Mei Mei Noodle Factory

Called in today and spoke with the owner. He is no longer doing retail and told me that he doesn’t have time to open the noodle shop anymore because he is running a restaurant. Sadness ensues.

This business was great for fresh noodles, I loved walking here at lunch to pick up noodles and then picking up fresh fortune cookies next door. Unfortunately I believe the owners are trying to sell or transfer the business. They’ve been closed and have had a sign written in Chinese posted on their door for at least the last month. Hopefully someone will continue this method of noodle making!!!

Great place, little known gem, I got 1.25 lbs of FRESH wonton skins/​wraps for $ 2. Can’t wait to wrap and try them. Fresh is better than getting the store bought frozen or previously frozen skins from the Chinese grocery stores. Will come back when I’m out. Close by my work and a quite walk during breaks. Hope their prices don’t go up. =) Looks like their prices haven’t gone up too much since 2010 when wonton skins were $ 1.38/lb and $ 0.99/lb for noodles (now they’re $ 1.19/lb), reasonably increased due to inflation, etc. ;o)

I came here last week to purchase some fresh noodles for chow mein that I was going to make. I got the thin noodles and the stir fry noodles. Another Unilocaler said there was cooking instructions, along with the noodles. I didn’t get any instructions with my noodles! Therefore, I followed the Unilocaler’s advice and cooked the noodles for 3 minutes. After boiling for 3 minutes, I drained the noodles and mixed it in with my sauces, veggies and meat. Well, the noodles clumped up in balls and I had a hard time mixing all the ingredients together. Good thing I wasn’t serving this at a party. It would be so embarrassing to even put them out for guests. I ended up giving the other bag of noodles to my mother-​in-​law.

Amazing fresh noodles. Keep going back. Great prices. Come early for vegetable varieties. Fortune cookie factory is next store.

This place is a very recent discovery for me. I’ve been into making Asian food recently, and I gravitate towards making my own «parts» to a reasonable degree. I was looking into making my own noodles when I googled onto this place. I had to drive around the block twice to find this very small mom and pop shop (a poem!) with a screen door with a bell on it. When you walk in you see a husband and wife shop with big bags of flour stacked up all around you, and that’s about it. The husband is rolling out noodles made of pretty much flour and water and nothing else. Staggeringly fresh noodles in about ½ dozen varieties for $ 1.19 a pound. I can’t do better than this.

Coming here to purchase fresh noodles makes me extremely happy. Buying dry noodles from grocery stores is okay and all but fresh noodles gives you that nice chewy texture. I’ve purchased carrot noodles and medium noodles here before. I’ve only made them in a soup and haven’t gotten to making chow mein with them just yet. They do not take long to cook in boiling water, if you are unsure on how to cook them, when you purchase the noodles there is a paper on the side with directions on how to cook them. The carrot noodles are pretty good, the carrot flavor isn’t very up front but you could still taste it. I haven’t made the time to make my own dumpling so I haven’t purchased their wrappers but next time I make time to make some this is definitely going to be the place I’m going to purchase the wrappers. I’ve helped purchased some customized wrappers in large amounts for the «Polish American Club» in Roseville and I like how they use them which makes me more excited to make dumplings :) Price wise I feel like they are very fair and cheap. You can get wrappers and noodles from grocery stores but I think this place is worth a little bit more. The owners is a husband and wife team. Both of them are extremely friendly and if you have any questions about the noodles or wrappers, don’t hesitate to ask them. Do keep an eye out for the store when you’re driving, they are easy to miss. Also, bring CASH as they do not take plastic.

Yes Yes Yes Yes YES!!! So excited I finally tried this place. Every day I walk by the Mei Mei Noodle factory and wonder hmm should I try? And for whatever reason something is always stopping me.
Well yesterday I was pondering about dinner, and the weather finally started looking like Fall so SOUP was on the brain! Thinking where could I get a bang for my buck? Mei Mei! After reading the prices are around $ 1.19 per lb., I grabbed my 3 bucks and walked on over.
This tiny factory sits on 10^th Street right past Fox and Goose. Very ol’ skool, when you walk in the bells on the door chime. A gentlemen was in the process of making noodles, he called to a woman in the back. I requested 2 lbs. of medium size. Within minutes she returned, and asked if 2.5 lbs. was ok? Of course, gave her my $ 3 and was out the door. I love the mom and pop feel, adds to the authenticity.
After grabbing some veggies from the Asian Market I was off to fix my family a meal. I read that thought they post instructions which explain to boil for 5 minutes; this was a bit too long. Luckily I watched the noodles cook, and tasted them at 2 minutes and pulled them all out by 3 minutes. I then quickly rinsed them under cold water, and to prevent sticking I tossed them with a little olive oil. With chicken, broth, veggies and these Mei Mei Noodles; we had some wonderful chicken noodle soup.
I will be back; I’m feeling like I need to make some pot stickers!

Several different varieties of noodles (including whole wheat!) for a buck and some change per pound. Fresh, cheap, and easy to make! I definitely recommend Mei Mei if you are searching for oodles of delicious noodles.

Notice: after years of keeping the same prices, Mei Mei has finally upped their prices.
Even so, they are still a good bargain for the best fresh Asian-​style noodles you can buy in town.
(It was inevitable, I suppose.)
The prices are now as follows:
1) Udon Noodle (large) — $ 1.19/lb
2) Stir Fry Noodle (medium) — $ 1.19/lb
3) Thin Noodle (small) — $ 1.19/lb
4)Dumpling Wraps — #1.50/lb
5) Potsticker wraps — $ 1.50/lb
6) Won Ton wraps — $ 1.50/lb
When I stopped in today, they had both pumpkin noodles and whole wheat noodles in stock.
Where else can you buy ~fresh~ whole wheat noodles, I ask you!

WOW. I run a business and we’ve been buying products from them ever since we opened. They recently changed ownership and this is what happened:
Wednesday: I called to place an order to pick up on Thursday. He (Tony, the owner) said I HAD to pick them up on Wednesday because he didn’t have time to make them on Thursday. What kind of business owner says they don’t have time to make their regular selling products during their regular business hours?! I decide to go pick them up anyway because if I didn’t, I wouldn’t have any for when I needed them. And btw, he raised the prices.
Thursday: I opened them and I tried using the products and realized that the quality was not the same! The wrappers were dry and the edges were not cut well. They were jagged and uneven. It was already late in the day and I knew they close early so I waited until today (Friday) to give them a call.
Friday: I called them right when I got to work, very nicely and politely told him my situation and asked if I could get an exchange. He raised his voice and started yelling at me! He said I can’t get an exchange because it’s already been a few days. I told him it was because he basically forced me to buy them on Wednesday when I told him I needed them on Thursday, was the reason why I didn’t open them until Thursday. He said that it was my fault I wanted to pick them up on Wednesday, and I said NO, I didn’t have a choice because I needed them on Thursday and if I didn’t get them by Wednesday I wouldn’t have any at all. He basically said it was my fault. Then he said, if I brought them back he wouldn’t have any use for them. WHAT?! Neither do I! I told him the quality was bad and I am always a happy and returning customer and it was just this batch that I would like exchanged. He told me «Oh, it’s just a few dollars, just forget about them and buy more.»
As a business manager, I always go the extra length to make sure a customer is happy with what they get, whether it’s «just a few dollars» or more. And I told him that. If it was just a few dollar to him then why couldn’t he replace them? He then said (out of nowhere… I didn’t even know it was getting to this point) that this was how he does business, I shouldn’t tell him how to do his business, and told me not to go back to buy his products. At this point (I was still polite and definitely not at the same anger level as him), I said to him that he definitely lost a customer who has spent hundreds if not thousands of dollars, over a mere $ 8.40 worth of dumpling wrappers.
The lady before was SO SO nice and helpful and I loved her so much! She always went out of her way to make an order for me when I was in a rush and needed products right away. She always took the time to teach me how to prepare them, and taught me what the difference was in all the different products. Tony is the complete opposite and doesn’t care about his business, customers, or even the products that he’s trying to sell.

Amazing value for delicious, fresh Chinese noodles and wrappers (for dumplings and wont tons)! Seriously. Nothing is more than $ 2 a pound, and all regular noodles are 99 cents/​lb. That’s a smokin’ deal. Compare it to any store in the area.
Friendly service, fun special noodles (whenever they decide to do them)… just good stuff.

Proprietors are helpful, kind, and fast — great service. And you can’t beat 99¢ a pound for the (fantastic, toothsome) soup noodles! One note: the website says boil for 5 minutes, but 3 – 4 for these is better or they get kind of soft.
I buy 5 pounds every few months — they keep perfectly in the freezer. Wonderful with braised beef ribs and bok choi.

My sister works down the street from this place and I seen a review two or six weeks ago about the place and called her to ask if she would pick me up some.
So a couple days later I had three sizes of noodles, some pot sticker wraps and a crap ton of what they called wonton wraps for soup.
I’m so used to dried noodles I’m not going star those but it gets 4 stars because of the wonton wraps and the pot sticker wraps that I made raviolis and cheese wontons with that were great, I fried them, boiled them and had them with marinara and some with sriracha.
I’ve forgot the prices, but it was dirt cheap.

I stopped in here after leaving New World Bakery. For some reason I thought they actually order food from here but it’s a noodle shop. I thought what could I make I never really made any Asian dishes before but what the heck I was going to try something different. The noodles they make are so fresh I cooked them and thought I would try to make chicken chow mein. Not knowing how dish would turn out since I stepped out of my comfort zone I was actually surprised how it turned out (see photo). The noodles are delicious and my chow mein came out even better. I will definitely be getting more noodles and for $ 0.99 a lb you can’t go wrong. The lady that helped me was so helpful answered many of my questions and a all round great experience.

this place is a hidden jewel the people are very sweet and prices are amazing freshest made noodles in town for the people who dont think they need Chinese noddle go there and buy noodle and treat it like you would the best freshest spaghetti you ever had!
if they are open the fortune cookie factory next door is very interesting and the broken cookies are a great deal the cookie place dont like you to take pictures but you will want to
these 2 stores make you feel like you are in 1950 china

Came across this on Unilocal and GLAD I DONE SO :) lil shop featuring FRESH MADE NOODLES for stir fry or soups. The lady was so nice, just walk in choose what # of noodle you want and the by the lbs. I will return

NOODLE HEAVEN!
This place is awesome! I wish I lived here so I can buy noodles everyday, everyday.
They make fresh noodles and everyday had different specials I think… I was a day too late after the whole wheat noodles. I was still very happy though and their selection. They had udon noodles, chow mein noodles, stir fry noodles, potstickers… OMG and SOME! They even make a chow mein sauce they sell, for cheap! My favorite are the udon noodles… perfect for ko piak!!! KO PIAK !!! YEA!!! NOODLES!!! MMM!!!
The two individuals who sold us the noodles, were an older man and woman and were very polite and friendly. They couldn’t speak english very well but had paper in handwriting stating the ingredients of the chow mein sauce and they pointed to their signs. Very fresh!
The noodles are all 99 cents/​lb!!! I went home to make my noodles and they were SO GOOD! SO FRESH and you can freeze them until you’re ready to make em. The next time I stop in Sac, I’m def. stopping here again to load up on my noodles! I’ve never been to a place like this and this really is NOODLE HEAVEN.

I fell in love with the stir fry noodles … I love that this store has 8 items. nothing more.
Noodles are delicious after 5 mins of boiling.

Foodie friends, welcome home, for this is THE place to go for fresh noodles! Nothing fancy, this is a straight up factory. But don’t let the worn exterior and screen door fool you, for you are getting more than you can expect. Menu is on the wall, it’s simple, and there are instructions on the wall to cook them properly. The older folks behind the counter don’t speak a lot of english, but break it down for you in «plain english». The last time I went in there, they were selling pumpkin noodles, and I was scurrred to try them. But once I got home, I was kicking myelf for not. I mean, the prices here are ridiculous cheap, so what did I have to lose? Ugh, still kicking myself!
Fall is here, and Winter is coming, time for some noodle soup! Time for a trip to Mei Mei Noodle Factory!