Despite being made accessible very
late in the semester, Emerson Dining Hall presented Wheaton students with their
own rendition of the classic noodle bar. This new and unique addition to the dinning
services, though relatively new has become quite the hit on campus. EVERYONE
(well all those whom I’ve spoken with) attest to how delicious and wonderful it
is to have the new noodle station. Most Wheaton students including myself find
the food offerings for this station quite appealing and delectable, which I
feel is the reason behind why Emerson’s noddle bar station has augmented such a
massive fan base (or the fact that it’s fairly cheap). The noodle bar station provides
Wheaton students and faculty with their choice of noodles, four toppings, one meat
option, and your preference for broth type. The four toppings provided by the
noodle bar are always usually veggies and the 2 broth types that are available are
chicken broth and/or ginger sesame broth. Being a vegetarian I am grateful and find
it extremely fortunate that this new dinning service provides a vegetarian
option period. Historically and traditionally here at Wheaton College, vegetarians
have always been the minority group and because of this we are generally not given
priority. Which quite frankly sucks because I happen to go hungry sometimes due
to lack in food options available to me.
Although the new Noodle Bar station
is a success (given its popularity) it’s only ever really opened twice a week,
said days being Tuesdays and Thursdays. Which I can’t seem to understand why that
is and why Wheaton students haven’t complained about this temporary service not
being a temporary one. Though the noodle bar station is a new addition to the
dinning services I’m not entirely sure if it’s a permanent service because honestly,
they just added this service two weeks ago, and last week they didn’t even make
it available. Which brings me to question if this noodle bar was just a onetime
thing and if that one week it was available was its experimental trial to be
implemented next semester.
The thing is that Aramark's quality of food brings down the experience with the noodle bar. I was super excited to try this the other day, but there was just no flavor... I have a feeling this lack of taste is due to the cheap deals they get with food distributors, which more than likely depend on GMO crops.
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