Grandpa’s Kitchen Grill - Bar 168 — Restaurant in Garden Grove

Grand Pa's Kitchen is a Chinese-Cambodian noodle shop, also a grill and bar, very interesting.

I had tried their noodles before, below average in both quality and quantity. End of 2024, between Dec 13 to 31 they have special customers' appreciation sales, menu shows 10 special dishes for $9.99, but at check out receipt shows $15.99 less $5 discount, so $10.99 each.

This place is in a fairly busy strip mall on Brookhurst but parking for lunch on this day was easy. It's nice, clean, bright, smelling fine. Tables and chairs are modern, nice, clean.

We were quickly seated. The host was a silent, grumpy-looking guy in his 40's. He quickly threw 2 menus on our table without saying a word. They definitely need more welcoming wait staff.

They have a huge menu of noodles, rice, steaks, seafood with beers and wines. The 10 special-discount dishes are in the regular menu, noodles, and rice dishes. Since it's a Chinese Cambodian place, I had to try their Mi Kho Nam Vang, also a seafood noodle soup.

Noodle and soup are large portions, served in large aluminum bowls. The soup is pork bone, nice, clear, lean, very tasty without evidence of excess sugar, MSG or spices, probably the tastiest soup I've had in SoCal. Noodle is chewy, crunchy with lots of proteins, 2 large shrimps, BBQ pork, liver, heart ect. typical of Cambodian noodle, very tasty but the creamy soy sauce was saltier than I liked.

Unlike other noodle shops in Little Saigon, they did not load the noodle with fried pork fat, which tastes good but is very unhealthy. I would avoid any shop adding fried pork fat to noodle.

A girl at the next table ordered the fried chicken noodle bowl special with a huge crispy fried chicken leg.

Overall their noodles are delicious and healthy in large portions, fairly good deals $10.99, not so good at $15.99 regular price.

The young cashier was smiling pleasantly. I paid with my Amex card, adding a generous tip for their good food. Will be back to try their other dishes, hopefully without the silent host.

I am fairly thick-skinned with rude workers in Viet restaurants, shops and markets, but I was annoyed by the host's cold and silent approach and his rude gesture of throwing menus on our table, like we were not welcomed. Other clients may be offended.

They need a host who will greet clients in friendly, welcoming ways. This problem may have been the main cause of this place's unpopularity in past years.

Many shops in Little Saigon hang big banners, $7.99 for pho, bun, noodle and...

This is the first time I come and I think it's the last time (I live in Folsom City Sacramento, 7 hour's drive to OC). I don't have any problem with the food but the service isn't nice, I had an accident so the glass of water fell. The water came out and wet my clothes and the floor was dirty, and I almost fell when I got up to help clean up. I know it's my fault so I feel bad about that, I thought I would pay more tip for that (because all the waiters helped me clean up). I saw the shop was very busy at that time so I just tried to clean the table by myself and didn't ask for another water or chopsticks or spoon after that (because I didn't want to bother them more). But do you know what, one waiter came and asked me, why the glass of water fell and He didn't hear anything "thanks or sorry" from me (nobody asked about my clothes or needed anything). Even though the store was very busy, he still tried to come to my table with a very unpleasant and grumpy attitude when talking to me. I'm so sorry for my clumsiness, but the waiter's attitude hurt me so much that I cried. The food is okay, not excellent but not too bad either. However, the memory of the staff's attitude here is the first time in my whole life that I've encountered it, I don't think I'll come here on my next trips. I just want to say that it was an accident, no one wants to spill water on themselves I also know that I am clumsy and I also feel sorry for bothering others, but your attitude also hurts me (I felt like I couldn't swallow the food afterwards so I only ate about half of it). Thank you and sorry again. Ps: my bill was around 22 dollars and I was paying 50, I know my money is not too much but I hope I was paid enough...

While we're visiting LA/OC, we wanted to try as many different restaurants in the area as we could. My brother took us to this inexpensive ($9.99) theme restaurant. We're extremely skeptical with low price restaurant and this one is a hit and miss. The restaurant is in a big shopping center so there are many parking spaces. The restaurant is big and quite clean. The young female server was quite humorous and pleasant. Since we're hungry, my brother recommended the waterfall crispy chicken with rice for $9.99. This one is perfectly for someone who's single and wants a good portion dinner or lunch. The quarter leg of chicken is huge and extremely crispy, the tomato (red) rice has a little weird taste to it, I couldn't figure out and I didn't really like it. My wife ordered the $9.99 dry rice noodles bowl that was eatable, nothing specials, all the dishes came with a bowl of soup which is nice. Since the prices are so inexpensive, we ordered some fried calamari and flour cake fried for appetizers. The fried calamari is hard and chewy, no recommendation here. The fried flour cakes is actually good, crispy and tasty with the sauce provided. Overall, it's quite a nice and affordable restaurant. The food is not bad, nothing to rave about, for $10 you can have a nice full meal because the portions are big. I would come here for $10 dinner any time if I live...