Spicy Noodle — Restaurant in Murrieta

If you like your service subpar and condescending, this is the place for you! This establishment would like to be "high-end", but can't get out of its own way. To try a new place for my daughter's sixteenth birthday dinner, we went here. We were a party of five, and they could not provide five menus at the same time. They kept bring two at a time over the course of ten minutes. Of course there were apologies, and since we are post pandemic, my family and I were understanding. Honestly, we only need a couple menus anyway. Now I am a Pho fanatic. At my favorite soup always includes beef, tendon, tripe, meatball, and brisket. So, the description for the Laotian Pho seemed right up my ally, (beef, tendon, tripe, brisket, beef balls, in a Laotian style beef broth ). Now, if you are a connoisseur of Pho, you know that the quality of the broth can vary depending on the establishment, and I was not 100% sure of the Laotian style broth. So, I attempted to order a small bowl. But, the waitress was quick to tell me that (and I quote) "since I wasn't familiar with Pho I should order something else". I realized that I must be pronouncing Laotian wrong, and so I quickly pointed at the menu and told her this is the Pho I wanted. But, hey... the menu has several items marked "NON-REFUNDABLE, PLEASE CHOOSE CORRECTLY", in the menu. So, they assume that their clientele is illiterate. When my daughter's order of spring rolls arrived, so did plates with spoons, and forks. My daughter joked that it was her sixteenth, and she had been using chopsticks property since four. I dared her to ask for chopsticks by saying, "How does my hair look? Cause I have used these dingle-hoppers, can we now get something to eat our meal with". But, our joy was diminished when we realized that the peanut sauce for the spring rolls, was basically watered down peanut butter. When our soups came we were too leery to request chopsticks in a jovial way. And then the waitress had a hard time counting out five pairs of chopsticks. But, the pho and orange chicken tasted delicious! I was not the biggest fan of the Laotian style beef broth. But, I was more disappointed that the soup was basically brisket. Only one meatball, cut into slices. No tendon, and very little tripe. But again, the taste was delicious...even with the Laotian broth. We sat for a very long time waiting for the check, and an equally long time to get a to-go container for my daughter's pho. Yes, I know that service everywhere is suffering from being short staffed. But... Based on the price, service, and that peanut sauce is important to me. I probably will stick to my usual hunts...

Terrific, incredibly flavorful noodles! I don't normally like to get anything other than sushi when we eat out, but we were checking out the Warhammer store before Christmas and stopped off to kill time and have a snack. Dinner was going to be later, with friends. (Sushi, of course) Big mistake. I was not expecting so much flavor from a simple plate of noodles! We only ordered two dishes between the four of us and we knew we weren't going to be in fighting shape for AYCE Sushi. But we were definitely coming back here.

That was this visit. This time we ALL got stuff. The N5 Udon and especially the N10 Yakisoba were so incredibly GOOD. And filling! I can't believe how filling the noodles are! And mouthwateringly delicious. The orange chicken is also nice, big, fat chunks of white meat chicken breast, breaded, fried and served in orange sauce. It was definitely not the greasy little sweet chunks you get from Panda Express. My daughters loved it. There was also Tom Yum, but my heart belongs to Hemet's Siam Garden Tom Yum Kai, which is probably the best soup I've ever had in my entire life. The spring rolls were good to, but nothing compares to the noodles. Just so great. Friendly service too, I never ran out of water. A+ experience. At the very least, get the N10 with your favorite kind of noodle for take out, you...

Summary: New to the area so when I found out there's an asian cuisine near my city I was determine to give this place a try. The place was crowded, the service was slow but the food was definitely worth the wait.

Food: Laotian Sausages, Papaya Salad (thai style), Boat Noodle, and Calamari The sausages I can live without. As for the rest, I wish my eyes were bigger than my belly just so I can shove more in but unfortunately I have to control my portions. Just be careful when they ask you for the level of spice, I can barely do 6 without having a runny nose.

Overall: I definitely would like to come back again and try their noodle boat which everyone is raving about.

Oh, I also ordered red bean smoothie which I wish I hadn't. It did not taste like red bean and was very powdery, like it was mix with vanilla bean/powder. If that is how you are going to make your red bean smoothie please remove it from the menu. When you get a chance, try a few boba or smoothie place in OC or SD, for the...