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| - We were at Jamba Juice when I plugged this spot to my husband once again. I had mention to him about this place about 3x. He looks at me with enthusiasm and said, yeah sure let's check it out. For some reason, I ended up saying, nah...nevermind...maybe next time. Twas a sign!
Welp, off we went anyway. If you map it, it truely isn't a hard place to find. I don't care what anyone says about street parking, looking sketchy, being in an industrial area...Touch of Aloha is giving you a Touch of Aloha by the location alone.If you are from the 808, you should be well-acquainted with hole in the wall, janky, old rundown, type of eateries. But if you aren't, then I can understand why you would think this place isn't up to your standard. Although it's street parking, we were able to park on the street....right infront of the establishment.
We ordered 2 pork hash @99cents each, chow fun@6.99, a spam musubi@2.50 and fries@2.49.
I didn't notice him in there for too long because I didn't start to wonder. We all have that internal clock. Lol. He comes out with our order and since the babies were asleep, I opened our orders up in excitement to take a peak. Another sign.
The first thing I opened was the pork hash. The pork hash is noticeably larger than the kind you'll find in an 808 7-11 or something, heck....I think it's bigger than the manapua man's pork hash. Okay, but...if you aren't a cook yourself, or are familiar with this dish...you may not notice if it is thoroughly cooked! I took one look at it and completely knew it wasnt, told my husband to cut into the pork hash, and sure enough...twas undercooked.
The husband goes back in to let them know. During this time, I decide to start biting into the spam musubi. I have never in my life had a spam musubi that tasted like it was still in the can. Spam comes package in a can, I get it. But if there's one thing I dislike about canned food, is that it taste like a can. Which is why I personally don't like eating canned food.
I don't know what it was about the spam in this musubi in particular exactly. Was it old? Was it sliced from the can and quickly slapped onto the pan but not having it on there long enough to cook off that "can" flavor? Was the knife used to slice it still dirty? Pan? Cutting board?It was such a huge disappointment. I love they had the furikake in there, but I couldn't get passed the spam. Not to mention the musubi wasn't even wrapped properly. No excuse for a popular 808 staple. That's basic right there
Husband comes out with a manapua. He said they were super apologetic about the undercooked pork hash and are working on it. Cool, manapua! Husband goes in, comes back out, this time with a can of hawaiian sun's passion orange. I'm looking at him laughing like, why the heck everytime you walk-in you then walk-out with something? They were seriously apologetic so twas another peace offering.
We both absolutely appreciated their hospitality and service because of the mishap. Even more so because by the time the hubs come out with his new batch of pork hash, they gave him 5pcs vs the 2 as we originally ordered. I thought that was a very nice gesture between the manapua, free drink, and the extra pork hash. My husband said the guy working there was really nice and because of their efforts to makeup for the pork hash, is why I'm giving them 3 stars. The extra star is for service.
2 stars for the food. I always feel bad giving low ratings especially to local stops, even more local because they're from Hawaii, but the food in all was nothing special. I wasn't enthusiastic about any of it. The manapua itself didn't have much flavor, although twas warm, the bottom.of the manapua was dry and on the verge of being stale. That got abandoned.
What I do appreciate is you can't really find pork hash and manapua around the valley, especially if you need some Hawaii nostalgia. So having them around may do it for such folks. I mean you caAAan, but you cant. I feel the same about the chow fun. The char siu in the chow fun did not even look appetizing. I felt like the chow fun just needed a couple more minutes of being stir fried. But that's just me. That got abandoned too.
They've only been open since Feb.18 so of course they'll need time to adjust. It just fell super short to us. I'm seriously having a bad taste of pork in my mouth today between the spam, undercooked pork hash, and the char siu from the chow fun that I'm currently scarred. I don't think we will ever return especially with having other hawaiian spots closer to our proximity.
Give them a shot because one person's failed experience does not dictate what another person will experience. As I always say, doesn't hurt to try. Just make sure your food is cooked!
Don't know if they have highchairs, but it does look like they are stroller friendly!
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