Kuki, Saitama, Japan｜弘園

It is a very delicious town Chinese restaurant. And for me, it is also a store of memories. I have eaten here with many people from my school days to my working life. Now that I've moved, I can't go there often, but I still come to eat occasionally. I went to famous restaurants in Tokyo and Yokohama, and Chinese restaurants in various places on business trips, but I have not met a better restaurant than this one. Shrimp on the shell stir-fried with sansho (Japanese pepper) and chili pepper is a delicacy, so please try it. The stick chicken is also a dish that I often order, coupled with a sweet and appetizing sauce. Please visit us when you are in the area.

A Chinese restaurant located 4 minutes on foot from Kuki Station. As written on the signboard at the storefront, Sichuan cuisine seems to be the selling point, but looking at the menu, they dealt with Chinese cuisine in general. Mapo tofu was written at the top of the lunch menu, so I ordered a set meal of mapo tofu. The tofu was silken tofu, very soft tofu, and the surface was sprinkled with hanazansho. I had the impression that Sichuan mapo tofu was spicy, but the mapo tofu at this restaurant was not as spicy as I expected, and the overall taste was well-balanced. It's so delicious that you'll want to come back again. The inside of the store is wide when combined with the tatami mat seats, but it was almost full after noon on a weekday. There is a parking lot in front of the store, and it seemed that about 4 cars could be parked in total. [Revisited in August 2020] This time, I ate the mapo tofu set meal from the lunch menu. It's the same menu as last time, so I thought about other options, but I ended up wanting to eat it again. . . It's nice to be able to eat authentic mapo tofu for 780 yen.

Probably a Sichuan restaurant run by a couple. There is a general Chinese menu to suit Japanese people. We recommend the Sichuan type, but the dandan noodles (¥850) are exquisite! Shrimp wonton with spicy sauce ¥600 is also addictive with the spiciness of Japanese pepper (^^)