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| - This place showed up on Elite Emily's bookmarks as "Asian/Pacific Fusion," but it showed a picture of chicken strips.
Good enough for me!
This place is in the Trader Joe's plaza, which I would have never found myself if Emily wasn't driving. The place is small and still looks new... because it IS new! Only open four days, and they're already killin' it!
I ordered the Ohana combo, while she got the Hawaiian Hen House, but we had already planned on sharing. The Ohana combo is four chicken strips, fries, coleslaw, a Hawaiian Roll, and a drink for $10. These are four GIANT chicken strips though... lightly breaded so it's crunchy but you still get the full flavor of the chicken, which was one of the best chicken strips I've had in a good long time. They were plump and juicy -- no dried out strips here! The fries also had an excellent amount of crunch.
They gave us a little bit of each sauce to try out, which was really nice, and this is where I got nervous, because some people get weird with sauce. (I'm looking at you, Rubio's... WHY YOU GOTTA DROWN EVERYTHING IN YOUR CRAPPY LIME CREAM SAUCE???!? But I digress...) My favorite was the Polynesian sauce, which was sweet and unlike anything I ever tasted. I should have asked what was in it, but I was too busy licking it off my fingers. The Sriachia sauce (I'm sure I misspelled that) was sweet but spicy at the same time, and wound up being Elite Emily's fave.
The Hawaiian Hen House was our other dish, great for someone who doesn't want fried foods. It was their chicken, grilled and chopped, served over rice with sesame seeds, a fried egg, and the aforementioned Polynesian sauce. It was ridiculous good. So good I have the leftovers and I'm super excited to eat it again. Who gets excited for leftovers, really? But I am. The sauce was sweet but not overwhelming, and like their strips, their grilled chicken is plump and juicy. The only downside to this was that the fried egg wasn't fried hard enough for either of our liking, but we were informed later that if we request a harder fried egg they have no problem doing it, so that's a nice save.
The staff was awesome! The counter girl was chipper, the girl who brought it to our table was nice and pointed everything out to us, and Jerry (the owner, maybe?) came out to us to chat about the food and what we liked and didn't like, and he seems really passionate about this place.
We're already planning what we want on our next trip! It's a nice little secret gem but I don't anticipate it being secret for too much longer!
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