Yangtze Belfast - Donegall Place

You're walking down Donegall Place and the smell hits you first—toasted sesame oil and simmering broths that cut through the usual city centre noise. Inside, it's unfussy and lively, the kind of place where you watch cooks working the noodle station through the kitchen window. The menu's got all the classics done right: wontons that don't taste like they've been sitting around, mapo tofu with actual numbing peppercorns that make your mouth tingle, and noodles pulled fresh enough that you can taste the wheat. It's the sort of spot you come to when you actually want to eat, not Instagram something. Order the hand-pulled and don't overthink it.