Wow! I guess that I'm spoiled by L & L Hawaiian BBQ or maybe there was just no pride taken in my meal that I paid over $10.00 for. But I have never been so dissapointed ordering Hawaiian food ever.
I ordered the 2 meat combo with 1 teryaki beef and 1 chicken katsu. As well as 1 spam musubi. Let's start off with the spam musubi. $3.00 for 1! The menu didn't say how many was to be included but coming from working and patronizing L & L Hawaiian BBQ I automatically assumed that it would be 2...especially for $3.00. But getting past the price the spam wasn't fried (which it usually is to bring out the flavor and slightly carmelize the meat) it was simply sliced and wrapped in what seemed to be regular white rice instead of jasmine or sticky rice. Anytime Ive ever had spam musubi in the past the rice has always had a very distinct smell inducative of sticky/jasmine rice. When I picked the musubi up and took a bite all of the rice started to fall out. #Dissapointed. Moving on to the macaroni salad it was flavorless and the portion was extremely small. It was also watery, and not thick. Again something that I'm used to having when ordering macaroni salad from a Hawaiian cuisine establishment. The chicken katsu on it's own was good but its sauce was very "Americanized" in that it was yellow instead of brown. It tasted like it just had ketchup, mayo, mustard and pepper. It wasn't very good. And finally the beef was extremely dry. It tasted like warm beef jerky with teryaki sauce poured over it. The meat was very tough and not tender which it should've been. Being as though it was so dry it seems like the food preparer either missed the marinating part or didn't bother to marinate it for longer than 10 minutes or so. If you're going to serve Hawaiian food then more pride should be taken in it's preparation., and presentation.