Salvation In Noodles Review- SINfully delicious!

Sammii here!

When my friend posted a pic of a hot bowl of steamy noodles on instagram, I was dying to get my lips around those noodles and go in for the slurp! 

Salvation In Noodles in Finsbury Park was the place we went to and don't you just love it when a foodie friend of yours recommends a place to you?? It's a sure guarantee that it will be good! I was expecting a gold medal and what I got was a world record! If you've never tried Vietnamese food before, look no further! For a place with top quality Vietnamese food, this place will have you hooked!

Starters have become a must for me these days. And dare I say it... more so than the dessert! 

Ok let me stop dilly dallying and tell you all what we ordered. 

Goi Ga £6

Shredded chicken, pickled cabbage, red onion & Vietnamese herbs with black sesame cracker. 

This was my favourite dish from what we ordered. It was very crisp and refreshing!

Cha Gio/ Vietnamese Fried Spring Rolls with Pork and Wood-Ear Mushrooms £5
The spring rolls were very crisp and a good amount of juicy filling on the inside! I would really recommend this dish too!

Vietnamese Dumplings- Pork and Water Chestnut in a Spicy Chilli Oil £6

I thought that there was nothing special about this dish, and it was all too soft! But nevertheless great flavour! 

Bun Cha Gio- Vietnamese Fried Spring Rolls with Rice Noodles, Pickled Carrots, Lettuce, Cucumber, Fresh Herbs & Garnished with Peanuts & Fried Shallots £8.50.

This dish was a delight! It was very fresh and inspired me to make my own noodle salad for my lunches, it is perfect for a summers day!

Bun Bo Hue- Thin Rare Steak & Pork Belly in a Hot & Spicy Lemongrass Beef Soup £9.50.

I would defo order this dish again too! The flavours of this dish were so perfect together, I could have done with more noodles though. There is something about tossing a bunch of herbs together with noodles that just does it for me! 

Top restaurant that I would visit again! Sorry, I am running out of interesting sign offs... Either that or me wrapped in my big fluffy dressing gown is making me a wee lazy xD

Chow for now all!

Atmosphere- 6/10
Service- 8/10
Food- 9/10

Chocolate Sushi Rating- 9/10

What I ate: Buffet at Jimmy's in Wimbledon

When going for a buffet I always imagine that I'll  be able to eat  4 or 5 plates of food yet I never manage more than 2 plates, 3 is pushing it. This is despite the fact that I've not eaten anything beforehand so am really quite hungry. I don't know if it's because I sometimes pile my plate with too much food and as a result get full quickly but it literally happens everytime I go for a buffet.

Moving onto Jimmy's, I went to see the the Hobbit: The Battle of The Five Armies with my friend yesterday and we ate at Jimmy's before seeing the film. Jimmy's is a buffet restaurant serving food from around the world: Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Thai, and Italian. 

There was so much different food to choose from that I didn't know where to start. Did I feel like eating pizza or maybe sweet and sour chicken? In the end I went for both, so my first plate (see photo below) had sweet and sour chicken, spring rolls, rice, prawn crackers, beef in black bean sauce and pizza. The spring rolls were my favourite, I found myself eating all 4 and wanting more. 

Plate 1

Plate 2

I have been to Jimmy's once before and on that visit had been to the wok cooking station where fresh stir fry is made for you while you wait. How it works: you add noodles and vegetables onto a plate which you then hand to the chef who will ask you what meat you would like on the stir fry (you can choose from prawn, chicken or beef) as well as how spicy you would like the stir fry to be. I can't remember what I had on my first visit to Jimmy's but yesterday I chose peppers, mushrooms, bean sprouts, pak choi and chicken with medium spice. The chef took all the ingredients (noodles, vegetables and meat) and cooked everything in front of me. I couldn't wait to eat! 

Dessert

Moving onto the best thing about a meal: dessert! At Jimmy's you can choose desserts ranging from ice cream to cake to marshmallows and chocolate fondue (my favourite!) Although the meat at Jimmy's is halal some of the desserts at Jimmy's contain gelatine (this is labelled) so I wasn't able to try everything. I love ice cream so that was an obvious choice for me. You choose a flavour of ice cream (from chocolate, strawberry and vanilla, there were a few other flavours but I can't remember what they were now) and a range of toppings, I chose vanilla ice cream with mini egg chocolates. Mmm! Next, I obviously went for the chocolate fondue (I seriously need a chocolate fondue kit at home!) where I dipped two marshmallows (they are halal) into the chocolate. The melted chocolate was lovely, it tasted like melted galaxy! The other dessert I chose was red velvet cake but I was so full by this point I couldn't eat it.

Christmas prices apply from 1st December to 24th December, so the buffet on Saturday (we went around 1.30) was £12.99. I don't know how much the buffet usually is (outside Christmas prices) but here is the link to the website: http://jimmysrestaurants.com/restaurants/wimbledon/

Post written by Nabs

Atmosphere- 7/10

Service- 8/10

Food- 7/10

Chocolate Sushi Rating- 7/10