[San Jose] Kali Noodles and Tea Bar, hu tiu nam vang specialist

I’d say they are hit and miss in general. The dishes themselves are good. They are Vietnamese trieu chau (teochew) dishes so perhaps a different take on traditional teochew dishes. The noodle soups include thin sliced pork, thin sliced chicken, minced pork, a regular meatball, a meatball with tendon, and two shrimp. They offer the option of additional won tons. The bowl is garnished with crispy fried pork lardons and sometimes a touch of fried garlic. Noodles are your choice of flat soft rice noodles or thin yellow egg noodles served in a pork broth. There are other dishes like fried radish cake, beef stew, duck noodles, etc. So the dishes themselves are good but I can’t vouch for the recipe and consistency of each place.

I recently had a bowl at New Tung Kee (or was it TK Noodle?) in Gilroy and enjoyed it. It was only $6.25. I like getting half rice noodle and half egg noodle for the textural and taste contrast.