TK Noodle House Kona

we had dinner the other night, food was very good, service was excellent.
only issue was people from other tables told us that the owner kept ALL the tips.
Not fair if it’s true.

I’m actually taking time out of my day to support this business and write a review, something I rarely do. We eat here often and the food is always good. Every time they deliver. The service can definitely be improved, but the food is amazing. My kids also love the Shabu Shabu side of the restaurant where they get to pick out their own ingredients and add them to a soup cooking on our table. If you want a yummy meal, you can count on them to deliver. I suggest their gigantic soups or any noodle dish. I particularly love their spinach noodles. I would love to see the quality of service catch up with the quality of their food.

This is the worst Thai food I’ve ever had in my life!!! The papaya salad is extremely sweet and sour! The hot tea is salty! The Sambal beef felt like cooked in last week! The veggie is extremely sweet and salty! Nothing tastes like Thai food! Nothing tastes good at all!!! The most terrible experience we had in big island. Not recommend!!!

Amazing flavors! Every dish was phenomenal. Had the chicken salad wraps, beef salad, lamb clay pot, egg plant sauté dish, beef chow fun and green Papaya salad. Can’t imagine they make a disappointing dish here. Our new fav Kona spot. Prices were totally reasonable as well. Low key environment.
One note, the fried ice cream was a little too sweet (from the syrups on the breading. Would skip that next time.
Definitely recommend!

We loved this place! I got the chicken chow fun noodle. It had great flavor. The chicken was cut in pretty large chain is which was unusual but didn’t deter me from liking this dish. My husband didn’t love his as much though. He got oxtail soup. He loved the meat, but not the soup broth as much. We would come back! Great service and great environment.

They have traditional ramen noodles. Nothing special. My noodles were bit over cooked. Priced reasonable and I was stuffed.

Great job chef!
I don’t know how you have the time to have so many restaurants, and somehow you are always present when I visit.
The staff was attentive and polite, but not overbearing like most places are in Hawaii. This makes for a better flow in table conversation.
Food was delicious and timely. Noodles were fresh and delicious!
When will you open a restaurant in Waimea??? You would be very successful in this community. Thank you so much

Average Thai food at best. Pad Thai sauce was literally out of a packet… I recognize that taste from the take home grocery packets & mall food courts.
The eggplant local dish was decent but nothing to write home about.
The true disappointments were the deserts… they looked so good.
The fried ice cream has little flavor beyond the oil and the ‘casing’ was soo thick. The mango and sticky rice was great (the locally sourced Mango was unbelievably good) but then ruined as they poured this odd green and red syrup over everything. The poured the same syrup on the fried ice cream.
I lowered my review from a 3 to a two as I write this as I realized how disappointing this place was.

My husband & I are here right now, enjoying the following: green papaya salad ($ 13), Chicken Yakisoba ($ 12), and Sambal Beef ($ 12) and for desert, we are having coconut sticky rice with mango & ice cream. First off, the portions are huge. Two people, I would say, could easily eat one order. Yes, it is pricey, but what can you expect… you are on the Big Island on the Kona side — this is our second trip from San Diego — it’s a tourist area, lol. We are loving it! On our 3^rd day here this time around, this by far, is the best food we’ve had. The noodles had a lot of flavor, and lots of chicken with shrimp, lots of veggies. Loved the green papaya salad! I’m sharing some pictures.
I would come back while we are here on the island.
P. S. We met the Chef himself, TK. Very nice, humble guy. warm and sincere, who loves his Mom.

Not sure what the hype was about, but it is just an another café with pretty salty. fish-​saucy food.
I guess i am from california and am very spoiled with my choices of asian fusion, but this place is just overpriced for what it is.
The duck noodle soup and phở just doesn’t taste authentic enough and the thai beef salad was just too much fish sauce over the bed of lettuces. the only bonus is that they give you a lot of meat. so good job!

What!!! Thai noodles for real in Kona — SO HAPPY!!!
My wife is 100% THAI and is always on the lookout for traditional Thai noodle soup. TK is the answer in Kona.
Their menu is diverse and shows a deep understanding of spices and cooking methods to brig out the flavor in all ingredients.
TK is usually there and always ready to come and speak with you.
They have an icy desert machine there that is good — but not shaved ice.
I have not tried the Shabu Shabu yet but will soon.

I drive past this place every week on my way to work and have always wanted to try it out… FINALLY. So, Unilocal tells me this place is «Vietnamese, Asian Fusion». Hmm… it really isn’t Vietnamese. I’d say it’s heavily Thai influenced. So if you’re coming here expecting some top-​notch phở in Kona, you’re probably going to be disappointed. They have a lot of items on their menu, and a lot of it has Thai ingredients, spices, etc. Probably will have to come back on several occasions in order to try it all.
This trip, I ordered the Pork Belly appetizer — it was DELICIOUS. Reading other reviews on Unilocal prompted me to order it, and I was satisfied with my choice. There’s a slight kick to it, if you’re into spicy foods.
For my entrée, I ordered the Oxtail Kim Chee Fried Rice. I’ll be honest — I was a little disappointed. Don’t get me wrong, it was tasty, but definitely not what I had in mind when I though «kim chee». Again, the foods are heavily Thai influenced. I’ve had my fair share of kim chee fried rice, and there was no kim chee in there at all. Well, there was pickled cabbage, but no spicy pickled cabbage. There were spices on the rice, maybe some sort of powdered kim chee spice? I’m not a chef, I wouldn’t know. But, I do know I didn’t expect that. Nonetheless, it was still tasty. Could have done without that many carrots though.
Overall, service was good. The place was clean. There is a lot of parking in front. I’d come back to try their other dishes, when I’m in the mood for some Thai fusion foods.
Enjoy!

During my trip to the Big Island, we were dying for some Vietnamese food. We found this place on Unilocal and decided to try it out from all the food reviews. But it was just an utter disappointment, very sugary diabetes drinks and very salty food.
First came their drinks. The smoothie drinks are all very very sweet; we tried both their lychee and green tea smoothie. We weren’t able to finish it because we were scared of getting diabetes after those drinks.
Next their food. The phở viet. First off, I come from a Chinese-​Vietnamese family and the phở here is not authentic Vietnamese phở that we make and eat. It was basically a beef broth that is flavorful, but very very salty. It does not have any taste that the real phở has with the appropriate vegetables when cooking the soup; the garnish and topping was the same though (bean sprouts, bo vein meat balls, etc).
This goes the same for their beef chow fun, flavorful and too salty, while also not like the authentic Chinese chow fun. The real authentic chow fun does not have a sweet taste to it because I am assuming that they put some sweet chili sauce.
The chicken pad thai was pretty good and very spicy. This dish tasted the closest to what I am used to back home on the East Coast. This actually had the least amount of salt I tasted, which made me like this dish the best.
Wish I tried their hotpot, but maybe next time. There are no complaints about their service, but their restroom is in the shadiest area in the back. There is a tiny little market area that sells some basic Asian packaged foods, such as noodles, sauces, and dried vegetables.

I came to TK Noodle house because it was only a 2 min walk from the hotel I was staying at. Upon walking in, I seated myself (because it’s a seat yourself kinda place), and the waitress came with the menu and water. Dining for one. As I browsed through the menu I realized it wasn’t called a noodle house for nothin; Phở, Ramen, Pasta and more! Bring a group of friends that’s craving noodles and I guarantee you they’ll find something.
I decided to settle for what I was craving for, Phở but with a twist… PHO THAI?! To be honest, the only reason why I ordered the Phở Thai was because the type of meats that were in it were closes to a Phở Combination (the kine from a mom and pop Vietnamese restaurant). The Phở Viet didn’t seems like the normal combination Phở… just missing a few meats. Anyways, I’m a firm believer that the broth makes the dish and the other ingredients are just «background noise». This broth however, lacked flavor. I felt like I was eating a $ 13 microwavable ramen.
As I’m trying to finish off my disappointing Phở Thai the waitress comes by and drops off the check. No «how are you?», No water refill, No «is there anything else I can get for you?». I quickly tell her that I was planning on ordering dessert. I decide on the fried ice cream because I’ve never had it before and was always intrigued by how it’s made. Shortly after I get my dessert, a plate with a huge ball of andagi (Japanese doughnut) that’s been crusted with coconut shreds and drizzled with strawberry and chocolate. I dig in to find ube ice cream. The andagi was like any other andagi but crusted with coconut.
Overall, would I go back? Probably… but order something else. Prices? $ 13 for the bowl of Phở Thai and $ 7 for the ice cream. Everything else looked reasonable priced. Staff? Friendly, but they need to learn better waitressing skills.

I’m always a bit skeptical of any Pan-​asian restaurant as they tend to not execute anything right. But I was really surprised by TK Noodle House. The food was very good all around and the portions were huge (not always desired but important to note for the value). We got som tum, lilikoi chicken, oxtail kim chee fried rice, and chow fun. Everything was really balanced and fresh. I will definitely return to try one of their other noodle dishes (They make 9 different types in-​house).