Shaniu's House of Noodles in Berlin

3 stars for the food, 1 star for the service as we ordered a bunch of bowls thinking they were small but actually the were huge and we couldn't finish the portion so we asked for the leftovers to take away but the package had no lid just an aluminum foil in a cardboard bag instead of the typical plastic bag.. all the sauce spilled all over us and in the car and it was horrible and ruined our day basically. a nightmare. Also menu with pictures has no prices on them so we also ended up paying a lot.. good strategy!

we ordered the cold noodles with peanut sauce and they were phenomenal! Really creamy and refreshing. The stuffed egg plants were an interesting side dish as well. Just come here if you are open for some new dishes! Yet, for the atmosphere I must say that I felt a bit squeezed in there…

Cost-effective. taste. Service everything is good. a little . Sometimes the food comes out late It won't be a problem. It's so delicious.

I have come several times to the restaurant and the food is always good. Love the fried chicken and the spicy dumplings.

cute place great portions and atmosphere! loved the kung pao chicken and the kim chi is amazing as well! <3

You can have an inexpensive and delicious lunch. They have both Chinese and Korean food. It might be convenient to have a Japanese clerk. It's pretty crowded during the day, so you might want to make a reservation.

Spicy Beef Noodles were unreal. Everything we got was delicious. I will go out of my way to go back there again.

One of the best places for Asian food. The food is very nicely flavored and the portions are big too. The beef is also super tender. I would really recommend the bibimbap and the chili oil wontons.

Discriminatory. Cash will not be accepted; only card payments will be accepted. The food is ok, but nothing special. The hype surrounding this store is incomprehensible. The lady behind the counter is also completely overwhelmed, so the queue is long even outside of rush hour.

A reference for years, always very full and very tasty

What a lovely place to grab lunch! It was quite busy and the waiter struggled to bring the right dish (one of) straight away. However, all we had was delicious! Highly recommend to visit.

Our favorite neighborhood spot!

When you order beef,rice and onions and finally get only full plate of onions... Never again.

Super tasty food and cheap lunch menu.

The food is already unique. Deep Umami Vibez with lots of interesting dishes. The noodles are super mushy and eggplant lovers can get a dish of every spiciness here. Dumplings were also very tasty. Price-performance ratio is very good here. Only the drink selection is a bit poor, and the ambience is rather loud, cramped and bistro-like. But you always like to come back for food and wait for a seat. Reservations are important.

Authentic and delicious Chinese food. Avoid rush time (12-13) if you want to enjoy the food without witnessing stressed staff.

Very noisy, just about full on a Tuesday at around 18:00. Food decent value, but disappointing considering the reviews praising it - it’s ok, not special, but the price is right. I‘m put off returning by the fact that I couldn’t talk with my fellow diner, sitting just opposite. Very noisy, which makes some folks just about shout to make themselves understood.

Best Asian food in Berlin, and I have tried many so far. Noodles are amazing

Very busy restaurant so make sure you book a reservation beforehand. We ordered the Tan Tan Noodles, the Spicy beef broth, the Sweet and Sour chicken, cucumber and garlic salad and an aubergine dish. The aubergine dish was the showstopper. I wasn’t the biggest fan of the noodles or the broth but the other dishes were great and a very reasonable price.

Fantastic place, really excellent food, the place is spartan but overall it's good, exceptional value for money!

Excellent little Chinese restaurant specializing in fresh noodle soups and noodle dishes and more. I often eat there with Chinese friends. You can also see a lot of Chinese among the guests there.

Quantity and quality so amazing 😁 i recommend

I wanted to reserve a table but the phone was hung up the whole time Thanks

I went to this noodle restaurant because of the many reviews on Xiaohongshu. We ordered four bowls of noodles, but none of them were handmade. The texture of the noodles was very average. The beef seemed to have been pre-cooked the day before. Don’t recommend

The noodles are very tasty. We came for lunch and arrived at 12. Shortly after the restaurant is full and a long queue outside.

I highly recommend this place, delicious food at reasonable prices, very nice staff. I come back here very often.

The meals are delicious, the staff is friendly. We were there to have lunch, and they were really busy. The restaurant was always full, so it was a bit noisy. Otherwise, it's a really good place :)

I think this is my most visited restaurant in Berlin and I travel for an hour just to eat here. Amazing and delicious food plus the ambiance is really homey. I always eat Bibimbap even though I tried other things too and they were equally good.

As a person who lived in China I must admit it was very authentic. The flavour, the spices, the meat. We had different typ of soups and wonton. It was soo good that we decided to go there a second time. It can be crowded but the stuff is very helpful. Just perfect food expirience.

Top food kind staff cozy location ❤️👌🔝

Food is good but the service needs some help.

I used to go to this place at least once a week. Their dumplings are amazing. I highly recommend this restaurant.

It's quick, it's delicious, and has some of the more traditional food that speaks to my Portuguese heart, believe it or not. I'll be going back.

It's my favorite place to eat out. Especially the fried filled eggplant is a must-try.

Amazing experience. The food was really good I will come back for sure

Absolutely bomb the wan tans in chili oil are amazing 🔥🔥🔥🥟🥟🥟

The noodles are good, but when I went there, there was no place inside and I could only sit outside. I felt that apart from the good location, there was nothing special about it. The menu didn’t have a lot of variety. Maybe foreigners like it.

Not enough quantity of food for a restaurant like this

Delicious food at lunchtime for anyone who likes Asian/Korean food. Fast delivery and fair prices. Definitely try/test it, absolute recommendation

I've been coming here again and again for several years, and for good reason: for me, Shaniu's House of Noodles is simply one of the best Chinese restaurants in Berlin. The soups are good, but for me that's not the reason for my visits. The best thing to do with a small group is to order different dishes to share with the whole table, try your way through the menu and then go home feeling full and happy. My all-time favorites include the fried beans and the fried eggplant (with or without stuffing, both are delicious). Oh yes, the service can be a bit hectic at times, but generally very friendly. Be sure to reserve in advance as it is almost always full!

Authentic cuisine, highly recommended. Spicy is really spicy here.

Super delicious food and nice service 💞

I've been a loyal customer since 2016 and they never disappoint!! They've never compromised with the ingredients and keep giving the best service even though the restaurant is packed most of the time. And to top it, somehow they manage to keep the price affordable. Very recommended!

Food was amazing, we only tried the Chinese portion of the menu which was sensational.

Kalte noodles, Korean chicken, spicy beef noodles, and eggplant fries were all delicious ◡̈ The owner was really friendly and the kids enjoyed the chicken noodles.

추천 메뉴: spicy fried eggplant, fish soup with pickled vegetables

An unpleasant place. It turned out that the soup was cooked from unwashed chicken gizzards. When I asked to bring a fork they never brought it but I don't ask a second time, it's humiliating. That is, in the waiter culture, communication occurs mainly through conflict and discrimination against customers.

It was very tasty!! I will come again😊

There's a hustle and bustle here! We were kind enough to get a table after a waiting time of twenty minutes, while others were put off at the outside tables on the sidewalk, which was not an option for us given the first real autumn cold that was setting in. The kitchen and service team - very friendly and cheerful and chaotic. However, you also have to admit that the bear was really moving, there was a constant push of heavily wrapped newcomers past our table, other tables were moved and rearranged, right next to us a hetero couple was able to do their public display of affection (known as PDA) so little We kept ourselves mentally prepared for the sight of coitus on the restaurant table. Too much information. Now about the food. There were only three Asian-looking customers, I read everyone else as white, which from experience is a very bad sign for a Chinese restaurant. The menu was interesting and seemed authentic, in fact everything was not badly cooked. But COMPLETELY over-seasoned, over-salted and fried too crispy. The amounts of soy sauce alone! A side point: It is not Chinese cuisine to mix raw cold bean sprouts into a hot meal. And 13 euros for fried potatoes with caraway seeds (albeit deliciously seasoned and of course almost over-salted) really hurts. So, the mystery remains as to why good kitchen ingredients are drowned and cured in gallons of soy sauce and grains of salt. The all-white clientele didn't seem to mind. Conclusion: Unfortunately not again.

Simply stunning! Great fried chicken!

Very nice reception. I really thought the illustrated menu card was great. Our food came relatively quickly and was delicious. Unfortunately, the noodle soup was too spicy for our standards. There were photos of the dishes on the wall but unfortunately many of them weren't available. At least they said they were only offered in their other two restaurants. It's a shame, we really wanted to try the rice cakes.

Really delicious noodle soups, even without meat. There is an extensive lunch menu, but the prices are absolutely reasonable even on the normal menu, especially with the decently large portions. The Korean Fried Chicken is also extremely tasty.

The food is amazing ! Highly recommended. The owner and staff are friendly.

Tasty Chinese food. Recommending the fried chicken! Cam back again- great noodle soup as well!

Good Asian cuisine with a diverse selection. Good prices

The fried tofu with salt and pepper was really tasty and so was the pomelo tea!

Great food, perfect service and atmosphere

Fantasstich! And truly spicy (I’m chinese malaysian) mapo tofu is must

Nice restaurant, nice staff and you can sit outside. All in all, the food is delicious, but the handmade noodles could have had a little more sauce on them

Lots of hustle and bustle, staff confused and not very friendly. Food was good 👍

The food tastes good, but it's not worth the long wait. You have to wait a long time for a seat, a menu and payment. Also, some of the waitresses are not that friendly.

Very friendly and courteous service, the food came quickly and was very, very tasty. It was very crowded and therefore had a bit of a rushed train station charm, which is why only 3 stars.

Great and cheap food Unfortunately the atmosphere is very poor, old broken tables, narrow and shabby access to the toilet. Unfortunately, the staff could hardly speak German, several drinks on the menu were simply not available, and service sometimes took quite a long time

I dont usually do reviews unless I'm asked but I'm going out of my way to do so because of how bad of an experience I had. Local friends said we would have to wait since it's busy and popping and we were okay with that at first. We were a party of 6 and after about 30 mins of waiting we told the server we were ok with sitting 2 people per table or split 3 and 3 or sitting 4 and 2, we just didn't want wait any longer since it seemed like the table we were waiting to get up so we can be seated were going to sit and talk for a while. They ended up sitting for another 40 mins while the server kept pushing us back saying to wait they're paying and will leave soon. We were seated and another table sat down at the same time right as the big party left. Our drinks were taken promptly and served quick, but something I've never experienced happened to me. The table next to ours asked how cold the beer was (not that cold), so the server asked if he can borrow one of our drinks for a second and let the table next to us touch it to check. We ordered our food and the food was coming out at a good pace. I don't know the name of the noodle dishes we got, but to keep it simple I'll call it noodle A and B. We ordered one noodle A and two noodle B, but we were given two of each. While halfway done noodle A (the dish we got for free) the server comes to us and says he gave it to us by accident and proceeds to take the dish away. I was actually baffled. We ordered 10 dishes, so it's not like we knew and were purposely trying to get a free meal, but I mean what are they going to do with the rest? Throw it away ? After making us wait that long I feel like the least they could do is just let us finish the dish. I give this place 2 stars because the food wasn't bad, but there's a lot of good food in Berlin. Overall I'd recommend just going somewhere unless you're dying to try some Chinese food, but there's other places close by that serve good Chinese food as well.

I ate the delicious eggplant with minced meat for a sensational lunch price of €9. I'm thrilled and will try more dishes.

For the record, the building is made of standard building materials, not actual noodles. As a structural engineer, I personally wouldn't recommend egg and flour based construction methods.

The Tofu Bambu Mushroom Noodle is way too salty and we are still looking for the mushrooms

Comfortable, filling, and rich in flavor. Taiwanese pass by happily.

The food was snack level and the service was subpar

Hands down my fav Chinese in Berlin 🌶️

From Monday to Friday from 12:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. you can get a very cheap and delicious meal here for €9 including a small soup or salad. I recommend the M16 (aubergine spicy) and the M13 (rice with ribs). If you like it less spicy, you can also order the M16 milder. The difference between M16 and M10: The M16 contains coarse pieces of pepper and garlic, which gives it a spicy note, while the M10 tastes more sweet.

Ordered spicy beef noodles and Korean fried chicken. tasty! The beef noodles taste like the mainland, with just the right amount of spiciness. Fried chicken is better than Korean.

I have been waiting for a long time to try this restaurant. It's better to book in advance since it usually very busy. I have to say I'm not a big fan of the atmosphere inside, as the dining tables are small and the whole sitting is relatively cramped. The food though, which is what I mainly came for is quite authentic I must say. Real Chinese food served by Chinese chefs. We tried their beef and carrot steamed dumplings and cold chicken with leek and spicy garlic oil. The dumplings together with the dipping sauce is such a delicacy, but I was not a big fan of the chicken, mainly because it was cold and felt a bit gamey. I'm not saying it's bad, but I don't think it's my cup of tea. For the mains we got noodles with pork belly and cabbage, which unfortunately didn't capture us as much as their signature spicy beef noodle soup, which was nothing short of magnificent. The noodle soup was full of thinly sliced tender beef and is spiced to perfection. We ordered another dish to share on the side because why not. Spicy fried pork belly with cabbage and peppers. I absolutely loved this dish, also the portion was very decent, that I almost struggled to finish it which rarely happens. In conclusion if you are after authentic Chinese food, give them a try, but If you are looking for a proper dining restaurant with good ambiance and less loud, then this restaurant won't give you that experience.

Everything there is really excellent, what I think is a shame is that the dishes are made with minced pork and not with minced beef

Perfect in terms of quality and very good price, very abundant.

Very delicious Chinese food. It makes you feel happy. Recommended

great priced asian food. My most favorite is their cucumber salad with garlic. All dishes were good when I tried.

I ordered a large beer, received a small beer, ordered a large beer again, received a lukewarm beer, asked for a cold beer and received the same beer with ice cubes. I gave up and ordered a bottled dark beer and received a nonalcoholic pilsner. Now that I’ve gotten that out of the way, the yuxiang eggplant was drenched in darkened corn syrup or something equally horrifying. Don’t even get me started on their overcooked, bland noodles. I don’t understand the hype for this place but it’s about as good as one of those Vietnamese places that also serves Thai food and sushi.

very very tasty & highly recommended!!! Service also TOP!!!

Korean Gourmets lovers would love the food🍲

It is a nice restaurant with a selection of Chinese and Korean dishes; the noodles are homemade, and everything we had felt fresh and delicious. We had spicy Wantans, noodles with veggies, and dumplings: everything was delicious! I recommend this place for authentic Chinese cuisine, which is offered at a reasonable price and comes with a friendly service! It’s worth reserving a table as it gets busy in the evening

The best Chinese restaurant that is cheap, delicious, generous, and friendly. The fried eggplant dish is really delicious. I think this is the only Chinese restaurant I've visited frequently for 8 years. The Korean-style seasoned chicken is also top-notch.. The kimchi fried rice is also delicious.

The menu offers an interesting selection of Asian, especially Korean, dishes. The atmosphere is relaxed, people seem to know each other, neighbors stop by, the boss says "Hello" every now and then.

Often you wait aaaaaages or are completely forgotten. Which is too bad when you're starving

Recommend: Sweet spicy Korean fried chicken, not deadly spicy, more sweet. 🍗 Spicy noodle soup with beef was really spicy. 🥵🫕 Serving was quick and nice. Сard payment is possible.

Liked the food here. Tofu salt and pepper , dumplings and veg soupy noodles are really worth having..

We love Shaniu's and we always enjoy coming back, even if we no longer live in Berlin. The food is top class and the boss is very friendly. Prices are reasonable.

I had tofu with vegetables. Delicious.

We were staying at the Max Brown hotel- a little break from home - working & sightseeing- and we stumbled upon this place whilst walking from the U-bahn- looked inviting and authentic. We had frequented a few lovely restaurants in the neighbourhood (a little pricey, good but not blown away) but this little gem was easily our favourite place! Having lived in Beijing- I know a good dumpling when I see it! First night it was raining and thundering, sitting outside- truly tropical- just loved it under the frontage on the street, the people work hard to deliver a great service and the food was superb! Thankyou so much! Big love to Berlin from Liverpool X

But it feels like it’s getting worse every year. The portions are getting smaller and smaller, and the taste is getting heavier and more MSG-based. In addition, Korean dishes are really not delicious, such as Korean bibimbap, which is very wet and only tastes salty. Moreover, Korean fried chicken is not sincere. I have never seen any restaurant that makes Korean fried chicken and charges a separate fee. Alas, I probably won’t come again.

Unfortunately it wasn't mine. Pasta with beef was too fatty for me, or more bacon than meat.

This restaurant combines three cuisines: Szechuan, Cantonese and Korean. There is a good selection of vegetarian options, and people who like fried Korean chicken will be delighted. The home-made noodles are highly recommended and if you are on your own and you want a satisfying meal, have a noodle soup, and you will be happy. For those who cannot eat hot spicy food, beware, you need to ask the service to scale the chillies down in the dishes. Good value for money, extremely fast service and satisfyingly delicious.

honestly overhyped and the food is of better quality and cheaper at other places

Portions were satisfying and their prices were reasonable too, you can get any dish for 9€ during lunch hours. Eggplant dishes are highly recommended!

Food was yummy. They took to much time to bring our food, almost like 45 minutes. So the service can be improved.

What an amazing soulful food! The spice level is on point, definitely the best Chinese restaurant in town <3

This place is tucked away on a quiet street, but it has a nice and cheerful atmosphere. The lunch prices were great and the servers are friendly. Great for solo travelers who have had a long day of walking. Plenty of options to choose from, and lots of really great tea and juice.

Incredibly delicious noodle restaurant, no matter which dish you order from the menu, it tastes great. Very clear recommendation.

It's a noodle restaurant and the noodles are very dry, but it's a restaurant I go to every time I go to Berlin. The eggplant fries are the best, but today they were very hard and not that good, but they are different every time, so I will visit again.

The food was super delicious You can tell that a lot of things here are handmade. Great taste and everything very fresh. Even though it was very busy, the food was on the table quickly. I thought Cola from a glass bottle was great. Thumbs up, it's worth coming here.