Cho Sun OK Korean Restaurant

Cho Sun OK Korean Restaurant
4200 N. Lincoln Ave
Chicago, IL 60618

Located on the corner of Lincoln and Berteau.

Mandoo- Comes with special Korean soy sauce mixture. Mandoo are pan fried pork dumplings with a savory vegetable mixture while the special Korean sauce has some of the same great vegetables and also vinegar and sesame seeds to give it that authentic Korean zest.

Mul Naegn Myeon- Buckweat Noodles in Cold Beef Broth. Usually also has shredded cucumbers and a hard-boiled egg.

Kimchi Chigae-  One of Samantha’s timeless favorites.  Best when served in the harsh cold of Korean winter, but Chicago summers are fine too.  This has kimchi, beef, tofu, green onion, and a lot of spices in the broth.  It is served boiling in its cauldron to maintain the perfect mixture upon arrival.

Side dishes typical of Korean cuisine.

Overall, this place is a favorite of ours.  The restaurant itself is nicely set-up, small, but welcoming.  The waitresses could be your Aunties (if you were Korean).  There’s no friendly small talk, but the service is quick and simple.

Cho Sun Ok is BYOB.

Prices per entre vary between $6.95- $13.95.

Major credit cards accepted.

Peking Cuisine

8332 Southwest Freeway, 77074.

So… it was Mother’s Day and I made a reservation at Peking Cuisine for lunch.  No, you don’t really need a reservation to eat there, any day, but you do need a reservation for Peking duck.  I’ll get to the duck later, there was a good crowd already feasting inside that day… so that’s a good sign.

The menu items here are authentic items, many of which might scare your average American.  The first appetizer dish is of sichuan origin and called ‘Couple’s Slice of Lung’ or fuqi feipian.  I didn’t know until today that it consists of beef tongue!  I knew that it had beef stomach and I am okay with eating that… but tongue?  Well, it was good… so I can’t say much about tongue.  The texture is slightly softer than regular beef and I think it had some tendons in there somewhere.  Even with the discovery, I think I will continue to eat tongue… but it wasn’t as spicy as it looks.

The legendary pig ears!  Now, this restaurant did it a lot differently… usually its just an orange pile of mess, but this restaurant arranged the ears nicely, compacted it all together quite beautifully.  At first, I was skeptical, because I don’t usually eat pig ears like this (I’m used to this).  But this new way of eating it is even better!  You can really get a feel for the gelatin complexity in between the crunch.  It might sound a little unorthodox, but such is food, and you just can’t knock it until you try it.

This is a particular type of cold noodle dish, very refreshing on a hot summer’s day.  The noodles are very thick and reminds me of jello, but al dente.  It has a pull to it when you chew.  The sauce is a soy sauce garlic, very heavy on the garlic.  Good dish overall, but I think I’ve had better elsewhere.

Stir fry bean sprout leaves, its just that simple.  I love simple, clean Chinese stir fried vegetables, Chinese people tend to eat a lot of leafy greens and that was what I had growing up.

This dish was just wrong.  It came out brown when I was expecting clear sauce.  It was sweet when I didn’t expect it.  The rice cracker was the only thing good in this dish… oh and straw mushrooms!  It was suppose to be shrimp over sizzling rice, where the rice starts to sizzle when the hot shrimp mixture gets poured over it.

This dish was ordered wrong in some sense too.  We thought we ordered crispy pork intestines but instead got stir fried pork large intestine with green peppers.  Sadness was me, until I tasted it.  I have some strange acquired taste for intestine… and I loved this newly discovered dish!  I usually eat intestines fried, or if its not fried, then spicy… this was none of the mentioned, but still dang good!

This is one of the few restaurants in Houston that does Peking duck, it is eaten 2 ways or a 2 course duck meal.  The first to come is the roast duck neatly sliced.  One duck fed 7 people, that’s because we ordered a whole bunch of other stuff too.  How to eat Peking duck?  Take a piece of meat and a piece of crispy skin and place over tortilla.  The Chinese tortilla is a lot thinner than your Mexican tortilla, but not as thin as Vietnamese rice paper.  Put sweet duck or really hoisin sauce over the duck meat and skin.  Garnish with green onion strips, wrap, and eat!  The duck was alright, it was good, but didn’t put me in a food daze.  Something satisfying if you are craving Peking duck.

The second course is the duck soup.  Duck bones are cooked for hours to make soup.  I love duck soup.  It has a nice rich flavor to it.  Inside this soup, they added cabbage, clear vermicelli, and tofu.  It compliments the heavy, greased roast duck because of it’s light, crisp taste.  Something soothing after the duck.

So… overall, I was a teeny weeny bit disappointed.  I was hoping for a wow factor that I just didn’t get.  I remembered the food being better, but that was a long time ago and I might have upgraded my tastes since then.  The best dish of the night was the pig ears, followed by the pork intestines.  The service was horrible, and we waited at least 45 minutes.  Those I kind of just disregard in a traditional Chinese restaurant… because if I factored those in, you would lose the experience of tasting some really authentic dishes!

Genki Sushi Hawaii

45-480 Kaneohe Bay Drive
Kaneohe, Hawaii 96744
808-247-9595

Several locations on Oahu; Also located on Maui and Kauai.

A good Revolving fresh sushi place. Check out the site: genkisushiusa.com

The menu offers several different types of sushi, sashimi, fried items, and other small Japanese orders served on color-coded plates to distinguish price:

You can wait for the pieces to come around, or order it right away! Although it’s mostly self-serve, the service is also great.

Unlimited ginger right in front of you!! The wasabi goes around the conveyor belt with the sushi, and it’s also unlimited.

Conveyor belt action. Just pick it up and eat! Impulse-item sushi.

Nigiri. So fresh and tasty for simple fried tofu. Just the right amount of sweetness and the sushi rice was fresh, too. Tidbit about the rice from genkisushiusa.com: Known as the sushi robot, [a] machine can produce 1,000 rice balls (Gunkan) in one hour. Today, the latest model can produce double the quantity within the same period. Traditionally, these rice balls were made by hand and were time consuming. With the introduction of the sushi robots in 1980, Saito’s little army of mechanical arms once again set the way to bring sushi within the reach of everyone. $1.40 2/pc

Nigiri Ikageso: So fresh; So good. The squid legs were just the right texture. Only $1.40 2/pc

Set your own Natto roll. Natto, fermented soybeans, usually has quite a bitter after-taste, but this roll was really good. Practically not bitter at all, but we could still distinguish the distinct natto taste.

Vegetable croquette: This was very, very good, fresh, and warm. It was similar to a hash brown, but so much better. Potato, Corn, Carrots, Peas, Panko, Egg fried with light, flaky Japanese batter.

Once done with each color-coded plate, we simply stack them up and put them to the side where the server counts them up later.

Unfortunately, Genki’s only USA locations are in Hawaii for now. If you are in Hawaii, I definitely recommend stopping by when you are looking for good, cheap eats. It’s something different.

Miniature Food Erasers

This is my 2 year anniversary post for Foodnatic! Hooray! I hope you enjoy the lovely spread I have collected throughout the years… as well as my passion for all things related to food.

Has it been 2 years already?? Actually, it was 2 in January but of course you know my procrastination habits… regardless, I still wanted to give you readers something a little different and special! I have here my collection of miniature food erasers I gathered throughout the years, specifically by manufacturer, Iwako. More pictures less talk right? As always…

This is the mega spread, I do have duplicates, but I decided to keep those in the box for picture purposes… I know this picture will be updated in the future.

This is how a typical package looks like, a collection of about 6-8 erasers. They also come in singles and groups of 3-6. For this particular set theme, it was Chinese dim sum. The detail is so intricate that is what makes it so amazing to look at and collect.

And here I have them spread out for the photo shoot.

Here we have the noodle soup from the picture above taken apart to show each separate piece. The best part of these erasers is that a different color is a different piece! Great to take apart and put together again and again.

Japanese meal collection complete with tempura bento and burner.

Japanese sushi collection with maguro, ika, shrimp, tamago, uni, and roe.

For those with a penchant for sweets.

Instant ramen in detail.

The American super value meal.

American junk food? Delicious!

Canned fizzy drinks.

Cute bottled drinks.

The fruit tray.

The veggie tray.

Size comparison of the honey dew melon to a quarter.

Again, just look at the details!

So, I hope you enjoyed looking over my eraser collection. I absolutely love them to pieces!  And the best part is, zero fat and lots of fiber!

Sorbetto’s

14008 Memorial Drive, 77079.

So it’s Sunday and you feel like being one of the cool people… perhaps an itch for hanging out at the local yuppie coffee shop, then you realize that you hate the scene there.  Too much people, too much traffic, too much of the same Monday thru Friday routine.  Well, Sorbetto’s will offer you a change of environment.  It’s located away from the Galleria crowd.

This was the perfect place to go to on my Sunday to hangout.  The crowd was close to nil and they also offer free wi-fi!  It was quiet and they also have a gelato bar if you get a sweet tooth itch.  I didn’t try the gelato that day, but the selection did look mighty scrumptious.  Instead, I had my generic Italian soda, almond flavored please.  After the drink, I skipped my booty over to Terry Hershey Park for some casual running.  What a productive Sunday!

The interior was nicely decorated to remain modern yet still have that little Italy flair.  I liked it very much so, next time I’ll make it a point to try the gelato.

We’re doing the cooking!

The smell of grease and an open fire was upon me as I lazily sauntered into the kitchen a few afternoons ago. My mom, an avid cook, your typical 5 foot, half an inch Asian lady, was at it again. She really doesn’t know how to relax after years of working non-stop. So, after cleaning the house from top to bottom and tending to her wild herb garden, she decides that it’s time to make her own eggrolls. We usually get this treat after she sees that we’ve eaten healthy for an extended amount of time.

I had the dangerous task of lighting the backyard gas burner which my dad insisted on setting up after incessantly complaining that our regular kitchen range flame was too weak. He is a cook in a Chinese restaraunt so he knows his heat. After about 30 seconds, the entire bottle of vegetable oil I poured into the wok was nice and watery, which is the indication that it’s prime time for some frying!

Here is my mom carefully placing the eggrolls into the piping hot vat of oil. It’s a delicate process.

Here she is manuevering the eggrolls in place for the first fry phase (the second phase is to help keep the crispyness of the outer shell after the eggrolls cool off (I didn’t know that either!).

The finished product: Lean ground pork, thinly sliced carrot strips, fried egg strips, stir fried cabbage (extra pepper), wrapped up in a mouthwatering crispy shell. “Sweet and Sour” glaze drizzled on top (tomato paste, vinegar, sugar, water, cornstarch, bring to a boil) with green onion shavings.

Damn straight!!! I’m a bit biased, but it was obviously delicious. You risk burning your lips on the fresh off the fryer shell to get to the “ham”, which is warm and inviting. The texture was grainy because of the pork but not dry, thanks to the juices from the cabbage and carrots. I ate eight of those rolls of heaven for dinner. And another five the next day. That’s why mom only allows for this every other month. =)

Versailles Cuban Restaurant

3555 SW Eighth St., 33135.

Standing proud on Eighth Street in Miami, is this grand sign informing visitors of this Cuban delight, Versailles Restaurant.  It is actually quite a big establishment, the shear size of the restaurant is note worthy but it also has a to-go coffee house and full bakery next door.  You can literally eat lunch, grab a coffee and get dessert at the bakery… which is exactly what we did.  Although you can tell that they want to attract tourists to the restaurant, I have to say that once inside, you will see a lot of Miami natives chowing down as well.  The decor can be compared to IHOP, nothing too fancy, but lots of mirrors and glass.

Once we sat down, the food came to us.  They brought out some of their signature garlic bread to start.  The bread was really tasty and very very oily… can you tell?  The brave one out of us actually dipped the bread back into the oil to make sure she got all the greasy goodness.

Oh come on, we’re on vacation, let’s get an appetizer… that was my theory.  I was really looking forward to eating Cuban cuisine so of course I wanted to try as many things as possible.  So then, I took the liberty of ordering the ‘fried combination for 2′, $6.95.  It comes with 4 croquettes (cheese/ham), 4 turnovers (empanada-like), fried yuca, mariquitas and mojo.  Croquettes are good of course, fried potatoes always hits the spot.  The turnovers I didn’t care for, the fried yuca yum yum, and mariquitas?  I am just going to assume that they are calling plantain chips that.  OH my gosh, I have a thing for plantain chips, I think it is my #1 snack food of all time.  I eat and eat and eat it till my mouth is all blistered from the sodium and fried goodness.  And mojo!  Isn’t that just the funniest word to use for sauce?  I’m thinking this is some kind of cilantro cream sauce.  I can just imagine servers saying “would you like some mojo on that?”, lol!

All that fried stuff and you get thirsty, quench it with a tall glass of Cuban mojito!  The mojito even came with a strip of sugar cane for decoration.  I didn’t really drink too much of this, I was more focused on the food aspect of this restaurant.  From what I did gather, it was more carbonated than the mojitos I’m use to, but still very good.  If I only was a mixed drink girl…

For the main squeeze, I ordered the very traditional ‘ropa vieja’, $10.50.  It is essentially shredded beef in a tomato creole sauce with fried plantain and white rice.  It tastes like beef stew… can I say that my mom makes good beef stew too?  It was satisfying but I don’t think it is anything special.  I would order it again just to have the dish, but I don’t think I would crave it too much.  Oh and once again, my mom makes good beef stew!

Oh, this was delicious.  Breaded beef steak Milanese, $11.95, breaded beef steak topped with tomato sauce and gratin of mozzarella and parmesan served with fried plantain and morose rice.  It was really cheesy and reminded me of a chicken fried steak cheese melt.  Who would want to eat chicken fried steak with white gravy after you can melt slabs of cheese on it?  Next time, I’m going to request that, hold the gravy and melt some cheese.  Morose rice is just a simple mixture of rice and red beans, fyi.

Roasted pork Cuban style, $9.95, marinated and slow oven roasted with morose rice and fried plantain (not shown).  Cubans do love their pork, there was a whole section on the menu devoted to pork.  The pieces I got to try was tender and fatty, a very good combination for rice.  The pork was roasted flavorful-ly but I think the skin was really hard, discarded not eaten.

Broiled fresh salmon, $11.95, topped with lime cilantro butter, and served with yellow rice and fried plantain.  Where is the butter?  Well, someone was trying to be health conscious on an A) vacation and B) Cuban restaurant… needless to say, the old grandma that took our food order did not quite understand the idea of butter on the side.  Worrying about your figure on a vacation is like being a vegetarian on a pig farm… they don’t go together.  But anyway, I bet the salmon tastes fine on it’s own itty bitty self regardless, because they probably used ample butter to grill it.

And then there was chocolate.  For dessert we walked on over to the bakery next door to select some goodies to take to the beach.  I wanted chocolate, bad.  So what I got was a three layer piece of chocolate cake on the right and chocolate mousse on the left.  Now, take that piece of cake on the right and chunk it out the window.  The focus was all over the mousse!  It was oh so creamy and chocolate-y heavenly-ness… so much so that I wish I bought 5 more.  But it being so rich, one person could probably only stomach at most one in one sitting.  I was nice and shared it with the other girls, and they agreed with me that it was just that good.  I think each item was under $3.

Well, Miami knows Cuban.  If you ever travel to Miami, don’t miss out on this authentic restaurant.  The food is great but the service lacked a bit.  Perhaps it’s so authentic that they don’t practice restaurant etiquette.  Our old grandma hostess/server/order taker brought out the bill to us and watched us study it for some time.  Then I guess she got worried and felt the need to mention to us ‘no tip yet’, meaning the gratuity was not charged on the bill.  Grandma, I know… I’ve been to plenty of restaurants in my days, and I know what a tip would look like on a bill.  She was afraid that we were just going to pay and not tip… no way… not us!

Cuban food is not know to be healthy and the closest thing they serve that comes to vegetables would be the fried yuca, onion topping, and mint in your mojitos.  They also like fry a LOT.  Definitely not an everyday cuisine for me, but I got to say, frying does make everything taste that much better.

A Fish Called Avalon

700 Ocean Dr., 33139.

Tonight we celebrated our 10 year anniversary, my close friends and I…

“The best thing I know how to make for dinner is a reservation”

LOL! Don’t like my joke? Fine… anyhow, I made a dinner reservation for this restaurant at least one month in advance at OpenTable.com. The location was nicely tucked in the center of Miami Beach’s, Ocean Drive.

A Fish Called Avalon is actually a restaurant in Hotel Avalon. It is easier to spot the neon green Avalon sign, rather than the little reception desk out front. Most people going about the area will probably be in beach attire or summer gear… that is the pleasure of being in Miami Beach.

For seating, there is a choice between patio or indoor. We opted for the indoors because, well, we still had a long night ahead of us and didn’t want our ‘do’ to get ruined by sitting outside. In March, Miami Beach carries a small breeze. Inside, the ambiance was elegant; table cloth, real chairs, and of course solid dinnerware.

To start off the night, we did a few toasts to ‘us’! The 10 years we stuck by each other and actually survived through each other… no easy task there. Hooray sistahs! A cheer to the Fantabulous 4!

After the drinks, the waiter brought our lovely complimentary bread… oh, we love free things and bread is one of them. I believe it was a sourdough bread mixture and butter balls were served on the side, butter so good, it can be eaten by itself!

For starters, we ordered the pan roasted crab and rock shrimp cake. The crab cake is place on top of a mango slaw and encircled by chipotle aioli. It was good, just what weneeded to settle us down after a few glasses of white wine. It was brought to my attention that crab cake is not hard to make, but the important thing was the fresh ingredients.

For my entree, I ordered the special of the day. Don’t pass up a chef special when given the opportunity, because most of the time, the chef will make it and it includes the fresh catch of the day with the freshest ingredients. Plus, the chef really gets to diverge from the main menu and create something original. The special was grilled cobia over creamy leek polenta and a ginger-carrot bearnaise sauce. I never had cobia before, but I must say, it was an enjoyable experience. The texture reminded me of swordfish, which is firm and tight, but slightly less firm and hard. The cobia did not have a fishy taste, it actually tasted a little creamy and was grilled fork tender. The leek polenta was good of course, I have yet to have bad polenta. The ginger bearnaise sauce sounded weird but it didn’t taste misplaced at all. This dish was excellent, well worth the money and made me a new supporter of cobia.

This is the Caribbean spice grilled grouper over boniato mash and mango relish. Boniato is a sweet potato, fyi. I don’t recall the taste of this particular dish, as to I am very un-partial to mangos.

This is the pan roasted local snapper with sautéed spinach and sweet roasted pepper tapenade. Tapenade is the technique used to purée popular ingredients such as olives and capers. Decent flavors for a decent dish, again, I have problems recalling what it tastes like, but doesn’t it still look tasty?

This is the grilled local mahi mahi with lemon grass scented purple sticky rice, hearts of palm salad, and a coconut red curry sauce. Doesn’t the dish look complicated? The taste was probably equally complicated. I like how they made the sticky rice purple, it gave the dish more attitude.

Ah dessert, first on the list is a pretty traditional cheesecake with caramel syrup and vanilla bean ice cream. The cheesecake was nicely plated and formed into pyramids, certainly made it that much more fun to eat. But, cheesecake never made it on to my top list of sweets, so I wasn’t as excited as I should be to eat it.

The second dessert, yes we decided to go all out that night, is the chocolate marquise with candied hazelnut, raspberry coulis, and fresh raspberries. The chocolate marquise is essentially a cake made with bittersweet chocolate and some type of liqueur or brandy or cognac. The dessert proved moist and fresh, the raspberry syrup was good, but I think the cake held its ground just fine.

For kicks, I’ve decided to show you our bill (eliminates the need for me to mention the price of each dish, one by one). It was not a cheap dinner, but who says that being together for 10 years would be cheap? We could of done much worse if we got another bottle of wine… I’ll mention that one for our 20 year anniversary.

I didn’t like the addition of the automatic 18% gratuity, no it’s not convienent… but what can you do? Overall, I was so glad that everyone liked this restaurant. I got the task of picking out all the restaurants for our trip (because I love food that much) and I felt like I had to redeem myself after the restaurant from the night before. The crowd on a Friday was just right, not too much but just enough. This is a great place for anniversaries and birthdays and other occasions. The Maître d’ joked with us throughout the night and came by often to ask if we were having a good anniversary dinner.

“HAPPY ANNIVERSARY GIRLS!” Until next time… 5 years?

Captain’s Tavern

9612 S. Dixie Hwy, 33156.

And off to Florida we go! This is the first of a batch of 3 for restaurants in Miami. Me and the girls went on a little vacay in the MIA during mid March. When you go on vacation, you have fun and you eat. A lot. In Miami there is seafood and there is Cuban cuisine, that is what the sunny paradise is known for.

I found out about this place through online searches, it has gotten high rating by several review sites so I decided that we should give it a try. Because, I was given the daunting task of finding places to feed the crew, a fellow foodie will never turn such a task down! This place was not the easiest to find, it was located in a dark shopping center where majority of the stores were closed.

Once inside, you can see the decoration they have along the walls: reviews, articles, awards, etc. You can also tell that they tried to stick to their theme and decorated accordingly. We waited for about 20 minutes on a Thursday night. There was a good crowd and they seemed understaffed, which I will get to later on.

Salmon tartare with caviar, avocado, tomato, and a cucumber chili salad $10.95. We were so hungry by the time our waitress brought us the appetizer, we just scarfed it down without much thought. It was good, I think tartares are heavenly and as long as you put in fresh ingredients, it can do no harm. I did however, take the time to eat the caviar by themselves… pop pop pop, it was fun but I can’t describe too much about the difference between the two. I think the red roe was juicier/fattier than the black roe. Next time, I will make sure I evaluate accordingly.

Our main dish appeared about 45 minutes after the appetizer. Absurd! Result of under-staffing number one. There was almost a point were we didn’t want our main dish anymore and just wanted to leave. It was well after 9 before we got our dishes. This one is scrod with imperial topping, a cream and dill based sauce $24.95.

I ordered the Admiral’s Platter in attempt to try a variety of seafood. It comes with broiled lobster, stuffed shrimp, shrimp scampi, scallops, and oyster Rockefeller $26.95. The broiled lobster was dry, too over done to enjoy fully… disappointing. And to be honest, It seemed more like a giant prawn to me than a lobster. The fish was cooked nicely and tasted pretty good. The shrimp was alright, the oyster was… not memorable and scallop was scallop. For the price they charged, it wasn’t really worth it… I mean, if it tasted good, thats a different story.

Oregano Salmon, oregano, parmesan, wine $2o.98. A lonely thing all by itself… tee hee. I didn’t really take the time to taste this… but I honestly can say that if you really wanted to make this dish, it was dang possible! Nothing special about herbed salmon.

Flounder Imperial comes with cream and dill sauce with crabmeat, onion, and shallots $19.95. The cream sauce was delicious, cream is delicious period. Flounder was fresh and moist, cooked to the right done-ness.

Okay, one positive thing I have to mention first is the seafood was indeed fresh and it came out to me hot. They rotate fresh seafood on the chalkboard for all to see. If I wasn’t so hungry and didn’t have to wait so long for my meal, I would have savored the freshness too… but that was not the case.

Bad notes, service and staff. It does not and shouldn’t take 45 minutes to get my dish out, unless you messed up during cook, which then you make sure your servers bring your customers plenty of bread. The restaurant was busy, but not full, no excuses. A nice restaurant charging $20+ per entree should find servers of equal latitude. Do not staff your restaurant with people who barely know how to speak English, trust me. I had gripes about it the last time I went to a certain restaurant and it hasn’t gone away yet. You can tell that they cut major corners hiring barely legal workers here… I mean hate to say it but it is true, you think I am mean that I believe these workers need to stay in the back of the restaurant? Nay. If you want to charge high dollar, your customers better get high dollar service. I do not want to have this encounter again mid meal (under-staffing sign number 2);

our waitress came up to us and started talking to us, since we were all Asian, she asked if we lived in Miami. We dont, you can tell by our touristy attire and camera gears all strapped around us. She said that the restaurant was looking to hire Asians like us, but they can’t seem to find good one. I said why? She gave me a wink and said that they are hard workers. As I looked around, I noticed that 90% of the wait staff were Asian.

Frankly, I was a little agitated after this approach and comment. Underlying racism all around… Just because we are Asian does not mean that we have to work harder for less pay. Blasphemy, I hate how the society treats it as so… and just for the record, our waitress sucked. We constantly had to ask her for drink refill and she barely checked up on us while we waited 45 minutes… this was probably not all her fault due to the fact that they were understaffed and she had to wait too many tables.

I digress, I should have saved that whole section for my personal vent blog… grrr. I would not go back, period. Don’t really like the atmosphere and hate to see fellow Asians get degraded. I don’t care how good the food is, and it wasn’t great. The end.

Aloha Eats

2534 N. Clark St.
Chicago, IL 60614

Aloha Eats (formerly Aloha Grill) is a small Hawaiian BBQ eatery in Chicago’s Lincoln Park area. Known for plate lunches, musubi, and Hawaiian juices… from Hawai’i.

Mini Chicken Loco Moco.* Served with a scoop of mac salad, rice, eggs (your way), and chicken katsu. Not to mention the best brown gravy ever. $5.95ish.

*Loco Moco in full is usually served with Hamburger meat as opposed to Chicken katsu. $6.95.

Spam Loco Moco. Same as above, but with good ol’ Spam. A must-try Hawaiian plate lunch. The eggs, the brown gravy, rice, and mac salad all mixed together Loco Moco style.

BBQ Chicken Musubi. According to AlohaEats.com, A Hawaiian hand-rolls: a thick block of warm rice lightly seasoned with our teriyaki sauce, topped with a hot topping, and wrapped in a belt of nori (dried Japanese seaweed) 2 for $3.35
I often order musubi as a meal and add a side order of mac salad for only $1.15 more.

Shrimp Burger. Fried shrimp and tartar sauce with lettuce and tomato. I added Sriracha hot sauce to it, and more mac salad on the side.

I really like this place. I definitely come here often, and did not order everything above at one time.
Aloha Eats is a homey place where many people come and go; eat in, take out; grab a plentiful plate lunch or satisfying mini order. Also, it’s very inexpensive starting at $4.95 for a filling mini plate- $7.85 for the popular Hawaiian BBQ Mix Plate.

Check out Aloha Eats’ Menu.