Top Chinese Noodle Restaurant in Union City
Lizhou City Restaurant
1771 Decoto Rd, Union City, CA 94587, United States
I am extremely disappointed with this place and dont plan to come back here. I came to this place multiple times in the past and each time the food quality was getting worse. I decided that we will gove this place another chance and brought my family here for dinner. Extremely disappointed. and upset. To be on the cautionary side, we only bordered orange chicken and rice as well as a chicken noodle dish. Ive had orange chicken when it was freshly made here and as well as when they didnt make it fresh. This time was the worst. The sauce tasted like it was a day old or longer, and the chicken also tasted like they had just microwaved it. The noodles were the worst. The chicken tasted like it had spoiled and the noodles and other contents were kind of stale and tasted like they had also spoiled. Basically they just warmed up previously made food, that appeared to be old. I told the waitress about it. She went into the kitchen and came back out. All she said was that its the same recipe and thats it. She didnt even bother to get us fresh dish. we were really upset and just left majority of the noodles and some of the orange chicken there and went to leave. She was kind enough to remove the noodles from the bill. I didnt want to tip anything because we were very upset. She became upset because I didnt tip for the terrible service. I ended up giving her some cash for a tip but honestly didnt want to. I feel bad saying this but I dont recommend this place to anyone. We came here multiple times and each time their food was worse.
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Mala Town
1737 Decoto Rd, Union City, CA 94587, United States
Really disappointed. We came in around 8:30. After we placed the orders, we went to get some sesame paste but it was out. We asked them to replace it. They said we can sit at our table and they will bring it to us. However, five minutes after our food is ready, they came and told us they are out. To be honest, it's impossible that a malatang place is out of sesame paste. They were too lazy to make it or they were trying to cut the expenses by a dollar because they don't care our $50 business. Their soup tastes nothing but spicy, so that sesame paste is really important. We had to take them home to eat it with our own sesame paste. Make sure they are not out of it before you place any order!YGF tastes better anyways and never out of sesame. I'll rather drive 15 minutes more to there.
Tangs Haus
34555 Alvarado-Niles Rd, Union City, CA 94587, United States
This was our first time coming here, and we are so glad we did. The restaurant is pretty small has maybe 7-8 tables but the moment we walked in it smelled so so good. The menu is small as well but everything we got was so delicious. The Kimchi is one of my boyfriends favorites, and I absolutely loved the Galbi-Jjim so much that I wanted to get another order. They can even adjust the spiciness for the Galbi-Jjim and they torched the cheese when it got to the table.The restaurant staff was so sweet and attentive. They even helped pack our leftovers into to-go containers. You can tell they really love doing what they do.Note they do close between 2:30pm - 4:30pm each day for a break which they completely deserve !Please try this place, even if youre not a huge fan of spicy or Korean food, as they have plenty of options. We will definitely be back soon and will bring friends !
Uncle Yu Restaurant
30059 Industrial Pkwy SW, Union City, CA 94587, United States
A place you should try for sure!First of all. Im not a big fan of Chinese food. But today I had just an amazing experience.Also you need to understand that it is not a franchise/fast food place. It is a family owned restaurant.Pros:- The amount of food is way more than I expected!( Huge portions of meat and side)- It is just my opinion but it seems like I find a perfect balance of spices!- Price is pretty good. Almost every combination dish between $12-22.- They serve lamb!- Wait time was about 15 min.- We ordered some crab pockets.... Tastes as a dessert, unusual but good!- Nice and polite people working there.-118 positions on menu without appetizers.Cons:- Seems like right now they are serving only to-go. No opinion for dine-in.When I try some new places I always take something familiar. Same was today. We tried Mongolian Beef (In my opinion one of the best dishes in the whole Chinese kitchen) and Kung-pao Chicken. It tastes so good! We will definitely visit you guys again. Really appreciate!
Daiso Japan
1785 Decoto Rd, Union City, CA 94587, United States
Next to Din Ding dumpling house, Daiso in Union City is One of larger stores in the Daiso chain.The store is well stocked with an assortment of household goods with Japanese branding.Most items are manufactured in China....to no ones surprise. Probably 90% of the items are $1.75. Some are more expensive.They have a good selection of cheap but functional kitchenware and other things you might need around the house. The items they sell arent meant to be durable but at $1.75 one would not expect them to be.Following Japanese product design philosophy, items are cute and functional. In comparison I wouldnt call similar items at IKEA cute.The store itself is a little on the dim and drab side due to insufficient lighting. They took over an old drug store and kept the lighting.
Tadamasa Ramen
34672 Alvarado-Niles Rd, Union City, CA 94587, United States
For my sons 20th birthday, he always gets to pick some place to go eat. Typically, he chooses a ramen restaurant. I like to take him to places that hes never been and on this occasion we decided to go for a local ramen shop. Classics being a bit farther out on a weekday after traffic hours, I thought this would be a good option because if you really liked it could be a go-to place that would be easy to access. The shop is located in Union City in the corner of a small strip mall shopping area. When we arrived we walked up to the door which was barricaded below the waist and on looking inside. That was some one sitting by the register in the back reading a paper. The lights were off and no neon signs were on so I called out to the fellow to see if they were open. At first he looked up and a. Surprised but he came over and removed the barriers and let us in and seated us. This space is very small. Id find it hard to believe that they can see more than 20 or so patrons at a time at the most and it is not a refined environment. In terms of visual presentation. Thats fine by me, but isnt something I typically see for ramen shops. I think the presentation of a ramen shop is part of what creates the experience for the ramen experience in general.For myself I ordered the spiciest item I could find on the menu, as I typically do in any ramen shop. In this case it was a pork broth with the typical trimmings of egg, pork slices, ramen broth, etc. I also asked them to kick the spice up to their highest level because I like my lips to tingle and am a fire eater. If you are a fire eater as well, I dont think this level of heat that theyre able to provide will be satisfying enough for you. My taste buds said to me that the broth was on the salty side. And as a result, I was unable to finish drinking all the soup. This is uncommon for me as I tend to not leave anything behind when I eat out. This only really happens when there is either too much volume or there is something that doesnt work for me in the flavor. In this case it was the latter. Now, I dont want this to infer that this place isnt good, but my particular experience wasnt one that is going to bring me quickly back. I dont think Id avoid coming here but I would return with a cautious intent to try another menu item. My wife agreed with me on the salty nature of the soup, but my kids who ordered the same item as I did seemed to be satisfied with the flavor, but indicated that ordering extra noodles made it too much volume. Noting that a small line of patrons had formed outside waiting to get a table, this tends to be a good sign that a place is well liked or loved, but as mentioned previously in this review, this could also be the result of there not being many ramen options in the area, and/or a result of there just not being many tables available to seat more patrons all at once. Now, but I recommend the spot if youre craving ramen? I do think it will work out even though my experience was not as good as I hoped it would be, but I think this may be a result of my ramen palate and I wouldnt use it to pass any negative judgment on this establishment. At the same time I do think there are better ramen experiences out there and I will continue to experiment with other local ramen experiences to see if I cant find a go-to that works better for me.
Ramen Shu
34308 Alvarado-Niles Rd, Union City, CA 94587, United States
We visited Ramen Shu last night for the second time excited for some more delicious soup and we were greeted by a really snotty waitress named Kesia. It was windy and cold so we asked if we could sit in the back area away from the door. She said it was full back there and sat us by the door. Oh well we thought because at least we were about to have some delicious warm ramen! We waited and waited as she stood around talking wondering if that was just a hostess or our waitress. Then she finally comes over and gets our order. I go to the restroom and pass the back room going there and THERE IS NO ONE IN THAT ROOM!! Then when I get back to our table... she seats the next couple in the back room. Are you serious?! So a man brings us our food and its delicious. We ordered the veggie miso ramen HIGHLY RECOMMEND! And Kesia never checks back up on us or even acknowledges us the entire time were eating. Empty water glasses sitting on the edge of our table. We get up and ask someone if we can get more water and a man brings us a refill. We wait and wait trying to flag her down for our check and it almost seems like she is completely ignoring us on purpose! Frustrated... we get up and walk over to the register catching her and ask for our check. She then turns to the guy next to her and says can you get this table their check. Seriously? It wasnt even busy! Who hired this girl? Food was good but the service was so bad, especially compared to our first experience, that weve decided not to return due to how poor Kesia was.
Happy Lamb Hot Pot Union City
34396 Alvarado-Niles Rd, Union City, CA 94587, United States
AYCE = encourages food waste.This was my first all-you-can-eat hotpot experience. You select the items that you want and they bring it to your table for you to cook in a pot of soup in front of you. Without any visual cues or explanation of how big a portion was, we obviously over-ordered. Who knew one serving of beef contained 40+ generous slices of thinly sliced meat? Needless to say we couldnt finish the food. At the end of the meal we had leftovers that the restaurant did not allow us to take home. Who knew? I am very hopeful that they dont re-serve the leftovers for the next customers which means they will most likely throw away our leftovers. What a waste. I really think all you can eat in this restaurant encourages food waste. What a shame. A more sensible approach is to let customers pay for the remaining food for a little bit extra money.Apparently if you dont order all-you-can-eat, you can take home the remainder of the food. So I recommend if you must order all-you-can-eat, bring your own to-go containers to take home your leftovers. What are they going to do, stop you?Service was just average. It was not excellent but was not inadequate either. Food tasted very good but be forewarned that you will quickly exceed your daily sodium allowance in this place. Not sure I will ever get all-you-can-eat again though for reasons mentioned above.
Din Ding Dumpling House Union City
1779 Decoto Rd, Union City, CA 94587, United States
Okayyyy lezz talk about DDDH. Bc omg, this was a totally new discovery to me. My east bay buds have been raving about it for a while (that it's the BETTER version of DTF), but I didn't get a chance to try it out until this past wkend for Mother's Day.First of all, Mother's Day is an aggressively busy day for any Chinese restaurant in general. But I've heard that DDDH is busy on any other day too. Insider secret (that apparently no one else knew except our group) is that you can make ressies. I didn't make it, so I'm not 100% sure what the criteria is for making one...but thank god we did! The line was literally out the door, around the corner, and then some. Honestly, I was feeling real bad for all those ppl that would be hitting the second wave. And there were plenty of them!Let's start with service. There wasn't any. No lie, we were basically servicing ourselves. Like my cousin had to go to the front and grab five extra table settings and was nearly barked at by the staff bc they said they didn't have any extra settings. We weren't asking for EXTRA settings. We were asking for one per person...odd. Also, we couldn't get a single wait staff for the life of us, but man, let me tell you how FIVE of them came swarming as soon as our bill was set to get us the f out. Hahaha I hadn't seen a single wait staff prior to that.Per usual with my fam, we ordered WAYYYY too much. Even with our group of ten. As the 15th item came out from the kitchen, it was starting to feel like we literally ordered the entire menu...which we likely may have ordered 1-2 items per category. ALSO, bc my fam has no chill, we started with our dessert first (brought our own Mother's Day cheesecake) bc we thought the food would take a while to come out. It didn't. Haha soooo we were SUPER full by the time only half of the food arrived!BUT let's talk about the food foreal. Seriously, DTF ain't got nothing on DDDH. Portions are MASSIVE. Plenty of veggie and pescatarian options for my fellow seafood lovers out there. The fish was my fav. And the green veggie one was meh. Could've skipped it. The spicy fish cabbage noodle soup was packed with tons of diff flavors and packed a delicious punch. Noodles were al dente. Mm mmm. And lastly, while the piggy buns were cute for the insta, they were a bit pricy for basic buns. Prob wouldn't opt for that dish again.Would I come again? Yeah, probably. BUT set your service expectations WAY WAYYY low. Like almost non existent. 4 starsHappy dumplin'
House of Dumplings
109 Appian Way, Union City, CA 94587, United States
I literally searched for this place on Google again just to write up a review. Best jiaozi dumplings Ive had in the Bay Area so far, and the people who run the restaurant (seems to be a mom and pop type establishment) are super friendly. They speak both Chinese and English, and they will enthusiastically recommend items on their menu if you tell them what you like.The jiaozi dough is excellent and filling is tasty and generous. A pet peeve of mine is jiaozi filling that has sugar added resulting in a sweet taste, so I was relieved and happy to find that the pork and napa cabbage dumplings I tried were savory, without any sweetness.For dessert, have very delicious taro baozi (buns) - if you like fresh taro paste, you wont be able to just eat one, I promise you ;)If dumplings are not for you, they also have noodle soups and other dishes.Finally, you can buy bags of frozen dumplings for a very reasonable price too. Bring cash for that.Only downside is that its a small shop, so not good for big groups.Will definitely be back to try their other dumplings and items!