Noodle Bar Near Me by FIU: 107 Taste's Black Pepper Yaki Udon

107 Taste is named after the road it sits on: the restaurant at 1679 SW 107th Ave, near Florida International University, is where Chef Yu Bi cooks a menu that wanders across Asia but keeps coming back to noodles. Searching noodle bar near me around FIU leads here for a reason. The Infatuation's September 2026 review singled out the black pepper yaki udon, called the portions so big that leftovers are almost a guarantee, and noted there isn't a single dish over $20 on the menu.

The name is a personal one. According to the restaurant's About page, Chef Yu Bi and Dr. Lei, both originally from China, met at Florida International University on 107th Avenue, bonded over food, and dreamed of opening a home-style Asian restaurant together. Years later, married, they opened 107 Taste as a tribute to the road that brought them together. The couple also runs a separate restaurant brand, Cajun Boil, and uses the slogan A Bite of Asia.

Chef Yu's cooking traces back further. The About page says her grandmother, Yuanfang Pu, was a recognized chef in China in the 1960s, and that Chef Yu started cooking for friends and family at a young age. Several menu items carry a Yu's Recipe label, and one, the Mama Pork Fried Rice with five-spice braised pork belly, is described as a cherished recipe from her grandmother. The FIU location is the namesake shop, and the brand now also runs restaurants in Brickell, Coral Gables, Miami Lakes and South Miami.

Start with the Black Pepper Yaki Udon, a Yu's Recipe dish. The menu describes stir-fried udon with mixed vegetables in black pepper sauce, and explains that Chef Yu takes the Japanese noodle and finishes it with Hong Kong-style black pepper sauce. The Infatuation's Virginia Otazo named it among the best things here and recommended adding barbecue pork, writing that the caramelized meat gets along well with the bouncy noodles and sweet sauce.

Proteins are priced as add-ons, and the menu lists them clearly: fried tofu is $1.50, chicken is $2, barbecue pork is $2.50, and steak or shrimp are $3.50 each, with a three-protein option at $5.50. Follow the Infatuation's advice and choose barbecue pork for the udon. If you are splitting dishes, the bowl is large enough to share, and the leftovers travel well for a next-day lunch between classes.

For a soup, the Dan Dan Udon is the most interesting bowl and another Yu's Recipe dish. It combines a chicken and pork bone broth with sesame sauce, garlic oil, chili oil, seasoned ground pork, a nitamago marinated egg, bok choy, scallion and sesame. The menu describes it as inspired by the Sichuan classic but made with chewy Japanese udon, whose thick, springy texture holds the spicy, nutty sauce. It is marked spicy, so order it when you want heat.

The ramen options use the same chicken and pork bone broth. The Tonkotsu Ramen adds a nitamago egg, wood ear mushroom, bamboo, scallion and garlic oil, while the Miso Ramen adds miso, corn and sesame. For something gentler, the House Wonton Noodle Soup has hand-wrapped pork and shrimp wontons with silky egg noodles, bok choy, scallions and sesame oil. Braised pork belly can be added to the ramen for $3, the most worthwhile upgrade on a soup.

The rest of the wok noodle list shows how far the menu travels. The Pad Thai Noodle comes with egg, mixed vegetables, tamarind sauce, fish sauce and peanuts. Pad Woon Sen uses glass noodles with egg and a house oyster sauce, and the Cantonese Mei Fun is stir-fried rice noodles with egg, vegetables and soy sauce, with gluten-free shrimp and egg versions available. Cheesy Noodle On Fire, a Yu's Recipe dish, adds mozzarella and a sweet and spicy sauce inspired by Korean cooking.

Our honest take: skip the Pad Thai on a first visit. It is the most familiar noodle on the list, and the Infatuation's point about this kitchen is that its best dishes borrow from each other, like the Hong Kong black pepper sauce on Japanese udon or the Sichuan dan dan treatment on udon noodles. Those two show what Chef Yu does differently. Save Pad Thai for a night you are feeding someone who wants a safe choice.

This is a casual, walk-in kind of place. The Infatuation lists it as good for walk-ins and casual dinners and calls it a good option for starving FIU students, and Google Maps puts the campus bus terminal an eight-minute walk away. If you want to book, the restaurant's Locations page takes table requests for the FIU shop by phone at (786) 717-6378, and pickup and delivery are handled through the online ordering link on the website.

The online ordering page for the FIU shop lists ordering hours from 11:30am to 9:40pm, which is the window to aim for when you want pickup. When the dining room is full at the dinner rush, ordering the udon for pickup and eating it on campus is the easiest workaround. The website also advertises 15 percent off orders placed through its own online ordering with the code TASTE15, so order through the restaurant's site rather than an app.

The natural stop nearby is on campus. The Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum at 10975 SW 17th St, on FIU's Modesto Maidique Campus, has free admission and is open Tuesday through Sunday from 11am to 5pm, closed Mondays, according to the museum's website. A late lunch at 107 Taste followed by an hour in the galleries makes a good afternoon on any day but Monday.

107 Taste FIU is at 1679 SW 107th Ave, Miami, FL 33165, and the phone is (786) 717-6378. By transit, Google Maps shows the restaurant about a 0.3-mile, eight-minute walk from the bus terminal at FIU's Modesto Maidique Campus. Online ordering runs 11:30am to 9:40pm. Protein add-ons on the menu run from $1.50 for tofu to $3.50 for steak or shrimp, and the Infatuation noted that no dish on the menu goes over $20.

Ask Karpo in the Karpo APP to compare the other 107 Taste locations in Brickell and Coral Gables, or to find a dessert stop near FIU after your noodles.