Kim's Teriyaki — Restaurant in Kent

Kim's Teriyaki is our favorite teriyaki in Kent. Their food is absolutely delicious, their restaurant is super clean and well maintained, and the folks working are always super friendly. We usually grab takeaway from them, and when we had a busy day we once went there for lunch AND dinner. Yes. Their food is that delicious! I love their chicken teriyaki and their chicken yakisoba. We love sharing a pork gyoza order. My husband gets chicken teriyaki with 4*'s of spice and it is SPICY AS HECK and he absolutely loves to sweat and cry through it. Kim's is one place that we can always agree on going to and always sounds good for lunch/dinner. Their salads are also the best! The salad dressing is perfection.

If you haven't given Kim's a try, go! Plenty of free parking, easy to get in/out of the parking lot, and super delicious food at decent prices.

Note: the teriyaki is so good that I forgot to take a photo before I started eating it facepalm

I went to Kim's because I heard it had great Seattle-style teriyaki and I've been looking for a new teriyaki place closer to home than my current go-to place. It's good teriyaki, but not a true Seattle-style teriyaki.

I ordered the chicken/beef teriyaki combo and it didn't really hit the spot. The chicken was a bit dry, but the beef was perfectly cooked. Both were well marinated. Unfortunately, the teriyaki sauce that Seattle-style is known for was barely present. The sauce was also way too salty, super thin, more like a light glaze than a sauce, and there was almost none of it present. It pretty much ran off the meat and left a very tiny puddle. I actually spent time debating with myself if this was, indeed, a sauce and not the marinade, but I noticed one side of the chicken was slightly shinier than the other, so I felt this was added after cooking and must be a sauce.

My...

I miss the egg drop soup that used to be in the crock pot for dine-in customers but it hasn't come back since Covid. Will that ever be back?

I'd give you $50 to know how you make your beef fried rice. Beef is marinated, thin, and bite sized with fried rice that has flavor along with peas and carrots diced up to the size of the rice (assuming it's the peas/carrots bag from Costco). Other places will give you unmarinated meat chunks that are still connected by fat, throw white onion in there to ruin it and call it a beef fried rice. Every time I order a Beef fried rice it's getting compared to Kim's Teriyaki's because it's always perfect.

I occasionally get the chicken or beef teriyaki which comes with a side salad and a couple scoops of white rice. The chicken katsu is also really good. Chicken has a great crispy coating over it and love the sauce they give you to...