A small place in heart of Los Angeles Chinatown. This place is in a small strip mall. It's tiny and if not careful you'll likely pass by it. Very hard to find parking so be forewarned. The food was spot on. Had the tonkatsu ramen and the pork cutlet curry. Both hearty dishes with plenty of noodles and rich curry, respectively. Prices are fair and the food service was relatively fast. They are open late, until 1 am, so this is definitely a spot to hit up for a late night bite. read more

Suehiro Mini - PORK KATSU CURRY RICE - Ramen Near Me - Los Angeles, California

Cute japanese cafe tucked in a little plaza of chinatown! I've been wanting to check out this place since i never got to try their location in little tokyo before it was closed down. I walked here for a solo lunch around 1pm on a sunday and it wasn't busy at all, but the parking lot definitely was. I overheard the worker helping another customer with her parking situation- parking in this lot is $10 and the lot across the street is $15. I ordered the salmon chazuke which came with a side of seaweed salad. Very simple but tasty :) The dashi broth came separately in a teapot which I liked because it allowed me to keep it hot when added in increments throughout the meal. I only wish that there was some furikake on it but I still enjoyed it. The server was very welcoming and friendly; and very helpful from what I saw with him helping another customer with her parking situation. I will definitely be back :) read more

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THE BEST oyakodon (chicken egg rice) I have ever had in SoCal (it's my favorite Japanese comfort food and I'm a real snob about this dish.... my now-second favorite oyakodon is "Ichimi Ann Bamboo Garden" in Torrance.) Perfect egg and dark thigh meat ratio and texture, and the sukiyaki broth coating and infusing every grain of the jasmine rice is simply DIVINE. Will definitely come bach for more oyakodon. read more

Suehiro Mini - a person holding a spoon full of food - Ramen Near Me - Los Angeles, California

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I just walked into this restaurant, after getting off the train, coming to visit LA to see a friend. It's 10pm(this place is open until 1am), and the woman(about 60 years old, maybe the owner), looks me up and down. she gives me such a strange look and says "no we're closed". I repeated her, thinking I may have misunderstood, saying "you are closed?" and she just looks at me, awkwardly and sheepishly nodding her head that yes, they are closed. I've never in my life been profiled like this before and refused service. Was it my backpack? is that against their dress code? Anyway, it felt really weird and I felt very disrespected and I would suggest that others maybe think twice before patronizing a place that has a policy of profiling customers. read more

Minimal service but not really needed in such a small restaurant. Made clear from beginning that there are no customer restrooms available. Fired Geso was only ok, squid smelled fishy. Tonkatsu Ramen was excellent, deep flavor. read more

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Excellent Japanese noodle from ramen and soba to staples like tokatsu and curry rice dishes and they're open till 1am. Also great if you want Japanese food without the longer wait times in Little Tokyo. read more

Good: Open Late Bad: Doesn't Taste as Good and Authentic As It Used to be Anymore Especially for The Price. KatsuDon I had today was especially not good. The meat was thin and hard, quality you would find in American style Japanese restaurants. Actually even Marukai Supermarket in the neighborhood has better quality KatsuDon bento than this which is shocking. Sounds harsh I know. But it's quite disappointing considering its mom & pop ambience and one would expect a quality of such. カツ丼の豚カツが薄いし硬い。値段からしてロースそんなに高くないのにケチってるのが謎。パン粉も微妙。不味くは無いがコレは完全にもう絶対日本人が作った味はしない。普通にどこいっても食べれるクオリティー。 read more

Suehiro Mini - KATSU DON - Ramen Near Me - Los Angeles, California

We ordered via Ubereats and the food arrived still warm. The food overall is good but not worth the price for the small portion size. Regular Chicken Karaage Non-Spicy ($11.70): When did chicken Karaage & popcorn chicken get so expensive??!!! This was good but the portion is the same as a boba shop. It doesn't taste amazing enough to justify the cost. French Fries Izakaya Style ($5.90): This is the only item I think is worth it. The fries were still crispy, flavorful, and came with 2 dipping sauces (ketchup & mayo). Takoyaki ($9.90): You get 6 little balls that were okay. We definitely had better. read more

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No Restrooms? Unacceptable! I visited Suehiro Mini expecting a normal dining experience, but was shocked to find out they don't have restrooms for their customers. How is that even legal? After having a meal and drinks, being told to "find a bathroom elsewhere" is both inconvenient and disrespectful. This lack of basic facilities completely overshadowed the food, which was average at best. If you can't accommodate your customers' most basic needs, you shouldn't be in the hospitality business. Will not return and cannot recommend. read more

Suehiro Mini - Suehiro Mini no restrooms, how this is even possible? - Ramen Near Me - Los Angeles, California

This spot is very hole in the wall and mom&pop ambiance. Small and snug like a bug in a rug. The service isn't fast food speed but it ain't an hour wait. You can tell they adapted to Ubers/Doordash very well & that's prob their bread and butter. so props to them. As for quality of food 10/10 . Feels homemade & like they put love into it. read more

Food was good but not great and not something I would come back for. Inside: very small eating area with a handful of tables. Expect a wait and not good for groups Outside: $7 just to park in the lot or try to find street parking; however, it's not the safest area. An incident right outside the restaurant happened while we were eating, police and ambulance arrived at the scene. Service: very nice server provided good service. Friendly smiles and took good care of our party Price: fair price given today's inflation Given all the other better options in the area I would not recommend read more

I have driven past this spot many times but just discovered them last week while doing a Yelp search for Yakisoba. I've searched for Yakisoba in the past and have never really enjoyed the places I've tried, until now. I was deployed to Okinawa and Main Land Japan on two separate occasions back in the 80's while I was in the Marine Corps, so I compare my Japanese food knowledge to those times. There was a place just outside the main gate of Camp Hansen, in Okinawa, that I had my first taste of Yakisoba. Granted, it wasn't gourmet by any means and was served in a clear plastic container closed with a rubber band and we used to squirt mustard in top. Yeah, I know, mustard and Yakisoba should not even be in the same sentence, but Marines have a way of being different. With that being said, that was the best Yakisoba I ever had and the memories of those days may contribute to how much I remember it as being the best, but I never came close to how it tasted after those times. Until I tried the Yakisoba at Suehiro Mini. It brought back the exact flavor I remembered all those years ago. The Yakisoba was simple and fried perfectly, just the way the old guy back in Okinawa used to do it. I will be returning frequently to enjoy this stuff so I can have some culinary memories of my times deployed to Japan. If you're a Marine, living in LA and are looking for the Yakisoba fix, this is the place. But bring your own mustard, I don't think they have it here and I was afraid to ask. read more

Suehiro Mini - Yakisoba, very good. - Ramen Near Me - Los Angeles, California

Wow - in a tiny strip mall of Chinatown - randomly found this place on Yelp and it is good! Service was amazing. Their vegetable dumplings, seaweed salad, shumai were all bangers. My friend got some special spicy udon! It tasted so good. This place is definitely a little gem. Can't wait to come back. read more

Suehiro Mini - Ramen Near Me - Los Angeles, California

We went to this location last night at 10pm, coming from LAX. We were all looking forward to getting ramen and since I have had ramen from Suehiro (both dine in and for delivery), this was our choice. When we got there, there were only 2 people in there. So we waited to be seated by the waitstaff. The wait staff was packing orders for delivery so after 5 minutes of just standing there and waiting for her to even acknowledge us, my husband asked if we can have a table for 4. The wait staff said, "just a moment", even though there were like, 4 or more unoccupied tables we can take. Again, out of courtesy and respect for the restaurant, we waited for the waitstaff - she was still busy doing something at the counter.. so another 5 minutes passed by, and still nothing from the waitstaff! To think that it will only take her a maximum of 5 seconds to tell us to take seat, or choose a table that we want. So I asked her, "can we at least take a seat?" Again she said, "just a moment". So we were still standing there, waiting for her, for another 5 minutes, until finally, I decided to just leave. She made it seem like we weren't even there. So on our way out, that was when she started talking to us, and the first thing she said was, "Ok, we do not have any restroom for customers". Unbelievable! We already know that first of all, and we weren't there for a restroom, we were there to eat! So I just told her that we were just going to leave. I love Suehiro Mini, but what the waitstaff did last night was not right. I think she lacks customer service skills and management should look into this. This 1 star is for the waitstaff. If only I can give her no star at all, I would. We left so disappointed. read more

Cute little space, has a lot which is nice for the area! The cashier was quite rude though :( I placed an order to go, and stepped in maybe 10 minutes later to check on it. He really curtly asked what I was waiting for, and then asked me to step outside while I wait for my order. There were seats inside, and the person before us was literally sitting inside waiting for his to go order too and the cashier didn't ask him to wait outside. Really off putting, didn't get the cashier's name but he was a Hispanic man. read more

We ordered tonight through Uber Eats. The restaurant must have had an off day, becase a few things kept me from loving this place even though I wanted to. Food: 4 out of 5 Delivery packaging: 2 out of 5 Portions: Sigh, mixed emotions Prices: everything costs $2-3 more on Uber Eats vs the menu price, which I hate. For example, Oyako Don is $11.75 on Uber Eats but $9.50 on the menu. We ordered a Kids Udon, Oyako Don, and Koika at 6:58 pm. As some others have mentioned, it took a long time to get the food. The driver wasn't handed the food until 7:52 pm (almost an hour) and it didn't arrive at my doorstep until after 8 pm. The kids Udon soup was packaged in a bowl clearly not meant for transport. The result is what you'd expect: 75% of the soup spilled out into the bag, leading to 10+ minutes of cleaning my dining table and counters as the bag (also not meant for holding soup) spilled soup everywhere. The Oyako Don tasted good, but as you'd expect was pretty much a bowl of rice and more rice. Then there's a bunch of (tasty) filler onions and then an OK amount of eggs/chicken. See pics. The Koika...don't waste your time. For $6.75 on Uber Eats, you get a tiny portion of tiny squid. My wife and I literally laughed out loud when we opened the tiny box, only to see an even tinier portion of super tiny pieces of squid. I had to put 5-6 pieces of squid on my fork in order to take a normal sized bite. Again, see pics. Honestly, I had high hopes. But, things went downhill today the moment our order arrived and soup spilled everywhere. The tiny squid just put salt on the wound. The inflated prices on Uber Eats capped everything off. I wish you all better luck than we had. read more

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After couple drinks this hit good. The miso was hittin too. I'll fasho be back. Don't sleep, come eat. read more

Suehiro Mini - This mf good as fuk. - Ramen Near Me - Los Angeles, California

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We came here after a Dodgers game to get some ramen. They stay open pretty late to my surprise. The restaurant was quiet at first then after we placed our order it started to get really busy. It's small inside so I can imagine they have a wait most of the time. We order the tonkatsu and miso ramen. We also ordered some gyoza. The gyoza was very fresh with just the right amount of crisp. Both of the ramen orders were good. The servings were a good size. There was only one gentleman working the whole restaurant so we didn't get checked on much. read more

Small and cozy restaurant. They don't offer validation for parking, but I went at like 11 p.m. and parked on the street. You can also park in the parking lot since the valet isn't there anymore by that time. I had the chicken curry and it came with miso soup. I also had tonkotsu ramen and their nabaeyaki udon. I enjoyed the udon more, but the ramen was good too. read more

Great Japanese food in Chinatown! Some of our favorites are the Ramen, Soba, and Chicken Karage. Everyone is always friendly and the service is fast. Located off the main street in a strip mall. It's never too crowded- which is great for takeout or dining in. During the weekdays they offer specials that are priced really well. read more

This place is recently opened in Chinatown. It is clean and cute. There are a few restaurants stays opened during the COVID-19 outbreak even for takeout/delivery. They have pretty good menu with variety of udons, ramens, curries, and vegetarian choices. To support our local restaurants during this crisis, we decided to order take-out once a week. We had medium spicy miso ramen, katsu curry chicken with rice, shredded cabbage salad and garden salad. - Medium spicy miso ramen $13, including 2 slides of pork belly, spinach and bean sprouts. We did add extra toppings and extra spicy sauce (about extra $1-2 for each toppings). The broth is very savory and medium spicy. - Katsu chicken curry rice $17: good size, perfectly cooked rice, savory curry and crispy katsu chicken. - salads are very fresh. - Matcha cheese cake $5.75: a little small but pretty tasty. Tips to order take-out during covid19 outbreak: - make sure the restaurant has grade A - staff is wearing mask (correctly) and gloves when preparing food! Stay safe and stay healthy everyone.and support your local bussiness! read more

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I came in hungry. I left hangry. Fourth time here. Second time being massively disappointed. First time - sat in and ate around 12 PM. Meal was good, not exceptional, but better than expected. 3/5 Second time - ordered via a food order service. Well...I had the app say 20 minutes. Showed up 25 minutes and still waited an additional 15 minutes before it was ready. No, it was pretty empty inside. Time of order was around 4:30. 1/5 Third time - sat in and ate around 4 PM. The food was piping hot and really nice this time. 4/5 This time...I'd upload a picture of my food; if I actually decided to wait an additional 20 minutes for it to arrive on top of the 35 I waited. I arrived and sat down around 4:35 (I remember because of the meter outside). The server showed me to a seat and disappeared to the back. I had my order in my head and waited for him to reappear. And waited. And waited. About 5 minutes later, I peek by the curtains in the front to let them know I was ready to order. The guy comes around and takes my order at that time. Order: Oyakodon and a hot tea. About 2 minutes later, I get the order of tea and I'm drinking it while waiting for the food to arrive. According to the menu, it comes with a miso soup as well. Around 4:47-48 (I was browsing my phone to distract myself from being hungry), a customer comes in and asks if her order is ready. The server tells her it's going to be a while because she had her order placed online just 5 minutes earlier. She is...not exactly pleased, but I don't blame anyone - yet. I'm sitting there now and the only other customer is an elderly lady who had been eating on the counters facing the window. She's now done and getting ready to leave. A second customer comes in to pick up his order and he's told "15 minutes." I'm a bit confused at this point and I look down to see what time it was. 4:55. "Okay, they might be busy" is what I think to myself. By 5:04, I'm now concerned about what's going on. Oyakodon does not take that long and the miso soup certainly should have been out by now. I ask the original server for an ETA for my order and he goes, "Oh, not for a while. You ordered right as a big order came in." I'm now, very displeased. Should they have let me know that it would be a while? It certainly would have made me less unhappy there. I'm also looking at the clock. The time I had in my meter is now running out and I'm sitting there wondering how much longer it will take for my order to be completed. So, I make the decision to cancel my order. This is where I am pushed to complete anger. "Oh, I just timed out. You're going to have to wait for her" as he points to the boss. It now takes an additional 7 minutes for me to get from finding out the order is taking forever and half a day, cancelling it, and being able to pay the $3.00 for the tea. I came in hungry. I left hangry. read more

The place is a bit small and mainly a take out place. The service is great, but there is a limited amount of service staff because of how the place is set up. Food was great and they have a parking lot which is barely full. read more

Theeeeeee best Japanese cuisine in the states!!! You can't go wrong with any dish. One of my favorites is the Miso Ramen.

If you're in Chinatown and looking for Japanese food but don't want to drive around for an hour in Little Tokyo for parking, Suehiro Mini is good option (with parking). I ordered the pork katsu don which was made to order. Honestly, not bad, nor not great but just okay. Served with sauce, onions, eggs on a hot bed of rice, it does the job and executed well. Service here is good and attentive. This restaurant is spacey and clean. read more

Suehiro Mini - Katsu don.. - Ramen Near Me - Los Angeles, California

The food here is decent enough. But the outstanding service here is really the restaurant's strongest attribute. We had 2 different staff members wait on our table, and they were both exceptionally humble, friendly, and polite - 5/5 stars for service. Although it is no fault of the restaurant's, parking options in the area are quite terrible - either you pay $5 for privilege of using the adjacent lot, or you pray to your preferred deity to be lucky enough to find a nearby metered curb spot, and be extorted for less than $5 by the City of Los Angeles. read more

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Solid Japanese comfort food! Suehiro Mini is a mini version of the Suehiro Cafe in Little Tokyo. I'm so glad to find that they opened a second location within walking distance from me! We had the vegetable udon (+poached egg) and the tanin don. I LOVED the udon - the broth was so light yet flavorful! Tanin don was amazing as well. Loved the beef and the onions. Service was exceptional. Server was super sweet and friendly. Would definitely come back! read more

Suehiro Mini - Tanin Don - Ramen Near Me - Los Angeles, California

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I enjoyed the original Suehiro in Little Tokyo so I was excited to try the mini now that it's located in Chinatown! The parking lot is small and annoying to navigate.. but you can ask to park there as long as you get validation from the restaurant. I came here for lunch on a Saturday, and there was only one person tabling, so the service was extremely slow. It took a long time for the cashier to get our orders, for the food to arrive, and to get our check. So I would recommend to come here when you're not on a time crunch. We ordered: -- Beef Teri Don -- Chashu Don -- Yakisoba -- Miso Ramen My favorite dish was the chashu don since I love pork belly! Although the meat is a little dry, it still tasted good a day after. I think there's a lot of potential for this restaurant to improve and I'm looking forward to trying it next time! read more

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Great for a late night small bite! Everything was very yummy! The rice bowl could have a better ratio of meat to rice but the flavor was good! read more

Suehiro Mini - Beef don with miso soup TAKOYAKI FIRED GESO - Ramen Near Me - Los Angeles, California

This is my second time coming here. The first time I was impressed; the food was great, and the waitress was very friendly, especially towards me as a deaf person. I don't like it when people ask me, "Can you read my lips?" However, the waitress didn't ask me that. Instead, she simply took out a piece of paper and wrote back and forth with me. I never forgot about this place. Now, I'm here for the second time, and the place was already packed. I wasn't surprised, especially after my first experience here. I had to wait for seats to be available, but I didn't mind waiting. As soon as I sat down, I was excited to eat the food again. And... the food was still as delicious as the first time I came here! Looks like I need to visit more often! read more

Suehiro Mini is a little random. They serve comfort Japanese American food classics: Udon, Ramen, Meet over Rice (Don), Soba... it's simple and won't blow your mind, but it will give your tummy a nice hug. They validate parking which is great - otherwise the oddly shaped lot is $5. The indoor space is cozy, but could be better ventilated. The ceiling had some suspicious water damage. My Pork Udon which came with three pieces had a simple fish broth and basic noodles. Something I could definitely make at home, but at that moment, it treated my hangover. The boys enjoyed a Katsu Curry Rice and Ramen. I wouldn't go out of my way to eat here, but it's great for the neighborhood. read more

This place stays open at nighttime when majority of the stores and restaurants are closed in Chinatown. I saw rave reviews and I came here to try their Chicken Katsu Curry Rice. Chicken Katsu Curry Rice (6/10) - The curry was good but the chicken cutlet was disappointing. It's a very thin slice of dark meat and it was dried and didn't taste fresh. Chicken Karaage (5/10) - It was very hot but not very tasty. The meat texture and marinade were off. They should at least pair it with spicy mayo but they didn't even have it at the restaurant. Hayashi Rice (6/10) - It was different. It tasted a lot better with the red pickles. read more

It was just okay. I wasn't the biggest fan of the ramen. And my friend got the rice dish below. I don't remember the name. The rice dish was good but felt like it was missing something. For being one of the two table in the restaurant, it took a long time for us to get our food. also, wasn't a fan that they charge for any spicy level. I had high hopes for this restaurant but overall probably won't return as there is better tasting ramen out there read more

Suehiro Mini - Ramen Near Me - Los Angeles, California

The dumplings were good and seemed handmade. I was excited for the veg yakisoba because of all the rave reviews and it looked amazing but the taste didn't match. I needed to add a savory hot sauce I have to enjoy it and even then it was unmemorable. The red ginger is the only flavor that popped. Also, the veggies were fresh but just had the basics (cabbage, peppers, carrots). For the price they should add more variety and make sure the flavor delivers. read more

Suehiro Mini - Vegan yakisoba (looked better than it tasted) - Ramen Near Me - Los Angeles, California

I came here around 11PM because I wanted something to eat. I ordered the plain udon that came with tempura batter and scallions. I added onto that with the Naruto fishcakes. I also ordered the miso soup. The miso soup didn't have tofu in it, kind of disappointed me. The only thing the miso soup was missing was the soft tofu, that's about it. I wanted to add a shrimp tempura to my udon but they didn't have that as an add-on but had it as their menu. Very confusing lol. Overall everything else was very tasteful and they had parking, very limited though. read more

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Wow really lol??? We ordered through uber eats, took over an hour to prepare a soba lol... And I received burnt gyoja. Very nice. read more

Suehiro Mini - Are you kidding me? - Ramen Near Me - Los Angeles, California

This has become one of my go-to ordering spots over the last year. I typically get the chicken curry and the potstickers. It's nothing mind blowing, but that exactly what I like. It tastes like Japanese comfort food. The portions are also very big and the curry dish has definitely served as two meals. Their menu is limited, but I have no problem with it since they serve all the dishes that me and my family usually want. Japanese curry, yakisoba and unagi. Glad that this location is available and will definitely continue to order from here on the regular! read more

Pretty good place. Everything was packed and labeled perfectly. My kid loved the chicken meal. He's picky right now so it's nice to know I can order him food from here. The kids meal comes with apple sauce and drink . We did not pick up. We used Uber eats. read more

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Solid late night spot! We've tried so many things so far: curry, soba, chazuke, fries, ramen... and we left happy each time. There's always a kind lady that is working late at night too. Can't wait to come back when we have our late night munchies. read more

Suehiro Mini - Ramen Near Me - Los Angeles, California

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I ordered the Tonkotsu Ramen and everything was very good! We ordered to go and everything was placed separately and so neat. I got the medium level and looks like I'm going to have to go up a level. Any spicy lovers out there? If you know you know ;) read more