Northern Cafe (SGV) - Oodles of Noodles: Picks and pics

[selfish_shellfish]

Yeah, based on the menus, I was pretty sure that the MP Northern Cafe was unrelated to the Temple City/Westside ones (and the food certainly is). But now that I look closer, it seems they all used to be related and MP broke off. These are take-out menus for MP, Cerritos, and Temple City. (Screenshots from Yelp, other branches look like TC menu)

Cerritos has MP’s naming and circle logo, but the dishes follow the rest of the chain. (And the circle contains the chain’s name, even at MP). I can see why the manager needed to be so emphatic to @Chowseeker1999 that MP was not related to any others.

@Chowseeker1999

We originally didn’t pay much attention to FTC reports about “Northern Cafe” because having tried a couple branches, they were mediocre at best. But as @chandavkl and @J_L thankfully clarified, this particular branch of Northern Cafe in Monterey Park (on Garfield Avenue) is not related to the other Northern Cafes. We stopped by this branch with a few Chinese-speaking friends who spoke at length with a manager, who emphatically said that their store was not related to any other “Northern Cafe”. Interesting.