Yuen Hop Noodle Company & Grocery — Local services in Oakland

This is THE place to get your fresh noodles and wonton or dumpling wrappers!

They have a wide selection of egg noodles (thick, thin, etc.) and multiple cuts and sheets of fresh rice noodles (great for making chow fun or pad see ew). I buy the thick dumpling wrappers when I am on a dumpling making frenzy and they come out perfectly and stand up to my pan fried technique.

Yuen Hop has a number of other fresh items at the check out counter like soy milk and tofu (not made in house) that is usually still warm. They also have fresh mochi that some of my friends swear by. The store itself is stocked with Chinese grocery staples and some fresh veggies and fruit in the front. Service is the usual brisk and transactional Chinatown style with the Asian grannies cutting you in line. Yuen Hop is still a gem of a...

I was running around this area @ 4:30 pm on a Saturday, trying to find hong bao (Chinese red envelopes) for a wedding that evening. Most of the other stores I’d scouted on Yelp were closed already, but luckily I came across this gem. The main storefront looked closed, but there was still a small section on the right that was open. And out in the front were a bunch of red envelopes on display. I asked the gentleman and lady if they had any recommendation for wedding red envelopes, and if they particularly had any with the double happiness symbol (囍). The lady kindly pulled out a basket that had a bunch of them, and I was able to get just what I needed for the wedding. Many thanks to them for...

Yuen Hop has been around for a while. They have produce and various Chinese/Asian candies and dried goods. They have frozen dumplings and pot stickers.

What they're most known for is their fresh noodles which you cook up yourself at home. Keep in mind that fresh noodles can go bad relatively quickly compared to dried noodles and some of them cook quicker...