“I found there were no Chinese halal stretched noodles restaurants in Algiers,” Mr. Zhao says. Audrey Thibert/The Christian Science Monitor Plates of hand-pulled noodles are served at Ramen Best Option, along with an Algerian soda. A similar mix of languages can be heard at Ramen Best Option. Ramen Best Option also serves as a place where the Chinese can indulge their taste for familiar dishes, he says. “And before [Mr. Zhao’s] restaurant, there weren’t any restaurants serving Chinese noodles.”Mr. Hou says the noodles at Ramen Best Option taste like authentic noodles from the kinds of restaurants common in northwestern China.