Despite United failing to seal a third win in a row since the start of the year, Scholes was much more impressed with his former club after Tuesday's entertaining draw.
"Loads better," he told BT Sport after the match. "To go and watch Manchester United, whether it's home or away, is entertainment, it's goals -- whether you concede goals or whether you can score goals.
"Tonight that was like watching a Manchester United team. Okay, they didn't win but they should have won, really.
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"Sometimes it's a little bit easier to do it away from home, actually, when a team comes out at you and really has a go like Newcastle did. Now they have to try and transfer this type of form to Old Trafford."
The result means United have slipped to sixth in the Premier League table behind West Ham United and are two points behind Tottenham Hotspur in fourth place.
Manager Louis van Gaal's men travel to take on Liverpool on Sunday.
(Reporting by Simon Jennings in Bengaluru, editing by Nick Mulvenney)
