and I love them in this broth and snuggled up to this duck.

You can find this bowl of noodles and many other lovely dishes late into the evening seven days a week served with loads of tea for less than six pounds. 

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