Jubao Palace Noodle Bar

They have a large variety of menu options. All of the phở’s are very good and authentic. The rice dishes are very good and they have peking duck and it is very tasty. The prices are very reasonable for the portions received.

Chinese food here is great. My favorite is the oxtail noodle soup. Never in my life have I tasted such soft and tender oxtail in perfectly prepared broth. Its amazing after hours of poker. Great atmosphere and friendly staff.

First off… THIS PLACE IS BUSY!!!
1. service was very prompt and nice… she was very busy but I received my food fast!
2. I ordered the noodles with BBQ pork… the broth was flavorful… and the BBQ pork is so good you would think that you got it from Chinatown!!!
3. I sat next to a lady and she was eating the fried rice… she said, «it’s sooooooo good». You could see the chef cooking your fried rice in a huge wok on top of a huge flame
4. Price is a little high… but I’ve gambled enough to have a $ 20 comp which covered my meal.

I always get the charsiu and shrimp wonton noodle soup. It’s very good and flavorful. I always have to stop by this place when I’m at the casino. However it is bit overpriced but then again it’s inside a casino. XD

It wasnt bad if you like new things its a great place. I ordered the chicken and rice soy sauce but the chicken was almost all bone and they didnt allow me to switch the stick rice to fried rice

I’m a big fan of this place. It has the best thai tea in town and I love that it’s open late. As someone who complains that there aren’t enough places open late, I’m glad I have the noodle bar to go to. The appetizers are amazing, especially the summer rolls. The noodle bowls themselves are great, but the broths are bland. I enjoy the toppings and noodles more anyway. I’ve tried the wonton/​pork, duck, and five spiced beef stew. The beef stew is my favorite out of the three. Nearly all noodle bowls are priced at $ 12. The bar is a sit quickly, eat quickly, and leave quickly place. Don’t be surprised to see people standing right behind you for your spot.
Edit 06÷16÷15: The thai tea has decreased in quality last couple of times I went. It tastes watered down. Their bbq pork is probably the best I’ve tasted in the Tampa Bay area. Skip the soy sauce chicken.
Edit 10÷19÷15: Current favorites: bbq pork, five spice beef stew, xo seafood fried rice

There are better options to eat in the casino. The food is average, the prices are too high, the wait was very long, the seating is limited, and the atmosphere isn’t good as it’s located right on the edge of the casino where people are smoking. That basically sums it up.
If you really want Asian food at the casino, go upstairs to Rock ‘n Raw; at least the atmosphere is nicer there and you can get a seat easily. The Fresh Harvest buffet also has an Asian station.

Had the duck and pork. I think the food was really good. The service was fast and very friendly. The place was packed. But we got in right away. I recommend to anyone interested.

Once or twice a year I get dragged to this casino. And this noodle bar was the only thing I actually enjoyed about going there. Usually I always go for the appetizers and the rice dishes. The soups suck.
No longer.
We ate here last Saturday and the food made us ill. I did notice the food tasted «off» but I had not eaten all day and ignored it b/​c I was STARVING.
Had a stomach ace for two days.
You have been warned.

For a noodle bar in Casino, it’s pretty darn good and has more to offer than just «noodles». Unfortunately, the seat is very limited. The seating is around the Noodle Bar; bar style, high chairs and counter. It can get very busy there so lots of time so you’ll have to order to go.
The Beef Stew w/​Tendon noodle soup is EXCELLENT there. I like it with the thin rice noodles, same one they use for Phở. They have 3 type of noodles, egg noodle, and rice noodle (thin or wide).
The combination rice platter is also one of my top picks because not many places can make good or decent Chinese BBQ. Even though I had much better chinese bbq than this place has to offer, it’s good for a Noodle Bar in a Casino. Everytime I visit HardRock Tampa, I always stop this place to satisfy my hunger!

I love to get my gamble on from time to time. A great fuel for those gambling sprees? The BBQ Pork with Noodle Bowl from this teeny tiny piece of heaven located inside the Hard Rock Casino. There are very few seats at the busy, busy counter. If you hang for long enough, you will definitely get a spot. Don’t be crabby if you can’t get in right away; take a walk around the game floor and roll back by, eventually a chair will open up. The Roast Duck is also succulent. Chase it all with a Coconut Milk drink… then get back to the fun!

Love, love, love! Never had a bad meal. My favorite is the pork and shrimp with wonton and rice noodle. 12.00 how can you go wrong.
The service is a little slow but it’s worth the wait

Yes it takes patience and a lot of luck to be able to find an open seat at the small bar area but it’s always worth the wait. Probably the best Chinese noodle soup in Tampa in my opinion. The quality of the noodles far exceed anything compared to some of the other top Chinese restaurants here in Tampa. Also, even though this may be a noodle bar, the combination fried rice is probably the best thing on their menu.

After trying to get a seat visit after visit after visit, with only 15 or so seats is VERY difficult to get a seat… we FINALLY got to try this out. We had dumplings as an appetizer as we decided on the rest of our meal. My husband had the roast pork noodle soup and I had the spare ribs with steamed rice.
I have to say that if you want to swap out the steamed rice with fried rice you have to buy the fried rice as another meal. Really!!! If you just want to have fried rice instead of steamed — they should offer to do it at a $ 1.00 or $ 2.00 mark up!
Everything was very good. We enjoyed the meal. And if we can ever get a seat again, we will definitely be back!

Hahahaha when we saw this area, we saw peking duck, and roast pig hanging and it was PACKED with asian clientele as it only had counter seating, but looks are deceiving. Considering its a noodle bar, the phở would be good right? wrong. I got the phở here. If you are craving phở, best bet is to go to an actual phở restaurant or make it at home. The phở here is not worth the price (and the price is more expensive compared to other authentic phở restaurants). The other dishes might be, but not the phở. First off, you can’t ask for additional lime, as they only would give you 2 VERY SKINNY slices of lime, thats it! Which isn’t enough to flavor their bland phở.

When I was so kindly invited to try my palate at Hard Rock Tampa’s latest nourishment offering, I was ecstatic. As many of you already know, I am quite the noodle head. Due to some bittersweet lifestyle changes though, I rarely eat the flour and rice squiggles of deliciousness. Carbs are without question, my biggest food «frienemy.» But when Juabao Palace Noodle Bar insisted we reacquaint on a night of scrumptious slurping, I was game. Walking into the coin spitting room of slot machines, Chris and I quickly spotted the 15 seat, open kitchen, noodle praising bar. Completely packed with patrons, we found the last two seats in a cozy corner. As I looked at the customers who surrounded us, I realized that nearly all were of Asian ethnicity. When you see people eating their native cuisine from a restaurant outside of their homeland, you know it has got to be solid. After meeting the gracious Chef Michael, a former New Yorker with over 10 years’ experience in Asian gastronomy, we decided on a couple of dishes to begin with.
As I was demolishing my duck and noodles, Chris was inhaling his Dumpling bowl. Not only did this bowl come full of pasta pillows stuffed with pork, scallions and spices, it was also filled to the brim with his choice of long noodles! Double the noodles, double the chowing fun, right? To switch things up, he chose the egg noodle to make noodle love to the delicate dumplings. I couldn’t make up my mind with which noodle dish I preferred. Though the duck was awfully tasty, those dumplings were pretty luscious in their bold filling flavor and soft texture. The broth was again, missing a touch of pungent flavors but the dumplings easily stood on their own. With a quick noodle disappearing act, I easily resisted the urge to pick up my bowl to drink the broth dry. One would think we’d be silly stuffed with all of our noodle indulging but luckily, the portions weren’t insanely big. Alright, are you downright sick of reading the word «noodle» yet? Noodle, noodle, noodle, noodle!
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keep in mind that bowl of PHO is 12.00!!! The most Ive ever paid for a GREAT and HUGE bowl of PHO was 8.00…This casino continues to rip everybody off… I wish they had some competition so they would have to get their food and liquor prices in line with Las Vegas casinos… Dont waste your money on the food in this place unless you have free credits you need to use up. The buffet upstairs in the size of a football field and I could only find about 6 things to eat that were «edible.» Not even great, just edible. That buffet is 35.00 on Sunday… Council Oak steakhouse might be fabulous but it will easily cost you 100.00+ a person to have a 4 course meal (appetizer, salad, steak and desert (if you want a potato with that steak its extra!)…If you have wine its even more!!! The «Green Room» is the color you will be if you eat there. its horrible.I had one of the worst meals EVER in this restaurant. It was so bad it was almost comical and the waiters reaction was so blasé’(like «what did you expect?») that I thought I was on a candid camera episode… I hear the Hard Rock Café is OK if you want to get pounded by 10,000 decibels of noise while you eat… if you must eat, try the el cheapo food court/barforama…At least you can see it before you order it. RISE DELI is about the only choice if you must eat… The chicken pot pie is done really well there and the sandwiches are, if not the best, at least edible… And as always, enjoy being marinated and suffocated by the cigarette smoke all over the casino. The only people that dont smoke here are the ones that already have cancer and roll their oxygen tanks around from machine to machine. actually some of them still smoke too… You will come out smelling like you have a 4 pack a day habit. I strip at the back door and throw all of my clothes in the washer when I get home and take a bath and I still smell like cigarettes for a week! Enjoy!!!

Awesome that the Seminole Hard Rock Casino now has this as a dining option. It’s as if you’re there in that foreign land. I will be back!

Came here with a group of friends after some gambling to try the phở.
Two stars… «Meh, I’ve experienced better.»
You would think they would try a little harder to make good phở especially when they created a whole new gambling section of «Asian» table games. But no… the phở was the worst I have ever had. The broth was severly lacking in flavor and the steak slices were very rubbery. Took me a minute or two to chew each slice. Someone else in our party got fried rice, which he enjoyed. So I guess this review is just on the phở. I can’t speak for anything else that comes from here. They also have duck and char siu pork there, so those might be worth a try. All I know is I will not be ordering the phở if i EVER come back…