New Tung Kee Noodle House Milpitas

This place is like our kitchen - we come here whenever we need a cheap meal.  We usually stick with the noodles but have tried the porridge and rice plates as well.   This is not fancy looking place as it looks like a school cafeteria more than a restaurant but this place is fast as you can be in and out of here in 30 minutes.  Our personal favorites here are the combination with won tons and the combination rice stick noodle soup.

Best Noodles Bay Area

We are very fortunate to have so many yummy noodle places to choose from in the Bay Area.  Being huge fans of eating noodles, we are sharing with you a list of our favorites:

QQ Noodle in Milpitas or Fremont has some of the best hand pulled noodles.  For those of you who know Mandarin, you'll know that QQ in Mandarin stands for chewy and the noodles here are definitely chewy (i.e. al dente).  When coming here, be sure to order their #1 - it's a must.

New Tung Kee Noodle House in Milpitas is a great place to go for a cheap meal.  Usually two bowls of noodles runs about $12.  It's so cheap that we call this our "kitchen" as it's the place to go to get a cheap meal.  Sometimes eating here is cheaper than cooking at home

Pho Nam in Milpitas or Sunnyvale serves up some of the best pho in the Bay Area.  We've tried their pho, the bun (the dry noodles which you pour fish sauce over), the rice plates, fried/fresh rolls and iced coffee.  Can't really go wrong with anything except maybe the fresh rolls.  The fresh rolls are a bit "stale" as we think they make them the night before and leave them in the refrigerator until someone orders them.

Maruichi Ramen in Mountain View or Milpitas serves up delicious ramen noodles.  I've read on Yelp there are better places but this one is pretty good.  Don't believe the disses that you hear about this place, it's good food!

Ruby's Taqueria Sunnyvale

This place was so good that I ate here twice in one week.  Both times I got a burrito - a carne asada burrito and a carnitas burrito.  Both were delicious and HUGE!  They definitely don't skimp on their super burritos as for $6.00 you get a good amount of food.  Previous to discovering Ruby's Taqueria, we used to go all way to Mountain View for La Bamba.  Now that we've found Ruby's, we are staying more local to get our burritos.  Be sure to try their chips too as they are also very good.

QQ Noodle Milpitas

We're so glad that there is a QQ Noodle in Milpitas now.  Prior to the opening of this location, we used to drive to Fremont for QQ Noodle.  For those of you who don't know Mandarin - QQ stands for chewy.  So QQ Noodle basically translates to chewy noodles in English.  The reason they are chewy is because they are freshly made noodles which makes it so delicious.  Whenever we come here, we usually order one dry noodle and one soup noodle.  As a rule of thumb, always eat the soup noodle first because the noodles become kind of gross if it sits in the soup too long.  Our recommendations for soup noodles are:

Hot and Spicy Fish Noodle Soup - the fish is lightly battered and fried and goes really well with the spicy soup.

Hot and Spicy Beef Stew Noodle Soup - same as above but with beef stew, this one is their take on a traditional Taiwanese noodle soup dish

For the dry noodles, we always get their #1 - House Special Sour & Spicy Pork Sauce Noodles.  This one is a must, we've never seen anything like this anywhere else.  It's basically a spicy sauce with pork and what looks to be potatoes.  We've been to QQ Noodle probably a dozen times and every time we've ordered this dish.