Reviews for Soonja's Cuisine in Princeton, NJ

Absolutely best korean food! This is probably my first comment on a restaurant. The servers are amazing and the food is soooo... good. Their bibimbaps are the best!! Also the jeyuk bokkeum! I definitely recommend you to eat here if you are in the are! Read more

The bibimbap was really yummy but the kimchi jigae was so-so. The wait staff is very friendly!

Soonja once was a magnificent spot with lots of good food, and the former owner (Korean-Japanese) was helpful. But that was the... past when he was still there. Now... DO NOT enter this restaurant once you see the grumpy old maid in action. That (Chinese)lady, who claims to be the owner of this place, is EXTREMELY RUDE and will NEVER get it right. There's another servant who'squite friendly on the other hand but seems to only work on Saturday sadly. He should work there more often. Read more

I was very hungry and hope to have a good dinner. We ordered curry, toufu soup and Bibimbap. Pay the bill with 15% tip when... ordering. But the service is really insolent and rude. Especially I had pay the tips before everything. Waitress is watching tvshow on laptop and be very impatient when I ask service. No Korean spicy sauce on table. No side dishes. Food tasting is belowaverage. Food 2 star. Service -1 star. Don?t wanna come again. Hard to believe this restaurant got 4/5 star. Read more

I had such a lovely dinner with my family here. We ordered Seafood Bibimbap, Soondubu and Tonkatsu Curry rice. Bibimbap was... huge and generous potion and super hot & flavorful. I grew up in Hawaii, so I know how Korean food should taste like-everything was good! The service was good also! Read more

Honestly for the price I thought the food would be great. Out of the whole order only miso soup and spring rolls were descent... enough to eat. Pad Thai was over soy souced. Besides my wife got severe food allergy one hour later with her face all swollen upeven though she never had one. Read more

Food that I got was really awful, but 1 only ordered 3 different things. My bulgogi tasted like hamburger helper, no joke. The... only food that was somewhat good was the yakitori but bare miminum ?Good?. Acceptable. Felt taken, spent 56 bucks on absolutelytasteless food no garnishes sauces or even the soy for the dumplings tasted store bought and inauthentic. Sad bc the service wasfriendly and cute place. She forgot two of my orders though and apologized for take out. Idk I?m a homemade foodie and I wouldhave truly rather eaten fast food like Wendy?s, Chipotle, or Subway and would have been more satisfied by getting quality andquantity and not felt like I threw 60 bucks right in the trash. They also have this weird identity crisis of fusion marketedbetween Korean Japanese and Chinese without hitting the mark on any one of those cuisines. Pick one and do a great job with it,not less than mediocre for all three. You want great fusion that hits the mark, go to Roots on Route 1 in the Staples/WholeFoods shopping center if you are local. You?ll be delighted with the in-house recipes, sauces, and flavors Read more

I waited a long time to try this place even though it is near me and I love the cuisine because the prices are so high. And... that's the bottom line here: the food is decent, but very overpriced. I got the scallion pancake ($7.80) and the beef friedrice ($16). The scallion pancake was a little bland / pretty meh. The fried rice was pretty good. Both were fine in terms ofportion/amount of food. But neither was good enough to justify the price. For comparison: SCHouse has a better scallionpancake, and it costs $3.95. In fact, they have a "Beef Pancake Roll" that costs about the same as this scallion pancake($7.95), but tastes better and includes much more food (plus beef). The beef fried rice at SChouse is $13.95, and at TigerNoodles it's $11, and both are as good or better than this. $16 for beef fried rice is insane. I probably won't try this placeagain because of the prices, but if I do, I'll go for something meat-based like the bulgogi, because the beef was by far thetastiest and highest-quality feeling part of my meal. Read more