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Yee's Hand Pulled Noodle is a Lanzhou noodle specialist in Scarborough's Silver Star Boulevard corridor, where the kitchen focuses on the hand-pulled noodle tradition of northwestern China's Gansu province. The defining technique here is the stretching and folding of dough by hand, a labour-intensive process that produces noodles with a distinctive chewy texture and irregular width that cannot be replicated by machine. Lanzhou noodles are typically served in a clear beef or lamb broth, a format that has become increasingly rare in Toronto outside of dedicated specialists; this kitchen's appearance addresses a gap for the Chinese diaspora community and noodle enthusiasts across the city. The beef brisket noodles and spicy short ribs are the kitchen's core offerings, each built on the foundation of hand-pulled strands and slow-simmered broth.