Shot with Emil’s Canon S90
The Food
This is egg noodles with some bite to it–served with sliced pork, wontons, bean sprouts, lettuce, in a rich, hot broth. I love this with soy sauce soaked jalapenos on the side. I feel so Asian dining at these kinds of restaurants.
You can get these noodles served with about 10 combinations including pork, chicken, duck, shrimp and wontons. Some places even have deep fried shrimp in the soup. At $5-$7 each, this is pocket change.
Lately I’ve been eating this with the broth on the side. My dad usually gets it this way and now I see why! The soup is sipped in between bites instead and this changes up the Mi experience. A very nice worker at Mi La Cay #4 suggested me to add about 2-3 tsp of spicy mustard (from the yellow squeeze bottle) and vinegar (yeah that bottle of red stuff isn’t soy sauce!) to the noodles, mix, and to be fearless.
If you are on a diet don’t even think about it. The meats are fatty and the broth is rich with oil too…
It’s almost making me forget about Japanese ramen.
Oh, soo good!
The Restaurants
But why are there three different Mi La Cays? And why do some of them have “China Chef” as part of the store name? I wish I could tell ya.
That nice worker I mentioned earlier turns out to be one of the family members and owners!. She let out that all of the owners of Mi La Cay are related and that this is a family run chain, but each place has their own recipe. Apparently it’s their game to talk smack and brag about how their own restaurant is better than the others.
Soup-wise I can barely tell the difference. But personally, my money’s on #4 (10078 Westminster Ave) because of the ever-so-friendly waitress and their smaller-cut jalapenos 
.
Mi La Cay
14092 Magnolia St #116
Westminster, CA 92683
China Chef Mi La Cay #4 (Uh, what happened to the others?)
10078 Westminster Ave
Garden Grove, CA 92843
China Chef Mi La Cay
8924 Bolsa Ave
Westminster, CA 92683
Food: A
Value: A
Service: A
Ambience: B
Welcome to Hungry Huy [huhng·gree hwee], where I explore cuisine and culture. Discover tasty recipes for Vietnamese, Filipino, and my other favorite foods. 
i’m back in the intarnets! i looooove the look of the site! that is yumyum noodles. and i’m still thinking of our secret ingredient to work on. huha! the site looks very user friendly. and big pictures too! you…. you….
oohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh man. That looks so good, what is that called?
I MUST go & have this now!!
Hey Huy – I hope you had a great Turket-Day. I love Mi when it’s prepared properly…great cheap eats!
HH – provide more detail for you readers, please. I haven’t been here but I will make sure I stop by as soon as I roll into Ca during Christmas. I need to make sure I stop by all of food place I have missed so much.
agree with nhbilly, more details please!
It is very hard to type words when my mouth is drooling like this.. =)
Ziggy – thanks! yeah we need to work something out.
cBc – this is mi [mee], egg noodle soup. “Mi” is usually followed by what kind of meats are in it. These restaurants usually have english on the menu though so have no fear!
Kirk – thanks I hope you did too! Yeah it really is cheap eats–I kinda feel like I’m stealing from them =O.
nhbilly – Sorry about that! I hope the updated info will suffice, but there is more to come. =]
Thanks alot. I got http://elmomonster.blogspot.com/ to check out your site I wonder if he made a trip out to My La Cay yet.
Thanks for the updates I pointed http://elmomonster.blogspot.com/ to your blog and hopeful his experience is worth it I on the other hand will be visiting all the place I have been missing out on. I can’t wait to roll into OC during the holidays awesome families and good food.
Happy Holiday!
thanks, Huy! I gotta get over there!
I see Elmo took your advice too! =)
Why does your bowl look different than the bowl on Elmomonster’s site? Yours looks better. I ordered the #1 special combination and there were no won tons or bean sprouts. Could you please elaborate? It was very tasty BTW