Sam's Noodle Station in Alhambra

Family style own restaurant, small but quick service. Food is decent. Will come again.

Got the wonton noodle soup and the bot chien which is good. Solid place for wonton noodle soup. You can get rice noodles and egg noodles dry or wet style. Great service and clean too.

I really wanted to try Kim Ky one particular weekend, but all the locations were closed. Ended up going to my second and third choices, but lines were crazy! So ultimately ended up at Sam's Noodle Station, the restaurant that took over an old Kim Ky. Sam's Noodle Station has a sister location - Macky's where it seems to cater to the younger crowd. Here, there's a lot of regulars and older folks who already know what they want to order the minute they sit down. Since we came on a holiday weekend, the line was actually pretty long. My dad and I had to wait for around 15 minutes before we were seated. Restaurant isn't too big, tables are a little cramped together but food is served quickly and customers don't usually sit and chat for long. I ordered the House Rice Noodles $9.35 with the flat rice noodles. Actually should have gone with the stick noodles because those were much chewier and what I was actually looking for! The overall noodle dish wasn't bad. There was a fairly good amount of noodles in the bowl along with a bunch of various seafood and meat toppings. The soup was a little bland, but you can add pickled jalapenos, etc. if you want to flavor up the dish. I can see this hitting the spot when it's cold out or when you're under the weather. There was a lot of toppings to the noodles, which I really appreciated. My dad ordered the pork kidney with half stick noodles and half flat rice noodles. There was a good amount of both noo...