Garlic noodles near Civic Center?
Can you help me locate a name of a restaurant , a hole in the wall type of place, that the missus and I had been to once before? It is a few doors down a side street near Civic Center area, between Market and Mission, close to Market. The missus still raves about their garlic noodles from at least a year ago. I do vividly remember the framed pics/letters on the wall from celebrities thanking them for their food, as supplied to them when they are in town. I thought it was Tu Lan on Sixth Street, but it was not after a recent visit. But about the same location on a street, but closer to Civic Center. My wife would be forever happy if I take her there again. Might it be a Thai restaurant instead of Vietnamese as I thought? The people at Tu Lan thought my wife was nuts when she tried hard to tell them she thought they had garlic noodles on their menu in the past, only to be rebuffed. Past memories are hard to place into exact details when you feel like you are getting older......
BTW, Tu Lan was a painful experience when we were there, though I enjoyed my meal and cheap prices. The eyes of the four of us were absolutely burning due to the air in the restaurant. Must be a bad exhaust system. One of our party left after about 15 minutes of suffering the ol' eye burn.
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How about at Larkin Express Deli. I had garlic noodle last week. It is egg noodle with fried garlic and roast pork. The price is resonable $5.50 and I really liked it. It is on larkin st, bet golden gate & turk. open only weekday 10am-4pm. I also noticed that they were a lot of pictures on the wall. Not sure the same as yours.
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larochelle
Mar 9, 2007 02:18 PM
If you find it, let us know!
I used to love the ones at Thanh Long but they went downhill ages ago so I've been woking on perfecting my own recipe based on my memory of them. I'd like to try the ones your wife loved.
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Dave MP
Mar 9, 2007 11:04 AM
Could it be this? Hon's Won Tun House on JEssie St....the location matches up with what you said (small alley-like street off of 6th, between Mission and Market)
http://www.yelp.com/biz/_vcLklv9Sxdg7...
Has anyone eaten at this branch of this place?
Dave MP
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shortexact
Mar 9, 2007 01:12 PM
I just called them. They do exist, but it turns out they aren't actually a restaurant. The Jessie street location is where they make the noodles, and then transport them over to the restaurant on Kearny. So there's only one actual restaurant.
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shortexact
Mar 9, 2007 02:02 PM
Actually, I did :) He indicated that you couldn't, but I'm not sure if he understood exactly what I was saying. After I hung up, it suddenly occurred to me that he *might* have thought if I was asking about full take-out dishes, rather than just straight noodles, even though I thought I phrased the question fairly carefully. So I'm not completely sure. It'd be great to get it straight from them though, so I think I will probably try to drop by in person sometime soon and ask again.
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Melanie Wong
Mar 9, 2007 04:52 PM
Hon's noodles (1# packages or so) are sold at a number of Chinatown markets. Look for them at the cashier counter typically.
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shortexact
Mar 9, 2007 09:31 AM
Given what you've said, the only place that springs immediately to mind is the "7 Mission" restaurant, which is on 7th between Mission and Howard. I've never been there, so I don't know if they have garlic noodles or not, but the location is consistent with what you said.
Like Euonymous said, though, if you're looking for Vietnamese in the Civic Center area, you're much better off heading north of Market to the Larkin Street corridor (especially right around Ellis and Eddy streets). Much more to choose from there, and you'll find plenty of posts on the board for some of the hotspots in this area.
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Dave MP
Mar 9, 2007 10:58 AM
Here's a link to the menupages for "7 Mission"........
http://sanfrancisco.menupages.com/res...
I didn't see garlic noodles on the menu, but there are vermicelli bowls...?? I doubt that the restaurant you went to is Mangosteen, since this is at least a 10 minute walk from Market, in the wrong direction, and not exactly a hole in the wall.
Could it have been a Chinese restaurant?
Dave MP
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Euonymous
Mar 9, 2007 08:23 AM
There are a ton of Vietnamese restaurants in the Civic Center area. In fact, the city now calls the area around Larkin Little Saigon. I'm guessing you might have gotten your garlic noodles from Mangosteen.
Take a look at MenuPages and see what looks familiar. http://sanfrancisco.menupages.com/res...
Most, if not all of them, are North of Market, by the way.
