Yummy Egg Noodles: Nothing Yummy About Getting Closed Twice for Cockroaches
4504 W 1st St, Santa Ana, CA 92703
"Yummy" Is Doing a LOT of Heavy Lifting in That Name
Let's talk about branding for a second. If you're going to name your restaurant "Yummy Egg Noodles," you're making a promise. You're saying: come here, the food is yummy. What you're NOT saying is: come here, we've been shut down twice in three weeks because cockroaches apparently think it's yummy too.
Here's the timeline:
- March 17, 2026 — Yummy Egg Noodles is closed for a broken cooler and cockroach activity
- April 10, 2026 — Reinspection day. The cooler? Fixed. The cockroaches? Still there. Closed again. Immediately.
The reinspection was a two-question test: is the cooler cold and are the cockroaches gone? They went 1 for 2. In baseball, that's a .500 batting average. In food safety, that's a shutdown.
What the Inspector Found (Again)
- Cockroach infestation — Bad enough to close the restaurant for the SECOND time
- Holes and gaps everywhere — Around the water heater, around the piping, around the sink, between the tiles, around the electrical conduits, behind the equipment. Basically, if there was a surface, there was a gap next to it
- Old food debris — Chilling on the bottom of the water heater. At this point the debris has been there longer than some of the employees
- Immediate permit suspension — CLOSE sign posted. Again.
Now They Have a Hearing
A compliance hearing was scheduled for 8:30 AM on Wednesday, April 15 at the OC Health Care Agency offices. The purpose: to decide whether Yummy Egg Noodles gets to keep its permit at all.
When you get closed once, it's a problem. When you get closed twice in three weeks for the exact same issue, the county starts asking if you should be in the restaurant business. That's what a compliance hearing is — the food safety equivalent of "we need to talk."
The Bottom Line
Credit where it's due: they fixed the cooler. But you can't fix a cockroach infestation with good intentions. You need professional pest control, deep cleaning, and — most importantly — you need to seal the approximately 47 holes the inspector documented in your walls, pipes, tiles, and conduits.
The name "Yummy Egg Noodles" is working overtime right now. Maybe they should rebrand to "Working On It Egg Noodles" until the cockroaches move out. We'll update this page after the compliance hearing.
In the meantime, Santa Ana has roughly a thousand other places to get noodles. Maybe try one of those.
View the official inspection report (PDF)
All data sourced from the Orange County Health Care Agency. This closure is a matter of public record.