The Noodle Shop
164 W 25th Ave, San Mateo
(650) 345-1277
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Hunan Special Combination Chow Mein
Combination Rice and Noodles
Twice Cooked Pork with Rice
Pig's Ear with Chili Oil
Eggplant in Garlic Sauce
Beef with String Beans
Sauteed Fish Fillet
Hot & Sour Soup
Shredded Pork
Chilli Wings
Appetizers
Combination Beef in Red Oil
Served spicy.
Crushed Garlic Cucumbers
Shredded Potato Salad
Served spicy.
Five Spiced Beef
Cure Pork Roll Sausage
Beef Cartilage in Spicy Sauce
Served spicy.
Beef Intestines in Spicy Sauce
Served spicy.
Szechwan Style Cold Jelly
Served spicy.
Savory Shredded Bean Curd
Pig's Ear with Chili Oil
Served spicy.
Dim Sum
BBQ Pork Bun
3 pieces.
pan Fried Pork Bun
5 pieces.
Shanghai Steamed Pork Mini Bun
8 pieces.
Vegetable Egg Roll
4 pieces.
Pot Stickers
6 pieces.
Napa Cabbage Pork Dumplings
8 pieces.
Pan Fried Chinese Chives Boxes
Steamed Crab Meat & Pork Mini Bun
8 pieces.
Steam Pork Dumplngs
6 pieces.
Sesame Ball
8 pieces.
Pork & Shrimp with Leeks Dumplings
8 pieces.
Vegetable Bun
4 pieces.
Mini Bun
6 pieces. Steamed or fried.
Soups
Wor Wonton Soup
Hot & Sour Soup
Served spicy.
Sizzling Rice Soup
West Lake Beef Soup
Corn with Chicken Soup
Seafood with Tofu Soup
Chicken & Jijia with Tofu Soup
Mu-Shu
Mu-Shu Pork
Mu-Shu Chicken
Mu-Shu Shrimp
Mu-Shu Beef
Mu-Shu Veggie
Lettuce Cup
Minced Chicken
Minced Veggie
Minced Shrimp
Minced Fish
Casserole
Special Duck Soup
Served spicy.
House Pork Rib with Bamboo Shoots
Fish Fillet with Tofu Casserole
Served spicy.
House Chicken Soup
Hunan Chicken Fillet Casserole
Served spicy.
Hunan Pickled Veggie Fish Fillet Casserole
Served spicy.
Seafood
Salt Pepper Fish Fillet
Honey Walnut Prawns
Spicy Boiled Fish Fillet Special Edit
Served spicy.
Dry Chili Fish Fillet
Served spicy.
Sauteed Fish Fillet
Fish Fillet with Wine Sauce
Sauteed Fish Fillet with Ji Cai
Hunan Spicy Boiled Fish Fillet
Served spicy.
Crispy Flounder Fish
Fish Fillet in Cold Jelly
Served spicy.
Fish Fillet with Black Bean Sauce
Fresh Chilli Paste with Fish Fillet
Served spicy.
Sauteed Spicy Fish Fillet with Tofu
Served spicy.
Prawns with String Beans
Kung Pao Fish Fillet
Served spicy.
Fiah Fillet Buried in Chili Pepper Soup
Served spicy.
Stremed Flounder Fish
Pan Fried Flounder Fish
Steamed Yellow Fish
Yellow Fish with Garlic Sauce
Served spicy.
Sweet & Sour Yellow Fish
Fish Fillet in Hot Bean Sauce
Served spicy.
Steamed Fish Fillet
Broccoli Prawn
Prawns with Vegetables
Prawns with Garlic Sauce
Served spicy.
Hunan Prawns
Served spicy.
Prawns with Cashews Nuts
Kung Pao Prawns
Served spicy.
Mao's Sauteed Prawns
Dry Sauteed Prawns in Pepper Sauce
Served spicy.
Clam with Black Dean Sauce
Mix Seafood in Spicy Sauce
Served spicy.
Steam Scallop with Rice Noodle
Frog
Sauteed Frog in White Sauce
Dry Sauteed Frog in Pepper Sauce
Served spicy.
Chicken
General Tso's Chicken
Served spicy.
Dry Chili Chicken Wing
Served spicy.
Sesame Chicken
Sweet & Sour Chicken
Kung Pao Chicken
Served spicy.
Chicken with Vegetables
Chicken with Strng Beans
Chicken with Cahsew Nuts
Broccoli Chicken
Dry Sauteed Chicken in Pepper Sauce
Served spicy.
Hunan Salt Pepper Chicken Wings
Served spicy.
Dry Sauteed Chicken
Served spicy.
Chicken with Garlic Sauce
Served spicy.
Hunan Chicken
Served spicy.
Mongolian Chicken
Served spicy.
Curry Chicken
Chicken with Snow Peas
Numbing Spicy Chicken Fillet
Served spicy.
Beef
Braised Beef Stew
Broccoli Beef
Mongolian Beef
Served spicy.
Kung Pao Beef
Served spicy.
Beef with Green Onion
Hunan Spicy Boiled Beef
Served spicy.
Hunan Garlic Beef
Black Pepper Beef
Served spicy.
Sauteed Beef with Spicy Tofu
Served spicy.
Numbing Spicy Beef
Served spicy.
Beef with String Beans
Hot Spicy Beef Tendons
Served spicy.
Dry Sauteed Beef in Pepper Sauce
Served spicy.
Hunan Beef
Served spicy.
Beef with Spicy Pepper
Served spicy.
Lamb
Lamb with Cumin
Served spicy.
Lamb with Green Onion
Hunan Boiled Lamb
Served spicy.
Lamb with Spicy Pepper
Served spicy.
Pork
Mao's Special Twice Cooked Pork
Served spicy.
Hunan Shredded Pork in Spicy Sauce
Served spicy.
Braised Meat Ball
Served spicy.
Shredded Pork with Soybean Curd
Salt & Pepper Pork Ribs
Braised Bacou Cut Pork
Served spicy.
Shredded Pork with Ji Cai
Mao's Braised Pork
Served spicy.
Shredded Pork with Bamboo Shoot
Shredded Pork in Garlic Sauce
Served spicy.
White Bamboo Shoot with Shredded Pork
Shredded Pork with Preserved Cabbage
Braised Pork Ribs
Leaf Tripe with Blood Pudding
Served spicy.
Green Bean Noodles with Ground Meat
Served spicy.
Dry Chili Pork Kidney
Served spicy.
Flaming Spicy Pork Kidney
Numbing Spicy pork Kidney
Served spicy.
Dry Braised Pork Intestine
Served spicy.
Spicy Stew Pork Intestine
Served spicy.
Pork with Spicy Pepper
Served spicy.
Tofu
Ma Po tofu
Served spicy.
Salt Pepper Tofu
Served spicy.
Braised Tofu
Hunan Style Tofu
Served spicy.
Double Mushroom Tofu
Fresh Chili Paste with Shrimp & Tofu
Served spicy.
Tofu with Salt Egg & Shrimps
Home Style Tofu in Spicy Sauce
Served spicy.
Kung Pao Tofu
Served spicy.
Vegetables
Vegetable Delight
Dry Suteed String Beans
Eggplant in Garlic Sauce
Served spicy.
Sauteed Snow Pears with Garlic Sauce
Mushrooms with Tender Green
Spinach in Superior Broth
Snow Pears in Superior Broth
Szechwan Style Potato Strips
Served spicy.
Salt Egg with Pumpkin
Salt Egg with Eggplant
Yangzhou Boiled Bean Curd
Sauteed Pumpkin
Chow Mein & Fried Rice
White Rice
Hunan Special Combination Chow Mein
Served spicy.
Chicken Chow Mein
Hunan Special Combination Fried Rice
Served spicy.
Spicy Beef Stew Noodle Soup
Served spicy.
Yang Zhou Fried Rice
Chicken Fried Rice
Beef Chow Mein
Fried Rice Cake with Cabbage & Pork
Pork Fried Rice
Fried Rice Cake with Ji Cai & Pork
Veggie Chow mein
Peanut Butter with Hot Chili Sauce Noodle
Served spicy.
Wonton Noodle Soup
Pork & Preserved Cabbage Noodle Soup
Pork Chow Mein
Pork & Preserved Veggie Noodle Soup
Seafood & Veggie Noodle Soup
Salt Pork with Veggie Fried Rice
Beef Fried Rice
Seafood Da-Lu Noodle Soup
Hunan Hot & Sour Clear Noodle Soup
Served spicy.
Chicken & Veggie Noodle Soup
Mao Spicy Combination Noodle Soup
Served spicy.
Veggie Noodle Soup
Bean Sauce Noodle
Seafood Spicy Noodle Soup
Served spicy.
Pork Intestine Clear Noodle Soup
Served spicy.
House Chicken Soup with Fan Noodle
Preserved Cabbage & Pork Rice Cake
Lunch Special
Twice Cooked Pork & Rice in Bamboo Basket
Served spicy. Served with white rice, soup, egg roll.
Hunan Shredded Pork & Rice in Bamboo Basket
Served spicy. Served with white rice, soup, egg roll.
Black Pepper Beef & Rice in Bamboo Basket
Served spicy. Served with white rice, soup, egg roll.
Kung Pao Chicken & Rice in Bamboo Basket
Served spicy. Served with white rice, soup, egg roll.
Chicken with String Beans & Rice in Bamboo Basket
Served with white rice, soup egg roll.
Beef Stew & Rice in Bamboo Basket
Served with white rice, soup, egg roll.
Mongolian Beef & Rice in Bamboo Basket
Served spicy. Served with white rice, soup, egg roll.
Shredded Pork with Garlic Sauce & Rice in Bamboo Basket
Served spicy. Served with white rice, soup egg roll.
Hunan Prawns & Rice in Bamboo Basket
Served spicy. Served with white rice, soup, egg roll.
Prowns with Snow Peas & Rice in Bamboo Basket
Served with white rice, soup egg roll.
Sauteed Fish Fillet & Rice in Bamboo Basket
Served with white rice, soup egg roll.
Dinner Special
Twice Cooked Pork & Rice in Bamboo Basket
Served spicy. Served with white rice, and egg roll.
Beef Stew & Rice in Bamboo Basket
Served with white rice, and egg roll.
Shredded Pork with Garlic Sauce & Rice in Bamboo Basket
Served spicy. Served with white rice, and egg roll.
Mongolian Beef & Rice in Bamboo Basket
Served spicy. Served with white rice, and egg roll.
Hunan Shredded Pork & Rice in Bamboo Basket
Served spicy. Served with white rice, and egg roll.
Black Pepper Beef & Rice in Bamboo Basket
Served spicy. Served with white rice, and egg roll.
Chicken with String Beans & Rice in Bamboo Basket
Served with white rice, and egg roll.
Hunan Prawns & Rice in Bamboo Basket
Served spicy. Served with white rice, and egg roll.
Sauteed Fish Fillet & Rice in Bamboo Basket
Served with white rice, and egg roll.
Kung Pao Chicken & Rice in Bamboo Basket
Served spicy. Served with white rice, and egg roll.
Prowns with Snow Peas & Rice in Bamboo Basket
Served with white rice, and egg roll.
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Recent Reviews
Longstanding Chinese restaurant located in the downtown area of San Mateo on 25th Avenue. Surprisingly large menu for a restaurant with a compact interior. Portions are large and all the items are reasonably priced. Beef noodle soup was average, as the beef was tough and too much noodles. Fast and friendly service. Plenty of free street parking within a 3-5 minute walk.
December 2025
Mao’s special twice cooked pork is one of my favourite meals in the bay. It nails down the perfect combination of sweet caramelisation with tangy spicy flavour that coats every slice, and the leeks complement the dish nicely. Unbelievable how good it is really.
September 2025
First time in years coming in here. To be real, the food was not as good as before. Portions are still good. The service is better than before. Waiter had great memory remembering us despite not having gone for years. Bigger restaurant now too due to expansion. Ez parking. Prices are still fair!
May 2024
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