Zen's Noodles is part of the Hmart food court. The Pad Thai was recommended but we didn't have the name of the restaurant. The Food court has a few booths -Korean, Japanese, Chinese, Bbq Chicken to name a few but we didn't see a Thai spot. We saw Zen's did have a Pad Thai entree so decided to give them a try. We also ordered the Thai Basil Chow Fun. The Pad Thai noodles had a red tint to them and were slightly spicy-different take on this typically mild dish-tasty. Chow Fun had thick noodles and had just right amount of heat-delicious and this was our favorite. Service was friendly and engaged. Zen is a hidden gem-don't miss the Basil Chow Fun! read more

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Food is very good! Service is quick. Definitely recommend for an inexpensive delicious lunch.

Located in a food court by Costco. My tip is to place your order first and find a seat. My tip is to try food from multiple places. read more

Zen's Noodles - B2. Mongolian Beef - Pan Asian Near Me - Naperville, Illinois

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Reasonable, fast, inside Hmart. Home sue w tofu was light and healthy and not excessive oil so it was good. The only thing someone who eats this a lot said it needed more flavor but I was personally happy w less flavor and the light stir fry taste without it being drenched in fat and sauce. The pork w pickled vegetables was not fresh. For a simple sit down cafeteria style food court right next to Hmart, this is a great option to not have done in service and pay tip. You can enjoy food here and people watch at the same time. And you can plan for your next meal at the Japanese or Chinese or mochi or noodle places or bbq chicken or Paris baguette place in the same food court. Huge free parking lot. And in the same mall as Costco and Great Clips and so much more. A great place to eat then grocery shop. read more

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Great hot food, fresh!!!! Good selection of traditional Chinese dishes. Remind you of hood Chinese food we grew up on!!

Had to pick up groceries at H Mart and decided to stop by for some quick lunch. My Thai seafood noodle soup was fiyah. And my son enjoyed his beef fried rice. He said it's pretty delicate but he really enjoyed the siu Mai. Service was quick and place is alot nicer than I remember. Bathroom also clean and lots of seating. Price was decent. We enjoyed our shopping and good food today at Zen's Noodle. read more

Zen's Noodles - Thai Seafood Noodle Soup - Pan Asian Near Me - Naperville, Illinois

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Very good red bean bun with egg yolk. Hard to find out here! Much more to my liking than the more sweet kind.

Food is decent but for a fast food format they are VERY slow. The frustration of waiting so long for a meal would have been mitigated by a simple apology or at least acknowledgement that it was slow but no such luck. read more

Another hidden place for Asian cuisine. It's amazing what can be found when you look in some interesting places. Zen's Noodles is an overlooked place in Naperville, in the Hmart Asian supermarket. It has a counter to order at. This is a no frills place but it's a great value. Hmart is a good place to get Asian food and supplies for cooking. It has a food court featuring authentic items. They have a few stalls. In the middle are tables so you can eat right here. This stall has a counter to order at, so there's not much to it. Mostly meaty but there's a few vegetarian friendly items. The item I usually get is the Vegetable With Fried Tofu. It's about $8 for a good amount. The vegetables are a nice variety of a mix, and the tofu is plenty. For sure it's recommended to come to this big Asian market. It has many great things about it but the food court is the best part. The only bad thing is the market needs to clean tables. read more

Zen's Noodles - The Vegetable With Fried Tofu - Pan Asian Near Me - Naperville, Illinois

Our experience from ordering and eating were so good we forgot to take pictures! The women at the counter is polite and very attentive. This place was busy for lunch. There lunch specials 11.50 entree, rice and appetizers with a soda, are the perfect portion and price! We ordered the mapo tofu with crab Rangoon for lunch and the orange chicken. They were both authentic and delicious. You can taste the fire from the wok in the fried rice and the fresh ingredients in the mapo tofu. My son enjoyed the orange chicken it had great flavor! There menu is extensive so we will be back for sure! Thank you Zen's noodles for taking Chinese food seriously delicious! read more

Never had any issues with the dishes I've ordered. This time got the salt and pepper fish which are so crunchy with every bite. Also the walnut shrimp with the right amount of mayo. The size of the shrimp are pretty decent too. This is the spot to get some decent Chinese food. read more

Zen's Noodles - Salt and pepper fish and walnut shrimp - Pan Asian Near Me - Naperville, Illinois

Overall (B) It's your run of the mill Chinese food place. Note I got the Chinese lunch special - Sweet and Sour chicken. Did not try the pho. It was okay. Safe bet place if you work or go to school close by and want some Chinese food that is relatively inexpensive. Didn't have any left overs which I normally do. Feel like the quality of this food would be better suited in a college campus environment. Might have gone in with high expectations since the chicken place and the cup-bop place next to it are awesome. Like I'm never going to eat at this place ever again. The lunch special comes with 1. Main dish 2. Rice - the fried rice was pretty good 3. Crab Rangoon (cream cheese) or egg roll 4. Free drink It was around $11 with tax read more

Zen's Noodles - Pan Asian Near Me - Naperville, Illinois

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Yum!!! What a little gem! I'm so glad I tried this place. I ordered pat thai, which was not very traditional but still super delicious. And my husband got lo Meir which was a hit as well! Fresh, not and huge portions. I can't wait to go back and try some other dishes! read more

Zen's Noodles - Menu - Pan Asian Near Me - Naperville, Illinois

I love this place! Their Thai Basil Beef is amazing! I also love their Salt and Pepper Squid! Their portions are pretty generous, too! read more

I actually waited in the Korean line right next to Zen's for about 10 minutes before I realized something. 1) I hadn't checked Yelp to see what I was getting myself into and 2) The older ladies taking the orders were mean. I saw only two of them running back and forth, yelling at really confused customers before disappearing to their kitchen for minutes on end. But I digress. At Zen's I ended up getting the beef stew over rice with Chinese broccoli and for the most part, I really enjoyed it. This is one of those, the-food-taste-a-lot-better-than-the-service/atmosphere-kind of restaurants. They had some tea they made that was terrible and all of their sauces they offered were both low and just plain filthy. The kid was on his phone and earphones while he talked to you and the other customer standing in line. When I asked him for more chili oil, he filled the dirty bucket with just enough chili oil for me. BUT...The beef was incredibly tender. And while the rice tasted old, the beef was tender. Seriously, there's nothing worse than crappy beef. The Chinese vegetable that it came with was not cut into bite size portions. It was the equivalent as eating a full-size carrot. BUT...the beef was tender. read more

Zen's Noodles - Beef stew over rice - Pan Asian Near Me - Naperville, Illinois

I love to order the combo specials. You get plain fried rice, drink and eggs rolls with your order.

My parents and I come often to the Hmart food court whenever we are shopping there. Zen's Noodles is one of the options we constantly frequent. The most recent time we ate there was Sunday, Christmas Eve. There was lots of people in the food court but thankfully we were able to find seats right in front of the stall. We ordered the Pork with Szechuan Cabbage Noodle Soup as well as their fried rice. We were not informed by the cashier that we would have to specify that we wanted flour noodles in our noodle soup so they defaulted into giving us rice noodles. The flavor was pretty good but would have liked to have the flour noodles than the rice noodles. There was a good amount of toppings with the noodles but it would have been better if they soup was a bit less watered down than we were given. As for the fried rice, the flavor was very good. A bit oily but that really helped add to the taste. There was a good amount of toppings in the fried rice and we would definitely order this in a heart beat the next time we come! We also have tried their bbq duck over rice which is very delicious and a must try! The main issue we have with the restaurant, is that apart from the noodles which is served in a plastic bowl all of the other plates and small bowls are all styrofoam , it would be better if they could use plastic plates and small bowls as well. read more

Zen's Noodles - (Top) Pork and Szechuan Cabbage Noodle Soup (With rice noodles) (Bottom) Fried Rice - Pan Asian Near Me - Naperville, Illinois

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Horrible food! Ordered Orange chicken and Sesame chicken...couldn't tell them apart from each other. Ordered egg rolls only received 2 packs of sweet & sour sauce. Food was tasteless & cold on delivery through Grubhub. A waste of $47.00!! read more

The lady that took my order was so rude. I won't shop there again. I had already paid, otherwise, I would have not waited for my order.

A wide variety of noodles to choose from, and from the noodles of Vietnam, Taiwan, to Hong Kong. We had the Pho, Beef noodle, and fried kway teow and they were all tasty, big in portion and full of flavors. Each of the noodles were all good and flavorful, but they lack the distinctive local flavors of each noodles, such as the Pho broth is not as light and with a hint of zest that brings you to Vietnam. Theirs is more of a Canton burst of flavors version. This pretty much describes most of theirs dishes. I guess that's the down side of trying to provide everything to everyone. That said, we really enjoy this restaurant and their noodles and wide selections. A solid 3.5 performer but I cannot justify a 4 stars. read more

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So disappointed & hate having to leave this review however I feel compelled to share. Stopped by after a trip to Costco & decided on the combo meal (shrimp w/lobster sauce; fried rice & roll) did a take out. After getting home & opened the take out container the 4 shrimp were swimming in a black bean sauce (soy) the fried rice was simply rice mixed with soy Everything looked unappealing that I literally took two bites of rice & threw everything away. Inedible to say the least. So disappointed because I've shopped at Hmart several times & ordering from here I was sure I'd have authentic Chinese food (I'm part Asian) needless to say NOT. I ended up ordering from another local Asian restaurant & chalked up the experience of never ordering from Zen again. read more

I love noodles so much these were just the best served noodles, service was great and ambiance was fine but I was mostly focused on the food! read more

My friend and I came here later in the evening after work. It's one of the fewer places that's open late at night. The person taking our order was super helpful and had great recommendations. I had a fish dish that was really nice and had a generous helping of vegetables, but also didn't skimp on the fish which was great. I just wish it had a tad more flavor. But the food is pretty authentic which I'm happy about. I will definitely come back to try more of their foods. Just a note: This place may seem hard to find by map, but it's just inside the H-Mart. read more

Whenever my brothers and I feel like having soup for lunch, this is where we go. Today, we ordered our favorite medium spicy beef tendon noodle soup which was absolutely delicious. It is known that beef tendon has collagen which is good for the skin, hair, nails and joint health, and is a youth potion. soupcravings. This small Chinese food court stall has many kinds of soup from other Asian countries, as well as several other dishes on their menu. The order takers were courteous and very helpful, and the orders came in fast. Today this food stall was very busy. read more

Zen's Noodles - a bowl of noodles with meat and vegetables - Pan Asian Near Me - Naperville, Illinois

Ordered Thai Basil chicken. I'm not a big mushroom person and it turns out this dish was almost all mushrooms. Additionally the flavor was fine but not memorable. The fried rice was plain rice with a little soy sauce dumped over it. I realize it's just a food court place but eating off cheap styrofoam plates using the flimsiest plastic forks imaginable does not exactly enhance the experience read more

We decided to check this place out on a whim (instead of reading reviews beforehand). We were intrigued by their food menu pics and variety of different Asian offerings, so we ordered take out from GH. We didn't realize it was a food spot in H-Mart, so that was a surprise. But they are so worth the inconvenience of having to go in the store. The eatery is right next to one of the entrances anyway. We ordered Singapore noodles, salt and pepper shrimp, Vietnamese egg rolls and pot stickers. They did not skimp out and actually used good-sized shrimp, which was crispy and so good. The Singapore noodles were delicious. Everything was good and reasonably priced. They gave decent portions, but we wish we had more because we enjoyed it all. This is our new favorite Asian spot and we look forward to exploring their menu! read more

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Zen's Noodle has a large menu for a small food court spot, but can't say anything stood out. I wanted pho, and that is definitely not the thing to order here. The broth is about 50% more watered down that other Vietnamese restaurants. Round steak seemed wasted since it was overcooked in the take-out container and tasted like nothing. I tried some of the Hong Shao noodles, and it had much more depth, but extremely spicy. Main thing that think it has going is convenience after shopping at H-Mart. read more

Best roasted duck and Singapore noodle in Chicagoland. Their fish and vegetables dishes are good too. Food were consistent and friendly services. Could use less oil though. read more

they always get the order wrong. good food when they actually get it right.... wasted toooooo much money on them. asked for a veggie roll they gave shrimp rolls! read more

This is a really, really good value for authentic and quick Chinese cuisine! It's not quite where it shows on GPS (at least not mine), but is actually in the food court inside of the easy to spot H-Mart / H-Plaza. I had a half a roast duck, rice and cabbage for under $10. Crazy. I could smell it as they cooked it and I knew I was going to be happy before I even saw it. I will be coming back regularly. This is hard to beat for real food fast! You can even order to go and then go do a bit of shopping and come back to pick it up. So convenient! read more

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In my most recent visit, there is this Very RUDE cashier (a middle aged woman) I tried to order and she practically yelled at me "what? I can't hear you" also, they charge extra for paying with a card - and no discount for paying with cash (like most of the Chinese restaurants do) this used to be one of met favorite Chinese restaurants became of the decent food, well, not at more :( read more

This is a kiosk for just a quick lunch. Not a restaurant. But if you're in H-Mart for that reason then it's OK. H-Mart in general needs to step up it's sanitary game. read more

You wouldn't think that Chinese food from a food court would be so good, but this restaurant is inside HMart, and the food here is delicious. Best beef chow fun in town, hands down! The salt and pepper pork is also fantastic. The Chinese food at Zen's is also unlike many of the others in the area, like Mapo or Js or Katie's dumpling. All those restaurants are awesome and most of their dishes are spicy. Zen is more Hakka (I think that's the right term). They have Chinese deli food like bbq pork and duck, and they make fantastic poached chicken with ginger scallion sauce. Authentic and tasty. read more

First, I ordered a chicken rice takeout from yelp, and then I found out the price they put on the yelp is actually more expensive than the price order in store. For my chicken rice, it's $2 more to order in yelp. Second, in terms of my chicken rice. It has chicken fur in the chicken skin which should not be there and the skin should be clean. That makes my food completely a disaster. And the chicken meat is a little bit raw. read more

Well when I ordered I didn't realize it was a food court place, totally my bad. You've been warned. I got the beef pho and it was NOT-great. The broth tasted really watered down and the meat tasted like it was bad. Overall flavorless and icky, and usually I love all pho. The pad Thai I got was pretty good though, but I had asked for not spicy on that one so my son could eat it and it was super spicy. read more

The roast duck noodle soup is one of the best things I've ever eaten. I've tried many times but I've only ever finished the entire thing in a single sitting once. I can't wait until I feel comfortable eating in a restaurant again so I can try some of their fancy platters I've seen others eating here read more

So the good: the food is really tasty (literally everything on the menu is!) and tastes very authentic. The noodles have generous portions of meat and noodles alike. The bad: It's VERY unsanitary. I've gone several times and found mold growing in some of the dishes you can buy to take away. One time I was served a noodle soup with meat that had clearly spoiled but they cooked it in anyways. They offered to remake it for me and served the second one with spoiled meat as well (Beef tendon noodle soup, if anyone is curious). I stopped eating here (even though I think the taste is amazing) simply because of their extremely unhygienic habits. I would recommend everyone else stay away as well. read more

Very over-priced! One small dish costs me $20 with only couple meat! Taste bad, meat is chewable, not tender at all. Very greasy and soupy! Will never go back! read more

Excellent food! Highly recommend! Go and try! Love it! Best noodles in town! Great hot food. BBQ pork is awesome. Bubble Tea, refreshing and tapioca soft. I hope they stick around as we found our new place. read more

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The roast duck of this place is great. You may want the chef to chop it up for you, or if you want to eat it the Peking style, you will need to make the wrapper your self, you will also need the TianMianJiang sauce, thin slice green onions, and slices of English cucumber. read more

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