Kim Chee Restaurant

Relatively tasty and inexpensive (for Oahu Hawaii) Korean-style food served in sizable/sharable portions. Kim Chee restaurants in various locations is a family favorite..

Would ordering side dishes only be the reason I thought the bill was too high.1 LG kalbi1 Fish JunVegetableKim Chee$79 + tax and tipKind and patient service.

I did takeout and it was fast and easy to pick up. Overall, I think I will dine-in from now on. I feel like it was quite expensive for the amount of food given for take-out. I believe that you get more food and kimchi when you dine in. Overall, food was good. Kimchi was really delicious!Parking: Small lot in front with parking. Can be hard to find stalls when crowded.

2/12/24. I don't know what happened to this place. Our last visits in 2023 for lunch was great.The food back then was tasty and delicious. Today was a different situation. We ordered from the weekday specials. The seaweed soup was so salty that it was inedible. 0 out of 5 stars. We all returned our soup. Nothing was done by the server, other than an acknowledgment and I'll take it away later. Next up was the ban chan. Two items of kim chee cabbage and pickled daikon. 3 out of 5 stars. Spicy enough but not very well marinated. The plates came with two mixed items of the following:Kalbi (thin cut), fish Jun (mahi mahi), beef teriyaki, and mandoo. Rice also came with the plate lunch. The Kalbi was super tough. Similar texture to beef jerky. Tasty flavor but some pieces were burnt and some pieces were undercooked. 2 out of 5 stars. The fish Jun was good. 4 out of 5 stars. We dipped it in the spicy sauce they provided. Mandoo was okay. 3 out of 5 stars. Mandoo did not appear fresh made. Maybe previously frozen?The beef teriyaki was also inedible. 1 out of 5 stars. Super tough to cut even when using a serrated knife! My poor dad had to cut the meat into dice sized pieces. He struggled to eat it. Each plate had a little extra ban chan such as bean sprouts and a mixed vegetable. A plain shoyu type sauce and a spicier sauce was provided. It was a very thin type sauce. The booths were clean and service was spotty. Two servers for the entire place during lunchtime. Although it wasn't crowded at the time. Maybe that was a sign. 3 out of 5 stars. I'm not sure if the cooks and/or owners have changed since last year. But the food was definitely and sadly on another level. We will not be coming back.

I was greeted with a big welcome and smile. So friendly. The food was amazing and so delicious!!! Their Barbeque chicken beat Jin Joo restaurant which was my favorite Korean restaurant but now this is my favorite place hands down!!! The service was always attentive and persistent. Met the owner and his grandma started the business 50 years ago!!! Family owned. The ambiance is always fast, clean, cool and friendly. Happy Holidays!!!

We didn't know it was seat yourself. And if you are planning on coming here there isn't much parking.But the food was good. Price was awesome.

Lunch special was mayjah and we were able to call in and get takeout with the deal. I think we got the squash katsu? It was pretty much just squash tempura and they were huge! I might have liked them better than the meat jun. the meat jun paired so well with their spicy sauce. We split this plate between 2 people and still had a little bit of leftovers!

Kim chee fried rice is usually consistently good, but this trip it was awful 10/18/24. This order was very strong paste flavor, and the trip before this one was very weak in flavor the rice color was completely opposite of this one. What's happening to your food quality .

We dined here yesterday for lunch. We had the lunch combination. What a great price for the combo. I had the Kalbi and vegetable tempura and my son had the Kalbi and meat Jun. The Kalbi was soft and tasty. The vegetable tempura were like a big tempura patty filled with various pics. The two waitresses were very attentive. Serving refills and assisting everyone. The atmosphere was old school Korean restaurant dining. The parking was a little difficult. But driving slowly and carefully helped with the process. We will definitely return. Hopefully, they will still have the lunch special. Definitely the cost helped the wallet.

My daughter and boyfriend went out to this restaurant tonight for Valentine's Day and the server was rude to them because they were teenagers. The plate of kalbi was under cooked and they TRIED TO EXPLAIN IT WAS UNDERCOOKED AND THE SERVER TOTALLY DISMISSED THEM SINCE THEY WERE YOUNG. VERY RUDE AND I WOULD NEVER RECOMMEND THIS RESTAURANT!!!!! They should work on their customer service and learn how to properly cook kalbi. Very disappointing overall experience.