Perfect job, Noodle Box! 

With an almost suffocated market, every restauranteur must now try to segment and capture their niche. Did you know there is a noodles-only restaurant?

Yes, there is one at Kamwokya Centre called Noodle Box and amazingly it has been around since 2021. As you would imagine, it is noodles and pasta – boiled or fried. Most, if not all the menu rotates around vegetable, egg, beef or chicken.

For fried noodles, the options include egg-fried noodles, sesame-mix vegetables, butter garlic, stir-fried noodles with beef, stir-fried with chicken, crispy pork fried noodles, and Mongolian-style chicken noodles.

The boiled noodles, which are also the cheapest on the menu and cost no more than Shs 12,800, are limited to just three options: mix-vegetable noodles, boiled noodles with chicken, or beef. On the other hand, egg-fried noodles currently go for Shs 17,600. The plastic pack does not give it the greatest eye candy, but the meal was tasty.

It was a straight meal with slices of half-fried onions, half-cooked zucchini, green peppers and carrots that add the sweet fruity and earthy tastes and aromas.

Everything therein seemed like it complemented and paired well with the other. You know the pairing is perfect if in every bite, you want a bit of everything – a bit of zucchini, a slice of fried egg, green pepper and carrots and noodles. The good thing is they were well distributed.

The noodles are smaller in size and smoother than what most Ugandans are used to and the meal is over before you actually realise it. The butter garlic noodles equally tasted perfect. You have the choice of spicing up your noodles and, of course, like all other noodles, they are best served hot.

fkisakye@observer.ug