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| - Definitely not what we expected....My family and I heard about this place through a friend of ours that lives in Chandler. So, my family and I decided to check it out since we have visited Hawaii before and really enjoyed the Hawaiian Cuisine. So, lets start with the review...
As soon as we arrived to this place my family and I walked in and we all wanted to immediately walk out because for a minute it smelt like something died in the restaurant..But we stayed anyways. The decor of the place was not very inviting, nothing really representing Hawaii but a large wallpaper like picture of Coconut tree's which me and my husband and I saw that it had bubbling and was not put up properly. Yes, Hawaii does have coconut trees but so do a lot of other places. As we went to look for a place to sit the tables looked really nasty and looked like it had not been cleaned for hours. We sat the kids down while my husband and I went to look at the menu.
Menu was to our opinion very minimal and the prices were outrageously high for what the were offering. So, when we went to the counter we were greeted by the cashier (not very pleasant at all). We ordered our food: Husband ordered the Loco Moco, I ordered the Barbecue Chicken, My oldest daughter ordered the Kalua Pork (in Hawaii they call it Kalua Pig), my youngest daughter ordered the Chicken Katsu, and we ordered our son his Spam Musubi. So, it took about 20 minutes to get our food and so when we took it to the nasty tables we opened our plates and not what we expected at all.. The portions are very skimpy, we all looked at each other and was like "Whaaaaaat the heck is this" so we all sampled each others food.
Lets start with the Loco Moco, it was not a Loco Moco like how its serve in Hawaii it was a deconstructed Loco Moco. In Hawaii the Loco Moco is a huge dish that all the surfers and construction workers love to eat..because it keeps them energized...everything is on top of everything. This Loco Moco was deconstrcuted..: two tasteless patties with over cooked eggs, and gravy on top, rice on the side and their version of mac salad.(truely not a Loco Moco), On to the Chicken Katsu: Chicken was to thin and very dry, no flavor in the panko breading, Katsu Sauce was to salty and who in the right mind would put fried things on a bed of nasty boiled cabbage, that makes the food soggy..(actually all the plates had boiled cabbage..Blehhh). On to the Kalua Pork: Ummm..definitely not the way Hawaii makes it...it was not fresh at all and it seemed like it was microwaved because some of it was still cold. There was no flavor at all to this dish. On to the Barbecue Chicken...omg!! yuk yuk and yuk...dry as hell, no char broiled grill marks like how its served in Hawaii looked like it was cooked on a flat top grill and there was no flavor. On to my sons Spam Musubi...he took on bite of it and did not want to eat it any more...My son knows his Spam Musubi and he said it was junk..we tried it and man it was nasty. Spam was under cooked and not marinated in sauce the sauce they used tasted like teriyaki salty sauce...blehhh.. Oh, forgot to mention about the mac salad, my husband and i tasted an unusual taste and we both agreed it tasted like chicken bouillon and MSG!!! Folks MSG can be very bad for ya..
This experience was really really definitely the worst of the worst Hawaiian eateries we tried and would not recommend this place at all to anyone who are wanting the taste of the Hawaiian Islands...We know that there are Hawaiian people that live here in Arizona and god forbid if a true Hawaiian went in to this place...Overall, food was terrible, customer service way below average. No, feeling of the ALOHA SPIRIT that we experienced when visiting Hawaii..We were all greeted with a big "ALOOOOOHA"..in Hawaii...Basically this place
misrepresents the Hawaiian Culture, its a mixture of asian fusion, american, chinese, nothing really representing the true hawaiian cuisine..
A huge suggestion for the owner of this establishment, maybe you should reconsider your menu selections and pricing, do research on the true meaning of representing the Hawaiian Culture and its food. Again, I will not represent this establishment to anyone. I wish there was a minus star rating system...because I'd give this place minus 4 stars...
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