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It was a beautiful sunny day, both wife and I got the day off, kid dropped off at school, what to do, what to do: hit up my favorite ghetto restaurant Trieu Chau in Santa Ana of course!
Wife never liked this location, shady parking lot, shady customers, shady servers, you get the picture. But I've been coming here since I was 6, and 25+ years of addiction is hard to quit. I wanted my seafood soft noodle stir fry dry style and I wanted it today!
Got there right before noon, no line, got sat immediately. The old cranky gimpy server that i'm use to is not there (he approaches your table to take the order even before you can turn the menu open), ahhh... some newbloods working. Menu is also now on a spiral spine, nice touch. Trieu Chau is moving up! So we proceeded to get crazy with the ordering (remember it's just the two of us):
Seafood soft noodle stir fry (I wanted dry but they messed up, still tasty though), and whats with the imitation crab? Shrimpy shrimps, 1 piece of squid, they're really cutting back on the ingredients, but still damn tasty. We each got one.
Fish Ball soup, if you want to sample their addicting/so good you wanna slap your mama broth, this is the best way, if you get the noodle soups, the bigger bowls do not concentrate flavors in the broth as well as this
Fried shrimp/crab balls, it was ok, tasted kinda porky, again they are cutting back on ingredients
Chinese donut, aka "oily stick" aka "oil fried ghost", can't believe they still had it available at noon, usually run out quick on weekends, delicious when dunked in the above slap your mama broth
Nothing cuts the grease/clean your palate better than some super strong viet iced milk coffee
Half order of Trieu Chau duck, never had this anywhere else, the duck is seasoned perfect, skin is delicious, but the true winner here is the black liquid soy dipping sauce in the pic. I don't know who mixes this stuff, but from the bottom of my heart: thank you.
Now since you read the title of this thread, you must know what's coming. Again, I've been coming here for 25+ years and has never ever encounter what I encountered today. If you still like this place, maybe I suggest you not to read further:
Wife: What's that???!!!
Me: Huh? (munch munch noodles)
Wife: That! (Points at our new friend at our table)
Me: Oh, it's just a bug, silverfish?
Wife: Ughhh, no....
Me: Just ignore it (I then lifted a plate and squished it underneath)
Wife: (speechless)
Me: (munch, munch, duck, noodles, fish ball soup)
Wife: That was a cockroach on our table! Where did it come from?
Me: Don't know, hey it wasn't in our food, it's ok!
Wife: What are you talking about, it's a cockroach!
Me: It probably crawled up from underneath the table....
Wife: I'm getting itchy..
Me: Let me finish this and we'll leave
Wife: We need to tell them!
Me: And then what? This is not Olive Garden, no one complains!
Wife: We're not coming back here
Me: (Sigh) I'm gonna miss this place :'(
So today is the last day that I will ever eat at Trieu Chau. The cockroach was pretty revolting once we started thinking about it in the car driving away. If a cockroach can make it out to the customer's dining table, there must be a huge infestation in the out-of-sight kitchen. This really sucks, my whole family eats here, and when we get out of town visitors, they usually demand us to take them here (kinda like an Asian In-N-Out). The only place left is the New Trieu Chau on Westminster, but it's not the same, not even close to the flavors at the original. A sad day in ps9 world.
Wife never liked this location, shady parking lot, shady customers, shady servers, you get the picture. But I've been coming here since I was 6, and 25+ years of addiction is hard to quit. I wanted my seafood soft noodle stir fry dry style and I wanted it today!
Got there right before noon, no line, got sat immediately. The old cranky gimpy server that i'm use to is not there (he approaches your table to take the order even before you can turn the menu open), ahhh... some newbloods working. Menu is also now on a spiral spine, nice touch. Trieu Chau is moving up! So we proceeded to get crazy with the ordering (remember it's just the two of us):
Seafood soft noodle stir fry (I wanted dry but they messed up, still tasty though), and whats with the imitation crab? Shrimpy shrimps, 1 piece of squid, they're really cutting back on the ingredients, but still damn tasty. We each got one.
Fish Ball soup, if you want to sample their addicting/so good you wanna slap your mama broth, this is the best way, if you get the noodle soups, the bigger bowls do not concentrate flavors in the broth as well as this
Fried shrimp/crab balls, it was ok, tasted kinda porky, again they are cutting back on ingredients
Chinese donut, aka "oily stick" aka "oil fried ghost", can't believe they still had it available at noon, usually run out quick on weekends, delicious when dunked in the above slap your mama broth
Nothing cuts the grease/clean your palate better than some super strong viet iced milk coffee
Half order of Trieu Chau duck, never had this anywhere else, the duck is seasoned perfect, skin is delicious, but the true winner here is the black liquid soy dipping sauce in the pic. I don't know who mixes this stuff, but from the bottom of my heart: thank you.
Now since you read the title of this thread, you must know what's coming. Again, I've been coming here for 25+ years and has never ever encounter what I encountered today. If you still like this place, maybe I suggest you not to read further:
Wife: What's that???!!!
Me: Huh? (munch munch noodles)
Wife: That! (Points at our new friend at our table)
Me: Oh, it's just a bug, silverfish?
Wife: Ughhh, no....
Me: Just ignore it (I then lifted a plate and squished it underneath)
Wife: (speechless)
Me: (munch, munch, duck, noodles, fish ball soup)
Wife: That was a cockroach on our table! Where did it come from?
Me: Don't know, hey it wasn't in our food, it's ok!
Wife: What are you talking about, it's a cockroach!
Me: It probably crawled up from underneath the table....
Wife: I'm getting itchy..
Me: Let me finish this and we'll leave
Wife: We need to tell them!
Me: And then what? This is not Olive Garden, no one complains!
Wife: We're not coming back here
Me: (Sigh) I'm gonna miss this place :'(
So today is the last day that I will ever eat at Trieu Chau. The cockroach was pretty revolting once we started thinking about it in the car driving away. If a cockroach can make it out to the customer's dining table, there must be a huge infestation in the out-of-sight kitchen. This really sucks, my whole family eats here, and when we get out of town visitors, they usually demand us to take them here (kinda like an Asian In-N-Out). The only place left is the New Trieu Chau on Westminster, but it's not the same, not even close to the flavors at the original. A sad day in ps9 world.
