California Noodle House The California

We frequently dine at the Noodle House and always enjoy the meal there. Service is always excellent!

Great food and service! Everyone shows plenty of Aloha! We ate there 2 of our 4 nights.

Udon soup was so salty it was pretty much inedible. Kung pao chicken only tasted of soya sauce. Lettuce wraps tastes weird. Service was very unattentive.

Great food, large family style servings, nice-casual, honey walnut shrimp, oxtail fried rice, bao with pork were all super delicious.

As I have said before, this restaurant is OK and pretty good . I actually like the open, well lit, and casual atmosphere, but some other might disagree with me. I think that this restaurant is understaffed some of the time. I would estimate that in about 60% of the time, I get slow service from the waitress. Not because she is bad or inattentive, but because she has too many tables to wait on during the rush hour. This restaurant 's consistency in food preparation is subpar Gordon Ramsey would not tolerate what goes on there. For example, one dish that I think is very good is their deep fried spicy calamari appetizer. While I have eaten it at least 20 times, it is generally good, but inconsistent in taste and preparation. Most of time the calamari is deep fried perfectly. But on occasion it is burnt. They also stir fry green/spring onions and add it to the dish to give it a little more flavor. Again, sometimes the onions are burnt. And the ingredient that gives it its spice is chopped Thai chili peppers. This too is very inconsistent in use I had the dish with none in it; I have had it with an adequate/average amount in it; and then again I have had the dish with too much Thai chilis in it. Another favorite dish of mine is what they call their $27 dinner special. Recently, it has been a seared rare ahi tuna piece, with some fried shrimp and fried scallops with it too. While I must admit that the shrimps and scallops have always been cooked perfectly (I have eaten this at least 6 times), the ahi tuna is sometimes over seared; not seared enough; and sometimes not even seared at all but cooked low and slow in the oven (I presume) such that it is fully cooked and even pale white in color. One of the additions to this dish is the bed of mochi rice it sits on the rice is inconsistent in preparation. Sometimes over cooked, sometimes undercooked. Last night it was just plain white rice, not mochi rice.