Ginger And Garlic — Restaurant in Honolulu

One of the missions for our short weekend getaway to Oahu was to eat Chinese food as there's a severe lack of it on Maui. Thanks to others, Ginger & Garlic was suggested.

ATMOSPHERE: The interior is plain as can be with unadorned whiteness everywhere. Big windows let in lots of light. Seating capacity is quite intimate compared to other Chinese restaurants nearby. The place was pretty deserted when we arrived around 11am but quickly filled up soon after.

MENU: Dim sum along with an extensive regular menu.

DIM SUM: Just a sole cart went around so my impatience was starting to activate.

Pork Shumai Standard version with yellow wrappers. Moist and tasty but I had to add shoyu for an added kick.

Charsiu Manapua These were flatter than normal and cut open on the top. Spot-on taste but too bread-y for me.

Chicken & Beef Ball Insanely moist and tender, they sat on an aburrage-like wrapper. Good but not my favorite selection.

Pork Soup Dumplings By the time I ate these the liquid had dried up and were all around chewy.

Scallop Look Funn Tiny scallops inhabited the insides of the wide, sliced noodle. Unfortunately I had to add shoyu for flavor regardless of the included subtle sauce.

Chicken Feet My all-time favorite! Many have sneered and made faces but I don't care because they're missing out! My three amigos all tried them and at least liked it! Good flavor and tender.

Custard Tart My favorite Chinese desert was pretty good here, though I like the version at Legend better due to its more buttery crust.

REGULAR MENU FOOD: Egg Foo Young Huge portion salted just right and filled with white & green onions and bean sprouts. Very good.

Kau Yuk Oddly their version is made with taro that acts also as a binder according to our server. It looked like sliced purple roast beef, though I didn't have any as it's not my favorite dish. We were so stuffed we took it to go.

SERVICE: We were greeted and seated immediately. The dim sum cart came around in the snap of a finger though became painfully slow after that. Wait staff were friendly and patient.

OVERALL: I really wanted to try a noodle dish but was too stuffed. Very affordable. A smaller footprint means less chance of running out of items which is a positive for these guys but I still think Legend makes...

Maybe 3 and 3/4 stars. But I’m going to be generous and forgive the mishap. I have to give it credit for recovery.

We ordered through door dash and the prices are too high for how much food they actually give you. So here is our rating. Well start with needs improvements to needs to sustain.

3 stars on the price: Too high for the amount of food they give you. We ordered seafood pumpkin soup and there’s only chopped up shrimp and chopped up scallops in a maybe 3 cups container for $20 I expected a variety of “seafood” if we must call it that. Otherwise it’s chopped shrimp and scallops.

2 stars on the fact that they gave us the broth for my daughters wonton noodle soup without the wonton or the noodles.

2 stars in the $24 dollar one cup of beef tenderloin with black pepper and onions. For $24 the beef tenderloin should’ve been flying but it didn’t taste special enough to only give us a cup of it for the price.

However, 4 stars on the flavors. The pumpkin noodle soup is surprisingly delicious.

The Lamb Stew with Bean Curd Casserole is also amazing.

The steamed chicken feet is also flavorful.

They also recover by sending us another batch of wonton noodle soup but 3 stars on the fact that I had to spend another $15 just so the door dash can deliver what they forgot on our order.

In that $15 4 stars on the coconut mochi.

That’s why this rating could’ve been 5 stars if they lower their prices slightly and not inconvenience their customers in forgetting their food.

The flavor I’d say makes up for...

I went with a few friends to enjoy a nice afternoon with some good dim sum and good company. However, the place wad highly disappointing. They try to forcr dimsum dishes onto your table, and during dimsum hours we were trying to order from the menue. We gad to ask multiple times for someone to come and take our order. It wasn't until 30 minutes aftet that we actually got to put our order down. To add on, the ordering was a mess! They got my order wrong even though I pointed directly to the order. When the order came, I told them it was wrong and they took it away to replace the order with the correct one. I had ordered Beef chow fun with black bean, pointed it out to the waiter yet he got it wrong! And when my correct order came, I took a bite of the beef, but it was undercooked! I decided to give up asking because they obviously could'nt understand me so my experience here was completely ruined. I feel like I have to write this review to save people some money and some time. If I could give 0 stars, I would. If you want to go to a good Chinese restaurant where you will not be disappointed, go to Happy Days in Kaimuki instead! Way better, service is great, and...