Local Food Review

My wife had heard of a new Japanese Seafood Buffet in Honolulu that had opened and wanted to try it out. We had seen their flyers advertising Snow Crab Legs, Teppanyaki, Pork Spare Ribs, Mahi Mahi Steak along with the general fare of low end Sushi and Sushi Rolls.

The Happy Hour Buffet was $18.98 they also had an option where you could pay $33.00 to get a expanded menu. My wife did not want the expanded menu but because it was my birthday she encouraged me to go with the expanded menu. When we were seated we were pretty shocked to find out that drinks where extra, while I expect to pay for Beer I was surprised that you had to pay extra for soda.

Upon walk through of the buffet things did not look to bad, so each of us loaded up our plates and I was able to order two small entries from the secondary menu that I paid extra for. I picked a lobster tail and prime rib. As we sampled the food we all commented that while the food was decent the food was not hot. It was not cold but a little to cool for out likings and being buffet’s are what they are this was concerning. The prime rib was a thin 1/2 inch piece of meat that was well done and had some sort of gravy on it very salty. The lobster tail was fine but it was one of those mini lobster tails 2 bites and it was gone.

The sushi was ok for a buffet nothing to call home to mama about but decent.  I ordered some Oysters Rockefeller style and also Abalone.  The oysters I sent back but the Abalone was good.  The snow crab available to everyone where typical snow crab small in size. None of these places give you scissors so we always bring our own so we all went through our fair share of Snow Crab.

The deserts where good and I would say probably the highlight of the visit. They really had a good desert offering.

The kids complained about the spaghetti that they tried did not taste like normal spaghetti and was surprised by a noddle dish while not bad but I fully expected to be eating pancit bihon but the taste of the noodles had a indian cusine texture to it.

Here is my opinion, if you are coming to Hawaii and want something fast with low expectations, this is the place. If your looking for decent buffet food this is not the place. While I cannot really complain to much, we will not be going back and it was one of those places that have such a golden opportunity to do great but I don’t think the current cooking staff is up to the challenge. It may be they work so hard at putting so much food out that they really do not do anything superb. On a five star scale I give Makittii Japanse Seafood Buffet at 2380 Kuhio Ave Honolulu a “1 Star Rating”

We did a quick walk through of the food offerings. They were a little nervous when I tried to film the food so we really did not get to linger a long time on the entrees.

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