Extremely tasty noodle dishes - All noodle dishes we tried were really excellent. Also, the sticky rice dessert is super tasty! I agree with some of the other reviews that the staff could really try to be friendlier. However, who cares about that if the food and price are great?
This place has legit Chinese style noodles from all over China, showcasing a variety of flavors. It's the "Jack of All Trades" of noods!
Overall food and experience was good.
Here's my dine-in experience: Once you arrive they ask if you are dining in or taking out. We dined in, so they asked us to sit and brought us a cup of water each. You then place your order using the QR code on the table and you wait for your food. You can notify them you are either ordering more or checking out using the same QR code. However, there was no option to order more water, nor was there anyone asking if we needed more water. I like the mostly contactless experience but given that most of the food here is spicey, they should at least leave out a water refilling station.
1 fairly clean unisex restroom was available as the other was out of service.
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've had this place bookmarked for a while. I happen to have some free time and I was in Irvine so I decided to check it out. I ordered the hot and sour noodle soup I believe is what it's called. Number 14 for sure.
When I was getting my order taken it was kind of a language barrier I couldn't make out what he was saying and I don't think he understood me.
When I got my food, the noodles weren't the glass noddles I was expecting and I didn't remember there being beef. Nonetheless I ate it. It was really good the flavor was good it had a good kick of spice without overpowering the broth. It reminds me of a Vietnamese Spicy Beef Noodle Soup (bun bo hue).
Aside from the flavor being different there were a couple other things that the Vietnamese dish it is comparable to doesn't have. Bamboo and peanuts. Not just peanuts but roasted peanuts with the skin still on. Omg that was my favorite part!
The portion is huge. The restaurant is clean. The staff was attentive to ensure my water was always full.
Only thing that I had trouble with here was two people who were hard to understand when ordering my food and when they called me from the wait list. Not deal breakers. The beauty of being able point on the clipboard to ensure we're in the same page.
I may have been a little upset since I got the wrong order but all an all I got the #4 the braised beef that was recommended in most reviews. I was between this one and what I was trying to order anyway.
I definitely was not disappointed. I will be back to try other soups and their cold appetizers.
Had the Chengdu Braised Beef Noodle Soup; it was pretty good. I'm a fan of A&J's Beef Noodle Soup (been a customer of A&J's just down the street for 25 years) and this was a good substitute. About the same spicy level, but with peanuts. Would have loved the option to put pickeled mustard greens in (other noodles have that included) though.
It's a Chinese restaurant specializes in Noodles from different province of China. The soup is flavorful. Our first time here and order Chengdu Beef Noodle soup and Chinese pickles beef noodle with chicken soup. They are flavorful and good portion for the price. Definitely will come back to try other selections.
Tasty noodle spot. Good portions, seasoned well and hits the spot. I like #10 sauteed noodle with pork (regular noodle) especially. They offer free egg/soda/etc if you leave review and/or check in or follow/tag via WeChat/ig/Yelp.
They don't seem to accept card under $10 😑
Vastly understaffed... takes forever
This is probably the best noodology that I have been to. The flavor is amazing and the soup is hot. They skimp on toppings compared to the other locations but the flavor is the best out of them all.
My #10 had the perfect amount of flavor in it and the beef was not bad at all. The noodles were perfectly cooked.
I recommend that everyone should go here at least once to try out some dishes from across the Chinese culture.
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Super good!!! I've heard of this place here and there but finally got around to trying it. I came here with two Texans who are very not Asian, but they both loved it! It's definitely a good place for everyone, in my opinion.
We ordered two things:
#4 - Traditional beef noodles with Chinese pickle. I specifically requested no cilantro, but they gave me a soup with cilantro. When I brought this up to the waitress, she took the soup back to fix the mistake. I thought they would do kind of a best-effort removal of the cilantro, but I think they ended up remaking the entire dish. Either that, or they did a PHENOMENAL job removing them because I couldn't find a single trace of cilantro in the bowl she brought back.
#6 - Beef noodles with green & red chili peppers. The two Texans shared this dish and they loved it. I think they were caught off guard with the spiciness, but they finished this it regardless and were very happy with their meal.
Oh, also the portions are HUGE so maybe keep that in mind or find someone to share with.
Soups with noodles and variety of broths. The environment is no-nonsense, so it's basically a place where you go to slurp up your soup, without any frills. The food is average from what you'd expect from a noodle house in Irvine.
They were open on Christmas.
Cold appetizers were good, especially the sliced beef and tripe.
Noodles bowls are very big. Beef was great, either thin sliced or chunks.
Brown sugar sweet fried dish was quite good as well. Not too sweet of dessert which is nice.
Service was very good.
Amazing selection of Chinese soup noodles. Deep flavor in every broth option.
3.5 stars rounded to 4. Was looking forward to a decent noodle place in Irvine but a bit disappointed. Broth was lukewarm and lacked ingredients. Needlessly to say, bad service but was pretty much a given. Parking is horrible at 12, but 1230, the spots usually open up.
It is very delicious. I’ve never tasted something so good in my whole entire life. I rate it 5 stars.
Mytchel Luong (Lifesamytch)
+4
Pretty tasty noodles, these dishes are from mainland China so they are something that I'm normally not exposed to. But I'm glad I gave it a try! Tasty
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