I have eaten at Cooking Papa many times. But I thought I’d post about a recent meal. The wonton noodle soup has always been pretty decent by local standard. A recent bowl was good and seemed better compared to the past.
The three components to evaluate a bowl- the broth, the noodle, and the wonton, got a thumbs up in 2.5 out of 3 components. Broth tasted deeply flavored with dried tile fish, pork bones and shrimp eggs.
Noodle had just the right bounce. The wonton was also pretty nice, with small number of points deducted for having slightly mushy pork, though the shrimp was bouncy. Garnish was yellow chives. Came with a couple leafy greens.
Noodle went into the bowl first, then wonton on top, so I flipped them around.
The evaluation criteria is lax-er than if its a bowl in Hong Kong, but I thought its a good local bowl.
Portion was 中蓉- the local standard meal-sized bowl with I think 5 or 6 wontons.
Looks like Cooking Papa may tempt me into restarting my wonton noodle crawl in the Bay Area.
