Noodle City

It started out as a lunch idea, then an early dinner idea, and it started with the suggestion of Mexican food. But somehow we ended up at Noodle City for Vietnamese food.

We started off with spring rolls. Two for about $3.50, and a big pot of spicy peanut dipping sauce. The sauce is so full of minced nuts and carrot, you practically need a spoon to scoop the stuff onto the spring roll. Or do like me and dive into the peanut sauce, pulling out the carrot and eating it with hands. As long as you keep talking and gesturing wildly, your dining companion won’t even notice.

I ordered #35, charbroiled pork, egg rolls, and vermicelli noodles without broth.  A bowl of fish sauce comes on the side. I first take out a few pieces of the eggrolls and dip them in the sauce, then dump the whole sauce bowl into my noodles and chow down. I never feel overly full from this dish, as I do with noodles in broth.

Ted got the S6 pho: a vegetarian noodle dish using textured soy to mimic beef. We were generally impressed with this faux beef although…we suspect there may have been a fair amount of MSG in the soup.

We both got Vietnamese iced coffee, and I was a little disappointed that it came already prepared in a plastic to-go cup. I much prefer having the coffee drip at the table into the sweetened condensed milk, then pouring it over my glass of ice.

Noodle City
5869 Hollister Ave
Goleta, CA 93117