By Elena Kadvany
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I am a perpetually hungry twenty-something journalist, born and raised in Menlo Park and currently working at the Palo Alto Weekly as education and youth staff writer. I graduated from USC with a major in Spanish and a minor in journalism. Though my first love is journalism, food is a close second. I am constantly on the lookout for new restaurants to try, building an ever-expanding "to eat" list. As a journalist, I'm always trolling news sources and social media websites with an eye for local food news, from restaurant openings and closings to emerging food trends. When I was a teenager growing up in Menlo Park, I always drove up to the city on weekends with the singular purpose of finding a better meal than I could at home. But in the past year or so, the Peninsula's food culture has been totally transformed, with many new restaurants opening and a continuous stream of San Francisco restaurants coming south to open Peninsula outposts. Don't navigate this food boom hungry and alone! Feed me your tips on new chefs and eats and together we'll share them with the broader community.
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A Sunnyvale Chinese restaurant called Noodle Talk looks to be opening a second location at Village Court Shopping Center in Los Altos.
New signage and a "coming soon" banner appeared several weeks ago in the space recently vacated by
Oregano’s Wood-Fired Pizza at the 4546 El Camino Real shopping center. The owner of Noodle Talk could not be immediately reached for comment.
The Sunnyvale Noodle Talk, which opened in 2015, serves a range of noodle soups (beef stew, spicy beef shank, spicy ground pork with sour beans, beef tendon, seafood and more) and noodle stir-fries (pork with green pepper, eggs and Hunan chili, cold veggie rice noodle) as well as rice platters with meat and other Chinese dishes, according to a menu posted on
Yelp. The soup is made with beef bones and 24 different types of herbs, and the rice noodles are handmade, according to the restaurant’s
website. They also use all-natural ingredients — "less oil less salt no MSG," the website states.
The website further describes the food: "Experiencing dishes in mom's kitchen. Homeland taste! Highest quality."
Stay tuned for opening details.
