Noodling Around: 777 Noodle House and Minh Ky revisited

Well, like I mentioned a couple of weeks back it's finally starting to feel like soup weather.....San Diego soup weather that is. And if any day this year felt perfect for a bowl of noodle soup it was today.

From the angry clouds early this morning.

To the rain, which was falling pretty heavily this evening. Now why did I feel a bit uncomfortable seeing a car from the "Governor's Office of Emergency Services" in the next lane? I dunno.....

In need of some noodle soup I headed off to....

777 Noodle House:

Instead of going for my usual Hu Tieu Nam Vang Kho, I went with Pork Intestine Egg Noodle Soup, a relative bargain at $5.77.

This looked good, but the broth was a bit weak this time around. Lots of nice, funky, pork intestine though and the noodles had a nice chew to them. I'm not sure when it happened, but somewhere along the line over the last 9 years, pork intestine has become comfort food for me. Go figure......

777 Noodle House
4686 University Avenue
San Diego, CA 92105

A few days back I was craving some Beef Sate Egg Noodle "dry". My usual "go-to" would have been Tan Ky Mi Gia in Mira Mesa, but of course, they've closed down. So instead, I headed over to....

Minh Ky:

It had been over a year since I last visited. I'm not a big fan of the parking situation, nor the crowds when the place is busy, but I had to have my Beef Sate Noodle with soup on the side.

The portion size just seemed to be much larger than I remembered. No surprises here except the bowl of soup, which is usually fairly salty, seemed even more so today. In fact, one of the guys on the table to my right ordered the same thing and poured half his glass of water into the broth to water it down....which I think would really make it kind of yucky. I just ended up dipping my noodles into the broth tsukemen style at first, then puring off small amounts over the oodles and meat at the end. The sate could have bit more "umph", but it was adequately tender, more onion-shallot-nuttiness in flavor, but pretty much just what I wanted on this day.

Minh Ky Restaurant
4644 El Cajon Boulevard
San Diego, CA 92115

I hope everyone is safe and dry this evening. 

Comments

[kat]

stay warm & dry!

[Kirk]

Thanks Kat!

[Ed (from Yuma)]

You have spread your love for pork intestines. Tina and I both savor tripas at taco stands and the Hunan intestine we had on Valley Blvd was one of the culinary highlights of our visit to SGV last summer. I have had more international chitlins at a single meal in the last few years than I had eaten all my life before

[Kirk]

I'm glad Ed! That's very gratifying.