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We love Lemon grass also. Grayson didnt remodel for esthetics but rather health dept issues, just FYI... still same good food though!
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We love Lemon Grass in Kea'au shopping center; they just remodeled and I am sad to say it is worse than before!! How can you do that? But the food is great.
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Brought this forward in my trek to find out what exactly some of the local stuff is...LOL! Went to Cafe 100, which I love...and I noticed that other "Drive Ins" have just as huge a menu...not anything like the mainland drive-ins...
Okay, I THOUGHT Saimin was noodles...ordered some - it's noodles IN BROTH. Just wanted some noodles heaped on a plate with maybe some spam or meat or something...
Also - what's BENTO? And if you wanna tell me what some of the other stuff is - I think I get it about LOCO's...my arteries screamed a little at the word LOL!
Carrie
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mmmmmm Cafe 100 - I am so jonesing for a Kilauea Loco right now!
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Bento = Box Lunch
Here's more than you want to know:
[url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bento"]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bento[/]
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i must have ordered the wrong stuff, i've eaten at hiro's and cafe 100 a couple of times and it was't worth recommending
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A neighbor told us about Cafe 100. We got the Teri Mix chick/beef with rice & potato mac...went to sit by the bay and eat it...that was the day that Mauna Kea was clear - not a cloud on it. Anyway the food was great!
Carrie
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I also cast my vote for"Lemon Grass", in Kea'au. You said Asian food right? They have a mix of chinese/Thai,and they don't charge an arm and a leg either. Very,very reasonable in price..
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Well I guess what I am asking is what some of the stuff actually is...Saimin, Bento, Loco, other stuff too...there's a lot on that menu and I don't have a clue...I mean of course, I KNOW what Saimin is 'cause I ordered it LOL...but what do I order when I just want noodles and some meat mixed in? Is there a name for that?
I don't wanna order something just to find out if I like it...and then don't.
Carrie
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Edited by - Carolann R on 11/01/2006 06:20:36
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Carrie, Bento is a boxed lunch, usually rice & one or two meats, ie. spam & Katsu (fried, usually served with a mildly spicy BBQ dipping sauce) Chicken, some bentos have egg, some fried noodles, just ask. Loco is a bowl of rice with scambled (usually)egg a meat on top, smothered with gravy. Saimen (for those reading that don't know) are raimen (boiled curly) noodles, can come with meat, some places serve with a little veggies too. Plate lunch or meals usually have 2 scoops of rice & 1 scoop mac salad (potato salads are not common here because potatos used to be limited here and very expensive, hence the abundance of macaroni salads).
Enjoy!
Aloha, Carey
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You're Chicken!!!!
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