Malan Noodles (Hacienda Heights)

So I was super hungry after 2 meetings, a smallish breakfast, no lunch and fighting 2 hours of traffic to get back. Once in the door I asked the hubby if he was hungry and what we were having for dinner because I was starvin' marvin. He said he could eat so I told him to get into the car because we were going to hit Malan Noodles for some hand-made noodles.

We hopped in the car and he drove while I read reviews of the place on Yelp. Sounded like the Malan Beef Soup Noodles were the thing to get so I ordered a small since the reviews were mixed. You can order different types of noodles and they're all hand-made (you can see into the kitchen as the guy pulls and pulls the dough into the shape you want). You can choose from small, medium and large round; small, medium and large flat; and triangle. I chose the triangle and the hubby chose medium flat. I preferred mine because the texture was chewier. :D

We also ordered the Simmered Chicken Gizzards and Spicy Tripe (both served cold). The gizzards were ok...nothing special. We'd had better at Jade Restaurant in Rosemead. The spicy tripe was really spicy. It was mixed with that chili oil and the seeds gave it that tongue numbing spice. Good but a little too spicy.

The noodle soup was a nice consomme type broth with slices of beef on top of the bed of noodles with a good amount of cilantro and green onions. The soup was nice and hot on a day that was ending on the cooler side. The noodles...oh the noodles...they were so yummy! I had the triangle noodles and they were chewy and looooooooong! Not too mushy, not too al dente...just right. They did make for a bit of a mess since I kept pulling and trying to fit bite after bite into my mouth while still piping hot...I think I mentioned I was hungry, right?

All in all, a good noodle spot that we'll hit up again. It's in a bit of a weird spot...next to a dialysis center with windows that opened up into the dialysis center so you could see the paramedics transporting patients in while you ate. It wasn't busy when we went since it was late afternoon/early evening by the time we got there. The waitress was nice and seemed to be the only server there. A little pricey for a bowl of noodles but not bad for the novelty of having fresh, made-to-order, noodles pulled your way!