Mike's Noodle House is a
Chinese restaurant
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in
Seattle
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, in the
U.S. state
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of
Washington
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.
Description
Mike's Noodle House is a
Chinese restaurant
A Chinese restaurant is an establishment that serves a Chinese cuisine. Most of them are in the Cantonese style, due to the history of the Chinese diaspora and adapted to local taste preferences, as in the American Chinese cuisine and Canad ...
in
Seattle
Seattle ( ) is a seaport city on the West Coast of the United States. It is the seat of King County, Washington. With a 2020 population of 737,015, it is the largest city in both the state of Washington and the Pacific Northwest regio ...
's
Chinatown–International District. The menu has included
congee,
dumplings
Dumpling is a broad class of dishes that consist of pieces of dough (made from a variety of starch sources), oftentimes wrapped around a filling. The dough can be based on bread, flour, buckwheat or potatoes, and may be filled with meat, fish ...
,
egg noodles
Noodles are a type of food made from unleavened dough which is either rolled flat and cut, stretched, or extruded, into long strips or strings. Noodles are a staple food in many cultures (for example, Chinese noodles, Filipino noodles, I ...
,
wontons, and
youtiao
''Youtiao'' (), known in Southern China as Yu Char Kway is a long golden-brown deep-fried strip of dough of Chinese origin and (by a variety of other names) also popular in other East and Southeast Asian cuisines.
Conventionally, ''youtiao ...
.
Congee ingredients can include beef, thousand-year egg, and
fish balls
Fish balls are rounded meat balls made from fish paste which are then boiled or deep fried. Similar in composition to fishcake, fish balls are often made from fish mince or surimi, salt, and a culinary binder such as tapioca flour, corn, or ...
. The restaurant has also served sui kau and squid ball noodle soup.
Reception
In 2013, Seattle Magazine's list of "our favorite hot noodle soups" described the wonton soup with chili sauce and vinegar "perfection". Jay Friedman included Mike's in
''Eater Seattle'''s 2019 lists of "15 Essential Asian Noodle Destinations in Seattle" and "10 Top Spots for Asian Dumplings in the Seattle Area".
He also included the business in 2022 lists of "20 Knockout Chinese and Taiwanese Restaurants in the Seattle Area" and "19 Knockout Restaurants in Seattle's Chinatown-International District" (C-ID). He said Mike's "gets especially crowded on weekends" and "may be the ultimate in C-ID Chinese comfort food".
See also
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History of Chinese Americans in Seattle
Greater Seattle has had a Chinese American community almost since its founding in 1851. Chinese workers arriving in the 1860s were welcomed, because the Seattle area was sparsely settled and workers were needed; within a few decades, however, new ...
*
List of Chinese restaurants
This is a list of notable Chinese restaurants. A Chinese restaurant is an establishment that serves Chinese cuisine outside China. Some have distinctive styles, as with American Chinese cuisine and Canadian Chinese cuisine. Most of them are in th ...
References
External links
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{{Restaurants in Seattle
Chinatown–International District, Seattle
Chinese restaurants in Seattle