Mee Heng Low | Noodle House — Restaurant in San Luis Obispo

First off this is a very small place with very limited menus the first time we went in the gal told us sorry we don't have no menus and we would have to wait about an hour. So we said okay we'll come back a half hour later only to be told that we cannot be served because there is no more food supposedly. I would not recommend this place for anybody if you have claustrophobic and it's too bad because we were really looking forward to eating there. To be honest we really felt discriminated because we're Mexican. Just her whole attitude and demeanor towards us was very negative. Never again will I try to eat here again. It would have been nice to at least try the place. I can't even put a food store because we didn't even get a chance to try it. Lol you say you had a second level then why didn't you have the large party to go up there?? Why weren't we told about this Second floor instead of have us sit in between the large party and a gal who was sitting there by herself on some stools against the wall?? That alone should of been handled considering it's a small area downstairs since we never seen the second floor and was never introduced to us. Second we were told to come back. About the race thing then why did we feel that way as soon as we walked in??? Oh yeah and if there was a second floor there should of been menus since the large party was already dining. Right???? About 10 menus available since they were already eating and laughing and having a great time!!!! So why weren't we given menus again????? Right.... And how the heck does a restaurant run out of food at 12 noon??? What no dinner then the rest of the...

The food wasn’t very good, got chow mein with chicken and plum sauce (I think it was plum) anyhow, the sauce was the only flavorful part of the meal. I got a to go order and the noodles were placed on top on the sauce and toppings, instead of the sauce and topping being on the noodles which I though was strange, and which caused it to leak in the bag since the Chinese takeout containers are made of paper and not made to hold a spoon full of sauces and toppings sitting all at the bottom of it. The noodles were crunchy at one half and soft on the other, neither side had flavor, chicken only tasted like the sauce. The lady at the front didn’t seem too happy to be working there, and not very welcoming. The restaurant had a cool things to look at as I waited for my food, I had a wait behind 3 other people but wasn’t that bad of a wait. For $20 for a Chinese take out container of unmixed chowmein, this place isn’t that good.

Edit for my reply from owner: it’s hard to put sauce on noodles that has already leaked out of the cardboard box and paper bag it was placed in. And the sauce adding flavor doesn’t add to the fact that the noodles were poorly cooked and the chicken had no flavor besides the sauce. And the fact I didn’t see a single Chinese person manning any part of the place, it is not authentic and not very good. And the whole point of a to go box is to eat food, to go, not to have set it up in another dish and eat it, especially if you know, I’m not at home or I went to a restaurant where I wouldn’t have a dish available. It should be the same experience as it is in...

Something has gone horribly wrong. The place is located in a historic Chinatown district, and they've been open since the 1800s apparently. I suspect that it's only still around due to tradition. All the employees seem to be Caucasian.

I ordered the noodle soup and it tasted exactly like the fake Asian soup I try to make. Way too much cilantro. Way too much white pepper. The soup stock tasted ultra-processed. And most of all, the noodles tasted like regular pasta. I just found it really amusing and disappointing that the soup tasted exactly like the kind I make as a regular guy who knows nothing about Asian cooking trying to emulate it. It tasted okay at least.

The lo mein, though. I got the chili peanut sauce, and something just tasted horrible at the very beginning. Almost toxic. I couldn't finish it. My dad said it tasted like it was from a can. But it was really offensive to me. I feel like I wasted $28. I don't think it deserves to be considered an Asian restaurant anymore. I really wish I could get my money back.

The second star is for the almond cookies. They were really good. They were more like ginger cookies though with a lot of baking soda. One guy told us they were $0.75. And another guy told us they were a dollar. When the dollar person was told we got an offer of $0.75, they just said "okay." Kind of weird. Tread lightly. Consider...