[Temple City] [Chinese] Happy Noodle

Happy Noodle
麵對面
4815 El Monte Ave
Temple City,CA 91780
(626) 279-7558

We went home to have lunch with my parents. Dr. P requested to go to Happy Noodle. This is a small hole-in-the-wall Chinese restaurant with cheap and amazingly good food.


小菜三拼 3 Items Combo Appetizer

3 Items Combo Appetizers comes with sauteed greens, peanuts, and salted duck. But my dad asked to have the seaweed instead of duck. I liked all 3 appetizers very much.

[Temple City] [Chinese] Happy Noodle

Happy Noodle
麵對面
4815 El Monte Ave
Temple City,CA 91780
(626) 279-7558

Dinner with parents at my dad's favorite noodle restaurant.


小菜三拼 3 Items Combo Appetizer

I like the seaweed the most.

[Temple City] [Chinese] Mandarin Noodle Deli

Mandarin Noodle Deli
山西麵館
9537 Las Tunas Dr
Temple City, CA 91780
(626) 309-4318

We had a family lunch at brother's house. For dinner, sister and I decided to go get pork chop rice. While driving, we passed by Mandarin Noodle Deli. All of a sudden we changed our mind and decided to have some noodle instead.



This place specializes in dishes from Shanxi (Mountain West) Province. I don't really know Shanxi food that well. I just know they eat a lot of noodles and buns, kinda like Shandong (Mountain East) Province, where my grandfather was from.

[Temple City] [Chinese] Happy Noodle

Happy Noodle
麵對面
4815 El Monte Ave
Temple City,CA 91780
(626) 279-7558

I'm back at my parent's house in San Gabriel Valley to take care of some business. My parents asked me where I would like to go to have dinner. I told them I wanted something we don't have in Orange County. So we went back to Happy Noodle. Dr. P is going to be jealous. He was just talking about going back to Happy Noodle next time we come up to LA.


小菜三拼 3 Items Combo Appetizer

3 Items Combo Appetizer came with spicy peanuts, mustard green with edamame and tofu, and seaweed. Everything was great. The spicy peanuts were pretty addicting. I couldn't stop eating them.

[Temple City] [Chinese] Happy Noodle

Happy Noodle
麵對面
4815 El Monte Ave
Temple City, CA 91780
(626) 279-7558

My family has been going to Happy Noodle for years. It was really good when they first opened, back in 2007 or 2008. Then it became just ok. Then it was really bad for a while so we stopped going. Recently my parents went back to try the restaurant again, and it was good again. I don't know if it's because they changed owner, or changed chef, or some other reason, but my parents are happy that this close-to-home restaurant is good again. For my dad's birthday, we wanted to take him to a fancy Chinese seafood restaurant to celebrate. But he didn't want to, and insisted that he wanted to come to his current favorite restaurant, Happy Noodle. Well, it was his birthday, so we listened to his decision. And we had one of the best meals we've had lately at Happy Noodle.


辣油海帶絲 Cold Shredded Seaweed ($3.95)

My dad did the ordering. He ordered couple things he likes, and he also ordered a lot of other things that he knows we enjoy. Seaweed is my favorite Chinese cold appetizer ever since I was little. When we go out to eat, my dad often orders this dish for me. The Cold Shredded Seaweed at Happy Noodle was tossed with garlic and hot chili oil. It was very spicy, and I love it.

[Temple City] [Chinese] Happy Noodle

Happy Noodle
麵對面
4815 El Monte Ave
Temple City, CA 91780
(626) 279-7558

Happy Noodle was one of my parents' favorite restaurant.  The fried buns and dumplings were great last time I went there with them.  We went back to Happy Noodle last Thursday.  The food was so disappointing that my parents had vowed to never go back again.


酸菜羊肉砂鍋 Sour Vegetable Lamb Casserole ($8.95)

The meal started out with Sour Vegetable Lamb Casserole.  Tender slices of lamb (but with lots of fat), tofu, glass noodle, and sour cabbage in the soup.  We all enjoyed the soup.  This was the only one dish that we were fully satisfied with.

[Temple City] [Chinese] Happy Noodle

Happy Noodle
麵對面
4815 El Monte Ave
Temple City, CA 91780
(626) 279-7558

爸媽的朋友推薦這家山東口味的小店，這天中午帶著阿姨和表弟表妹一起來用餐，他們的三鮮水煎包很好吃，餛飩也還不錯，爸媽和阿姨覺得非常好吃，但是我自己是覺得整體來說就只是還算不錯而已啦！可能這家口味比較「大人」吧？

My parents' friend recommended this new Sheng Dong restaurant.  So we took my aunt and cousins here for lunch before they headed back to San Jose.


五香燻魚 Special Smoked Fish ($4.95)

Dad ordered two appetizers.  One was smoked fish.  I never liked smoked fish.  But dad and cousins liked it.

[Temple City] [Fast Food] In-N-Out Burger

In-N-Out Burger
10601 E. Lower Azusa Rd
Temple City, CA 91780
(800) 786-1000
http://www.in-n-out.com

只要問住在加州的人，最好吃的速食店是哪一家，大概百分之八十的人都會回答IN-N-OUT Burger，但這好吃的漢堡店並不是到處都有的，只有在加州、內華達州跟亞利桑那州有店，所以很多外地來觀光的人都一定要嚐嚐這家速食店的漢堡呢！不管白天晚上經過，Drive-Thru的車子永遠排的長長的說...


起司漢堡套餐 Cheese Burger Combo



這家店的菜單不像一般速食店一大堆有的沒的東西，漢堡只有三個選擇：漢堡、起司漢堡、雙層起司漢堡，另外還有薯條，飲料跟奶昔，就這麼簡單而已，而且價錢便宜實在，而漢堡的配料有生菜、蕃茄、洋蔥，可以自己選擇要不要加，漢堡內的醬料是千島醬的口味，但是這可是店家的秘方呢！另外這家店還有很多密語，例如跟店員說Animal style，上的漢堡就會有額外多加的醬料跟炒過的洋蔥，Protein style就是以生菜代替漢堡包，還有很多我也不知道的密語呢！