Lunch at Chinese restaurant Suji

Today my wife had lunch at Suji, a Chinese restaurant in front Shakujii-Koen Station. As usual this kind of local restaurant don't have much of a presence on the Internet, but here is a link with some comments and directions on Yahoo Gourmet, which is one of the best Japanese language sources for researching little eateries like this. In order to get there please go out of the the south exit of Shakujii-Koen Station, then head for the taxi stand to the left outside the ticket wickets. Across the taxi stand and the bus rotary you should be able to see a KFC. Go towards the KFC, soon you should see a Family Mart on your left, on the same side of the street as KFC. Go past the Family Mart and you should soon see the exterior of Suji pictured above. Here is the best map I could find online (Japanese).



Then what about the food? My wife had lettuce and plum noodles, and as you can see in the picture above it came with lots of tofu. The meal cost her 700 yen, and she says it was refreshing and tasted well, and notes that the streaming jazz music made the experience even more pleasant. I have also eaten here before, and although I mainly had more mainstream types of ramen I thought it tasted really well. Service is excellent, speedy and friendly. The only minus with this eatery is the interior design (picture below), which gives it an undeserved feeling of canteen.