We have one 15 minutes from the house, ate some take out once last year. It was pretty decent, had the Huli chicken, basically teriyaki chicken. Hawaiian lunch plates are high in carbs and calories, consisting of a protein, lots of white rice, and macaroni salad. They also have spam musubi, a large nigiri type of sushi with a slice of spam.
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Posts: 17568 | Location: Texas | Registered: May 13, 2003
I eat there once in a blue moon and just get a small the Kilauea chicken sans macaroni salad with double rice. The cold macaroni salad is...not my preference. I like it, but the value to not terrific, IMHO.
Posts: 2102 | Location: TX | Registered: October 28, 2010
I was stationed in Hawaii in the mid 70's and worked in an office with a PFC who was the last person from the state of Hawaii to be drafted. One day we got to talking about eating and how how the young ladies on the islands were slim and pretty but how as aged they got a "little" plumb shall we say. He said, " LT, you people on the Main Land he until you get full......we eat until we get tired!"
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Posts: 735 | Location: Texas | Registered: October 16, 2012
Looks like an EXTREMELY basic Plate Lunch chain for non-island palates. Checking out the menu, it's pretty sterile, too many chicken dishes and not enough pork & seafood; no lau-lau, no lomi salmon, no short-ribs. At least they have Spam musubi and Dole whips
In short, if you like a pile of rice, with some meat and a side of mac salad. A double-starch plate, same as what you could get at Panda Express.
Posts: 15194 | Location: Wine Country | Registered: September 20, 2000
A couple of jobs, or maybe 25 years ago now, I was working in an office in downtown Portland. There was a Hawaiian restaurant nearby and I went there for lunch occasionally. I don't recall the name of it but it wasn't the one the OP is talking about. But I do remember the food as being really good. Chicken and rice mostly, yeah, but flavored differently than a Chinese or Thai or Teriyaki place.
Posts: 7510 | Location: Idaho | Registered: February 12, 2007