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RESTAURANT REVIEW Tea NOODLES FRESH Chinese Restaurant & Tea House Everyone who enjoys Chinese food seems to have a 10042 San Pablo Avenue, El Cerrito | (510) 898-1710 | noodlesfresh.com favorite Chinese restaurant that they go to dine in or for takeout. Most of these typically serve traditional entrees from a single region or province in China, such as Hunan or Sichuan. At Noodles Fresh in El Cerrito, however, customers have the opportunity to order popular dishes from a number of different Chinese regions, including, but not limited to, Shanghai, Taiwan, Canton, Yangzhou, Hunan, Sichuan, and Jiangxi. Although the menu is not as extensive as some Chinese restaurants, it features some of the best, traditional, and authentic dishes of the regions they represent. In addition to the diverse dining menu, Noodles Fresh also offers a variety of favorite hot teas which can be ordered with meals, or sampled during free monthly tea tastings. 34 MARKETPLACECONTRACOSTA.COM JANUARY 2017 House and Partial Restaurant Seating By Vickie Lewis Noodles Fresh was founded by co-owners Tom and Wenyan Petersen and opened in August 2015. It is located on San Pablo Avenue between Central and Fairmount Avenues, near the Rialto Cinemas Cerrito. The building that now houses Noodles Fresh was formerly a Comcast office, and it took the Petersens fifteen months to transform the space into the roomy, modern, and brightly decorated restaurant that it is today. Wenyan, a trained engineer and industrial designer, personally designed and oversaw the construction of the restaurant. The tables and chairs, booths, the ornate light fixtures, and the lovely porcelain dishes were all imported from China. Wenyan grew up in the southeastern Chinese province of Jiangxi, in the city of Jingdezhen, which is known as the porcelain capital of the world. She has procured beautiful


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