Snow cones of the gods
The shaved ice-and-fruit dessert at Noodle Planet gives you three choices from 20 different fruits (including such exotics as jackfruit, toddy palm, lychee, rambutan and taro) covered with crushed ice and slathered with sweetened condensed milk and/or coconut milk. For true decadence, drizzle with green and/or red syrup (the first flavor is called cream soda, but has a more fragrant taste; the second is somewhat akin to grenadine). A little bit of tropical paradise in a bowl! Warning: This is a full bowl of dessert — best shared with a sweetie. (Price: $2.95.)
—Jedd Birkner LA WEEKLY

BEST PHO HOME AWAY FROM MONTEREY PARK
From LAWeekly, Best of LA 1997
Noodle Planet
At this sedate Pan-Asian restaurant,
you would be well advised to study the menu. Think of it as your rough guide
to a palate that's worlds away from your own, particularly if yours was raised,
as mine was, on meat loaf and mashed potatoes. (Note to the uninitiated:
The spicy shrimp paste, a staple in Thai cooking, emits a funky odor that
overwhelms the diner and dampens the appetite.) To those looking for
a bowl of pho comparable to Mom's or Auntie's, Noodle Planet
(its name is a misnomer -- for it serves more than noodles) will seem like
home or at least remind you of Monterey Park.
(Ellen Krout-Hasegawa)

BEST ASIAN SLUSH
From LAWeekly, Best of LA 1997
Noodle World
From a country renowned for its full-contact kickboxing, spicy food and pointy
gold hats comes an icy-cool dessert -- the Thai Slush. And nobody makes one
better than Noodle World. Choose from more than 24 ingredients, from sliced
pineapples, gelatin and tapioca to such imported Asian delicacies as water
chestnuts, lychees, and sweet basil seeds that look like miniature eyeballs
($1.75 for three items, $.50 for each additional item). After your choices have
been put into a bowl and drenched in coconut milk, they're buried under a
frosty avalanche of shaved ice and doused with creamy condensed milk or
semi-sweet Thai syrup.
(Avelino C.Tuason)