Tan Ky Mi Gia

I love this small hole in the wall spot. It’s a little restaurant but packs a lot of flavorin their food. I ordered the duck meat egg noodle soup and it is delicious and full of flavor. I was offered Chinese doughnut and I dipped the doughnut in the duck sauce and it’s very good. I’d rather pay for food that satisfies me than having to go to fancy dining where the food is full and average. This is my new soup spot next to phở his…

Very good service. We went here on a cold rainy day and we ordered shrimp fried rice and it was delicious. We will definitely come back and try their soups because I heard great thing about it. Affordable and fast service. Come show them some love.

This place is gem find. The food is picture perfect and tasre umami! The service is fast and courteous. A true ma and pa establishment. Pa was sitting chopping a ton of vegetables by hand! No food processing here! All fresh, succulent and well prepared. A huge variety of soups to die for, also great roast duck! Whole duck is expensive but well worth it!

This place is a whole in the wall place but the food was great! I am going again today for lunch, I got the fried rice with chicken and shrimp for 7 dlrs, boom! gonna try some noodles today\.

Foods here are pretty good (original own Minh Ky noodle place), somehow not alot people know this place because it sits at corner of the building. I and my family usually go here, I don’t have to wait at all and foods as same as Minh Ky.

I love this place, reminds me of the 626. It’s so good. Their entire menu is just bomb. Their pork kidney noodle soup is the besstttttt I’ve had in SD. It’s always empty for some reason but I will keep coming here to give them all my business!!!
Love the owners and their service
I come here at least once a week

So we were in the neighborhood and found this place on Unilocal.It’s in the same shopping center as World Foods Vien Dong. Place was easy to find and there was ample parking.
Our group was greeted and invited to sit wherever we like. Our server brought us water and took our drink order. We ordered sodas and a fresh orange juice. The fresh OJ was quite good, worth a try if you’re in the mood (it did have some pulp). As far as food, based on the Unilocal reviews, we ended up ordering the dumpling wanton egg noodle soup with barbecue pork, while someone else in the group ordered barbecue pork fried rice.
Food came out within 10 minutes or so, hot and fresh. I really enjoyed the dumplings, egg noodles, and barbecue pork. The broth was flavorful and light (didn’t appear or taste oily). I didn’t care from the wontons too much… next time I’ll order without. I tried some of the fried rice which was also pretty good. It had a fair amount of barbecue pork.
The décor appears slightly dated, but the place was clean and the food made up for it. I’d come here again for the same soup or to try something new.

Their noddles were good however they put a lot of oil into our food even though we told them not to!

This is what you need to do when you come here! F*~k the bullsh*t formalities and let’s get to the point. Best egg noodle in town ! What I would usually do is prepare my gastrorection for the full release. For foreplay I would start with half a duck and Chinese donuts. When I am done tantalizing the belly, I penetrate fully with the half egg noodle /​half rice noodle pork rib combo w/​pork skin on the side. Yeeeee — now your turn :-)
FYI CASH ONLY !

What could be better than a hot bowl of noodles on a chilly day? Nothing really. I found myself here with some friends on a gloomy day and this place was exactly what I look for in a Viet/​Chinese noodle shop; a no frills place with great noodle soups.
My friends all got wonton and dumpling egg noodle soup and I opted for the beef sate rice noodle soup. I was a bit disappointed at first that they didn’t have my usual order of roasted chicken dry noodles but the beef sate soup was pretty damn amazing and more than compensated for that. In addition to the soups we got an order of turnip cake and a side order of Chinese donuts. My beef soup had a very rich and hearty broth with a great sate flavor. The chunks of beef in the noodles were so tender and everything was topped with fried pork skin. I would definitely get this dish again. The turnip cake here was one of the best I have had in SD since Noble Chef closed down. The cake itself were nice thick slices covered with egg and came with a vinegar dipping sauce. The Chinese donuts were super crispy and perfect to dip into your soups.
Besides the food the service here was great. Usually these mom and pop noodle joints don’t really score high on the service but our servers were so friendly and super welcoming. If you find yourself in this part of town do yourself a favor and stop by! It’s right next door to the super market and it’s easily missed but you will glad you made the stop. Also CASH ONLY!

We randomly pulled up to this place when looking for a bite for lunch. When we saw the place from the outside, we almost turned around and left, but we decided to give it a try. And boy are we glad we stayed. I’d assume that people don’t come here for the ambiance. The food was awesome. We had the roast duck noodle soup and the combination soup. Both were amazing, we couldn’t stop plowing it into our faces. We also got a mixed vegetable plate that was also very very good. The workers were very nice as well. Seemed like a family owned place. And the price is right. We’ll be back.

I’ve been a regular at Minh Ky for over five years now and will continue to be a regular. If you want delicious and cheap hu tieu mi kho wonton (dry egg noodles with Vietnamese pork soup and wonton dumplings) this is the place to go. Authentic Vietnamese/​Chinese food and not crowded at all during lunch time. As long as this place still runs I’ll continue to come. Bring on the noodles!

You wouldn’t even know this place as here unless you Unilocaled or just came out of the supermarket next door. I liked this place because it was less crowded than Minh Ky and have the same offerings. However, I know why it’s so empty now. Their interior is a little dingy and sticky but it didn’t bother me before. In fact, the owner is actually very nice and I’ve struck up conversations with him every now and then. But my last visit, I ordered the Sate Beef Noodles to-​go for a quick noodle soup fix and was halfway through demolishing it at home when I found a dead fly floating in the bottom of my soup container. Super turn off, I almost wanted to throw up. But I sucked it up and poured the rest of it out. What a shame, I’d rather go to Minh Ky from now on since I haven’t found anything strange in my food there.

My all time favorite noodle spot in all of San Diego! Seriously I haven’t found a place with better Wonton noodles. I always see the owner’s wife hand making them around lunch time and one time I came at a time when they were all freshly made. They were so delicious I almost cried. My parents tend to get the rice noodles but the yellow ones are better imo. Been coming here consistency for over 5yrs and will continue to be a patron for as long as it’s open.

On a cold cold (even for San Diego) night, wife and I both felt we were coming down with something.
Some hot soup was in order to warm us up and feel better.
Taking note from Nick T.‘s review, we had to come and try this place.
Not the easiest place to find at night being tucked away in a corner of a strip mall, but well worth it.
I had the egg noodle soup with a half of duck, loved every greasy hot minute of it.
I noticed on the menu they had something called the «Thousand year old Egg Porridge» and now im in need of coming back to try that.
Soon!

I never knew there was another restaurant in that shopping center, until my buddy took me there. I had the combination noodle soup with half/​half egg-​noodle and rice noodles. And my friends ordered the half duck with egg noodles, which made me believe this dish is why many people like this place. The duck was on point. It wasn’t too greasy and the skin was nice and crispy. I’ll be back again for sure. And just another note. From the outside the restaurant may look a little intimidating, but it is pretty clean inside compared to some of the other restaurants I’ve been too in east San Diego.

My favorite noodle place in San Diego. I always get the wonton noodle soup, a side of fried breadsticks, and some fried rice. Guaranteed to be delicious, and also put you into the best nap imaginable.

I’ve never been to Vietnam but I think this is how noodles taste there. Authentic as hell! They don’t even take credit cards, that’s how you know you’re in a good spot. The food is so good it’ll make you run to the ATM. Gone!

Excellent Chinese food here. I believe the owner own’s Minh Ky as well, but not 100%. Simple place tucked away in a seedy strip mall. Always greeted by a nice staff here. Everything on the menu looks amazing. I’m a sucker for the soup dishes. I got the beef and tendon rice noodle soup and it was DELICIOUS! The broth is mind blowing, noodles just about perfection, lots of delicious beef and tendons and the perfect amount and balance of scallions that made me a very happy guy for the day. It’s a true art to cook tendons right. They have excellent tea as well.
I was kind of shock how fast they served the dish. They have all the proper condiments you need. Always love when a place brings me out chopped jalapenos, like they know me. Tip these people well and keep them in business. This is one of the great Chinese places in San Diego. I put them in my favorite top 3 Chinese restaurants here. Go and experience it for yourself.

Life is complicated. How do you rate a restaurant that serves you something you love and something you hate, all in the same bowl?
I drove over to Minh Ky, having craved a bowl of egg noodles with dumplings since late last week, only to find that they’re closed on Wednesdays. Checking Unilocal,I found Tan Ky Mi Gia highly rated. Proving that Tan is really a hole in the wall, it’s set next to World Foods Supermarket, where I’ve been buying live blue crab and crawfish for several years, yet it took Unilocal,GPS, and a loop around the parking lot for me to find the place.
Tan’s menu offered what I needed: a glass of Vietnamese iced coffee with sweetened condensed milk, and a bowl of roast duck egg noodle soup, add dumplings, duck on the side.
The coffee was what it was supposed to be, thick and flavorful, sweet and soothing to my chili– and cigarette smoke-​irritated throat.
The duck, though it offered no offensive taste, was unsatisfying, as it was bathed in a sauce that softened its skin and made me think it had been reconstituted from earlier days. Roasted duck should take advantage of the roasting process to crisp the skin and melt out some of the fat, and it should combine sweet, salty and savory. Tan’s version barely hit these notes.
The egg noodles were properly softened by the soup, and the dumplings, obviously handmade and filled with a rough, rustic combination of shrimp, mushroom and meat, were, on their own, worthy of a return visit.
But there was no getting around the problem: the soup tasted burnt, as though someone in the kitchen had stretched the supply of chicken bones by simmering them for days, until their marrow turned to dust which then cooked into a light, poultry-​flavored charcoal. No kidding; this can happen, and it’s something you don’t see… you might smell it if you’re not overwhelmed by other strong smells in your kitchen, and you definitely taste it if you’re checking your stock.
Too bad. I’d like to have liked the place, it being so close to one of my shopping destinations, but I was turned off by what is essentially the core item they serve, and because there are so many other places that do this well (including Minh Ky, where Unilocal!says I’m a regular), it’s unlikely I’ll return.