Based on 195 reviews, the restaurant has received a rating of 4.2 stars. Price $
✔️ Dine-in ✔️ Takeout ✔️ No-contact delivery
Address:
6530 Pardall Rd SUIT.B, Goleta, CA 93117
Phone: (805) 845-1614
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Hours
| Friday | 11 AM–10 PM |
| Saturday | 11 AM–10 PM |
| Sunday | 11 AM–10 PM |
| Monday
(Labor Day)
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Closed
Holiday hours
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| Tuesday | 11 AM–10 PM |
| Wednesday | 11 AM–10 PM |
| Thursday | 11 AM–10 PM |
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Reviews
Shelly Shi
Visiting the beach with our dog and passing through the college town. Love the dog-friendly patio seating. We did noodles our own way, and both noodles we ordered are ok taste but not my favorite sauce. The pork belly buns were good though!
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Michael Katz
Lao wang is some of the best food in IV. I love how accessible it is. Their food is delicious and the service is always great! The craft your own mala tang noodles are yummy; its truly healing food if you’re sick. The buns are also some of my favorites 😀 cant wait to go back!
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Kelsey Yip
Lao Wang YUMMMmm, this is by far the safest and my go-to option in IV (imo). The food here is always consistent! I got the sweet and sour chicken rice bowl with an add on of garlic tofu and let me tellll you, it’s delicious! The chicken is crisp and tender with a coat of their homemade sweet and sour sauce, added on was fried tofu in their yummy garlic sauce, and the bowl comes with egg roll, corn, and Mac salad! I also tried their spam, Chinese sausage and popcorn chicken buns. This was a flavorful appetizer. I highly recommend trying them with spicy mayo and jalapeños that they provide in the dining room. And lastly, for this meal, I ordered the curry chicken fingers. As you bite into this, you can see the coat of curry sitting in between the chicken and batter. It is flavorful in itself, but dipped in ranch is even better! To quench your thirst, they have a variety of beverages like tea in the fridge (my fav is the herbal tea). Josh, the manager, definitely does a great job in recommending which items are good for you, and esp if it’s your first visit, he’ll eagerly want to present the menu to you. I highly recommend you try this place out and ask Josh for recs. Also it’s right outside Pardall tunnel, very close to campus!
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Akshay Agrawal
Excellent restaurant to try some great Asian food. I tried their Vegan lunch (Rice noodles with toppings) Vegan Soybean Chicken and Tofu buns. High quality and tasty ingredients are used throughout their menu. Most dishes do contain peanuts so please be sure to ask if you are alergic. They have a mini section for free sauces where you can get sides of spicy mayo, chilli oil, soy sauce and peanut sauce.
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ayala keren
very nice workers and quick service, their soups are a 10/10, i got their sweet and sour chicken (pretty sure thats what it was called) and it was just ok? still recommend going and getting a soup tho! free fountain drinks too
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Shaolian Wu
Come here 3 times a week. High quality asian food, awesome service, the manager is very nice. They also serve awesome alcohol here!
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Mokuyu Koo
I come here almost every day. I like the hot and spicy pot so much. It reminds me of my hometown far away. It’s a nice place to chill out with friends. It’s also the first restaurant I had visited when I was a freshman here at UCSB. There are so many memories
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Toni Shindler-Ruberg
The soup goes crazy on cold nights. Stopped by with a few friends for soup and buns! A little salty but super flavorful. The cashiers were helpful, grabbing cups and to-go containers for me. Yum!!
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Henry C.
Remind me not to order from here again lol, that’s the worst chicken bowl I’ve had around here. The bun was alright, I wish the portion could be larger.
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scott k
Had lunch in Isla Vista, pork chashu small rice bowl, with 2 bao buns, Chinese sausage and popcorn chicken, and a june shine mango alcoholic kombucha. Came back after walking around and got a mala tang egg noodle bowl to go with beef, wood ear and enoki mushrooms for dinner later, so good.
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