TK Noodle #12 — Restaurant in Sacramento

What happened to this place? We used to come here frequently many years ago when we shopped for Chinese food next door. At that time, the food was higher quality, fresher and service was better. Came in today for lunch and ordered the combination chow mein dish @ $8.50. The restaurant was about half full at the time so it wasn't like the waiters were struggling to keep up with the orders. My dish was a little slow to arrive but it did arrive hot and I am giving it a star here for the large portion size. I didn't order the crispy version of this dish but the noodles around the edges were crispy anyways. I poked around to dig out the noodles hiding under the meat and veges. I was expecting to encounter a stir-fried texture but was disappointed to find them waterlogged and soggy instead. The meat was ok, a little bland but nothing that couldn't be helped along by the various condiments arranged against the wall like sriracha, vinegar, Chinese chili sauce, etc. Biggest disappointment was the shrimp. The thing about shrimp is that it has to be really, really fresh to taste good and that just wasn't the case here. In addition, the proper way to prepare fresh shrimp includes thoroughly removing the black line that runs along one side of every shrimp. That line is the shrimp's digestive tract so what you are removing is actually shrimp poop. You can see where I am going here. The few shrimp that were on the plate all tasted yucky and when I found out why, I stopped eating them entirely. The broccoli and other veges were good - crispy and fresh so another star for that but all in all, I will probably pass on TK Noodle...

I love coming here so much, ever since 2005, age 18, I've been coming here with my sisters, friends, family and now my children (4) The owner is so caring towards children, additional requests are easily handled. I highly recommend #1, their chow fun is super savory, their honey dew drink over ice is very delicious and can be ordered as a shake.

Phi is one of the long time workers since day one, he's very sweet, efficient and always carried an amicable and professional demeanor. He might be the one who takes your order or rings you up after you're ready to close the tab. I know that this place is not a high end restaurant, that their style might even become offensive but they are more tuned into stocking up their ingredients and napkins while you're eating but trust me, they are constantly seating people which is high priority and making sure to give us the fastest service so a small interruption is nothing to us. This place is as authentic as it can get and feels so home like. The noodles are to be fixed to your taste, if it's your first time here, go for the chow fun or plates, honestly the broth and noodles are already a good taste. I like a bold flavor so I add lots of spices and hoisin. This place is cash only (ATM inside) and the portion is perfect and a bit more. 👌This place is one of its kind, not many places like this. Highly recommend, their menu items are exactly as pictured....

I got the #1 which is the rice stick combination noodle. The most popular item on the menu or even the #3 which they just add 5 wontons in it but I like the #1 which is what I used to get when I was a child. If you live in Sac TK Noodle is at least one of the top 5 noodle restaurants out here just because of there fat noodles. But the #1 is good though from the noodles to the broth and the meats they put in there, I mostly like the chicken they have in there but they also put in meatballs and pork as well but you also can ask them to not put in any of that if you want. The veggies is beansprouts, and cilantro mostly and they also add like 2 pieces of shrimp but if you trying to get extra shrimp do charge extra but other than that it's a well known old childhood spot for many local ppl that lives in Sac and to people that don't live in Sac likes to come out of to eat TK noodle and the broth is always good the way it is already. I usually don't add any condiments to my broth cus thats how good it should be already. Only cons I have is that I think their portion size became slightly a little smaller then how it was before and they need to separate the noodles more, I hate when the noodles are stuck to eachother because it makes it seems like you're eating the size of a string cheese flat looking noodle other...