My wife and I visit Greenwich quite often and when we are feeling hungry and in the mood for fast oriental food Noodle Time is our first stop.

This restaurant has a modern, fast food appearance to it and offers a efficient and friendly service.

When you first enter you are shown to a table, and left with a blank order form. The menu is to be found on the table under protective glass and consists of a fairly large sellection of noodle dishes of different types. Soup noodles, Ho Fun, Vermicelli, fried Vermicelli or ordinary noodles are available as is fried and boiled rice. You fill in the order form, with the help of some simple instructions on the menu, the waitress comes back, checks it with you and within ten minutes starts to turn up with your order. You pay at the till on your way out.

At first sight the prices might seem high, prices vary from about £2.50 and £3.95 per dish, but you are unlikely to want more than one or two dishes each. I have, the last two times had two and wished I'd just had the one.

Some of the dishes seem very good value, for example you can have a breast of duck with fried noodles for £2.65 or a large bowl of vermicelli seafood soup for £3.95.

Noodle time has the usual sellection of alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages, both hot and cold.

To my mind Noodle Time, if there is a branch near to you, offers a realitively healthy alternative to the usual fast food offered by the burger restuarants we all know and love/hate at a competitive price.

Below I've picked "friends "n" fun (adult) but this restraurant would appeal to families, and young adults too.