East Village, Manhattan · restaurant
A dimly lit nook where Hawaiian food gets the fine-dining treatment. Mochiko fried chicken and big-eye tuna poke share the table with 25 year old German rieslings. Meanwhile the musubi variations (spicy spam, salmon tartare, summer corn) alone are worth the trip. Every inch of wall space is blanketed in Polaroids of guests grinning over empty bottles, and the wine list leaves sommeliers genuinely stunned.
Rice and nori seaweed wrapped around spicy spam with pickled jalapeño and soy mayo.
Big-eye tuna with macadamia nuts, pickled jalapeños, and seaweed.
Coconut ice cream sundae with haupia pudding sauce, toasted almonds, graham cracker crumble.
Mochiko-battered fried chicken (half order, 6 pieces) with pickles and macaroni salad.
Three bite-sized pieces of spicy SPAM musubi with chili-soy mayo and pickled jalapeños