The Nood Bar — Restaurant in San Diego

Pick up Order:

Staff was friendly upon pick-up. Staff also read the special instructions note and granted my request asking for pepper that I could add to my Hong Kong Noodles.

Best Asian fusion place I've been to. Loved the notable Southeast Asian notes with popular East Asian Dishes. Will have to try more of the menu to find more Asian influences!

Food: As a Lao gal, I loved everything!!

Hong Kong Style Noodles: Broth was so I good I had to take a second sip to make sure I tasted it right. The Cha Shu Pork was absolutely amazing! I usually don't like that style of pork because of the texture I usually find in ramen, but this Cha Shu Pork was SO SO SO flavorful and cooked to perfection that it just melted in my mouth. It must've been basted over flame because the flavor was present throughout the pieces (4) and it has a yummy sweet, charred umami flavor.

Szechuan Spicy Chicken Wontons: ACTUALLY spicy and were yummy and filling. New kind of wrap for me (thin and silky) but still delicious.

Satay Chicken: I smelled the satay chicken the moment I got back in my car. I had to fight myself from digging into the bottom of the bag and taking a bite right then and there. They wrapped it in foil so it was still warm and flavorful when I got home.

Beer: Learning to like beer, but the TOM YUM BEER American Wheat Beer was so refreshing and helped cut through the spices so I could continue to enjoy my meal (it actually says it on the back! I didn't see until after my meal lol). Cool to see the other Thai beers, will be trying them next time!

Overall 11/10! Will be going back and trying the rest...

We ordered the shrimp wontons as an appetizer. My wife does not and cannot eat chicken. There were chicken wontons on the menu, so I double-checked with my server that we ordered the shrimp wontons, and they said "yes". When we received our wontons my wife and I each ate two, until we realized that these are not the shrimp wontons. I called our server back and asked again, and they assured us that the wontons on our plate are the shrimp wontons, and that the shrimp is minced shrimp and looks like meat. About 10 minutes later when the server came by to clear our table, I asked if they could check with the kitchen to ask whether these are indeed the shrimp wontons. So the server heads back to the kitchen, chats with the chefs, and comes back and reports that there was a mixup in the kitchen and we received the chicken wontons. The server did not apologize, said nothing else, and STILL charged us for the wontons, even though that is NOT what we ordered. My wife cannot eat chicken, and her stomach is in knots after having eaten chicken wontons that she was ASSURED were shrimp.

In summary, we had to ask multiple times whether we received the shrimp wontons, and we were told that we did; but that was not the case. I cannot recommend going to The Nood Bar if the servers do not bother to check if they served their guests the wrong dish, found out it was the wrong dish and violated their dietary restrictions, and then still...

I woke up with the munchies and figured I’d like to try some garlic noodles. I decided to go and find this place at around 8’ish and was happy to see they close late. When we walked in a lady greeted us and I let her know it was our first time. She said take our time and let her know when we’re ready. A few minutes later she asked me what I was looking for and I replied: Something with garlic noodles. She said I should try the Butter Noodles, so I did...delicious 😋 While I was waiting outside in my car, since this IS virus 🦠 time, I looked up some of their food pictures. I seen the crab wontons, which by the way the description that I found was wrong because there was no crab 🦀 in them, but they were still nice and plump with cheese. I did however order Hold Me Tight which were the shrimp wrapped in crispy noodles🤤Just because of those I’ll definitely be back tomorrow. When I first seen the noodles I was thinking 🤔: Well this is gonna hurt! Because I was anticipating the noodles to stab my gums, but much to my surprise the noodles were very crispy almost airy. Next I wanna try the curry 🍛 Go on, give it a try...you won’t...