Kapolei Korean Bar-B-Q — Restaurant in Oʻahu

If you're looking for local style fast food Korean, this is the place!

I love these Korean bbq places. It should be noted that this is a Hawaii thing though... when I went to the mainland and South Korea, this type of restaurant would be considered Korean fast food with a Hawaiian local flare.

Of all the Korean bbq places that I have tried in Hawaii over my 30 years of living, this is probably my favorite place to go. I got the kalbi and meat jun plate and it was awesome. The portions of meat were very filling... I even had leftovers! There was a lot of flavor in the meat jun, which is hard to find. Most places I've tried taste like egg thrown over meat.... which is essentially what it is, but this place must marinate their meat in something and use a slightly thicker cut of steak to keep that flavor in.

The sides were amazing too and they were very generous. I always try to get the same meat with the same sides so that I can accurately compare places. I would say this place has the best cucumber kim chee of these korean bbq places that I have tried.

The staff seemed friendly and helpful, explaining to my husband what each side was. The price was great for the value received.

Will definitely...

Ouch! Something happened here, we've been customers for over 7 years and the meats in our food tonight were really bad, probably rotten then cooked. Truly horrible, sad to say as this has been our go to restaurant for many years. Pearl's offered to refund, but wanted me to come back with the food. Not going to do that, defeats the purpose of trying to have a convenient evening and save time. Pearl's wouldn't agree to refund half my money back to my credit card. We are now former customers and will find an...

Awesome experience, customer service was great, took my order promptly, got my choices for the plate in right after. We didn't wait too long to get our food, I would recommend calling ahead so you don't need to wait, but it's not bad when it's not too busy.

Food was awesome, ordered tofu soup, spicy and the flavor was good, and the meat was nice and soft. Had a good amount of kimchee and other veggies, got a side of rice that comes with.

And then got a mix plate, chicken katsu and meat jun was...