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Restaurant Insider with Anne Lee
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AL: What is the restaurant’s most popular dish?
RK: Mochi Cheese Gratin ($7) is one of our house favorites. It’s mo- chi and mozzarella cheese on top with a little bit of light soy dashi. We bake it in the oven, which melts the cheese and top it off with nori and green onions.
Under our Ishiyaki Menu, is our popular Garlic Shrimp Rice ($15), made with lots of garlic and sev- en pieces of shrimp, and served in our hot stone ishiyaki bowl, a 500-degree sizzling hot stone bowl we bring to you and mix the rice tableside.
We have a new menu item, Abu- ri Lobster Nigiri ($22). It’s lightly seared with a little bit of garlic mayo, sweet teriyaki sauce with a little bit of tobiko on top. This one is super tasty and one of my favorites right now.
The next two items are our pop- ular desserts. The Tempura Bread Pudding ($8) has texture and fla- vors, as well as hot and cold. We take the honey toast bread and chop it all up and make a bread pudding with it.
Our famous Original Honey Toast ($10) — no one ever leaves here without having this — is trade-
marked to us.We start off with Jap- anese white bread, toast and cube it out in the middle, dress it up with some butter and honey, and serve it with two scoops of local Roselani vanilla ice cream.
We are known for our drinks — like Kirin. For our cocktails, one of the top sellers is the Blushing Gei- sha ($11). It starts off with a lychee purée, a little bit of lemon juice, some simple syrup for a touch of sweetness and muddled ume to add some tartness. We have a great collection of Japanese whis- key cocktails.
AL: What are the future plans for the restaurant?
RK: We are moving. The last date to eat at this current location will be Oct. 25. The Honey Toast Ce- real Promotion will end at the end of this month, so come in and get your cereal fix, as the limited-time offer expires Sept. 30.
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1. Tempura Bread Pudding ($8) 2. Mochi Cheese Gratin ($7)
3. Aburi Lobster Nigiri ($22) 4. Garlic Shrimp Rice ($15)
5. Original Honey Toast ($10)
Shokudo Japanese Restaurant & Bar 1585 Kapiolani Blvd., Honolulu 808-941-3701 shokudojapanese.com
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AT THE KAHALA
RESERVATIONS
739.8811 KahalaResort.com
BEACHFRONT LUNCH AT THE KAHALA
Spread out on the breezy lanai at Plumeria Beach local ingredients.
PLUMERIA BEACH HOUSE LUNCH
11:30 a.m.-2 p.m. Daily | Complimentary parking
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LIMITED SEATING
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