That was the case when cozy, farm-to-table spot Lot 2 shut down in 2022 after a good 13-year run. So when Malcolm Ting opened his first ever restaurant, Unoriginal Noodles and Bar, in the space last week, he was a little anxious. 'It's a big moment for me,' Ting tells Brooklyn Magazine. 'My last job was as a butcher, at the Meat Hook, and now I'm back in the kitchen after three or four years. I'm nervous. I'm excited. I wanted to open a place that I would want to eat in, and this is it.'
Unoriginal Noodles is a nifty little restaurant with a tight pan-Asian menu. 'Simple things done well,' is how Ting describes it. There are noodles here, of course, including a rich and satisfying bowl of porky tonkotsu ramen, and an excellent version of Taiwan's national dish, a spicy beef noodle soup. Ting's connection with the Meat Hook, one of Brooklyn's best butcher shops, serves him well with both of these dishes; he told us he gets all of the bones and scraps for his soup stocks from his former employer.
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