HI City

Decided to try them since we were in the area. I ordered through Yelp which was very easy. For pick up: I went to the address according to my gps, and it's in the Ranch 99 plaza. There are plenty of parking spots but they were all occupied. I got out of the car and walked around. I could not find the place. I checked their Yelp map and it said it was next to soon tofu but next door was a hair salon and a dessert shop. I looked at Yelp again to find a phone number so I can call and see where they were. No phone number. I tried to read reviews to see if anyone would have mentioned where they were exactly located, come to find out it was inside Soon's Tofu restaurant. Who would have thought?! Yelp needs to clearly state the location! Anyway, thank you to the previous reviewer, I finally found which direction to go. The door was propped open wide and there was a sign that said hi city. Not visible to us newbies. :( luckily my food was ready which was great and sure, I got in a few extra steps trying to find this place. The food: We ordered 1 Salmon FURIKAKE poke with salad greens, 1 The Classic Hawaiian with sushi rice and purple rice, and 1 Build Your Own Poke Bowl - 2 Scoops of salmon poke with salad greens. It came with edamame, crab salad and pickled ginger. I say opt for sauces or marinated poke as it was very plain. I really wanted to try a hot bowl, but they were not available for lunch when I ordered online. Overall it was tasty, but not great. I would come back and try other items now that I know where it is lol and when I'm in the area.

Saw this new spot pop up on my yelp feet and decide to try out since I love Hawaiian food. When trying Hawaiian for the first time I always go with the loco moco and musubi. Also grabbed a poke bowl to try out. Since we are all still in Shelter in Place I ordered via mobile via their website from my car. Very easy to place an order and was done in the 10-15 minutes that was stated on the site. Gave me enough time to pick up a few items I needed at the ranch. The loco moco was pretty good. Gravy was a little congealed since it had to travel back home but they gave a good portion of meat and was spiced well. Mac salad was decent and egg was cooked just right. Bag tipped over in my car but lid held everything in so no biggie. Good take on the Hawaiian classic. Also ordered a Poke bow with 2 scoops. Pretty easy to select toppings via the website. Here's what we got.Build Your Own Poke Bowl - 2 Scoops of PokeVariation: RegularPoke Base: Sushi Rice,Mix GreensBase Toppings: Cucumbers,Garlic Crab MixChoice 1: Salmon FurikakeChoice 2: Sweet Miso SalmonToppings: Corn,Green Onions,Masago,Lomi Lomi Tomatoes,Fried Onions,FurikakeSauce: House Calamansi Ponzu To be honest both types of poke tasted similar. But maybe due to them being mixed together with the sauce. Overall solid poke bowl as well. I also got a couple of the chicken spam musubi. Solid for HI food as well. If in the mood for hawaiian takeout, this was a good choice, would be back if nearby or need to shop inside 99 and have my food ready to go before heading home.TLDR; Solid spot for HI (hawaiian) grub in the mid peninsula.

I'm so glad I was in Foster City so I was able to try out this place. It's located inside Soon's Tofu restaurant, right next to Ranch 99.You can order online and pick up when it's ready. They have diy poke bowls and some pre selected poke bowls. We decided to build our own. I tried to salmon furikake and the fire tartare with masago, green onions and seaweed salad then added on the house calamansi ponzu and spicy mayo sauce. Fish was super fish and I loved how they added extra sauce and furikake. Also their masago has a lot of flavor! I've been to a lot of good poke places (Go Fish, Tuna Kahuna,etc) but this place is honestly my favorite after just trying it out once.Definitely recommend this place! I will be back

I wouldn't say A-OK but I hate giving less than 3 stars. I'm hoping we just got an off day on our first visit. I was super excited to try this place after reading the yelp reviews cause I do adore Hawaiian poke. We ordered two custom poke bowls - the hamachi was good but the classic Hawaiian tuna didn't have much flavor and didn't taste that fresh either sadly. Rice was meh. Not very generous portions on the fish as compared to other poke places we frequent. Seaweed salad addition was generous but again - just the standard stuff you say at most Asian places selling it.The house-made chicken spam musubi was pretty interesting and worth trying at least once. Hard to beat the real deal on flavor on regular spam but housemade is impressive. I also ordered the fire tartare hand roll which didn't come entirely assembled - seaweed part was in a separate pouch on it's own - I'm not sure how I was supposed to get the filling inside it neatly without a plate. The other pic on yelp showed it already put together so that was a bummer that mine was not. It seemed to be mostly rice with a little bit of filling - the sauce was good - nicely balanced with a bit of heat and tang.The salmon chowder was our least favorite - barely any salmon to be found at all - I had to look hard for some pink bitty pieces - mostly potato and teeny cut pieces of celery - nice amount of pepper - more of a porridge consistency than a chowder. Tried a few spoonfuls and than decided not to take it home for later as I knew that the rest of my crew would be disappointed. A long drive for not the best experience. Folks there were nice enough - clean and fairly quick turnaround. If you are in the area - the spam is worth considering and perhaps the loco moco are better bets.

This place is super bomb. The crab salad has an incredible trouble flavor. I live nearby and come here whenever I want some excellent poke.

I'm not even gonna waste any more additional energy on this place , the food is terrible and the service is even worse. The food was mediocre the tuna bowls at safeway taste better. Also the note sent from the chef was not appreciated, I asked for soy sauce and I got a rude message from the chef that was handwritten. Maybe you should focus more in the food and less on being rude to your consumers. SMH. The note is attached to the review.

First thing to note is that even though Yelp is listing this as dine-in available, they are for takeout only. Restrooms aren't even available. We walked in, placed our order and waited about 5 minutes. Like many reviewers have already noted, they're running this place out of the Korean restaurant. I love that they have a form for easy ordering. Service was prompt and courteous.Poke bowl was $12. I like that they had shirataki yam noodles available so I chose that mixed with greens as my base. 2 scoops of protein: fire tartar and salmon furikake -- both were really tasty and fresh. Topped with spicy aioli sauce. To finish: green onions, lomi tomatoes, sushi ginger, masago, furikake, fried onions. Flavors were really good but portion size was way too small for $15. I was still hungry afterwards. Too expensive for what I got. At a lot of poke places, they give you a heaping amount and this just didn't satisfy me.

I'm always on the hunt for more authentic poke and this is one of the closest ones I've found! They have the pre-marinated fish here with my favorite flavor - spicy tuna with the masago mixed in. Just like Hawaii. I also got the furikake salmon and the Hawaiian style. I did think the Hawaiian style could have used a little bit more flavor but I'm glad I got some spicy mayo on top of it. Service was also so friendly, the guy who helped us was so nice and even offered some free mochi. I'd love to come here in the future and order their poke by the pound.

Hi City is included by Forkable, the service that delivers lunches to my husband's workplace. With remote work, that's here at home. I always take a look at his meals and try things that I've not tasted before. With the remote work, he only has one choice of eatery each day so Hi City was it for today's meal here in Redwood City, CA. I was interested in the Adobe Chicken he ordered. Oh it was awful. Think of a hospital meal -- super bland -- that has NO sauce, super mild spices. From the Forkable photo, macaroni was NOT expected with this meal. It was NOT mac salad delivered -- another reviewer raved about the Hi City Mac salad. This was NOT that, it was literally macaroni with nothing else. The only good thing was the corn -- it was good. Too bad there wasn't loads of corn and less of everything else. The sushi rice bed it was on -- lots of rice but it was not even good sushi rice. How can you mess THAT up? I've included a photo of what was delivered and what was ordered. The photograph of what was ordered shows a peek of sushi rice under the chicken so the expectation was that the meal would be like that which was ordered. Note to self: DO NOT voluntarily eat at Hi City Foster City.

It is okay if you are confused, yes this is also Soon's Tofu and Korean BBQ. At first, I thought this place took over, but no, both businesses operate out of the same restaurant.I ordered their Kalua pork which was served with rice. It was okay, probably the same quality as L&L. It wasn't dry, but it wasn't as flavorful as something you would get in Hawaii. I do like that they also offer poke; however, I probably wouldn't come here for poke because I am very loyal to my favorite poke places.Prices were average for the cuisine, parking is plenty, and service was friendly.