Hon's Wun Tun House
648 Kearny Street
(between Clay St & Commercial St)
San Francisco, CA 94108 (415) 433-3966
- Price Range: $
- Accepts Credit Cards: No
- Parking: Street
- Attire: Casual
- Good for Groups: No
- Good for Kids: Yes
- Takes Reservations: No
- Delivers: No
- Take-out: Yes
- Waiter Service: Yes
- Wheelchair Accessible: Yes
- Outdoor Seating: No
- Good for: Lunch
- Alcohol: None
82 reviews
Neighborhood: Glen Park
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93 Reviews for Hon's Wun Tun House
Ive lived in San Francisco all my life and Ive never tried Hon's Wun-Tun..
Im such an idiot...but now I know
wonton with bbq pork....it was delicious, it was hot and burned my tongue but it was worth it.
Ive never eaten noodles this fast..just slurping..
I saw the chinese ladies smiling when they saw me eat...they probably thought "HAHAHA WE GOT ANOTHER ONE!" and yes they are right..they got me..I will be back for more~
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Yes they are rude and no you don't get service there and even though the restaurant is the size of a closet....you still can't seem to get there attention. On the flip side, prices are great and the won ton is pretty good. I prefer the dumplings over the won ton but m bf loves the won ton. It's worth trying it if you are in the area.
Lets review this place for what it is: a won ton and noodle house. Lets not pretend it's dim sum or anything fancy. Let's treat it like a proper hole in the wall only slightly bigger than a closet. That being said, this place is still three stars,or "A Ok"
I went inside intending for a simple to go order and proceeded to stand in line near the counter for a few minutes before being helped or realizing the proper way to order. The woman curtly took my order and I proceeded to wait.
And wait.
And wait.
The issue I had with this restaurant was the fact that the woman working the register was also making the to go orders. She would only start making orders when there was no one in line to pay, and she would make the in house orders for people first if they had not yet been served. This means there end up being a lot of backed up to go orders and no one preparing them... It seems like dine in might be the smarter options if the restaurant were larger than a closet.
She finally handed me a container of soup that was most obviously not my order. I ordered a shrimp dumpling with noodles in soup. She gave me noodles and what was obviously beef floating in soup. Of course, this was for the person after me.
I finally get my soup and bring it back to the office. I bit into the won ton and discover that it's a normal won ton, not a purely shrimp dumpling like i ordered. This is not a problem because I am neither Jewish nor a pescatarian, but it would be nice if they got my order correct the first time.
And even with these major faux pas (perhaps because I ordered in English, perhaps because I do not look asian enough, I cannot say) they still had delicious broth, tender won tons and very good noodles for under $5 for lunch in large quantities. I'm probably not going to come back just because of the service, but it's a great place if you're in the FiDi on a chilly day and want a fast, cheap, hot lunch.
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A cold August day in SF? Soup time!
I found this place on Yelp. Needless to say, it was good and the food came out fast.
I got the bbq pork with wun tun and noodles in soup.
Roy got the beef tendon with WT and noodles in soup.
We also ordered a bowl of fish balls in soup.
Relatively small bowls. I guess I'm used to big pho bowls. Hot tea. The place wasn't crowded, but all the seats were taken. Cash only. Our total for three bowls was $17. I will definitely be back, but I might have to order a side of just WTs - the filling was perfect.
5-stars? In terms of what it is--a wonton noodle house--Hon's Wun Tun is a good as it gets. Why? Well, it takes them more than 4 hours to make their broth, whereas other places add MSG packets to boiling water for insta brooth. The wontons are always cooked right, never overcooked, and the noodle casing is always thin and lovely. There is shrimp inside with pork, and the shrimp is always cooked just right---not chewy, not raw--just right. This place only focuses on several things and those few things are done the same way every time with care and perfection. Enjoy, but save a seat for me.
PS. When you are here, you are back somewhere in Guangdong province. I love a place that will take me to a different country in my hometown and on lunch from work.
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It's cooold outside today--in the middle of June--after a heat wave last week--and I am freezing.
Hot won ton noodle soup is just what I needed so I came here. Ordered it to go because seating was limited--I guess everyone else was cold, too. Good soup, noodles, wontons.
The only problem was that us "to go" people waited outside and I guess the orders are ready in the 10 mins. that they tell you to wait, but no one tells you! So the girl ahead of me and I wait 20 mins. and finally go in to check--I ask for my food and the lady behind the counter got mad at me for not coming sooner--kinda soup-nazi-ish! Argh.
But, now that I know the"system", I will return.
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OK, Another place Debita took me. At first we walked in and I was like "I'm going to get Sooooo sick" but of course I be wrong. This place was fantastic. Great soup and noodles and cheap. Got a side of broccoli with oyster sauce and shrimp won ton soup. I'm gonna keep going back. Another cold day food that I will always eat.
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So since my gastrointestinal fortitude was left in shambles after last night's snack at an undisclosed Indian restaurant, my stomach has been begging me for something to restore it to its prior glory... or at least to fill it with something that would really hit the spot. I knew I needed something light and soupy, and instantly thought of Hon's Wun Tun House a few blocks from my office. Ordered, as always it seems, #23: BBQ Pork and Wun Tun Noodle in Soup (classic, simple flavors) and a side of Chinese Broccoli with Oyster Sauce... Got back to the office, devoured it, and now my stomach can rest easy once again. Thanks Hon's!!
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*seats myself at counter after initial confusion about how seating vs. takeout works*
*Old Chinese woman (OCW) walks over to me*
OCW: Order?
Me: Oh, um, can I see the menu please?
*sees OCW furrows her brow*
*gets feeling that this is an unusual question to ask*
OCW: Mah-nu?
*receives menu from OCW*
*I make my selection reasonably quickly: Barbeque pork with wonton, no noodles*
*waits for OCW to take my order*
*waits*
*waits*
....
*finally catches eye of OCW across kitchen*
Me: Can I place my order?
OCW: Yes
Me: Um
OCW: Numb-ah?
*realizes she has no intention of walking over to me*
Me: uh, twenty four
*gets my food in about five minutes*
The food here is good, though not particularly impresive. The restaurant and the set up did make me feel like I was in China, which was kind of nostalgically nice. While the broth is indeed very savory, the wontons served here are the very dense meat-filled kind. I prefer my wonton soft, with a bit of meat and mostly wrapper. It was nice to eat char siu since I haven't had any in awhile, but it was on the blander side.
Okay...so I'm was totally a newbie to this place and I had it figured out by observing people. The trick is to basically sit yourself anywhere where there's space. This place is an eat, go to the counter and pay, then leave place.
Fast service. Noodles came really quick. I ordered #20 the snow cabbage chicken? I think. and the bf ordered #12 szechuan noodle soup.
I didn't think the noodles were that spectacular and the portions weren't that great for a noodle soup. Some might think it's a great price but there are definitely cheaper eats in the Chinatown.
Even though the noodle soups weren't impressive, the rice rolls looked really yummy though. I also think that the rice plates are more worth it than the noodle soups.
minus 1 star, for being rude and not apologizing or even compensating the customer, after messing up their order. that leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
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04/30/2008
hot, fast, & cheap wun tun. i always get the char sui wun tun mein.
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Here's a good hole-in-the-wall restaurant that serves great food for a cheap price. Don't expect much in the way of service, though. The first time I visited the place, my friends and I had to seat ourselves, wait about 15 minutes to order, and then leave on the table what we thought we owed for the food, plus tip, since we never received our bill. In my most recent visits, we were seated at a round table with a random customer and had to wait about 20 minutes to place our order.
Looking around, I can see the main problem is that the place is understaffed; you have one woman acting as the hostess, waitress, and cashier. She's not cute and she's never in a good mood. Most customers, however, don't mind the inattentive service and (sometimes) uncomfortable seating arrangements.
People seemed to respond to the lack of service by being just a bit more aggressive. A regular once told me that I "have to pull her if [I] want something." Well, if you're comfortable with that unique brand of service dispensation, then you might wanna give this place a go. Be sure to order the Wun Tun Noodle in Soup. Yum.
So I wrote lyrics to the song that the old Chinese guy with the spinach goatee plays on his two-string, bow-fiddle. You know which one I'm talking about...he plays in the Muni stations and on the sidewalk next to Union Square. He's not popular like the plastic drummers because, well, it sounds like a cat dying, so I thought I should help him out...
Come to Hon's Wun-Tun...
Where you have loads of fun,
And you don't need lots of mun'
To slurp a bowl o'wonton.
So leave at home your gun,
And venture outside for sun.
But don't expect a big pork bun
'Cause all they got is a ton of won
And stewed intestines second to none.
It won't make your stomach run
Come see how the East was won
No need to wear your crinoline
OK, my song is done.
I haven't been here for years, so my return visit was not full of surprises. It's still the same non-descript place on Kearny. It's still the same old guy standing in the back waiting to give you a glass of water. I think it's still the same menu...in fact, I left that stain the last time I came, I think.
I sat at the semi-bright yellow counter like a good solitary diner that I am and went for the $4.95 bowl of Stewed Brisket of Beef and Wun-Tun Noodle in Soup (see my photo). The bowl is a bit on the small size, but it was chock full of beef parts, thin noodles, and yes, wonton...or is it wun-tun? I dunno...I just eat here. You can be in and out of there in fifteen minutes. It's not the French Laundry after all.
FOOD - 4 stars...a warm and cheap bowl of goodness
AMBIANCE - 2.5 stars...oh Chinatown, my Chinatown
SERVICE - 3.5 stars...fast, no fuss, no muss
TOTAL - 4 stars...a good penny-watcher lunch if you ask me
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definitely the best won ton place in the city and probably the closest you're going to get to the real deal in hong kong. i usually get the beef brisket won ton noodle soup. i have been coming here since the mid 80's. nothing much has changed....same expressionless service but the food is good so i'm good.
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I've had many bowls of won ton (that's how I'm used to spelling it from where I'm from) in my life, and Han's Wun Tun did nothing for me. The won tons were nothing special (not enough shrimp) and the noodles were"meh. Maybe it's because they're missing the "o"s in their name... ??
It takes years to perfect the won ton, and decades to get the noodles just right (hk style). You want your noodles al dente, no different from your pasta... and the soup base is incredibly important, needs to have a perfect balance of pork oils ("ju yuw").
I must have gone on an off-day, because nothing impressed me about that bowl of noodles. Fortunately, it wasn't an expensive bowl of won ton, but you definitely don't get the value that a San Franciscan should expect.
if you find a good won ton place in SF, please let me know!
#24 is way good- and $6.23 out the door! My first time in there and I was in and out in 15 or 20 minutes- the won tons are great, bbq pork had good flavor as did the broth - needed a little kick from the hot pepper sauce tho.
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In Chinese, wun tun translates to swallowing clouds. All over different parts of Asia you can find variations of this exquisite dumpling. Done right, the ethereal puff of light wrappers float in the bowl of clear broth the color of yellow and gold, an intensely flavored filling that reminds you the land (from the ground pork) and the sea (the little tiny sweet shrimp) with the thin yellow wheat noodles that have the firm and lively texture. While Hon's version may never compete with my childhood memories of one particular noodle stand in an alley way in southern Taiwan, Hon's does a very competent version of 'swallowing clouds' with plenty of authentic flavor ambiance and the attitude that comes with it.
I come to this place whenever I'm craving a bowl of Hong Kong style mein with wun tuns, cooked in a big stainless steel drum and columns of white porcelain bowls with pink floral prints stacked up against the big glass window facing the busy traffic of Kearny St. Depending on the mood, I can either come with some friends during weekday lunch hour rush jammed packed with people or on Saturday morning after farmer's market for a solitary ritual in the half empty joint. I recommend sitting at the counter when you are here by yourself so you can watch all the actions going on in the kitchen.
Among its peers of street style food in the city, Hon's is one my top choice in terms of flavors. Robust beef brisket, spicy beef curry with the slightest savory sweetness, the wun tun that's closer to shu mai than swallowing clouds, with the same plump chewy meat ball inside the thin wheat flour wrapper that turns translucent when cooked.
I've had the regular wun tun mein. I've had the beef curry with rice, the stew brisket with blanched butter lettuce over rice. I've had beef briskets, fish balls, tendons and char siu pork added to the mein. Sometimes separately, sometimes all at once in the same bowl of noodle, at which point the tall Shandonese guy with the comb-over behind the counter merely raises his eyebrows then shruggs and puts the order in with the lady with a head full of big black curls, slaving away at the big drum full of boiling water (who reminds me of the land lord lady from Kung Fu Hustle.)
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I've been eating here off and on for a long time (think carbon paper and slide rules) and it has always been the same. It's the real deal - kinda run-down and looking like it belongs in the heart of Chinatown. Some of the people in here look like they have been here for ever - especially that old guy down at the end of the counter. Watch how the noodles, with just a little help from his chopsticks, seem to rise in a slow steady stream into his mouth. He's done this a thousand times.
I love the wun-tun here ( that's won tons to us gringos), and the price cannot be beat.
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obviously, you can't expect great customer service in chinatown. but hon's is ridiculous. i ordered won ton with rice noodle soup to go; when i got back to work, i untied the bag to find wheat/egg noodles with no won ton. so i had to go all the way back to hon's to return the incorrect order. a lady that worked there had this rude attitude like it was my fault, even though the other lady that took my order before knew she gave me the wrong order and tried to explain it to the other woman. by this point, i lost my appetite for won ton and just wanted my money back - they hadn't started remaking my soup yet. but the mean lady wouldn't give me a refund, because you know how complicated and hi-tech their cash register is....NOT. apparently, it was my fault for walking away from the restaurant too fast for them to catch up to me. so they remade my soup the correct way, and i tried to look past everything and enjoy the won ton noodle soup, but their food is too mediocre to make up for the bad service and horrible manners; i had to get a 2nd lunch of canned tomato soup to get the disgusting taste of hon's out of my mouth.
people get orders wrong all the time, which is fine, BUT HON'S NEVER SAID SORRY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! never going back there again; no matter how cold it is, or how uncomfortable my high heeled work shoes are, i'm walking the extra blocks to go to washington bakery for noodle soup.
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I had searched some restaurants to eat at in Chinatown yesterday, and decided to give this place a try. Its really small, but cute and clean. My friend saw they had a 90 + for their inspection (pretty good for Chinatown ay..) Their use shrimp to make their won tons (YAY! cause I don't eat the pork ones). The noodle was chewy and delicious. The soup could've been more flavorful, but only if you're an MSG addict like me. My friend was like, "I could eat 4 of these" because it was a really small bowl. Okay, so maybe I can't get full off one, so we ordered one won ton noodles each and then an order of just won tons to share. The won ton noodles had 5 won tons in them and the order of just won tons had a dozen. We were good to go afterwards. And plus, its under $4 for the won ton noodles, so its worth its price already. The staff are nice and friendly. And our food came out in less than 5 minutes!
I love this place! I've been going at least once a week (to go) for the past month. It's very small, the lady at the register is pretty scary, but I just do it "soup nazi" style. Just pick a menu number, pay, and step aside.! best wun tun noodle soup ever!
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A rewrite is in order, with a touch of Sushizzle to make it more lively.
Let's take a step back in time, to say somewhere in the 1950s to 1960s, in Hong Kong, that is. Now transplant one of the old school eateries there that specializes in jook fun meen fan (ie a joint that serves congee, ho fun rice noodles, noodle soups/fried noodles, and rice plates) back to the future, and into San Francisco Chinatown.
Capture a snapshot of the receipes, dumb it down just a micron so that only Hong Kong expats can tell the difference. Make the interior as skanky looking and run down as possible (do-able because of the age of the building and history), and heck don't even make the inside look authentic Hong Kongnese, but rather part run down coffee shop diner, part Chinese restaurant.
And there you have it. Hon's Wun Tun House (or Hung Kei Wun Tun Meen Ga in Cantonese Chinese naming).
If you want an idea of what won ton noodle soup tasted like in Hong Kong during the 60s or 70s, including the ambience and vibe to some extent, then come to Hon's. They've managed to almost replicate that flavor. The noodles are still not quite the same flavor as the freshly made egg noodles in Hong Kong, but it will have to do.
Kudo's for Hon's for translating the Cantonese pronounciation to English phonetically and perfectly. I suppose it is Wun Tun, and not Won Ton. And to those Asian fetishists with a dirty mind, it's now wun hung low, not won hong lo.
Although this place is considered cheap and generally quick, a bowl of won ton, sorry wun tun, noodle soup is a very light bite. If you are a big eater, one bowl is not enough, and 2 bowls might be a bit excessive. Of course you can ask for extra noodles as another yelper has said, "adding bottom" (Ga Duy). Or get extra wun tuns.
Traditionally wun tun noodle soup in Hong Kong is a snack, not meant to be a giant bowl like ramen, udon. In fact I'm told that the serious places in Hong Kong don't serve bowl sizes that are bigger than your banquet portion of shark's fin soup, maybe 3 to 4 wun tuns in each bowl tops. So in a way, Hon's manages to keep the size authentic. Of course who wouldn't want to McHappy and supersizzle their order?
Docked two stars in my original review because this place is REALLY run down, old, and at times not visually appetizing. After all it is Chinatown, to give you that historic/cultural/feel good/gotta find my Asian roots coz I'm too whitewashed and have nowhere else to turn, kinda feeling. They have counter seating too, which is something you won't find at a wun tun restaurant/shop in Hong Kong (one can only wonder again, if Hon's prior tenant was a coffee shop/diner).
But Hon's gained another star just today alone.
Why?
If you pay close attention to the next package of ho fun (rice noodles) or cheung fun/banh cuon you get at your local Chinese supermarket (at least in most of SF Bay Area from SF down to San Jose), you MIGHT just see that it is made fresh from Hon's Wun Tun House! Damn, I've been buying this stuff from the supermarkets consistently, and never paid attention to the addy and name until today.
Granted you have to get these when the fresh batch arrives at the supermarket. The trick is to gently poke the rice noodle or banh cuon (with your finger of course), and if it is soft & bouncy, then it is still fresh. If it is a bit hard and not bouncy, then that means it has either sat out too long or has been in refrigeration where even if you cook or reheat it, it will be a hard dry ass mess and not worth your $2 to $3.
Most restaurants probably get their ho fun and rice crepes/banh cuon, from the same source. When you have the chance to buy a fresh batch, cook it the same day. It hits the bloody spot, and as the Brits say, it's also the dog's bollocks.
As far as cheung fun/banh cuon goes from the package, it's not as great as some of the places in Hong Kong that make it from scratch but for home use this is as fresh as it can get. A shame they only provide sesame seed packet, special soy sauce, and seame oil. The OG places in Hong Kong would serve this with not just soy sauce, but also sesame seeds, chili sauce, peanut sauce, and hoisin/plum sauce! Yes, rice noodle crepe rolls (i.e. pig intestine rolls as the nickname), with the only reason to eat that, is to mix up all that sauce shizzle together. It's like cheap shit French cooking, all about sauces. If only Hon's provided that for more authenticity...
So the next time you diss Hon's for being a skank ho, but yet find yourself enjoying their rice noodles or cheung fun/banh cuon, remember who made it and where you got it from!
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The lady at the register was rude. The won tun noodle soup's ok since the price was cheap. But the price isn't what I crave. Yes a quick fix, but I'm cool with not coming back here any more.
Craving some homemade wonton noodle soup? You have to come to this place. The parking is a little annoying, but it's completely worth the trip if you're in the mood for some good food.
Everything is fresh (the woman was folding the wontons behind us) and you can see the noodles they hand made that morning. This place is great and reminds me of mom's.
My favorite: Ngow Jaap (Beef Organ) with Won Ton Noodle Soup
Broth: EXCELLENT! (brings me back to the traditional won ton places in Hong Kong)
Noodle: Their egg noodle is superb. They make their own noodle, a very traditional way with the right amount of firmness and egg flavor....
Ngow Jaap & Won Ton: just thinking about it make me drool....
BUT WHY??? WHY ARE YOU SO SMALL SOUP NOODLE BOWL???
End of meal: nothing left in bowl, not even a drop of soup....
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Great noodle soup place if you're looking for something warm on a cold day. The beef stew with wonton noodle soup is the best! The curry beef stew over rice is also a must have.
Thumbs down - to the b!tchy lady at the register. Give the poor employees a break. All she does is mutter sh!t under her breath. Give it a rest, you'll live longer.
Thumbs up - to the lady the stumbles around the room with hot soups on her tray without spilling them.
:) Best wonton in the city! Ngow nam wonton mein is my favorite. You can't not love their wonton though..seirously. Mmm...its just a hassle going there. Parking is lame and its a journey across the city, but worth the stop if we're already in the area. Prices have gone up a little bit, anywhere from .30-.50 cents...but its hard to complain if your meal is about $10 for 2 people.
Haha and you can bring in your own drink cus all the have is water and tea (I wouldn't drink the water if I were you)
Good beef brisket with wonton noodles. Not the cleanest.
Don't FXXX with Hon's.
It's a hard core Chinese.
Just don't FXXX with him.
There was a waitress drove me crazy because her voice.
She was chatting with other waitress right behind me but her voice was just like after you suck in whole air out of a balloon.
Don't FXXX with Hon's.
It's a hard core Chinese.
Just don't FXXX with him.
I was here so many time before.
I remember the Wun-Tun Noodle soup was $1.75 when a pack of cigaret was 75 cents. Muni and a cup of coffee were a quater.
Don't FXXX with Hon's.
It's a hard core Chinese.
Just don't FXXX with him.
There are so many things changed last 30 years.
There was no cell phone.
There was no CD, DVD.
There was no i-pod.
There was no Wi Fi.
There was no hybrid.
But there was Hon's Wun Tun, so as MacDonald and KFC.
Don't FXXX with Hon's.
It's a hard core Chinese.
Just don't FXXX with him.
It seems like nothing has been changed except the price.
Same decor, same flavor, same wun tun, same noodle, same soup.
And same menu!
Hon's has more than Wun-Tun too!
1. wun-tun noodle soup, 3.95
2. noodle in soup, 3.25
3. wun-tun in soup, 4.10
4. stewed brisket of beef & rice noodle in soup, 4.30
5. stewed brisket of beef noodle in soup, 4.30
6. oyster sauce w/ noodle, 410
7. stewed brisket of beef & wun-tun, 4.30
8. stewed shrimp dumpling & wun-tun noodle in soup, 4.20
9. stewed shrimp dumpling in soup, 4.30
10. stewed brisket of beef & wun-tun noodle in soup, 4.95
11. stewed brisket of beef with rice, 4.95
12. szechuan sauce & noodle (hot), 4.30
13. oyster sauce & vegetable ( broccoli or lettuce), 4.10
14. stewed brisket w/ special sauce, 6.40
15. wun-tun & double noodle in soup, 4.95
16. pig's feet w/ rice ( noodle, or rice noodle) 4.95
17. curry beef w/ rice, 5.80
18. curry beef, 6.95
19. pig's feet, 6.40
20. shanghai noodle w/ meat, 4.30
21. bbq pork noodle ( or rice noodle) in soup, 4.60
22. bbq pork on rice, 4.95
23. bbq pork & wun-tun noodle in soup, 5.80
24. bbq pork & wun-tun in soup. 5.80
25. stewed brisket of beef w/ noodle, 5.59
26. ngow jaap ( beef organ) w/ sauce, 6.40
27. ngow jaap (beef organ) & noodle in soup, 4.30
28. beef tendon w/ special sauce (hot), 6.95
29. beef tendon w/ noodle (hot), 5.25
30. pig's feet & noodle in soup, 4.60
31. fish ball & noodle ( or rice noodle) in soup, 4.60
32. rice, 0.92
33. soup, 0.74
34. soda, 1.20
35. red bean in soup (sweet), 1.57
36. rice roll, 1.95
I don't know how they decide the pricing..... rice 0.92, soup 0.74, red bean in soup (sweet), 1.57
What the FXXX?
But,.....exact same menu for last 30 years!
That's something.
Don't FXXX with Hon's.
Please note number 15. wun-tun & double noodle in soup, 4.95
It is double noodle!
This item should be number 2, don't you think?
And the beef tendon taste reminded me of "Gei-kan", canned whale meat. I grew up with whale meat, it was very cheap & popular red meat in 60's in Japan.
#-19, Pig's feet, written as "Pig's(boar) hand" in Chinese, the other side of the English menu.
By the way, There is a peep show at the next corner.
How handy is this?
I thought it's a great combo, wun-tun & porn.
But, after I got Hon's Wun-Tun, I said, " FXXX the peep show."
I might throw-up wun-tun watching it.
I could not go in.
The wun-tun satisfied me very well, I didn't need anything else but a nap.
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yuuuuuuuuuummmmmmmmmmm!!!!!!!!!
definitely a down and dirty hole in the wall joint, but they serve simple but good won ton mein. the noodles are nice and firm and the broth is clear and tasty. a big bowl of noodles, plus a side of chinese brocolli? can't beat it.
oh, and you can buy their noodles, won ton and broth separately to take home so you can make it later yourself.
I LOVE noodles and Hon's Wun Tun House satisfies my noodle cravings the best. You can watch them make their fresh won ton at the counter while you sit there and enjoy your own bowl of won ton.
This place is nothing fancy...just a down-to-earth noodle house with nothing exciting except for the yummy won ton's they serve. The prices are extremely cheap and the food is awesome. It can get pretty crowded during peak hours so you might have to share a table. The service is your typical Chinese restaurant service. They aren't rude but they're not going to ask you how your day is or compliment your new hairdo. This place is all about the food.
Cash only. Pay at the register.
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We came here after the lunch hour, and perhaps the dim sum we got on the way filled us up, but the food wasn't spectacular-slurptacular. I got the standard wonton noodles. For less than 4 dollars, I'd come here again, but i don't think I will be craving it.
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Food = good, cheap. Not the best quality but for that cheap of prices for lunch, I really can't bitch much.
Tables, silverware, chairs = dirty.
Service = Chinese style...order, leave, come back with food, and leave you the hell alone, until you flag for the bill.
Cash only.
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i've been here like..what? 2395823957235981230598 times?
I always, always, came here with my dad. We both love this place to death. The taste is unbelievable. UNBELIEVABLE! No other place in Chinatown, or in the USA will compare to THIS place! And maybe even HK, too! I went back to HK once and ate at a place and ordered their wun tun, hoping it would be even BETTER than this place. but it wasn't.
I always order the original wun tun noodle soup. The wun tun is BEYOND WORDS. The flavor is seriously indescribable. The hint of sesame oil in it really seals the deal on all the delicious flavors/ingredients in it. And the SOUP! What do they put in it? I always drink my bowl clean. haha.
Go get some NOW. NOW!
The inside is not a fancy 4 star restaurant, the wait staff is hurried. But oh how delicious is their ngow jap wonton noodles?! A little piece of heaven in my mouth. The noodles and wontons taste absolutely delicious with tons of vinegar and hot sauce. I use almost the entire bottle of vinegar on one bowl of noodles. Just the thought of it is making my mouth water...........
Just because their speciality is wun tun, it doesn't mean its good! My colleagues and I came here with high hopes and left with low spirits.
Sure, $3.60 for a small bowl of wun tun noodle soup is cheap, but the soup was bland. My colleague kept adding red vinegar to his soup until it looked like blood. Then we realized that even the vinegar was watered down.
Perhaps the egg noodles is something to cheer about, but whats the point of giving it 5-stars when only the noodle is deserving of it? Its like giving N'Sync a Grammy Award when we all know only Justin is the talented one.
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Warming, affordable, tasty soup you can ENJOY on a cold San Francisco day.
Hon's is a crowded place, best to get it to GO. Flee back to your work domicile and slurp in delight. There is counter space and tables to sit at though. Come during non-busy hours. If you have more than four people, there is an upstairs people rarely use.
Menu is straight forward, can choose from around a dozen dishes. Order #8 all the TIME. Shrimp dumpling in the soup. Serve it up in a large bowl, and go to work with your tools. Chop sticks and sipping spoon.
Price is always right here, can leave full for $4.00. And they serve a great TEA . Thought the water was dirty for a second, but guess NOT. And it is not served scalding hot.
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This is my favorite noodle shop. I've been going here for about 5 years, and I hope to grow old eating the noodles here. The place is super greasy spoon small, and most everything on the menus is under $5 a plate or bowl. Great food at a great price. cash only, pay at the register when you leave, no thrills services. Highly Recommended!
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When I think of my first memories of wonton noodle soup, I'd have to say the experience would be very much like what you'd get from Hon's Wun Tun House. Smaller bowl, 6 perfectly cooked wontons, a handful of egg noodles or thick rice noodles cooked al dente, and a rich shrimp broth, topped with a slick of oil and chopped scallions. omg. It's ridiculously cheap as well, so whenever I'm running late to/from a meeting Downtown, I love to come here.
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