Chad C.
Yelp
Had no clue there was a Hawaiian joint in this neighborhood, and this place is absolutely not what you'd expect from the outside, or even from the inside to be honest. Friend and I came in here on a Friday afternoon for a bite and a couple drinks, and ended up having a rendezvous of friends in the area that also wanted to enjoy an evening out. The weather was gorgeous, and they have a pretty big covered patio on the sidewalk, but unfortunately it seemed to be full of smokers when we arrived, so we took a table/makeshift "booth" in the back.
(I say "booth" because they have tatami/plexiglas screens hanging from the ceiling to separate each freestanding table. This is a pretty cool idea and makes for some hilarious scenarios when the next table over is kinda drunk and runs into the screen, realizes they ran into it, turns and looks through the window and waves.)
Up front, the specialty drinks were good, but nothing to really write home about - and that's ok, they do the job. What you are going to want to write home about is the food!
First thing you're going to want to order is the Musubi - tofu or spam, they're both a brick of deliciousness. It's $5 for lego brick of rice and protein wrapped up in seaweed and you need to get at least one to put in your face.
My friends and I all ordered different things - steak fries, regular basket of fries, pulled pork plate, the pork sandwich... but I'd been craving ramen for a few days and saw the hung ova soup just sitting there at the bottom of the menu.
The Hung Ova Soup is...a lot more than you'd expect. It's huge! A kinda salty/savory broth that's full of bok choy, gyoza, your choice of meat (I got spam) and noodles. Yeah, the noodles are pretty obviously out of instant/top ramen packets, but I'm not knocking them for that. Those noodles are built to sop up the deliciousness of whatever they're put near, and when you put all this deliciousness in that bowl, it turns into something epic!