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| - On walkabout on the outskirts of Vegas, southeast of the Strip, I saw this small fast-food stop standing alone in the far corner of a mall parking lot, next to a car wash. Hawaiian? Barbeque? Yes and yes.
Inside was reasonably clean and well ordered for a small grease joint, and I looked up and down the menu for something that would allow me to explore without getting too much of any one thing... and I settled on the Seafood Platter with Chicken Katsu. After all, for $12, how big could it be?
Oh... my... word. When it came out I thought they had the wrong table... it was a rectangular styrofoam takeout container, same as you typically get Chinese food combination plates in, but it was STUFFED to the brim with food. And they didn't just pack it with rice, either... it was a generous serving of katsu, shrimp, and mahi mahi each, all in a big glistening pile over a scoop of rice and some shredded cabbage (to help move the grease along, I guess.)
And the container was so full that they put the sides (some kind of Hawaiian macaroni salad) actually on the side in another container. Plus two tubs of katsu sauce.
I managed to finish it all, including the super-rich macaroni salad (which I probably should have skipped, my dietician now advises me), and stagger out of there in an ambulatory food coma.
If you fiend for a pile of deep-fry Aloha style, get here. Do they do Loco Moco? Of course. Got a good, healthy heart, no history of heart disease, and exercise regularly? Come on down and change your oil, this place is awesome. Mahalo!
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