Xian Kitchen

I'll be HONEST, it was a weekend and every restaurant we wanted to visit was closed, EXCEPT this spot. Baked Chicken w/ Potato & Green Pepper - HUGE serving, flavors were WEAK, I couldn't have a 2nd bite Cold Noodle - The flavor was not right Cumin Burger - This had to be saved with chili oil This is a BYO water bottle type of place, service was quite slow.Anyways, maybe they're specialty was something we did not order...

Food:1. Pita Bread soaked in Beef/Lamb2. Garlic sauce with noodle Pita bread soaked in beef/lambThe "beef/lamb" means you get to choose between beef OR lamb. We chose beef. Relative to the amount of pita, I didn't think there was a lot of beef. For the cost, it was an okay amount of beef. It did seem like SO much pita bread cubes. The pita didn't seem fresh and it was chewy. Once it cools down there was diminishing returns on a bowlful of soggy pita cubes.Tip: piping hot soup goes well on a cold/rainy dayGarlic sauce with noodleIt doesn't photograph as well, though we appreciated that the noodle/soup came separate from the sauce. That way the spice level can be regulated. Tip: dip in one noodle at a time and then rinse of excess in the soup. Helps keep each bite from being too spicy and then helps add flavor to the soup.

Always a very safe favorite spot to go to when hankering for satisfying clear lamb broth noodles or spiced up cumin lamb dry noodles. The lamb noodles come with a hot broth that's very addictive, and slippery broad noodles. Add a dash of chilli! And haven't found a place that makes better liang pi (cold and gelatinous rice noodle appetizer dish) and serves such a hefty portion. You can order the version without peanut sauce.The servers are fast and courteous. It's a small place, the doors have this funny mirror tint on it so sometimes it even looks closed but then you open it and see it can be pretty full of people slurping away on their noms. I wouldn't say it's the most well maintained and decorated place, quite the opposite, but it's very good food and crazy authentically good.

Xian Noodles is a very cozy spot in Milpitas; inside a plaza where there are many other restaurants, 99 ranch, and boba spots!This location is self served by scanning their QR code, and you order from the mobile app. The mobile app comes with lot of flexible adjustment to your food like... less/more oily, less/more spicy, and etc. The food came out pretty quick, and quite big portions too! The only downside side is that, a lot of the dishes were too oily and missing some taste, but they have sauces on the table for you to add on if needed.

The onion fried mutton is super tasty, highly recommended, the other two dishes- braised eggplant, potato and pepper; and Braised beef brisket with dried beancurd was not what I expected. The delivery is fast during weekdays' dinner time, the other time I went there over weekend, it's super crowded, so you know when to go now.

I'm a huge fan of biang biang style noodles (I think), and Xian kitchen was recommended to me as a great location for the dish. I went here about a year ago and had a notably unremarkable experience with their special hot oil noodle - the texture was not (IMO) QQ enough and flavor wise things just weren't "hitting". Perhaps I'm too big a fan of the other places in the bay area for this dish (qq noodle, ok noodle, etc)I went in here a second time in May and unfortunately things hadn't gotten any better. This time, I tried the pork bun which came back WAY too salty. And this is from a guy who loves/needs salty food to function (my body loves to sweat and smell bad - sorry!). Thankfully, the servers were kind and attentive enough to give us a new pork bun dish with less salt...but only because they put in significantly less meat!I opted for the hometown style noodle with vegetable and pork. Again, the flavors here were just...off. So was the texture of the noodle. A bit too much of a bite (for me). Maybe this is the most authentic place on the planet - I can't really speak on that credibly. I will say it's not somewhere I'm visiting again in the future.

Food: very authentic Chinese cuisine and their specialty is noodles in north west region local food. The portion here is pretty huge, so my friends and I are always eat half and keep half for dinner whenever we don't feel like cooking the dinner. Biang Biang noodle (spicy oil) is very recommended as your first thing to start here!Service: Very nice yet since most of the customers are Asian, they tend to serve with Chinese first but no need to worry about communication.Ambiance: very casual and a bit small.

*** Takeout alarm***Absolutely don't try it with takeout orders.We order a $19 lamb pao mo and there isn't any piece of lamb inside. Perhaps only costs $5 in food ingredients.

We stopped through Milpitas on our way from Monterey to San Jose and loved this restaurant. Our party of 4 was seated immediately. Ordering is done online with photos of dishes, as well as chinese and english menu. This place serves Shaanxi dishes, including rou jia mo ('Chinese hamburger', a pita-like bread stuffed with braised slices of beef or pork with some fresh garnishes) a variety of noodle soups as well as the iconic yang rou pao mo (bits of pita-like bread scattered over a piping bowl of lamb/mutton stew).I tried the latter dish and enjoyed it, though was truly too stuffed to attempt to finish it. We also all shared an order of the beef roll, which is a scallion pancake rolled up with slices of braised beef. The pancake was thin and had the just-right chewy texture, and the beef was flavorful.Staff were very friendly, and service was quick!

Worst food I have even had in my life. Worst came imagine the taste I did to go the food. Just very bad