I have been to this place a few times already. When we arrived this time, the place has changed to Chef Guo. Although they have switched owners, the flavor and texture of the noodle soup is still the same. My favorite noodle to order is knife cut noodles, I love the slightly chewy texture and it has more surface for the soup to coat it. This place is perfect to go on a chilly winter day. The service is good but you need to have patience since they speak mostly mandarin. Also this place is cash only. We had ordered 2 types of dumplings, lamb wide noodle soup, spicy beef knife cut noodles, braised pork vermicelli with red sauce, bitter melon salad. If you like the numbing peppercorn, that spicy beef noodle soup. Bitter melon salad is a flavor that you might need to get use to, but if you're adventurous give it a try. The lamb noodle soup has a perfect comfort soup base. So creamy that it warms up your soul. The braised pork vermecille is good for the first few bites, but the sauce like soup base is way too oily to finish. Overall this place has very good noodle soups and I like that you can choose what kind of noodles you want. 3 noodle soups, 2 different dumplings and 1 appetizer for $44 without tip isn't so bad. Service is good although there might be a little communication problem. Will come back next time to see if they have changed anything.

Location: resides in Elmhurst Avenue, uncle Zhou is a fantastic authentic Chinese restaurant. Instead of being highly invested fancy restaurant in flushing, Uncle Zhou was a family owned restaurant where they provide northern east cuisine from chine. Food: food is cheap but it does not mean it's not delicious. My lamb noodle is composed of wide noodle with lamb and juicy soup within it. Once I started to eat, I barely cannot stop. Price: so cheap. 8 dollars for a good lunch meal. Not a bad idea. Service: nice here. But I urge you to be patient if you are not mandarin speaker. Just be patient and order your food. This is the food where they earn respect by providing authentic food. 4 stars.

Uncle Zhou is absolutely phenomenal. The Henan restaurant deserves all the accolades it has received. We were warmly welcomed on a frigid Tuesday night around 8PM. Two bowls of noodles shared between my mother and me hit the spot. Both portions were ample and fully satiating. We ordered: -Lamb mixed hand-drawn wide noodle ($8): This is a signature noodle soup. Along with wide noodles, there were also thin clear rice noodles and and thin tofu strands in a light soup with not-too-fatty lamb chunks and vegetables (indeed, as recommended by the restaurant, order this if you want more veggies). The broth was flavorful but gratifyingly not too salty. -Lanzhou beef hand-drawn thin noodles ($7): Straightforward noodles cooked al dente with tender beef in a stronger, more flavorful soup. In fact, the broths of this and the other soup really made these dishes stand out. I absolutely loved this. Without a doubt, this is one of the best noodle shops I've encountered in New York thus far. The prices are still astonishingly cheap while the service is supremely prompt, friendly, and attentive. Explanation of Henan cuisine, which is not commonly called out and present in the city, is helpfully posted on the wall. We will definitely return for more noodle and non-noodle dishes next time!

If your Uncle is as wild as my Uncle, then he might get put in a Zoo. But not just any Zoo. A zoo specifically for Uncles. Known as an "Uncle Zoo." Such as this place. Nice service, but the lamb cumin - which I admit was delicious - was way too expensive, and was just meat really and they charged an extra dollar for rice lol. I know that Lamb Cumin and similar Western Chinese dishes aren't always the cheapest, but the extra dollar for Rice was ridiculous. Still, it tasted really good, so I'm happy with a 4-star rating. I need to try it again now that I've had more experiences of what Lamb Cumin should be like.

I was just checking out the Panda Cafe next door when I got a chance to take a peek at the inside of this restaurant, where I saw one side of the interior fully decorated exclusively with Michelin recognition over the years! That's certainly not something to be ignored. So I ordered their flagship dish to go, A1 - Lamb Mixed Hand Drawn Wide Noodle Soup for $8. A couple of observations: 1. Unlike many restaurants where they know better to separate the noodle from the soup for carryout orders, they let the noodle sit in the same container as the soup. 2. The serving of the lamb was minuscule at best. I'd say I got a grand total of 8 dices of meat. So needless to say, the hand-pulled wide noodle was soggy by the time I ate it. Interestingly though, there were 2 other noodles mixed in, albeit less prominent -- the clear mung bean noodle and soy bean noodle/strips, both were less prone to sogginess. I loved them, and I do wonder if I could ask for a custom dish with just these noodles. The soup base was delicious. As I worked through the dish, I uncovered other surprising ingredients: wood ears and goji berries. I would consider both as delicacies and in my opinion they significantly boosted up the value of this dish. I went back the next day and tried 3 other noodle dishes: B1: Lanzhou's Beef Hand-Drawn Thin Noodle $7.00 B2: Beef Tendon Hand-Drawn Thin Noodle $7.00 B8: Lamb Hand-Drawn Thin Noodle $7.25 So I avoided the wide noodle this time and averted the dreaded sogginess when it comes to noodles. However, the experience was a bit anti-climatic for me. First of all, the B8 was a far cry from their flagship A1 which I tried the night before. It's only one kind of noodle and the same 8 petty dices of lamb, while just 75 cents cheaper. AVOID! B1 and B2 were good but I've had them somewhere before and I didn't find any wow factor. The staff was friendly. I have no complaints. My recommendation: Dine in, bring cash, and order their A1 signature lamb noodle soup. That's surely the cream of the crop well worth the $8. For that I will definitely come back.

Here to proclaim Uncle Zhou is indeed a solid 4 stars. Love this little place with the savory, bone broth laden lamb soup laced with cabbage, cilantro, mushrooms, maybe a hint of garlic and a ton or (my choice) wide hand-pulled noodles (Henanese I believe) mixed in with some glass noodles (what I call them... not sure the exact term). There was something else I ran into and while not sure, tasted like a sweet raisan or cranberry. Maybe 3-4 in the entire bowl, and a nice surprise near the end. One bowl of their wonderful soup is enough for a big lunch, but I came prepared. 6 a.m. flight on an empty stomach out of Kansas City with the plan to lunch here famished. Running on fumes, I left sated, satisfied, but not overly stuffed. Oh, and that included a $5.00 order of lamb dumplings that went down easily. It's cash only, if you come. The dining room is unpretentious, could be any little restaurant in Queens, but the soup is a lovely bowl, indeed, and a real savory prize I totally enjoyed. They tell it Zhou is pronounced "Joe," but I wouldn't know. But I did recognize the owner from pictures and he smiled each time we made eye contact and seemed to know there's a good thing going on here.

I heard about this place from a YouTuber that I follow: Mike Chan's Strictly Dumpling channel. I only tried the lamb with noodles (i.e. hand pulled and knife shaved noodles) dish. They are very generous with the noodles and you'll be full at the end of the meal. The lamb was good and it didn't taste gamy at all. I wished there was more lamb meat in the dish tho. Good place to try the lamb noodles. I'll try other dishes too one day.

I LOVE this place. I remember first stumbling upon it after a long bus ride back to NYC from DC. For some reason, I really wanted some noodles. A quick Yelp search yielded me this place. I got an order of their hand shaved egg and tomato noodles to go, along with some of their cold fried tofu strips. Once at home, I opened up my food containers and was incredibly impressed with the portion sizes of the dishes. The noodle dish is massive. I ended up not being able to finish my entire meal. But man, those noodles are other worldly. So tasty. There's this sesame sauce that's combined with the egg and tomato and gah, it's just so tasty! The cold tofu was fine. The noodles were truly the highlight of my meal. Since that first visit, I've gone back numerous times. I've almost always ordered the hand shaved egg and tomato noodle dish, though I've tried the dial oil noodles once, which were fine, just not as mind blowingly delicious as the aforementioned dish. All of my friends that I've taken here also have high praise for that same aforementioned dish. This place may quite possibly be my favorite restaurant in Elmhurst. Oh yeah, I forgot to mention: this place is pretty cheap! Go, go, go and try it out for yourself!