Beijing Hand-pulled Noodles

Before we enjoyed Serenitea, my best friend and I tried out the Beijing Hand-pulled Noodles just across the tea establishment in San Juan. He got the Braised Beef La Mian (拉麵) while I tried the Beef Chao Mian (炒麵). Literally La Mian means stretched noodles. "The hand-making process involves taking a lump of dough and repeatedly stretching it to produce many strands of thin, long noodle."



According to Wikipedia, in the Beijing style of preparation, "the dough is twisted, stretched delicately by waving the arms and body, untwisted, looped to double the strands, and then repeated. When stretching, they coordinate waving their torso and arms to increase the potential length of the noodle beyond that of the puller's arm span. Flour dusting is more liberally employed in this style than in the Lanzhou style of preparation."

Serenitea, Tea Craze in San Juan

I first heard of Serenitea being mentioned over at Plurk. It's not until Achie Fran (FrannyWanny) explained to me what Serenitea is, and how it's oh so deliciously addicting. I tried it out first just recently with fellow blogger Christa Uymatiao, who happens to live around the area.


We wanted to order Hokkaido Milk Tea, since we heard from Achie Fran that it's really good, but it was out of stock the first time I was there. We ordered the Okinawa Milk Tea (Large) at Php 95 instead. We had it with pudding and crystals (nata) at Php 5/topping.


The second time around, I went with my best friend. He first thought the place was pronounced "Se-re-ni-te-ya" instead of how you correctly pronounce it as "Se-re-ni-ti". Funny, he says it's more classy that way. Whatever :)) That time, we both got to try the Hokkaido. I had mine with no sugar, and with pearls. Him, mild sugar (25%) and pearls. It was awesome!

Serenitea is located along J. Abad Santos cor V. Cruz, San Juan City. You may contact them at 3794166 for more inquiries.