Sam's Delicatessen — Restaurant in Honolulu

I'm all about supporting local, but the attitude and the my way or the highway does not deserve support. I'd rather support a lower quality international conglomerate then continue to help this place stay in business. Debating with them is pointless because they're just right. I phone ordered and told them I'd make my choices when I got there. I have done this multiple times. I also do not order rice with my plate since I prefer the veggies. I came in and said I didn't want rice and just veggies. She said she already put the rice in. I asked, can you just take it out? Nope. That 50 cent of rice is in there, you should have told me on the phone you didn't want rice. I've called in over a dozen times in the last year stating that I'll make my picks when I get there. I've had other issues with them but this took the cake for me. My plate is $20. You can't take the rice out and put something else? I'm not even asking for that really, I'm asking for consistency that they let me choose rice when I got there from before. I've been going here for over 15 years. Attitude does not deserve support. Thanks for all the rice that I...

Ordered the Sam's special bento with fried noodles. Their food is so tasty but 2 of my bento's had gnats flying around trapped inside the bento box, which is kinda gross. It freaked me out but then my better half pointed out the fact that when we are cutting up fruit say, those gnats come around quickly and land on our stuff all the time. Moral of the story is this kind of things happen, but maybe they could take a better look at things before they seal the boxes. Like I said, the food was delicious in spite of my initial ick factor. I will go back for sure. Their prices have increased a bit more than I was expecting but then again, whose prices haven't. Great flavor profiles and...

Not just "another Korean BBQ restaurant". Although owned and run by a Korean lady, there were a lot of great modifications to the type of meat and the prep, marinade and spices. It turns out to be fantastic and unique. Even though it is a hole in the wall this place has survived Covid19 and I believe will continue for a very long time due to the following; QUALITY and TASTE. If you ever want to check out a Korean restaurant's food quality order spicy pork or Korean Miso soup. Same theory as ordering Pad thai in a Thai restaurant. If their signature dish is bad,...