Right before we left on our last vacation, I had to do a bit of shopping in City Heights. It was 8am, still fairly early for most places, so I decided to drop by 777 Noodle House since it had been almost a year-and-a-half since my last visit. On that visit; I noticed that the food was not as good as on previous visits It seems that 777 had maybe hit a bit of a slump? My favorite Servers were working; the woman and gentleman always make me feel so old when they call me "sir".
I did notice that the place looked a bit more run down in the morning light; but it was doing some good business on this morning…..you can't beat the prices here. I usually go with the Hu Tieu Nam Vang; but this time, I felt like egg noodles so I went with the dry "Mi" ($6.97) version.
This ended up being a nice surprise. The MIA lime was there; though the bean sprouts weren't blanched. The egg noodles were perfectly prepared; just enough stretch, no mealy or mushy textures, enough soy in the sauce, the noodles were nicely coated. The toppings were simple, with an abundant amount of ground pork….kind of on the chewy side, but fine; the shrimp were nicely cooked with no muddy or off flavors…the fishballs….well, I'm not a fan of squeaky fishballs. The soup provided on the side was decent, slight savory flavors, not too salty. That pork bone was quite good; full of flavor, the pork tender, not falling to pieces.
You know, this was better than I've had here in a while. Now, I gotta get back to Ly Heng.
This really did hit the spot on this morning.
777 Noodle House
4686 University Avenue
San Diego, CA 92105