Hankow Cuisine — Restaurant in San Jose

We came here for dinner, a long time since our last visit before COVID. The restaurant is now newly renovated, with a clean bathroom and cleaned up dining area. We tried a few old time favorites: hot dry noodles, beef noodles, a few skewers and the eggs and rice pancake. Only the hot dry noodles is still decent. Beef noodles is super salty and not flavorful, skewers were average. The bamboo in the rice pancake had a smelly taste. The waitress was not friendly at all, gave us mean look when we asked for one additional cup and chopsticks. I felt bizarre that a restaurant provides only one time use plastic cups for water, paper plates, and flimsy plastic forks. Maybe it makes you feel like you are having some authentic street food ? I’m quite disappointed in their beef noodle soup, not only it’s very salty and not tasty, it also made my mouth very dry afterwards. I would much rather to pay $20 or more for a properly prepared plate. I can understand it’s hard to make a business survive charging only $15 per plate, in a high cost area...

Went 2 days ago, I think there is some electric issue with their ceiling lights, the whole time there were sudden popping/sparky noises coming from above our heads. And except for 2 dish, everything else were salty(the first 2times I ordered from here, they didn't taste like this)but we ordered so many skewers that I didn't think it's nice to get them to replace them. In the end my husband did not tip, instead of asking about what went wrong, we had an angry waiter confronting him about the tip. I came from Australia, we tip when we are happy about the food and dinning experience. I didn't expect tips to be compulsory and definitely not rude attitude from the staff when we...

The best skewer to order here is the stinky tofu in my opinion. Some other skewers I recommend are lamb, king oyster mushroom, gizzard, corn, and fish balls. The beef was a bit too dry and chunky for me. It's probably healthier for you since it isn't as fatty but I don't prefer it. The lamb was juicier and more flavorful. I think I'd come back here for the stinky tofu though since it's harder to find at other locations. I also ordered the hot dry noodle which was simple but good, pretty much what I expected. The portion was...