Red Bowl Asian Bistro
3538 Mt Holly-Huntersville Road
Charlotte, NC 28217
Tel: 704-391-7181
Good Lord, where do I start? Well, this might be the shortest review ever. Well, first of all to start, this got to have Panda Express beat when it comes to good ass food. Now, before you start giving me negative contacts about Panda Express, I will still patronise Panda Express; because Panda Express is strictly Chinese, whereas The Red Bowl Asian Bistro is a fusion cuisine mixing up food from various areas of Asia. They have food from Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, China, Vietnam and Malaysia. But for this, I am gonna focus on this delicious Singaporean cuisine. Let’s first tell you what Singapore is. Singapore is a country in Southeast Asia, and it is bordered between Malaysia and Indonesia (by water). Four main languages are spoken in Singapore, and that is more-or-less important. They speak English, Malay (Malaysia), Chinese and Tamil. I tell you, if they thought lightly of LGBTs in Singapore, I would love to go to Singapore and be like the people on Globe Trekker or The Travel Channel. PBS is good only for their British Comedies and for Globe Trekker. Damn Time Warner Cable for changing The Travel Channel to Nick Jr. Singaporean cuisine is fusion of Malaysian, Chinese and Indian food. I checked on Wikipedia, and I found out that Singapore rice noodles are not popular in Singapore. So is China being an imposter? If so, why is such a tasty delicacy not called Chinese Rice Noodles? Anyway, when it comes to the Red Bowl, their Singapore rice noodles are to die for.
Before I get to what Singapore rice noodles are, I wanna tell you how to get there. Now, they have 3 locations. One on Providence Road, One on Mt Holly-Huntersville Road and one in Tega Cay. If you wanna go to the one that I patronise the most, by car, from Uptown Charlotte, take the Brookshire Freeway all the way to the end of the line. It will turn into Brookshire Blvd. You will pass I-85 and I-485. Turn left at the first left after passing I-485. That is Mt Holly-Huntersville Road. It is in the same shopping centre as Wendy’s, Rite Aide, Harris Teeter, and a nail bar. You can catch either the 1 or the 88X bus to get there. I have never been to the one on Providence Road, nor the one in Tega Cay, duh. I am on probation, and I can’t even think about stepping on South Carolina soil. Now, let’s get to what Singapore rice noodles are. They are small noodles, skinnier than spaghetti and skinnier than angel hair pasta. Think about it as a microcosm of Ramen noodles. It has curry in it, and some vegetables. Now, if you ask for it, you can either omit the chicken, shrimp or have it bareback. I am allergic to shrimp, but hell, Singapore rice noodles aren’t to die for without both chicken and shrimp. My ulterior motive is to get it during the midday, where it is cooked to order and comes with an egg roll. The waiter might already know our name, because we get the same thing all the time. We get two Singapore rice noodles: One all the way, one without shrimp; Pad Thai with sriracha hot sauce; crispy wontons and hot and sour soup. Sometimes we get extra sriracha sauce and Vietnamese shrimp rolls. I don’t eat Pad Thai, sriracha sauce nor Vietnamese shrimp rolls.
I rate this restaurant on a 10 point scale, where 1 is horrid and 10 is excellent, a 10 for food, 10 for temperature, 8 for accessibility and 10 for courteous staff. You can best believe this is gonna be my celebratory nosh, and to add on to it, I am gonna go to Wal-Mart and get some of their fried chicken wings. Yeah, I know I’m fat; don’t knock me for it.
