Friday, May 8, 2015

Noodles and Rice Cafe & Bubbles and Ice - Orlando

Tonight, we had dinner at Noodles and Rice on North Mills Avenue in Orlando.  Earlier this week, I discovered it on the Find Me Gluten Free App.  There were five great reviews, so we decided to give it a try.  


We sat at a hot pot table, but if you don't plan on ordering a hot pot, you can sit at a regular table.  


Sarah, our server, used to be a student at the school I taught at, and she was super knowledgable about gluten free options. She told me that the hot pot is the best choice for people with celiac, because it has the least risk of cross contamination.  I marked all the options I wanted for my hot pot, and wrote gluten free down the side of my paper as Sarah suggested.  


I chose the herbal hot pot because the broth has ginger in it, which I love.  It was super flavorful, and I would have been happy just sipping a whole bowl of this broth.  


I also chose shrimp, broccoli, and rice noodles, which are marked gluten free on the hot pot ordering sheet.  Other gluten free noodle options include the clear noodles and yam noodles.  


I cooked my shrimp and broccoli for a few minutes before adding the rice noodles to the hot pot.  Oddly enough, I liked the broccoli better than the shrimp and noodles, because it really soaked in the flavor of the broth.  I had so many noodles, I was able to share a good amount with my daughter Emma, who loved them.  If I ordered this hot pot again, I might try it with chicken, because I didn't like having to peel my shrimp, and I prefer shrimp drenched in butter, or with a sweet and spicy sauce.  My only complaint about this dinner is that I really do prefer my Asian food to be sweet and spicy, which my hot pot was not.  It's just my own personal preference.  Next time I might ask if the Thai chili sauce my husband was eating is gluten free, because he said it added some sweet and spicy flavor to the noodles, meat and veggies he cooked in his hot pot.  


For dessert, we decided to split an order of Mango snow topped with mango.  My whole family thought it was amazing.  The shaved snow was creamy and flavorful, and I am glad we stuck with mango as a topping.  Sarah told us that the sweetened condensed milk they pour over the top is made with soy, so this dessert is dairy free as well as gluten free.  I was a little sad.....ok, a lot sad, that I had to share our order of mango snow.  Thankfully, it is also available next door at Bubbles and Ice, so I am sure this will be our new favorite dessert spot.  


You can read more about Noodles and Rice and Bubbles and Ice on their website here.  They are open 7 days a week for lunch and dinner.

What are your favorite dishes at Noodles and Rice?  



2 comments:

  1. This is my favorite place to go I have Crohns and developed celiac withit. I love Sarah were close friends and I love the food. I eat everything there that they max gluten free or can change to be gluten free. I never have any issues. There Chicken Pad Thai is amazing and the spicy Thai Basil Fried Rice is to die for. My bf is not gf so he enjoys there BBQ Pork that they have there, it looks amazing!

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