Amazing tasty food, great pork and chive dumplings and the spicy beef noodle soup had so much flavour: fall apart tender beef, fresh pak choi and a very flavourful spicy broth, best tasting we’ve found outside of China.Can highly recommend this eatery, the staff were very friendly. The complimentary jasmine tea was a bonus. We’d eat there again if we come back to San Francisco.
Came here because it was in Anthony Bourdain's show a few years ago. It did not disappoint.Absolutely the best meal I've had in SF in a while. The pork and bean curd noodles, remembering them I'm hungry all over again.Dumplings are just like i remember getting in BeijingThe fried tofu is obscenely good, perfectly light and airy, delicious even as leftovers.The scallion pancake was delicate and flavorful.Prices were excellent, the dining room was cozy, servers were super friendly and happy to answer menu questions.
Had better. Food service was slow. Ordered Farmers’ cucumber (unbalanced: some had flavor, some no flavor, some are a salt-lick and no garlic flavor whatsoever), beef tendon noodles (good flavor, a bit on salty side, noodle to soup ratio bad, it is like it is missing a quarter amount needed), potstickers are must, soup dumplings are on the smaller size and there are only 6 dumplings per order (not worth the price and barely have soup in them) and last was the chicken and soup dumplings (definitely had better ones at other, like the one down 2-3 blocks away towards 19th Ave. All in all, overpriced food that we would rather spend somewhere else.
Everything about King of Noodles is authentic: the food, the restaurant itself, and its friendly wait staff. We had ordered take-out, but having entered we would have loved to have sat and enjoyed a leisurely meal. What some would label modest, we would call authentic. It truly is a wonderful neighborhood noodle joint. We tried four different noodle dishes and each one was unique and delicious. You may ask, how did we know the noodles were made there? The answer came when we pulled out one of our noodle dishes and the noodles were three-feet long! They don't sell those in Safeway!
Their xiaolongbao is mediocre. The skin is too thick, the fold needs improvement. All of them and uniform and identical. That’s the upside. The seasoning could also improve. The juice seems like added soup rather than natural juice from the pork.
I got food poisoning once after the eating beef ramen here. I should have known because the beef had a weird shine to it. Anyway, I don’t eat meat anymore.
The nicest staff here. Spicy beef noodle soup is the way to go!
One of my favorite noodle restaurants I've ever been! My favorite is the spicy beef noodle soup, onion pancake and green beans. Great prices too!
Must order Spicy Beef Noodle Soup and Onion Pancake. Do dip the onion pancake into the beef broth ?. Bean paste dry noodle pork is also great!
If you want to try some homemade style Chinese food, especially noodles and dumplings. This would be a great starting point.It’s fairly vegetarian friendly, and the veggie chive pancake was perfectly fried.However I would have liked the texture of the noodles to be chewier and the sauce more flavored.