WAIKIKI HAWAIIAN BBQ

I was in El Cerrito picking up some appliances today when I noticed this Hawaiian plate lunch place across the street. My forgotten quest for spam musubi remembered, I forded San Pablo and ordered away. I got a small (in Hawaiian terms) chicken katsu plate, which amounted to a fatty fried cutlet with rice and macaroni salad, all of which were decent but nothing special, and one spam musubi, which was also decent, but only special in its fundamental novelty to a mainlander.

Spam musubi, for the uninitiated, is sort of a like a big maki roll, with grilled spam instead of fish, rice, and nori. I know I should have tried something more adventurous than the chicken katsu, but I was feeling cheap and boring. I guess that’s why I was there alone. However, I’d recommend the place for its generous serving sizes and apparently genuine Hawaiian menu, where “genuine” = “containing spam.” Hawaiian readers may feel free to laugh. Some one else has a better description here.