Satan's Luau

And you know what, I guess my palate is not tuned in to what they're trying to do there. I just don't get it. I ordered the bento ... and it had all these arty-ly small portions that were not really reasonable sized. The bento had this chopped steak style stir fry with sausage, onion and peppers; a one bite size of hibachi salmon; some chow fun cooked in black bean sauce; two grilled smallish shrimp skewers; a piece of their "homemade" f-cake on a bed of namasu AND kimchi; and a BIG moosoobi (it would be the cheapest stuff, wouldn't it?)

And overall the presentation was quite nice ... I unfortunately like things to taste good. The shrimp on a stick was pretty run of the mill, standard okay. The sausage stir fry thing was pretty good, but it's not what I would call a gourmet dish. The fishcake was just plain strange ... the kimchi was like sweet, yuck ... but the namasu was good. The salmon was well prepped ... and that is something to be said about any R's restaurant, they know how to cook fish -- I am intensely picky about cooked fish, they do it right. The chow fun was weird tasting and dryish.

We sampled two desserts ... and those were actually the highlight. The chocolate bar thing is really good, and the lilikoi cheesecake was really fluffy and light ... almost mousse like, good.

So, at the end of the day, I can now say that for my purposes, I think R's is pretty overrated ... and doesn't really taste good to me ... which for me is the bottom line