Pearl’s Korean BBQ — Restaurant in Honolulu

This is your average Korean BBQ take out or dine in plate lunch restaurant that offers your typical local favorites like BBQ chicken and beef, chicken katsu, and so on with your choice of side to select.

The portions are large and the food is filling. Even though the plate lunch has a bad reputation of being unhealthy, at Korean BBQ places like this, you can make healthy choices. I really like the fact that if you ask for no rice, they offer you an additional side.

The BBQ chicken spicy BBQ chicken here is very good. Nice meaty portions with no fat dripping off and cooked with a good char to get that barbeque flavor really going.

Service was fast and friendly. Prices were not bad for the portion they give you. I do have to say that I prefer Pearl's over...

I used to frequent Korean barbecue it was very good. I had expected the same standards. I ordered a spicy chicken with the sides of vegetables. It looked very good while I was ordering. However when I opened the box it surprised me that they had slobbered so much of chilly sauce (which had no taste) on to the chicken. So much so that all the veggies and rice were red with sauce. There was just no taste as the sauce overpowered the rest of the veggies and rice. I thought the marinate would be spicy, instead they had just put the sauce. Felt very disappointed with the flavor of the meal. It maybe better for them to put the sauce in a separate small container. Not a very good...

I made the mistake of ordering delivery solely based on the restaurant’s high Uber Eats rating, and I seriously regret it. The food was shoved into the container in the most careless, disgusting way — when I opened it, it looked so unappetizing that it killed my appetite instantly. It was honestly revolting.

The portions were ridiculously over the top, easily enough for four people. Normally I almost never waste food, but this time I had no choice but to throw most of it in the trash. Truly unacceptable.

I feel completely deceived by the 4.7-star rating (5000+ reviews) on Uber Eats. I have no idea how such a misleading score could...