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| - My wife and I decided to head out to the Galleria Mall today and visit Best Buy and Costco. We were there early and the stores were not open yet. So, we decided to grab a brunch. As we drove around looking for a place to eat, we noticed a small restaurant located on a strip outside of the Sunset Casino ~ the Alohoa Kitchen. We figure it was a mom/pop kinda restaurant and thought it would be good to try and dine here.
Here is the good. As you walk in, it is pretty clean and spacious. It has a "Tiki" type built to it. Pretty cool. Also, from the menu offering, everything was reasonably priced ~ about $8-10 per plate.
Now, the bad... no customers were in the restaurant (bad sign). I ordered the Teriyaki Chicken with rice. And, my wife ordered the Ribs with rice. It was served on a styro-foam plate with soft utensils.
Oh my, okay... breathe... while eating the rice, it was like grinding pebbles. I had to turn to my wife and tell her that we are in Bedrock. Call me Fred Flintstones and her Wilma. We needed Bam Bam to hammer the rice and make it edible.
Note to the cook: How to cook rice... Pour rice into rice cooking pot, ADD WATER (I think this step was seriously missed), make sure you measure at least a 1/3 index finger size of water at the top, press cook, and wait for 30 minutes for beep. Damn! How hard is it to cook rice man! I know we live in Las Vegas, it is in a desert, and we need to conserve water; but dog, just sacrifice and add a cup of water to your rice.
As for the Teriyaki chicken, I think they served me "yesterday's" chicken. It tasted like "over-nuked" chicken. Extremely rubbery and very tasteless. In order to hide this deficiency, the cook LATHERED the chicken in Teriyaki sauce. The end result: It looked and tasted like eating Molasses with uncooked rice. yuck, yuck and ga-zillion yuck.
I ate 3 spoonful too many.
As for my wife's Ribs, it was tough as hell. Again, it was obviously nuked.
Of note, there are people in the world who think they can cook, who are good cooks, who can open a restaurant, and survive...
And, then, there are owners like the Aloha Kitchen, who think they can cook, who have no clue how bad their food is, who still ends up opening a restaurant, and who probably would not survive.
Finally, I would not recommend this place. We definitely will NOT return. For two of us, with drinks, and tip, it amounted to $24. Honestly, a better deal would be to go to Chili's -- have a decent appetizer and 2 entrees for $20....
I wished we can rate this a ZERO or negative star...
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