Trieu Chau Restaurant — Restaurant in San Diego

Great soups! Fair portions and prices. Favorites are duck egg wide noodle soup, served dry w/soup and bone on the side; and the combo egg wide noodle soup, served dry w/soup and bone on the side. The taste of the broth is rich and exceptional. The duck isn't overly fatty or mostly bones as is the case in other duck soup restaurants. This is an example of a mom & pop restaurant that takes pride in their food and wants to serve the best to their customers. The owner is super friendly and makes you feel like a guest at her home. Update: We got the duck egg wide noodle soup, served dry w/soup and bone on the side; and the combo egg thin noodle soup, served dry w/soup and bone on the side. Both were excellent as usual! If you are having trouble deciding which soup to get, you can't go wrong with the combo. It has BBQ pork, duck, chicken, shrimp, ground pork, and fish balls. Update: Prices have increased, but still excellent quality. Update: Got the duck egg wide egg noodle soup and the beef and meatball thin egg noodle soup, both dry w/soup and bone on the side. The duck soup was excellent and the beef soup was very good. Update: Got the large duck egg wide noodle soup, served dry w/soup and bone on the side; and the large combo egg thin noodle soup, served dry w/soup and bone on the side. Both were excellent. Update: Got the large duck egg wide noodle soup, served dry w/soup and bone on the side; and the Sate Beef egg thin noodle soup, served dry w/soup on the side. Both very very tasty. Update: Got the large duck egg wide noodle soup, served dry w/soup and bone on the side; and the large combo clear thin noodle soup, served dry w/soup and bone on the side. Both were excellent. The upgrade to a large soup charge has increased to $2, and the soup dry with bone soup on the side now has a $1 charge. Update: Got the regular duck egg wide noodle soup and the beef drunken noodles. The duck soup was excellent as usual. The drunken noodles were not Thai style, but were very good. Update: Got the Seafood Pad Thai and the Duck Wide Egg Noodle soup. Both were very tasty. However, the calamari in the Pad Thai was a little rubbery, so just getting the shrimp version would be best.Update: Got the large duck egg wide noodle soup; and the large combo clear thin noodle soup, served dry w/soup and bone on the side. Both were excellent. Update: Got the regular duck egg wide noodle soup; the large combo egg thin noodle soup, served dry w/soup and bone on the side; the basil beef entree; and fried bread. Everything was excellent! Update: Got the regular duck egg wide noodle soup. Excellent as usual! Update: Got two regular combo soup with added wontons, one with thin egg noodles and one with wide egg noodles. They were...

Oh my goodness… if you love finding hidden gem/ mom and pop own or privately owned restaurant that are so good, THIS IS ONE OF THOSE! I came here with some friends after a retirement ceremony down town and we tried everything we wanted and it was amazing!!

First we got the Chinese donuts with a side of warm condensed milk, at least I think that’s what it was. The donuts were so delicate but had an amazing crunch and the side dip of condensed milk was just the cherry on top! Just a nice sweet starter. Then we got sat and pepper calamari and salt, salt and pepper shrimp and egg rolls as appetizers (I know it sounds like a lot but I was with a few people) the salt and pepper seasoning on these was absolutely amazing! The peppers were so pronounced but not in an overwhelming way and it complimented the salt on both the calamari and shrimp! It was really such a beautiful stunning and tasty appetizer! We were trying not to take to many at once! The egg rolls were also delicious, nice fresh flavors inside them and just really delicate! My friends ordered the pad Thai which was pretty good. My other fried ordered orange chicken a it was so fresh! It taste like they had just made the sauce five minutes ago from actual oranges! It was so pure! And I got the bone beef stew with rice noodles and oh my goodness it was so wonderful! If you like pho you will enjoy this soup! It is not pho but PLEASE, don’t limit yourself to just pho because there are so many more soups out there! It was so light and fresh and the meat was so tender in it!

The staff was so nice and tentative to us! They were also very welcoming! Ugh I want to go back already!!

Update: came here after so long and oh my gosh it's just as food!! We order2d Lemon Grass Chicken, Salt and Pepper Popcorn Chicken and Chinese Broccoli. The Lemon Grass Chicken was so good lots of veggies and sauce. The Salt and Pepper Popcorn Chicken was lightly fries and had great flavor. The Chinese Broccoli was served in a home made garlic oysters sauce and it was so comforting! I also ordered the chiesw donuts with sweetened condensed milk and a Thai ice tea that was made on the spot and taste so fresh and authentic. I...

Amazing! Worth every dollar. First, I didn't even know here located a kind of historical Chinatown which the map won't tell you. This place is like an old style Cantonese(Chao Zhou flavor) restaurant. Even I am Chinese, I am not familiar with dishes from that area, and auntie patiently explained some dishes. We ordered No.44 BBQ pork ribs and rice, 22 fish congee and 10 beef or seafood Sha-cha noodle(forgot the names). The pork ribs is so crunchy and with special spices and a sense of sweetness. The wide noodle is spicy(Cantonese Sha-cha sauce) blended with some peanut butter. You can let her know what combination you want for the sauce. It can go very spicy by default. The fish rice congee we ordered surprised me. The portion is big and the fish fillet inside is pretty big(not sure how they can keep the price so low). We will definitely come back and also explore this area. Notice: as I mentioned, this area is like old eastern Asian gathering area. The security might not be good. I would suggest you go by groups...