If you’ve dined at the acclaimed Shàng Artisan Noodle on West Flamingo, you know there’s nothing quite like digging into a bowl of flavorful, fresh, handmade noodles. When owner Sam Huang and his team decided two years ago to expand with a second restaurant in a slightly more residential neighborhood, they knew they had to make some slight changes.
The result is Shàng Miàn, a “Chinese noodle workshop” in the southeast Valley that made its debut on October 18. The new spot is more accessible for Henderson-area residents, and the menu has more to offer, too.
“We have been researching and working on this for countless hours, creating a new style of noodle that’s still made fresh daily and has that more authentic texture for customers to enjoy whether they’re dining in or for takeout,” Huang says. “As we all know, this year the demand for takeout and delivery business has been increasing a lot. These dishes are more takeout-friendly, because even after 30 or 40 minutes—or even an hour when the customer might get home—you’ll get a better experience.”
The hand-pulled and knife-shaved noodles that diners enjoy at the original four-year-old Shàng are at their best straight from the kitchen, whereas the more al dente noodle dishes at Shàng Miàn “won’t clump together as a whole piece of dough when you get home,” Huang explains.
The new thin noodles and spinach noodle options are available in soups like the signature Shàng beef noodle ($10), pork belly ($10) or seafood ($11.25), as well as the new vegetarian noodle soup ($11.25) with tofu and spinach leaf.
Sauce noodle dishes like dan-dan or ma po tofu (both $9) round out the menu, and the beloved spicy pork wontons ($6) are also now available at Shàng Miàn, in dumpling form with pork or beef filling ($6).
After preparing for months to get his updated restaurant open, Huang acknowledges that 2020 has been a difficult time to grow his business, but he’s looking forward to a brighter future filled with many more bowls of noodles for new customers. “Life is always full of changes,” he says. “If we can allow these changes to bring opportunity, then we’ll be able to grow.”
Shàng Miàn 9882 S. Maryland Parkway #100, 702-888-1378. Daily, 11:30 a.m.-9:30 p.m.
