Mien San Noodle House — Restaurant in San Juan

Very small and homey place for decent quality chinese food. We came here on a Thurs night at 6:45pm and discovered that we were the only people in the restaurant at the time. It's like we had the restaurant to ourselves.

Ordered the Spicy Beef Noodles and the Satay Beef Chami. Both orders were quite big for 1 person, but we were able to finish them thankfully. For the Beef Noodles, flavor was good, but we felt it had a lot of MSG due to the strong umami flavor. Spice is tolerable thankfully for me so it was overall decent.

Sate Beef Chami is what I liked a lot better. It is presented on a hot plate similar to sisig, and the flavors were really present there! Was able to finish this first and would recommend this dish to others.

If I can recall, they only accept cash payments here, as usual for small scale chinese owned...

We had lunch here and they told us upon ordering that Gcash wasn’t available and they only accepted cash (I think just for that day). The servers were kind enough to compute our bill for us too.

As soon as I entered, I saw a cockroach and fly near our table. I didn’t mind it at first but towards the end of our meal, I saw another cockroach! 🥲 there was also an insect in our tissue dispenser..

Food arrived in a timely manner. The noodles were so soft it kind of tasted like misua for me.. But the serving was big.. I couldn’t finish it because I didn’t like the texture of the noodles. The lemon chicken & spicy eggplant with minced pork were both really good though.

I just hope they maintain the cleanliness...

Steamed pork buns. If there's one thing that sets Mien San apart from all the other Chinese restaurants in San Juan is its steamed pork buns. Aside from having a wide range of food on offer from the airy light tofu to the hard hitting pork meat and spare parts (intestines, coagulated blood) soup, Mien San offers its magnificent steamed pork buns.

Biting into these pork buns releases a hot jet of soup into one's mouth and the taste is absolutely delicious. I like to add my own twist by putting in some of the light tofu sauce inside the bun to extend its soupy goodness and enjoy every bite of it.

Service is good. Place is...